Fight Club's Starbucks Cup Easter Egg & Meaning Explained
Spotting the Starbucks cup Easter egg in Fight Club has long been a hobby of many of the film's most hardcore fans, but what exactly does it mean? Despite receiving early mixed responses, Fight Club has since become considered one of the greatest films of the '90s. It's a film that's as deep as it is memorable, and as such, its fans have had fun closely examining every inch of the film for Easter eggs inserted by director David Fincher.
One such Easter egg is the film's use of Starbucks coffee cups. In almost every single scene of the film, a cup can be spotted emblazoned with the Starbucks logo, and it's something that adds an extra layer to the film to make it all the more rewatchable. In a film like Fight Club — and from a director like David Fincher — the cups are obviously more than just… well, cups. So what exactly do Fight Club's Starbucks cups mean?
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Fight Club is a film that isn't shy about its criticisms of consumerism — in fact, it's one of the core tenets of Tyler Durden, Brad Pitt's manic and increasingly unhinged character. However, the fact that the Starbucks cups are used so often and so obviously throughout the film makes them far more significant than the average movie Easter egg. Fincher's use of the cups is actually closely linked to the film's anti-consumerist narrative.
From another director, it would be easy to dismiss Fight Club as little more than an excuse to have a shirtless Brad Pitt work out by beating other shirtless men senseless. From Fincher, though, there are always deeper themes, and his intense attention to detail is something that always bleeds through into his movies. Fight Club's Starbucks Easter egg is a prime
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