Directed by:
David Fincher

Starring:
Edward Norton as Narrator
Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden
Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer
Meat Loaf as Robert 'Bob' Paulson
Zach Grenier as Richard Chesler - Regional Manager
Richmond Arquette as Intern
David Andrews as Thomas
George Maguire as Group Leader
Eugenie Bondurant as Weeping Woman
Christina Cabot as Group Leader

• When the narrator is talking about business trips and he is in the hotel watching the hotel video, Brad Pitt is in it. He is on the far right. - Loaded1215

• Before Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) is introduced to the audience, we se Brad Pitt in 4 single-frames. This is ironically the same technique that Tyler uses to slice single-frames of pornography into the kid-flicks. - Obese
  • Addition: There is also one more single frame slice at the very end of the movie. As the camera pulls away in the last few seconds you will see a very quick flash. If you pause and advance the dvd one frame at a time you will see that the flash is a single frame of a large penis just like Tyler inserts into the family films. (Source: DVD) - skier809
  • Comment: There are only three single-splice frames of Tyler, not four before he is introduced. At the copy machine, with the doctor, and after rehab. (Source: DVD) - emcd23
    • Correction: There are four; there is one at the copy machine, at the doctors, at the testicular cancer group and one after leaving rehab and talking to Marla. (Source: My own observation) - Nadio
      

• The car that Edward Norton is thrown against in the first fight-scene is the same that was used in David Fincher's The Game. This was in fact not planned, they wanted a station-wagon, and they got that one. You can see the CRS-sticker in the window. - Obese

• The payphone is which Jack is "star-69ed" from Tyler has a notice on it which says, "No in-coming calls." - Phroday
  • Correction: Tyler was all in Ed Norton's head. He just imagined the phone ringing. Remember, the movie is one big flashback. It is told from his point of view. - matt
  • Correction: The fact that Tyler is in Ed's head is what makes the "no in-coming calls" sign so ironic; the sign helps foreshadow the discovery of what Tyler is. - marla

• After the car wreck, on the side of the road, Jack is seen sliding out of the driver's side of the car when it was Tyler who was seen driving... or was he? - Phroday
  • Correction: There is no Tyler.. so Jack gets out of the driver seat cause he was driving. - bunz i ole

• Well well well - this film's writer(s) certainly named Brad Pitt's character appropriately! "Tyler Durden" consists of 2 Scottish words: "Tyler" meaning "a mason lodge's doorkeeper" (he introduced Edward Norton's character Jack to a strange new club); "durden" and variations of this word means "A tumult, damage, a noisy sport, a severe scolding and a blow". All in all, a doorkeeper to a realm of a noisy sport involving beatings! - Kodanshi
  • Correction: It was Chuck Palahniuk, the author of the book, who named Durden, but that's still a pretty impressive observation. - Zen Circus
  • Correction: The truth is, that Palahniuk named Tyler after two people from his past. If I remember right, the name Tyler is from a kid who used to pick on his sister (or something to that effect), and Durden was a former coworker's last name that Palahniuk wasn't very fond of. Put the two together, and you have a pretty good "bad guy" name. (Source: Fight Club Audio Commentary) - ModelGuy

• In the scene where Norton wakes up to find Tyler has strangely vanished, he walks into a room and becomes the center focus. (Do not continue if you have not seen the movie yet).....If you'll notice, he is in the dead center, and two rooms rest at either side of him. The room on the right, the room Norton just came out of, has a bluish sort of dull colour to it while the room on the left has a very vibrant orangy shade. This is a foreshadowing to the ending as the right room describes Norton's personality as we and himself see it. The left room describes Tyler's personality(which is in Norton's head). A Dull bluish colour for Norton being very conservative and trapped in a "greyish" period of his life and a very lively orange for Tyler being very alive and basically everything Norton wants to be(or at least witness). It illustrates two sides of his brain. (Source: watch the movie) - Jag

• In the restaurant scene towards the end of the movie when Ed Norton is warning Helena Bonham Carter to get out of town, the waiter is played by Ed Kowalczyk who is the lead singer for the very groovy rock Band "Live". (Source: Knowing my movies) - club moe

• At the start of the movie, when Brad Pitt is pointing his gun at Ed Norton, he ask him "any last words?", and Ed Norton replies "I can't think of any". At the end of the movie, we see this scene replayed, except this time Norton says "I *still* can't think of any" (even though it is supposedly exactly the same scene), and Brad Pitt can be heard muttering "Good flashback joke". (Source: Watching the movie!) - KBO
  • Correction: "Jack", as a narrator, was telling us, the audience the story up until that point (in the beginning), so that scene did happen at one point in Jack's past, in his dialogue with 'tyler'. (Source: knowing my Fight Club) - TheScaryRed

• In the sex scene between 'Tyler' and Marla, it is not actually Helena Bonham Carter's body, her head was super imposed into the screen. (Source: DVD Commentary) - Amy

