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The structure of Tyler Durden in ‘Fight Club’ is similar psychologically to that of Aldo
Raine in ‘Inglorious Bastards’ Both are complete alpha males, dominant without weakness
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Tyler Durden is constantly within his active use of imperatives and during this usage
he implies and suggests various things to the narrator that change the course of the
storyline throughout the film/novel
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The cultural materialist construction that Durden refers to implicates his
disgust in the system and loathing through his insults rather than kind remarks
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Without the use of
rhetorical questions, Raine implicates that he is dominant over the other soldiers
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Much like an army
man, Raine provides this driving force of nature that motivates the other characters into
war
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Whereas, the psychology of Raine’s alpha male nature requires his desire of dominance to
be fulfilled; explaining his explicit and imperative nature as well
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Durden preaches about how the ego
male should be ‘free’ yet controls his thoughts; if the character were contented then
Durden would be controlled by the narrator and face no scrutiny
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This balance of Id and ego is the
perfect set of foreshadowing that leads to the audience maybe figuring out Durden’s
cancellation before he becomes an antagonist
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A renegade nature from Raine also foreshadows the ending
as the setting is completely representative of his character
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The forest is psychologically and physically an outlaw of the landscape of society
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Thus,
physical renegades of nature represent the social renegades of human nature
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There is a strong aesthetic differentiation between the two characters as Durden
lives in the 1990s; persuaded to destroy and rebel against cooperative companies and
material items
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They are only similar in rebelling against mass
propaganda, which produces them to become known renegades, or anti-heroes, of
society
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More specific, he is the only character who ever wears red
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He is designed by the narrator and based on his Id, as Durden
reiterates that he ‘looks like (he) wants to look’
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Aldo Raine, in the premiere scene, is the only character to be wearing a white suit
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’ This may
also suggest that the filmmaker wanted Raine to stand out to the audience as an important
character; making him easier to identify
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Thus, it shows how he is an outcast
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Both
films contain some aspects of dark humour, making the film feel satirical and adding to the
dramatic irony
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Durden makes his dramatic irony of satire through his splicing of himself into the
film
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The other
characters do not realise, but the audience does
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Ironically, it is only the audience who do
actually realise Durden’s existence before the narrator
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Durden also takes the maxim of cooperate meetings
being a bunch of men in a room fighting over things; he takes out the ‘things’ or ‘material
items’ and just has a bunch of men fighting in a room; thus reducing every man to ‘fight
club’
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He firstly calls himself ‘Gorlami’ as in
‘Enzo Gorlami’ the director of the very first ‘Inglorious Basterds’ films back in the 70s and
80s
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His terribly forced accent is also ironic of the acting of Brad
Pitt who plays Aldo Raine
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The audience and a few characters are aware of Raine’s true nature; but the Nazis are
made to look intellectually inferior by their lack of logic
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Brad Pitt’s construction of the characters Raine and Durden are alpha masculine,
hyper-dominant and anti-establishment
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These two characters hunt for fame and notoriety as antiestablishment alpha-males; whereas in actuality, Pitt hunts to obliterate this belief and is
described as being feminine
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This multi-level satire induces a form of humour that outlines
the character, only getting truly serious when seen from below the surface

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