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  • Lots of people work at boring jobs, with boring lives, and a sense that modernity has left them with more prosperity but a sense of social isolation, lack of a sense of community, lack of sense of deeper purpose beyond getting the TPS reports done, and that Tyler Durden is seen as some of sort of anarchist prophet who will fix this (if fix is the right word).

    Matthew Yglesias » Fight Club 2010

  • Liking Fight Club because Tyler Durden is some kind of role model is really a painful misreading of the movie.

    Matthew Yglesias » Fight Club 2010

  • I really really have never understood the “straight” (versus satirical) reading of Fight Club, where Tyler Durden is correct in his criticisims of our modern world.

    Matthew Yglesias » Fight Club 2010

  • Tyler Durden is a cool character, but Edward Norton simply is that movie.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The 100 Greatest Movie Characters 2008

  • I agree that Tyler Durden is no. 1 in the list, because Fight club is fascinating movie.

    Empire’s The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time | /Film 2008

  • Tyler wow Durden is one of the most genius characters ever made all of you who doubt that have no perspective on what makes a great character grow up and learn something i think the list is pretty good otherwise ... vader can suck a dick for all i care star wars has possibly the worst acting i have ever seen in my life jjiibb

    Empire’s The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time | /Film 2008

  • Durden, like Andrade, received this sentence under the three-strikes law even though he had never committed a violent felony.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • About a year earlier, I had mentioned to Peter that I was seeking U.S. Supreme Court review on behalf of a man, Stanley Durden, who had received a life sentence with no possibility of parole for twenty-five years for stealing an umbrella and two bottles of liquor worth forty-three dollars from a supermarket on a cold, rainy night.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • Durden remains in prison serving his twenty-five-year sentence for shoplifting.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • The lawyer representing Durden became ill and asked if I would prepare the petition for Supreme Court review in his case.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

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