Fucking nihilists. Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism at least its an ethos.
calmer than you…
Just for dumb fun—the 30-second animated version of No Country…
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That’s fantastic! I guess that’s the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin’ itself.
Bumped.
Jeff Bridges, and the Dude, abide. Scroll down for his Jimmy Kimmel Live appearance (he channels the Dude starting at 10:04):
I may need to re-watch this, but I remember seeing it years ago and was not impressed. Perhaps because I had heard so much about it and it sounded like movie I should have loved. I’m sure it’s streaming somewhere, so maybe this weekend I’ll give it another shot.
The more you watch it, the more you get it, and the funnier it gets.
When Lebowski nails a board to the floor (complete with dozens of bent nails) in an effort to prop the door closed, only to realize that it opens in the other direction, gets me every time. The look of dimwitted realization was priceless.
We had a Senior Pastor (straight out of central casting: stately, with greying temples and a Ward Clever demeanor). He snuck a Lebowski quote into every sermon.
Sometimes it was just a little wink (“…in the parlance of our times”), but when he quoted a whole scene, he’d recommend the movie. Not as a comedy, but as a window into a lot of truths.
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We weren’t going to tell you yet, sorry.
Ever see “Matinee”?
I finally saw it about a month ago assuming I’d not like it - I’m not into stoner comedy. I really enjoyed it.
I like it - as I like MOST Coen movies. Tho I don’t think I LOVE it as much as some do. Lots of really interesting characters, situations, and lines. More than a lot of movies can claim.
It’s probably tied with “Dr. Strangelove” for my all-time favorite comedy movie.
When the Dude reports his car being stolen, two cops come to take his info. He mentions that the car contained a tape deck, “and some Credence tapes”. The cop taking his info is a young White kid, polite and idealistic. The other is a jaded, middle-age Black man, silent, but obviously full of contempt for this lazy bum (“I’m unemployed”) whose apartment must have reeked of pot smoke.
When the White cop informs the Dude that there wasn’t much chance they’d find the tape deck, the Black cop adds, “Or the Credence”.
I think if they gave an award for the greatest acting performance in a role of no more than three words, it should go to that actor (Richard Gant).
Also, I pretty much have to like TBL, since about 10 years ago, it became a prophecy of my life.
I was undergoing a reinvestigation for my security clearance. The security division had pulled my name from an online record of a civil suit against a corporation. I informed them that this probably was a guy in Iowa who had the same name as me, first and last, same spellings. He was a multi-millionaire venture capitalist. I provided documentation that he was indeed the person named in the suit, and wrote this up in a memo. I concluded it, “I’m not Mr. Shakespeare. He’s Mr. Shakespeare. I’m the Dude!”
Yeah. That is superslapstick. They put a nice bunch of time and change-of-subject between the setup and the punchline.
“Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women!”
Another fast gag that slays me: the Dude shading in Jackie Treehorn’s doodled-upon napkin only to reveal a pornographic drawing.
Any movie where John Goodman is given free rein is a good one.
Ol’ Dio got hisself banned over 14 years ago
If you’ve read The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler The Big Lebowski makes more sense and you can see the Coen brother’s mastery. They did this with O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Odyssey as well.
Also Miller’s Crossing and two Dashiell Hammett novels (The Glass Key and Red Harvest).