#when it rains it pours: fight club on the dash edition

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I 100% agree with all of this, I just also think that Fight Club isn't a particularly anti-right movie. I don't think you need to do much co-opting to make it fit. I get that the movie "rejects" Tyler Durden, but it is not a wholesale rejection by any means. Part of what makes it good! It is aesthetically and emotionally interesting enough to not be fully didactic and and can appeal to different people in different ways.

(The other part ofc is that the social conflicts of the 90's just don't map neatly onto the social conflicts of today - you can take a ton of movies from decades ago and make them fit both sides of the conflicts of the now)

i dont think fight club was co-opted by the right because they didnt get the satire, it was co-opted because it fuckign kicks ass. they would have co-opted any movie that is that good and has hot sweaty men in it. right wingers aren't aliens, they know a good movie when they see it, the lesson isn't "don't make satire because the wrong people might think its for them" the lesson would be "don't make art that kicks ass" and i'd rather there be art that kicks ass