How come The Dude doesn't register with the audience as a Peter Pan syndrome type of guy?
What separates him from the usually embarrasing NEET image? It's it all just lookism and smoke and mirrors?
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What in God's name are you blathering about?
Nice. The Big Lebowski
It's a great movie, I just find it strange how people don't think he's dysfunctional when he lives almost the same lifestyle as some chris chan neethog day type
Checked.. what if he never met maude or if he never got his carpet stolen? It seems like a comfy life anyway
Wtf are you talking about OP? Him being a pathetic loser is a huge part of the movie.
How the FRICK is he a pathetic loser?
The vast majority of people I've spoken to about this movie never brought that up. Only the religious types who can't understand why every protag isn't a missionary.
There's something about him that makes audiences think he's cool, when he really shouldn't be. It's probably the most impressive thing about the movie.
Because he is played by an IRL good looking cool dude Young Jeff Bridges.
The real guy he was based off is some ugly fat guy.
>young
Black person he was almost 50
wtf are you talking about? NOBODY thinks the dude as "sucessful" or "a model" or anything at all, he was just an antihero. are you this motherfricking stupid?
>getting this angry, this quickly
homosexual
go back to the capeshit threads, there's millions of them designed just for (You)
this. op is an idiot. The dude is a culture figure because he shits on everything that society and other people expects from him.
'dude work 50 years and buy stuff to impress people you hate and retire when you no longer have control over your bowel movement'
he said 'no thx'.
we need more dudes.
>when you can have anything in the world and you choose nothing
it's like that uh... zen buddhism man.. ya know?
>chris chan
let's not bring that into this... let's stick to biz-bazness shall we? the dude is very very far from the archetype you're talking about
>he moved out after HS presumably (like everyone easily could back then)
>went to college but was high and partying or protesting the entire time
>didn't really get to classes
>has probably lived a very lazy life ever since
>doesn't seem to have to work, gets by on his relationship with the landlord
>ends up getting maude who is pretty smoking, impregnates her
>sort of manages to figure out a whole kidnapping plot that had a lot of in's and out's to it
>has to take on some pretty seedy characters
he was approaching bruce willis levels of cool
>There's something about him that makes audiences think he's cool, when he really shouldn't be
the film is about glorifying an attitude that the dude, and only the dude, possesses. it isn't easy to put that attitude into words but some cliches come to mind
>easy come, easy go (spike spiegel was about this also)
>you have to stay as relaxed as possible even if the situation is tense
>you gotta' enjoy yourself when it comes to alcohol/drugs/food
>it's important to get a lot of leisure time with friends (bowling)
>pussy should be a high priority
>don't give too much respect to buttholes who don't show you respect
etc. roger ebert hated the film until he realized that the plot is totally irrelevant and that it's only meant to make you understand the dude's attitude. you should be asking yourself "why can't i approach my life with the same level of carefree?" and the answer usually is there's no reason
't seem to have to work, gets by on his relationship with the landlord
Just to add to this when the landlord says "and Dude... tomorrow's already the eighth" and the Dude just gives him a Buddha smile and goes "far out, man." Like, he's such a good natured easy going guy that somebody randomly telling him the month is just, hey man, right on.
What a great movie.
I think there's a good reason people find it hard to approach their lifes with a carefree attitude.
A lot of people are resentful, spread peer pressure like the plague and hate anyone who is different.
There's no reason why you can't play LEGOs as an adult, but people will find them.
That's what makes up Peter Pan syndrome afaik.
He's literally a trust fund kid. The entire point of the movie is that he's the total antithesis of a likable protagonist. He has nearly every negative trait someone can have. But still somehow comes off as down to earth and likable. Being a walking paradox is who he is.
as a trust fund kid myself who coasts on a modest life i like this movie for not depicting that kind of person as a villain. Shame I'm in 2022 i guess.
Nice journal entry, homosexual.
>he lives almost the same lifestyle as some chris chan neethog
No he doesn't, he has friends, he socializes, can string a coherent sentence together, isn't sexually perverse and got a rich woman to frick him.
>What separates him from the usually embarrasing NEET image?
He acts like a man. He's no different to any boomer laborer, aside from him not doing any labor.
