Fight Club and Pursuit of Happyness

A film that brought on inspiration for this piece was the film Fight Club directed by David Fincher.

'Jack' has a mundane boring life that consists of the same things of going to work and going home with no change or difference until he starts going to self help groups and finally creating his own through his alter ego Tyler Durden.

The idea of a man living a boring stereotypical work life was inspiration for our character Shaun who lives a lifestyle of going to work in a call centre then going home to watch the TV. This is until he finds a homeless man he walks past everyday collapsed. This similar epiphany of wanting to change things happens to Shaun that 'Jack' also feels.

Similar work setting 

While 'Jack' uses violence to get our of his everyday routine we wanted our character to have a less violent change. Instead Shaun is going to volunteer at a local charity preferably a shelter charity that helps the homeless to find places to sleep over night.

Another influence is the Pursuit of Happyness which is the story of a man and his young son who are made homeless. Chris Gardener is made homeless after losing the family money through a bad investment deal meaning him and his son are left to live on the street. They are helped however from a church that offers shelter to the homeless. We wanted to capture this idea of how it is hard for the homeless living on the street but that help is available too. Our character Shaun is going to volunteer at a charity shop that helps people in similar situations to get over the guilt he is feeling about not offering the homeless man money.

Chris and his son sleeping in the train station