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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

      One of the things I love about The Big Lebowksi is that Walter's outrage is 100% performative. He turns it on and off on a dime.

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

      related: we tend to think of Dude as mellow and Walter as out of control and angry, because these are the personas they adopt and dress for ... but if you watch carefully, it's almost EXACTLY the opposite. Dude is worked up much of the time, Walter is a calming influence.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

      3/ This is excellent writing. Bad writing has flat characters with no affect. Good writing has characters with attributes and traits. Excellent writing shows characters as real people who ARE x but PERFORM y.

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

      4/ Walter is a calm soul who performs outrage. Dude is an easily upset soul who performs calmness. The Big Lebowski is a scared small man who performs importance. The Nihilists are nobodies performing bad-assness. Only Donnie ("true neutral") is himself.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Rooski McHackerson

      5/ exactlyhttps://twitter.com/andychicks/status/1123203393307193345 …

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      Rooski McHackerson @andychicks
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      “Dude you’re being very undude” Walter
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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

      6/ Also, since I'm doing a film (mini) thread, I noticed a nano-trope. How do you should a tough guy being a good friend / sensitive / observant without showing him being a wuss? Have him notice that a STILL LARGE friend or colleague has lost weight.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

      7/ Edward Norton's character did this in American History X. He sees one of his neo-Nazi pals who's probably clocking in at 500 lbs and says "hey, you've lost weight?", and indeed, the guy says he has. John Wick does this toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8goQyjvcjdo …

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

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      8/ Back to Lebowski: https://twitter.com/FreedomViking/status/1123205974544793601 …

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

      9/ Now, here's another interesting thing about Walter: He's presented as a joke. He's got no wife, he's got a random crappy job, he's always ranting about Nam. But Walter isn't a joke. He's just a man in the wrong place. He had a place: 'Nam In 'Nam, his personality worked

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

      10/ Walter is built for decisive action. The tragedy is that he has a life (bowling in LA) that doesn't call for decisive action or conflict. ...so he creates it (poorly, stupidly). He pulls a gun on Smokey.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

      11/ But when an ACTUAL situation arises on its own (the Nihilists attack them), for about 10 seconds Walter is in his element, responds appropriately, and wins.

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

          12/ He uses improvised weapons to defeat multiple opponents armed with a sword. He has full situational awareness: he knows that Donnie wasn't shot, because - despite being involved in a melee - he was listening to everything, heard everything, knows no shots were fired.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

          13/ The combat over, Walter IMMEDIATELY surveys the situation and calls for medical help for Donnie. It's too late, but that's no reflection on Walter. He went from calm to combat to calm to helping the wounded in 20 seconds. His performative outrage is a SKILL !

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

          14/ His ability to turn it on and off on a dime is a SKILL. The tragedy of The Big Lebowski is that everyone is in the wrong place. The Dude belongs back on a college campus in 1968. Walter belongs back in 'Nam in the same year. The movie is about living too long.

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

          15/ Only Donnie escapes.

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

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          16/ if you like my tweets about movies and writing, you'll also enjoy my wife's threads on similar topics e.g. https://twitter.com/LibertyFarmNH/status/1123242250769715200 …

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

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          17/ and https://twitter.com/LibertyFarmNH/status/1123260309291114501 …

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 30 Apr 2019

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Jason Steiner

          18/https://twitter.com/ernunnos/status/1123277874528571392 …

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          Jason Steiner @ernunnos
          Replying to @MorlockP
          So what you're saying is, Walter is Animal Mother. "Believe it or not, but under fire, Animal Mother can be a wonderful human being. All he needs is somebody throwing hand grenades at him for the rest of his life."
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