Darkness warshed over the Dude

Darkness warshed over the Dude

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just like my gf

This movie is about the transfer of old western values to modern ones.

Interesting, please explain

darker than a black steers tookus on a moonless prairie night

Is there a more reddit movie?

Fargo

isnt summer over? or are you homeschooled because youre "special"?

Pulp Fiction maybe? No, definitely this.

are you fucking retarded or something?
Have you never seen Deadpool or any other marvel movie, those movies are pure reddit

What makes a reddit movie

reddit = middle-brow

>unfunny quips
>unlikeable and egotistical protagonists who think they're smart and are nihilistic
>loved by reddit
The Big Lebowski is not reddit

times you acted like the dude

Seconded. Would love to hear the explanation

this movies totally epic lol the dude amirite that just like ur opinion man xD

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TBL the movie isn’t reddit but the fandom that has sprung up around it is extremely reddit. Making a parody religion is one of the most reddit things that can be done

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Not him but it’s pretty straightforward; the rich Lebowski represents the old school ideal of industriousness whereas the dude is a slacker.

based

Wow, mindblown! Could you develop a tad bit? I like me a thorough analysis of Hollywood classics.

kino

Agreed. You have to appreciate a film for what it is, on it's own terms, without projecting back onto it the cultured cachet it has acquired. You can't judge Citizen Kane on the merits of being the most "IMDB-list" movie ever. You have to just watch it

>the rich Lebowski represents the old school ideal of industriousness whereas the dude is a slacker
And? There are also dozens and dozens of other things in the movie, so that doesn't mean much if you're solely basing your interpretation of it on that. I don't think Lebowski is honestly about anything or has a specific theme its trying to get across, it constantly introduces different shit at your face to confuse you as it tries to mimic The Big Sleep's structure and I think The Stranger's ending monologue is exactly that, a bunch of nonsense that under close scrutiny doesn't mean much and is there to make the viewer go "huh?".

agreed but citizen kane is still nothing noteworthy. Only thing that is noteworthy in that film is the cinematography

Shut up user, you're out of your element.

>old school ideal of industriousness whereas the dude is a slacker.
But that's not true at all, user

The Big Lebowski is a fraud and an embezzler, and is leeching off his daughter for the sake of appearances. She throws him money so that he can pretend to be a big shot and play the part.

If I were to try and use my limited brainpower to find what may have meant, it would be that (A) people should be held responsible for their own, and (B) people shouldn't meddle in business that isn't theirs.

The Big Lebowski refused responsibility for his trophy wife's behavior, and refused to live within his own means, throwing his daughter's cash away in frivolous endeavors of maintaining carnal pleasures and social facades. His dumbfuck porn star of a wife pulled dumb shit, and he held other people accountable for it, rather than dump her ass, or facing humility by trying and handle it himself.

The Dude got into trouble as soon as he tried to care about things outside himself. His rug was soiled, and rather than see that the Big Lebowski was a dry well with no water to be drawn, he pulled a con of his own and stole a rug, himself. His life was ever more difficult thereafter. He crossed a line of ethics himself and paid the price.

Walter meddled in the business of others, helplessly led by his own blind/strict adherence to rules, which always cost him. Every time he butt into the threads of others' lives, he was complicating things or making things worse. He couldn't control his own need to keep things black and white, rather than accept the fluid state of the world.

Somewhere in there MIGHT be what could have been getting at, but we'll probably never know; that user seems to have split.

You care to elaborate?

what's your favorite movie?

kind a corny since the duuuude was basically a big old sack of shit

I personally didn't like any of the performances and they came off as over the top and just broke my immersion. The story wasn't very interesting or engaging and I would say the exact same thing about the characters.
Nothing really stood out in a good way besides the cinematography. Also the scenes were characters literally just tell Kane why he's an asshole were fucking atrocious and it just feels like Welles didn't think his audience would be smart enough to understand the protagonist.

If it was happening now I'd agree with you, but that church of the dude thing was like... fuck, I dunno, usenet days practically. Reddit wasn't even a twinkle in a search engine's eye at that point. I get that there's a continuation of that fanbase and it does include a share of hipsters and redditors, but it feels a bit odd to put a cult fandom from the late 90's and early 00's in that box.

simpsons s11e05

user, he was the man for his time and place. he fit right in there.

It was proto-Reddit.

Everything you wrote is correct and an valid critique of my one sentence explanation but it doesn't really address what the original user was saying about the transfer of old Western values to new ones. To flesh out what I was getting at, the rich Lebowski represents the old Western value of industriousness even if he a fraud because he plays the part. Rich Lebowski is always talking about the importance of hard work and this respect, even if it is just lip service, separates him from the dude who is unapologetically lethargic. Perhaps what the Coen brothers were saying is that people have always been slobs but in the past they tried to hide it while the dude represents the new age where losers embrace that identity.

Ah I gotcha user, thanks for the clarification.

What an infantile opinion on one of the greatest films ever made.

It was everything you don't like

Not sure but, I think you're mistaking noise for signal there my dude. This movie, despite the obvious hardboiled chandler riffs, always reminds me of postmodern lit, especially umberto eco. Not sure if name of the rose was a direct inspiration, or there's some kind of second hand contact going on, but there are a lot of parallels:

>"very little is discovered and the detective is defeated." (from the postscript)
>"there was no pattern"
>really the whole main plot with william approaching the mystery like sherlock holmes, following clues, then solving it by accident and coincidence having nothing to do with his hard work. and the end result with it not being what you expect, deflating the villain, and kind of a downer ending
same beats as the main plot in Big L. None of the Dude's detective work really amounts to anything, there is no money, nothing is solved. There's a final battle that nobody wins. And then they just sort of go home.

>"books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told"
not only is the whole movie a pastiche, but you notice how the dude almost never has words of his own? Practically everything he says that's not an exclamation is directly quoted or paraphrased from someone else he heard earlier in the film. he speaks in soundbites.

>"That man is … odd," I dared say to William. >"He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal."
echoes the intro

>"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else"
what can you say really

if you had to pick one tarantino flick to be reddit it would definitely be inglorious bastards or maybe kill bill.