Split-Second Appearances
This minor detail in Fight Club went unnoticed for quite some time, or at the very least, people were unsure of what they saw. During the movie’s theatrical run, viewers clearly saw a mysterious figure pop up and disappear, all in under a split second. Well, when the movie came out on DVD, where we could view it frame by frame, people discovered something pretty crazy.
Throughout the film’s long introduction scenes, Tyler Durden was the one showing up and disappearing, lending credence to the fact that he was a figment of the Narrator’s imagination, or more specifically, a personality that his mind had come up with.