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Ieri sera mi sono riguardato uno dei pochi film che non mi stancano mai (assieme a Matrix e Clerks), Fight Club.

All’inizio avevo notato alcune imperfezioni, pensavo fossero dovuta al fatto che fosse un … backup … su DivX.

Invece, quando sono riuscito per la prima volta a bloccare l’immagine, mi sono trovato di fronte ad una sorpresa, che si è ripetuta in altre parti del film: singoli fotogrammi in cui appare Brad Pitt, segno delle prime allucinazioni di Edward Norton.

Questo è quanto leggo stamattina su wikipedia (en):

• In the beginning of the film, Tyler Durden flashes on screen for a duration of one frame, perhaps foreshadowing Tyler’s job as film projectionist, in 4 different instances. These are:

• At the photocopier at work while the narrator says “Everything is a copy, of a copy.”
• In the doctor’s office, when the narrator is learning about the testicular cancer support group.
• At that group’s meeting.
• As the narrator sees Marla leaving a meeting but doesn’t follow her.

These single frame flashes caused quality controllers to complain about “dirt” on the final reel. The film makers had to then reassure them that this was by design before the film was allowed to be distributed.

• Pitt describes these instances as “subliminal Tylers.”

• Beyond these individual frame moments, Tyler appears twice more; first on a hotel TV screen among a group of employees wearing white jackets and bidding the viewer “welcome” (look on the right side of the screen); and again while the Narrator is riding the moveable sidewalk in the airport. When the narrator asks “If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”, the camera pans to follow a white-suited Tyler. Also, as Jack passes the bottle of beer to Tyler outside the bar after their first fight, the light in the background blinks out the instant Tyler takes it. This sort of trickery has become one of Fincher’s trademarks.

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