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....Project Hate...and...Project Love
Not sure where to go with that but if writing is a series of choices,and the Coens chose this for the Dude then it was a conscious choiceman. And what were they saying there?
For me, and that's just, like, my opinion. the Dude starts off as being unrealistic. I have to admit that when I first watched the movie at the beginning I wasn't cheering or booing him. But then bad stuff happens to him, he copes the best way he can, and then he does what he feels he must. Then he lets it go because it'll be the 10th soon enough.And that's pretty much one of the ways to be dudely. Sometimes life throws lemons, limes, oranges, and papayas at us. We can either get pissed off and yell at the damn citrus or we can enjoy it. There's a quote that I'll paraphrase: It doesn't matter how many times you get kicked down, it's how many times you get back up.
Well yeah but if the Dude just let it go and never went to the Big Lebowski none of the bad stuff would have happened.But would that have been the correct course?...What does the flick preach. Donnie is the character that absolutely always lets aggression stand and he dies.
Quote from: BikerDude on July 16, 2019, 07:31:11 AMWell yeah but if the Dude just let it go and never went to the Big Lebowski none of the bad stuff would have happened.But would that have been the correct course?...What does the flick preach. Donnie is the character that absolutely always lets aggression stand and he dies. The rational part of my brain tells me it's a movie. If he had just said, "You know what, I'm the Dude, life goes on, fuck it," then we wouldn't have a movie. We'd have a short YouTube video. So of course he had to do something.In the real world, sometimes we do things that we feel we need to do. Others look at it and say it's not important, move on, don't bother. I had to use the phrase "it's the principle," because often even the person saying that realizes it's nothing major. Maybe the Dude wanted the Big Lebowski to own up to his wrongdoings? After all, if the Dude screwed up, he'd admit it (I'm guessing here; I'm not a Coen brother). But the Big Lebowski, being who he is, says no, it's your fault, you bum.Donnie only died because he got caught up in this whole shebang. If it had just been resolved, Donnie might have died an old man with no overwhelming problems. Maybe he would've liked it that way. The reason I don't just say, OK, Donnie died because he never confronted anyone, is because Walter lives fine. I can't say never let the aggression stand because then we could argue that we should Walter-esque assholes all the time. Just my $0.02, but I think Donnie was the character like we all have in our lives. He's overlooked and pushed aside. When he's gone, you realize you didn't appreciate it when you had it.But again, it wouldn't be a good story if it was real life.
At the table in the kitchen, there were three bowls of porridge. Goldilocks was hungry. She tasted the porridge from the first bowl."This porridge is too hot!" she exclaimed.So, she tasted the porridge from the second bowl."This porridge is too cold," she saidSo, she tasted the last bowl of porridge."Ahhh, this porridge is just right," she said happily and she ate it all up.
My mother (a catholic) used to terrify me (unintentionally I'm sure) with the words...goodnight, godbless and see you in the morning if we're spared.
Before you're a dude, you might have to go through some un-dudely stuff first
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