• If you look closely at Edward Norton's clothes throughout the movie, you'll notice that he is sporting various penguin designs. Most notably on his tie and underwear. This is supposed to be a subconscious reference to his "power animal". (Source: DVD Commentary Track) - Orion

• In the scene where Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are playing golf on the front lawn, both of them are drunk. It had been a very long day of shooting, and this was the last scene filmed that day. Also, a few interesting ad libs: The rubber glove Tyler is wearing when he catches Edward's character peaking through the door at him and Marla was Brad Pitt's idea. The bathrobe he wears often in the movie was also his; it was his roommate's, and he brought it to the set because it seemed "Tyleresque." And when the two of them are breaking car headlights, the last one they vandalize is a Volkswagen New Beetle. Pitt and Norton came up with this because they had decided that Volkswagen had taken an icon of nonmaterialism and pawned it off on a new generation. Brad Pitt has since changed his mind, deeming the New Beetle alright with him. (Source: DVD Commentary Track) - Orion

• The Car in the beginning of the movie that they are inspecting is the same type of car that they steal from airport parking and crash later in the movie. The Lincoln Towncar's speedometer also reads 0 when they are driving in the rain. (Source: Observation) - Luke

• The movie really doesn't do a good job of inferencing why exactly Tyler (Ed) thinks up the scheme of destroying all the credit card companies as well as the book does. It was a real let down for me personally.In the movie, when Ed gives Marla the breast examination he doesn't find anything. If you read the book you learn that Ed indeed does find a lump and when Marla goes to get it checked out she has breast cancer. Now, Ed's main objective for creating Tyler was his sub-conscious want for Marla and his general dislike for his own life. Since Marla had so little money that she was having to steal meals from the salvation army, and even steal cloths from the laundromat and sell them, She obviously didn't have the money to pay for breast cancer. A recurring sentence in the story is that if they blew up the major credit card companies, everyones eventual worth would drop back down to zero. Tyler (Ed) dreams up the idea of bringing everyones worth back down to zero so that in the long run, everyone would have equal worth as Marla and it would be ALOT easier for Marla to gain treatment for her breast cancer. (Source: my own mind) - Lilith

• During one scene towards the end of the movie, Edward Norton's character is coming home in a bus. Looking closely, you'll see green file folders in his hand. Those are the 1888 Franklin Street files you see later in the film. Someone's been busy... (Source: DVD Commentary) - cooling1018

• In the "I want you to punch me as hard as you can" scene, Norton was supposed to just hit Pitt in the shoulder and not hurt him. When he missed and got him in the ear, hurting him, the remainder of that shot was ad-libbed by Pitt. Instead of refilming it, the director liked it so much he left it in. (Source: Interview on TV) - King David

• Watch the movie closely for phone numbers. If you look carefully, you will see that on the business card Pitt gives to Norton, the phone number to the Paper Street Soap Company is 555-0153 ( the scene where Norton discovers his destroyed apartment ). Now, a minute or so before this scene, you will see Norton exit a taxi-cab. In only a few seconds of time, you can read the side of the SCAT Taxi Cab. On the door is the number to the Taxi Cab company, which is 555-0153. So, we can conclude that the number Norton calls on the payphone is in fact the number to the SCAT Taxi Cab Company. Why there is no answer is beyond me. Perhaps Norton's character hung-up before someone could answer. (Source: Watched the movie) - DBaine

• People keep referring Edward Norton as Jack. But he really has no name. He never tells his real name in the book or the movie. (Source: my brain, the book, the movie) - Dirty
  • Addition: Obviously Ed Norton's character doesn't reveal his name at all during the movie because he is indeed Tyler, but to add on to why people refer to him as Jack is because of the book his character reads. Remember "I am Jack Smerking Revenge, or I am Jack's anally raped colon" so through out the movie Norton says these lines so people confuse him to be Jack. Although in the book it wasn't Jack it was Joe. (Source: Read the book, watched the movie) - marcera

• In the scene where Tyler(Ed) is beating himself up, when he throws himself into the shelves and then you see the glass in his hand was actually adlibbed. Edward Norton put some fake glass that they used on the breaking shelves on there and the Director liked it so much that he kept it in. (Source: Just an interesting fact) - Vitekin master

• In the first part of the movie, when Ed is explaining his job, he's in one of he hotels and is watching a commercial on the hotel's restaurant. Brad Pitt is actually playing a waiter in the commercial on the far right. (Source: DVD commentary) - Windy

• I'm sure everyone already knows this, but it wasn't mentioned anywhere. Bob and his "bitch tits" is none other than are good friend MeatLoaf. Also another foreshadowing that we don't know Norton's characters name is when he gives his phone number to Marla and she shouts "I don't know your name, is it Cornelious, blah blah blah or one of the other false names you give out" A bus goes in front of her before Norton can answer and then we shoot to another scene. Woot!!! - (Source: Myself) - marcera

• The narrator tells the doctor that he sometimes suffers from narcolepsy and wakes up in strange places. This suggests that his night jobs (eg, making soap) as Tyler exist before he even meets Tyler. This also explains why they have the same briefcase. (Source: The Movie) - Kris