NEETs act like children, the have no friends, and do not socialize. They're repulsive creatures. Maude's friend with the cleft butthole is more akin to a NEET. Imagine if he was the main character and he had no job and no friends, he just plays video games all day. That's your typical NEET.
“People” like you are why this site sucks balls now
you can leave at anytime, but by all means, keep posting capeshit and troonbait
>w-well you're a troony
I didn't call you anything, I suggested you post THE image and get on with it
Are you employed sir?
Because he was actually cool. He didn't give a frick about anything at all and he was fine with it and where his life was. Nobody wants to be The Dude irl but we all want his personality.
>He didn't give a frick
The whole movie is the Dude getting angry and upset at shit happening around him despite his "dude" reputation.
In that same vein Walter is an angry confrontational front but tends to calm down and just go with it in the end.
>In that same vein Walter is an angry confrontational front but tends to calm down and just go with it in the end.
That's because it isn't his problem. My favorite scene is after the frick up the delivery and they're at the bowling alley and the Dude is all despondent about it and Walter goes 'and uh what exactly is the problem'? He truly doesn't care he just got involved to help the dude and being Walter had to take the whole thing over but he forgets entirely about it immediately.
Frick i have his life but not his personality
He was cool.
Because he fricks a girl. Without that scene he would be perceived that way
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I miss him so much bros.
same, literally my favorite actor and I haven't found anyone to top him
he was special
jeff bridges is a cool guy
He’s a burnout, he gave up on trying to be a square so the fact that he doesn’t care makes him cool
He's tall and handsome. That earns him the benefit of the doubt because in reality, not giving a frick turns you ugly. His form is heroic, his pathetic loser aspects are mostly told rather than shown.
>his pathetic loser aspects are mostly told rather than shown.
you might say "we see him shopping in his bathrobe" but that's only one day. Anyone can be lazy for a day or two. He's not explicitly shown living every day at a bare minimum of activity. It's only alluded to.
He is actually pretty active with his bowling team.
That sets him apart completely.
He's pretty active about getting ensnared in a crazy mystery too. The bowling shit just seemed like a backdrop, the idea that you can't have useless friends or hobbies is a modern one as this is the first generation to literally not spend time with one another.
I think that's a part of it, you usually don't see people hang out anymore in public without some motive, so it makes him look comparatively popular
and he's the alpha of the group, implying the others are even more pathetic
To start he had a more acceptable boomer hobby like bowling instead of videogames or god forbids watching Anime.
Also his style was much cooler.
It also helps that he had some friends.
He actually had friends and a pro-social hobby
Neets back then were alcoholic smokers who spent evenings hooking up with cheap women at local bars, swindling and borrowing cash while living at gf's or friend's place.
Neets nowadays are addicted to Adderall and video games, never leave the house and live in their parents basement. Huge difference.
He was the heir to the guy who invented the rubik's cube. He didn't have to work for the rest of his life as long as he lived simply enough not to blow through his inheritance
Do an OP seriously not consider that owning your own fricking house is different to living with your mother on her terms
modern definitions have shifted to where owning your own house doesn't negate that.
There are lots of films where independant men are portrayed as Peter Pan like despite owning their own houses or renting etc.
40yr old virgin is a good normie example, and he even has a job.
This is like asking why audiences liked Forrest Gump despite being a moron. It was because he wasn't a full moron and was accomplished in some ways. The Dude is a slacker but he isn't stupid and he is able to get things done when he wants to. That tells us his modest lifestyle is by choice, not the result of being some mouth breather.
>What separates him from the usually embarrasing NEET image
He is physically attractive
His personality isnt cringy/obnoxious or at the very least outwardly annoying
He can socalize normally
He has his own place/doesn't live with his parents
He has irl friends he hangs out with
He has a socially acceptable hobby (bowling)
He has sex
>He is physically attractive
he was fat
He isnt obese though; and he is Jeff Bridges.
Boomers
how does he made money, if the only problem i have with the character
You have a problem with English.
nerd
See
I think it was in the script but they took it out of the movie for some reason
Isn't literally everyone the dude though? Everyone defaults to that now. They just play video games and relax when they can
Can't even imagine what kind of fricked up skizo dementia you'd have to have to even consider these 2 characters remotely similar.
