Fight Club Origins

Jekyll & Hyde probably an inspiration for both films?

It's that man again!!

As I mentioned in my other post.. yes, Fight Club clearly has a very similar theme, it's all rooted in the same basic age-old story trope or staple.

Let's list a few where this kind of story can easily be seen:

- Star Trek TOS (I am sure TNG also, but can't name an episodes besides DataLore right now)

- Twilight Zone / Outer Limits (not sure which it was, but Bruce Willis was in the episode)
- Fight Club
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The Nutty Professor (and its remake)
- Some Hitchcock adaptation of the story
- The original novel or whatever it was (Case of Mr. Pelham, I think?)

In my opinion, as interesting as this movie is, the ending is too ambiguous and the whole movie suffers from it, becoming quite sloppy.

In all honesty, Star Trek did it better, because it made it clear Kirk needed both halves to function as a captain - or you could say, both Kirks needed each other, as neither was full without the other half.

So if you want to see this story done in a way that actually makes sense, doesn't drag as much, is more clear and has more satisfying an ending, watch the Star Trek-version.

I love the 1970s style, Roger Moore's performance and many other things about this movie, but let's face it, Star Trek did it best.

Fight Club isn't QUITE the same thing, as it is questionable how much of it happens in his mind, and how much in reality, and the events ABSOLUTELY can't happen the way we are shown them happening, because the movie lies and cheats so much - at least if we are to believe what the movie eventually tells us... (the 'alternate' versions of events are also pretty much BS, they could not have happened that way, either - also, there are NUMEROUS scenes, where Tyler and Narrator HAD to be in two completely separate locations or very far from each other doing things SIMULTANEOUSLY, or things could not have happened at all the way shown, and so on)..

In this movie, the dobbelganger is an actual PHYSICAL replica, not only in his mind.