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It's a re-imagining of fight club, sans fighting.

by DigitalJack 10y ago

mundo 10y ago
My description is "Fight Club meets Pump Up the Volume, set in the world of Watch_Dogs."
- DigitalJack 10y ago
  I like that, but I think it would maybe be more "true romance" than "pump up the volume." Both fit though.
  - oillio 10y ago
    I'd go with Heathers. You know Slater is screwed up, but you only gradually realize the true depth of his violent angry insanity.
- bduerst 10y ago
  "Fight Club for hackers, also drugs."
kmnc 10y ago
Fight club meets Hackers meets Network. I'm still waiting for the epic "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr Alderson" which you know is coming.
matwood 10y ago
Yeah, all the way down to resetting the financial system. It bugs me because it is such a blatant rip off in many ways.
- kmnc 10y ago
  Honestly, I think the message is completely different. Fight club was about how cynical existentialism leads to pointless disobedience and a conspiracy narrative of the world. Ultimately it was about how misguided and purposeless the disobedience was. Mr Robot isn't about cynical existentialism, its about looking in the right places and pulling of the right sheets to expose actually broken systems. Elliot's early vigilante hacking shows he isn't some broken man angry at the world, but a purposeful actor trying to make the world a better place.
- psc 10y ago
  My interpretation is that it's very intentionally heavily based off of Fight Club in season 1, but that's just the setup. Now it's what happens after Fight Club. If it were a rip off, you wouldn't have so many Fight Club references and easter eggs. I think it's "sampling" and not "biting." Of course there's disputed gray area, but I think the self-awareness makes it clear that there's a respect for the material it's building off of. There's a lot of American Psycho, Taxi Driver, etc. in there too. It's basically an amalgam of all the mind-bending/character study plot techniques.
rainbowzootsuit 10y ago
There are quite a few homages to the film including the piano cover of "Where Is My Mind" playing when Elliot is showing Tyrell around the Fun Society gaming room. Quite analogous to The Narrator showing Marla the buildings collapsing.

It's a re-imagining of fight club, sans fighting.

mundo 10y ago

My description is "Fight Club meets Pump Up the Volume, set in the world of Watch_Dogs."

DigitalJack 10y ago
I like that, but I think it would maybe be more "true romance" than "pump up the volume." Both fit though.
- oillio 10y ago
  I'd go with Heathers. You know Slater is screwed up, but you only gradually realize the true depth of his violent angry insanity.
bduerst 10y ago
"Fight Club for hackers, also drugs."

kmnc 10y ago

Fight club meets Hackers meets Network. I'm still waiting for the epic "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr Alderson" which you know is coming.

matwood 10y ago

Yeah, all the way down to resetting the financial system. It bugs me because it is such a blatant rip off in many ways.

kmnc 10y ago
Honestly, I think the message is completely different. Fight club was about how cynical existentialism leads to pointless disobedience and a conspiracy narrative of the world. Ultimately it was about how misguided and purposeless the disobedience was. Mr Robot isn't about cynical existentialism, its about looking in the right places and pulling of the right sheets to expose actually broken systems. Elliot's early vigilante hacking shows he isn't some broken man angry at the world, but a purposeful actor trying to make the world a better place.
psc 10y ago
My interpretation is that it's very intentionally heavily based off of Fight Club in season 1, but that's just the setup. Now it's what happens after Fight Club. If it were a rip off, you wouldn't have so many Fight Club references and easter eggs. I think it's "sampling" and not "biting." Of course there's disputed gray area, but I think the self-awareness makes it clear that there's a respect for the material it's building off of. There's a lot of American Psycho, Taxi Driver, etc. in there too. It's basically an amalgam of all the mind-bending/character study plot techniques.

rainbowzootsuit 10y ago

There are quite a few homages to the film including the piano cover of "Where Is My Mind" playing when Elliot is showing Tyrell around the Fun Society gaming room. Quite analogous to The Narrator showing Marla the buildings collapsing.