Seriously seek help! NOT JOKING. You OBVIOUSLY need serious fricking help.
Get help
i already have copious amounts of cheeba,,,
it's a syndrome named after Peter Pan you absolute dunce
>had friends
>was charismatic
>had alpha characteristics like being assertive and decisive, confronts the rich powerful guy as an equal
>was tall and commanding
>speaks fluently
>lived like his own king
>was good and respected at a social hobby
>gets to frick a lot of hot women
>hurrdurr why isnt he seen liek chris chan? its not fair why is he chad and im a loser?!!!11
Are you autistic? like literally autistic?
Money
Turns out people don't hate autists morons losers depressives or douchebags. They hate people who are more trouble than they're worth
The movie was made in an era where living like this would be considered silly instead of normal
>someone has a problem with the dude now
jfc what's wrong with you incels. touch grass.
a question is not a problem
you have to consider the time-frame the film takes place in..
the 90's was pure fantasy. everything was on the up and up. not to take anything away from the dude, but the dude was spicoli as a old man. it was all good man. yuppie/beach bum hybrids all just chilled out and took it easy. you see The Dude back in the 90s at your local grocery store, you don't think anything bad about him and you don't think he needs your help. just a guy living at his own pace. again, this was sustainable in the 90's. in the 90's, you could live a life of chill.
now the world is filled with hyper judgmental liberals who try to convince you they aren't judgmental. its just hypocrisy and hysteria incarnate. victimhood is the trend now. a insufferable environment.
the dude has too much privilege to be alive in 2020. the amount of butthurt and how hard crazy liberal women would feel offended by the dude today would be insane. but he would abide. the dude takes it easy regardless.
(You)worthy post.
Basically me. I'm a 38 year old boomer election tourist with three kids and twice divorced.
But my girlfriend is the hot chick from where I work and she's 28. I also picked the most obnoxious shit from my tourist folder.
Calmer than you are.
i had a friend who would b***h about how the film promotes degeneracy. guy was a total degenerate of course
many such cases
The dude abides man
Fun was still allowed in the 90s not like the current hyper fascist work ten billion per hours a week for a cabbage state we are currently in
How come expect others to work a 9-5 job, even if they themselves are miserable and don't want to work?
What was his connection to 'FernGully: The Last Rainforest' (1992)?
he embraced the carpe diem life style while your average NEET is incel sperg who wants to consume, but it's too much of a pussy to get out and get a job. Being lazy is better than being a wimp homosexual
I didn't like the movie too much
Unlike most NEETS, The Dude hires himself out as a private investigator.
No he doesn't.
Can't tell if you're a contrarian or you've never even watched The Big Lebowski
He's not a PI you son of a b***h bastard son
he didn't collect anime figurines
>The Dude in 2020
you could give him a million and nothing would change, meanwhile peter chan would end up like this times a thousand
that's how most people are though. I can't think of anything id do with a million dollars.
Rural property with a cabin and workshop but beyond that, guess I'd use it for living expenses so I wouldn't have to work for someone else.
>The Dude's Landlord asks him to come watch him preform his routine and give him notes
>He not only remembers but he actually goes to see it despite all the crazy stuff happening in his life at that point
The Dude is okay in my book.
Lebowski is good people
>the crazy theater scene is his landlord's play
holy shit, never made the connection, I thought they just met there to not be followed or something
shut the frick anon up you're out of your element
I think if you autistically examine stuff on the walls of his apartment you can see he's supposed to be some kind of '60s leftist that has given up, juxtaposed with the John Goodman character that's supposed to be a John Milius desert storm rightwinger.
Imagine thinking you're the dude. We're all donny at best
>implying there's anything wrong with donny
I am the walrus
I am the walrus.
Life does not stop and start at your convenience, you miserable piece of shit.
Did Walter take it too far here?
He is not a NEET.
He is a Slacker.
Learn the difference.
He's literally a neet though
Hello
White russians are really good actually im glad this movie introduced me to them
>been dudemaxxing for the past 13 months now, after impulse quitting my promising career
Living the life boys, living the life
Same, but last eight years. It has been one of the best decisions of my life tbqh.