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How about this.  The Dude is a figment of The Stranger's mind.

The Stranger's voice is the first voice you hear and the he's the last person you sees (except for that guy who rolls a strike).

I see the stranger out on the damned prairie, laying against a rock...He just chewed a peyote button, and starts ramblin' about The Dude, Walter, and this crazy story about a kidnapping, porn, nihilists, bowling, Vietnam, and, uh, Vietnam, and...wow, lost my train of thought there.

Quote from: digbys kid on October 09, 2008, 01:19:27 PM
How about this.  The Dude is a figment of The Stranger's mind.

The Stranger's voice is the first voice you hear and the he's the last person you sees (except for that guy who rolls a strike).

I see the stranger out on the damned prairie, laying against a rock...He just chewed a peyote button, and starts ramblin' about The Dude, Walter, and this crazy story about a kidnapping, porn, nihilists, bowling, Vietnam, and, uh, Vietnam, and...wow, lost my train of thought there.

Were you listening to the strangers' story, you're like a child  wandering into an acid trip without any point of reference, getting more and more into the ramblins' about the Dude and Walter's Vietnam and nihilistic pornos, and ....wow, lost my train of thought there.

Quote from: digbys kid on October 09, 2008, 01:19:27 PM
How about this.  The Dude is a figment of The Stranger's mind.

The Stranger's voice is the first voice you hear and the he's the last person you sees (except for that guy who rolls a strike).

I see the stranger out on the damned prairie, laying against a rock...He just chewed a peyote button, and starts ramblin' about The Dude, Walter, and this crazy story about a kidnapping, porn, nihilists, bowling, Vietnam, and, uh, Vietnam, and...wow, lost my train of thought there.

Not bad, not too bad at all. I dig your style, dude. Nice fucking theory.

Howdy good dudes, (that includes the feminine) I believe that the stranger is the Dude's father, and therefore the Dude of the previous generation. The Stranger is a 1940's movie cowboy, and as out of place and time as the aging hippie Dude is in the Bush 41 era.

Here's something interesting about the Stranger. A few months ago, while I was digging through the DVD bargain bin looking for TBL, because I checked 9 different stores that sell DVD's and 2 rental shops and still hadn't found a copy, ( I was actually watching the film on the net to get my Lebowski fix) I found something very curious.

A bargain bin bundle pack, 2 DVD's of the same actor. The good dude Sam the Stranger himself. The first was called The Last Ranger, our Sam, a Texas ranger on the land. The second film was called Blue River, and apparently Sam only has a small role in the film, so I wondered why it would be included. I read the back of the case and found that the lead character in the film is named Lawrence Sellers.

The Last Ranger. Put the space in another place and it becomes The LA Stranger!

That's interesting, man.  That's fucking interesting!

holy shit. i need a cocktail. this is heavy stuff, man.

TBL is truly a universe unto itself.

i'm trippin.

Quote from: forumdude on July 15, 2009, 06:23:12 PM
holy shit. i need a cocktail. this is heavy stuff, man.

TBL is truly a universe unto itself.

i'm trippin.

I was theorizing a while back that the Stranger was a manifestation of the Dude's, Walter's and Donny's combined id brought into being by a powerful need to tell their story, a story the square world wouldn't give a shit about.

I'm still tracking down leads on that theory, its got me working in shifts.

Mind if I burn a j?

O.K.,I need to post a little correction here. Due to the lapses of my weed addled brain, I mad an error. The film that I identified as "The Last Ranger" is actually called, "The Ranger, the Cook, and the Hole in the Sky". The back cover blurb described Sam as "The last ranger". I forgot the name of the film after that.

Sam plays, get this, a park ranger, in 1919.

Both films were made for TV in 1995, and both star Jerry O'Connell and Sam Elliot.

Sorry for the confusion, he's still the "last ranger" to me.

http://www.amazon.com/Ranger-Cook-Hole-Sky/dp/B0007LPS8Q

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114235/

Quote from: Elbowski on July 16, 2009, 01:23:04 PM
O.K.,I need to post a little correction here. Due to the lapses of my weed addled brain, I mad an error. The film that I identified as "The Last Ranger" is actually called, "The Ranger, the Cook, and the Hole in the Sky". The back cover blurb described Sam as "The last ranger". I forgot the name of the film after that.

Sam plays, get this, a park ranger, in 1919.

Both films were made for TV in 1995, and both star Jerry O'Connell and Sam Elliot.

Sorry for the confusion, he's still the "last ranger" to me.

http://www.amazon.com/Ranger-Cook-Hole-Sky/dp/B0007LPS8Q

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114235/

An occasional flashback? Separate incidents?

I applaud Elbowski for bringing this new shit to light.

That's fucking interesting, man.

It's hard to say man. Lotta in's and out's.
On one hand it would work well for the stranger to be a figment of the Dude's imagination.
But the movie does not support that.
But then how does he know all about the Dude? He comes into the movie knowing
about the Dude. But it's clear that the Dude does not know the stranger even though
he digs his style.

Maybe he was actually a brother shamus.

The Dude is a Dudeist while The Stranger is a Dudeist Priest. Or the Dudely Lama. Or what have you.

Am I wrong?

Am I wrong?

Ok then.

My recent theory is that the entire story takes place in the stranger's head and we are looking into his mind as this a here story unfolds. That would explain all of the surreal scenes such as carpet ride over Los Angeles  and the dude rolling down a lane looking out from inside a bowling ball. Maybe we enter the stranger's mindscape during a flashback brought by some mighty powerful peyote.

Wha, that ma knewest durn theory.

You got any sarsaparilla?

Quote from: Andrea Dudette on November 21, 2007, 02:23:59 PM
Dudes, the stranger is some kind of Dude's admirer, just like us.
This is very clear in the beginning.
"But I'll tell you what, after seeing Los Angeles and thisahere story I'm about to unfold--wal, I guess I seen somethin' ever' bit as stupefyin' as ya'd see in any a those other places, and in English too, so I can die with a smile on my face without feelin' like the good Lord gypped me."
He's not a dude's flashback, the dude is not the type of selfish-dude that will imaginate a stranger talking about him all the time, of course selfish persons are not dudeist, they're human paraquats.

PD: Excuse my english, i'm trying to do the best i can.I hope that somebody understand.Dios m?o.
Abide.

Dudette is a worthy fucking female dude. Fucking eh!