12. The less overtly ideological films show the idealist facing grim reality .
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13. Tom Regan in Miller's Crossing not much of an idealist but even he has to abandon minimal commitment to avoiding violence. "What heart?"
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14. I could go on. Trust me, I could go on. But let's talk about the meaning of Jeffrey Lebowski.
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15. Jeffrey Lebowski -- the Dude -- author of the original, uncompromised Port Huron Statement, one of the Seattle Seven.
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16. The Dude is buffeted by competing ideologies on all sides: the Reaganite revanchism of his namesake, Walter's conservatism...
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17. Maude Lebowski's feminism, Jackie Treehorn's Heffnerite hedonism, etc.
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18. I should probably add the German nihilists into the ideological stew of The Big Lebowski, although they don't have an ethos.
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19. Despite the hostile ideologies & social forces he meets (the Malibu Sheriff, "a real reactionary"), Lebowski perseveres. The dude abides
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20. What givesglimmer of hope is left isn't completely defeated in these films, although in abeyance. The Dude abides. The Dude abides.
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@stephenrodrick Some self-parody, yes. In trying to find one's voice, I think writers have to risk self-parody.
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