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- Jul 21, 2023
This is the scene from Fight Club to which @Null referred in the Jack Doherty segment.
This is from the script:
EXT. HOTEL - LATER
Jack, Tyler and the others file quickly out the back SERVICE
ENTRANCE. Tyler gives Angel Face a hearty slap on the back.
Angel Face smiles at Tyler, nods, grinning.
Jack sees this, his eyes narrowing, stops walking.
JACK (V.O.)
I am Jack's inflamed sense of rejection.
INT. TAVERN BASEMENT - NIGHT
Fight club in full swing. Jack battles Angel Face, BEATING
the shit out of him with unprecedented viciousness.
JACK (V.O.)
I felt like putting a bullet between
the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't
screw to save its species.
The crowd shouts maniacally, save Tyler, who watches with an
inscrutable stone face.
Angel Face tries to speak, but Jack POUNDS too hard. Blood
flies. The crowd begins to grow QUIETER.
JACK (V.O.)
I wanted to open the dump valves on
oil tankers and smother all the
French beaches I'd never see.
Finally, Angel Face lies still, unconscious. Jack stops,
stares down, numb. Jack walks away -- the crowd parts to
let him pass. Jack scans faces... finds Tyler.
TYLER
Where did you go, Psycho-Boy?
JACK
I felt like destroying something
beautiful.
The author of the book was a gay man who was evidently closeted up until a few years after I saw the movie, but as with a lot of these things, fooling no one who saw that.
I think a straight young man or boy seeing the same scene might just have hated a "pretty boy" and probably picked up on the inherent queerbait dynamic both to that scene and real life, and that might have been the repulsion that Josh internalized from the scene. For me, it was just more gay shit, but I was older when I saw it.
All that being said, Jack Doherty does look like a child and will no doubt be popular with sodomites wherever he might find himself, hopeful am I that it is a ring of hell.