Movie Debate

In this round i am going to compare Fight Club with Raiders of the Lost Ark but first i am going to talk about the arguments that my opponent (a.k.a the other debater) said. My opponent said this " They say numbers speak volumes.... $175,191,923 more in gross box office sales on $45 million less in budget. " I myself personally do not agree with this and i think nobody should because it is not always true. Yes i admit that it can sometimes be true but most of the time it is not. If we look in politics we can see that there were some politicians that were really good in there jobs and that tried to make this world better but the truth is that most of them are really bad in there jobs and do not try hard enough to make this world better, so by that logic Bush would be an awesome president because most of the people voted for him on 2000 and 2004 election but as it turns out he is actually one of the worst presidents. This argument that i just used shows that numbers speak volumes is not a good argument to use. We can also look in today's popular music and most of as can see that popular music is not as nearly as good as popular music was good before. Also if we look at the trend that was started in 2013 and got attention in 2014 and that is the ALS ice bucket challenge. Most of the people were dumping water over their heads and not even donating so by the logic numbers speak volumes it would mean that it is better to dump cold water on your head than giving money to charity and we all know or at least i hope we know that giving money to charity is better than dumping cold water on your head. So to get to the point i am only going to say that the numbers speak volumes is a not a good argument and i just showed you why and i hope you agree with me. Now i am going to compare Fight Club to Raiders of the Lost Ark and show you why i think that Fight Club is better. 1. Characters Fight Club in my opinion has much better characters. In Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones is the main character and in Fight Club the main character is the narrator. I have to admit that Indian Jones is much cooler the the narrator but the narrator is not a character that is supposed to be cool, he is a character that is supposed to realistic and relatable while Indiana Jones is a character that does not need to be relatable he is made to be cool. I think that the narrator is a much better character because we can see ourselves in him while we can't relate with Indiana Jones because we already know that he is going to be a hero and we know that he is going to be cool while we can see much more emotion in the narrator because he has much more emotions like anger, happiness, fear, love etc. while in Indiana Jones we can still see some of those emotions but we do not feel them the same because Indiana Jones is unrealistic and for that reason we cannot feel relatable with him and for that reason we cannot feel the emotions that he is having the same way we feel emotions of the narrator. Narrator is also much better and more relatable because he is not always a perfect good guy. The narrator hates his job, hates his boss and hates his life which we cannot see in Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones loves what he does and wants to do it but that is not very realistic because in today's society not many people are happy with their jobs and with their lives and that is why the narrator is a much better character than Indian Jones. The narrator is as i said not a perfect good guy and that is because he is not always good. As i said he hates himself, hates his job, and hates his boss and for that reason he is automatically not perfect but also he is not always good like in the scene where he beats angel face psychotically while angel face did nothing wrong to him. Here is the link to the scene that i am talking about this is not the original scene from Fight Club because that song was not in the movie but it is the best video i could find so i apologize. So as we saw the narrator is not always a perfect person and that is much more realistic because we are also not always perfect while Indiana Jones is also not always perfect the narrator is still much more realistic and that is why i think that the narrator is one of the best if not the best character in movies and in my opinion the narrator is a much better character than Indiana Jones. In Fight Club we have Tyler Durden as the cool character so that is why i am going to compare him to Indiana Jones because they are both similar. I compared the narrator and Indiana Jones because they are the main characters but i am now going to compare Tyler Durden to Indiana Jones because they are really similar to each other. Tyler and Indiana Jones have a lot of similarities. Both of them are extremely cool, both of them have good looks and both of them live their life the way they want to but i still think that Tyler Durden is a better character because he is way more realistic than Indiana Jones. Tyler is way more realistic because unlike Indiana Jones he lives realistically. Indiana Jones has an awesome life and an awesome job that he likes while Tyler has an extremely bad life but he still makes the most of his life and that is what makes Tyler so cool. Tyler lives his life the way he wants to live it and does not care about what other people think about his lifestyle because he lives a happy life and that is what is important about him while Indiana Jones already has an awesome life and an awesome job so it it is much easier for him to make the most of his life and that is why Tyler is a much more realistic character because most of the people in real world do not get the opportunity to be like Indiana Jones but everybody can be like Tyler because Tyler is just a guy that does not care about his life and likes to live his life that way and everybody can do that. I hope i showed you that Tyler Durden is a better character than Indiana Jones. Now i am going to talk about girl characters. In Fight Club we have Marla Singer and in Raiders of the Lost Ark we have Marion Ravenwood. I personally think that Marla is a better character and i am going to show you why. It is because she is way funnier and way more realistic. Marla is way more realistic because she lives a life that everybody can have. Marla is like Tyler but a little bit more realistic because she is a little bit more normal. While Tyler dose not show any signs of fear and does not show any signs of caring about his life, Marla does show that. For example when she near the end of the movie is weirded out by the narrator and his behavior she is not only weirded out she is also a little bit scared and also mad at the narrator while Tyler does not show any of the emotions that i just said. I still think that Tyler is a better character but Marla is a more realistic one. Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark is not as realistic as Marla because of her life. She is like Indiana Jones, she lives a life of adventure and we all know that a life of adventure is not really realistic in the today's society. Not only is Marla a more realistic character, she is also a funnier one. I can still remember the line from Fight Club that Marla said after having sex with with Tyler: 'I haven't been f*cked like that since grade school'. That is for me one of the funniest lines i have ever heard from a movie. I hope that you agree with me that Fight Club has better characters. Now i am going to talk about cinematography. 2. Cinematography I already showed you in the round 2 that Fight Club has beautiful scenes like: but in the Raiders of the Lost Ark scenes are not as nowhere as beautiful as in Fight Club. 3. The Script In round 2 of my debate i showed you some of the memorable quotes from Fight Club but in Raiders of the Lost Ark i rarely see any memorable quotes. The only quote i remember from Raiders of the Lost Ark is ' Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? ' I think that the script for Fight Club is way more better than the script for Raiders of the Lost Ark. 4.Acting In both movies Acting is great but with no doubt Fight Club has better acting. If you read what i wrote in round 2 for the acting in Fight Club you know that Fight Club has way better acting than Raiders of the Lost Ark and if you did not read what i wrote in the round 2 than go and read it because you will see there that Fight Club has better acting. 5.Music Music in both movies is extremely good and you can not decide what movie has better music because it comes down to personal opinion. I personally think that Fight Club has better music. I hope you agree with me in this debate and i am now going to end my round.