1. The Dude abides. Some thoughts on the 20th anniversary of The Big Lebowski. Let's start with what it means to say the Dude "abides."
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7. The Dude is New Leftist in a period where the Left has disappeared ("Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski! Condolences! The bums lost!"). His diffident disengagement is a response:https://twitter.com/steve_katz/status/972157180060119040 …
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8. The Dude abides. And the Big Lebowski abides. Despite getting "meh" reviews, it stature has only grown. I have more thoughts on the film here:https://newrepublic.com/article/147341/film-critics-blind-big-lebowskis-brilliance …
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I think it's more about mocking aging Cali hippies, but then assigning 'themes' to Coen movies seems kinda pointless, since they, themselves, are so arch as to dismiss any examination of their work at all. Their entire life's work is endless cynicism about literally everything.
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A funny line from the screenplay to add your assessment. Floating in the swimming pool, Bunny tells the Dude her friends are nihilists. The Dude: "Practicing?"
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I wonder how Fargo fits into this puzzle. Perhaps it’s the connection between the want of money and evil. The want of money ropes Lundegaard in with Showalter, who is roped in with Grimsrud who (like Chigurth in NCFOM), is basically a lurking embodiment of evil.
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And who defeats him in the end? Not a tough-guy, grizzled, macho, he-man cop, but Gunderson - a folksy expectant mother who outwits nearly everyone and sees the growing, upsetting moral complexity of the world. Note she doesn’t go for the kill shot for Grimsrud; she hits his leg.
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Hail, Caesar! is maybe their most overt examination of this theme. Marxists reduced to an ineffective book club lashing out, but Clooney's character also shows the feeling that you're alienated from your labor is universal and can't be suppressed
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re: your earlier thread on Coen’s theme of decline of the American left. Do you think Barton Fink was a sympathetic character? I thought the point wasn’t that he got screwed by corporate studio but that he squandered his potential to help workers b/c he didn’t listen to them.
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