Did Fight Club rip off The Great Gatsby?

[Borachio]

I was greatly impressed by both stories.

The Great Gatsby is stunningly well written, imo.

And Fight Club was an interesting little film. As films go. (Which isn't very far.)

But the Great Gatsby features a man who is unlucky in love, who seeks and finds his fortune in order to win the woman of his dreams, but it ends badly.

Fight Club features a guy who meets his alter ego who is more successful than he is. And he forms a subculture from the underclass of janitors etc. Blah blah blah. Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham-Carter blah blah.

And you say the plots of these are the same?

I'm missing something, no doubt.

Yes, at a sufficient level of abstraction nearly all stories feature people of one kind or another. And hence they're all the one story? Written by Homer, probably.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Yes, at a sufficient level of abstraction nearly all stories feature people of one kind or another. And hence they're all the one story? Written by Homer, probably.

Are you kidding me? Homer totally rips off Gilgamesh!

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

they say that the modern man is civilised

I brought up this comparison to make asses out of you all ...

In your ignorance you covered your ears and smeared yourselves with cow dung, while screaming 'lalala you can't compare story abstracts lalalala'. That attitude is the same attitude that allowed white Europeans to trample all over forieng cultures for thousands of years ... ...

I tend to disagree.

Oh irony, will you never cease to amuse me?

 

[Traitorfish]

I brought up this comparison to make asses out of you all

Surely, this man shall be our king.

 

[Borachio]

Nononono. You can't make a decent pair of socks out of an ass's ear, you know,