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| Fight Club/The Dark Knight |
A fan theory reveals the connection between David Fincher's film and Nolan's The Dark Knight. David Fincher's Fight Club and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight are very different films. Still, they have in common the fact that they told the origins and the rise of two disturbed and self-destructive characters: the Narrator, whose empty and depressed life leads to the creation of the dual personality known as Tyler Durden, and the Joker, Batman's archenemy. And there's more. There's even a theory online that connects the two films, which claims that Fight Club is, in reality, the origin story of the Joker.
In fact, there are several similarities between the two, starting with their nature as disruptors of society: one of the goals of Tyler Durden, the Narrator's alter ego, is to disintegrate the foundations of the system in which he lives. His latest plan, in fact, is to blow up the most important credit institutions in the city, to create chaos and restore equality between people. His goal is very similar to that of the Joker, who intends to bend the city of Gotham with murders and acts of terrorism of the same type. Their fragmented personalities are also very similar.
In Fight Club, it is revealed in a twist that Tyler Durden is nothing more than an invention of the protagonist, born from his frustrations and his anger towards society. And even if in the Batman films it is never confirmed that the Joker has personality disorders, it is certainly suggested both by the original comics and by the behavior of the villain himself. According to the fans who have spread the theory, the origin story would begin at the end of Fight Club, when, following a fight with his alter ego, the protagonist shoots himself in the mouth to end the lives of both. According to the theory, this would be the moment in which the future Joker would have suffered the wound that characterizes his cynical and permanent smile.
Instead of dying permanently, Durden would have survived and taken complete control of the Narrator, suppressing his rational side and leading him to embrace the path of crime, finally taking the name Joker. Obviously, this is just a fanciful fan theory, without any clear evidence in the respective works we have discussed. However, it is interesting to note the parallels between these two characters, who in the fandom (and even more so after the release of Joker with Joaquin Phoenix) have become synonymous with revolution, overturning the rules and redemption against the injustices of society.
Source: Screen Rant
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