I thought hippies were supposed to be chill and shit? Why was the Dude so pissed off for three-fourths of the movie?
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I thought hippies were supposed to be chill and shit? Why was the Dude so pissed off for three-fourths of the movie?
He had all the right to be pissed off for all the shenanigans he was dragged into
What are shenanigans?
Very similar to tomfoolery
hippies love rugs
He had the reefer madness. Have you not seen the doped up hipsters rioting in the mud to the grooves of psychedelic rock at Woodstock? We used to call it the rage plant. Many murdered in Jamaica under its influence.
I cant tell if half memeing but I've always found it bizarre the hashashins got hopped up on it of all things. Viking mushrooms I get. But stoned muslims being killing machines?
Im not sure if they smoked it when actually murdering but what did happen is that they were drugged and then taken to a "pleasure garden" with the "virgin girls" and told it was an actual vision of Heaven and it would be where they would go if they obeyed. Strange to think that is where this idea and suicide bomber Islamists come from.
some hash has psychoactive tendencies
>I thought hippies were supposed to be chill and shit?
They are when they're allowed to do whatever the frick they want at their pace. Put them in a situation where they're expected or worse, required to do something they don't want to do and at best they'll move heaven and earth and expend an astonishing amount of effort to not do it. Well in excess of what it would have taken to just do what they're supposed to do in the first place. At worst they'll absolutely spazz.
1. He wasn't really that pissed off?
2. He just wanted everyone to stop bothering him
Was the dude explicitly a hippy? I mean he hung out with a Vietnam vet most of the time
He was in the Seattle Seven...with six other guys.
Walter wasn't a Vietnam vet.
Reddit theory.
Not reddit at all once you understand that Walter was based on John Milius, whose artistic sensibilities were very clearly a cope of being rejected for Vietnam.
Nobody who was in Vietnam talks about it like Walter does
>Walter wasn't a Vietnam vet.
Alternative theory: He was drafted then spent the entire war stateside at some base peeling potatoes which technically still allows him to larp as a vet and makes his tough guy "I served my country!" bravado that much funnier.
Remind me, did he say he actually saw fellow soldiers 'die facedown in the mud' or was he just refrencing thwm?
Nah, he was a slacker.
>Was the dude explicitly a hippy?
Unkempt, long hair, unconventional values, lax attire, drug use.
Given the movie takes place in the late 80's(?), he basically hits all the check marks for a hippie burnout who aged 20 something years and traded his tie-dye for a bathrobe after he "grew up".
He was based on Jeff Lowd (and a bunch of other dudes) who were affiliated with the 60's protest movement and all those anti-Vietnam protestors like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin and the Ben & Jerry guys (different Jerry) who decided to frick all their student principles in the 70's and get rich in the 80's through capitalistic greed.
They peed on his rug
The aggression would not stand
He was being very undude, dude.
STAY OUT OF MALIBU, DEADBEAT
The rug really tied the room together man!
And the fat angry israelite is what really ruined his mood for the following days.
I don't think the big Lebowski was israeli
The big fat israelite that lebowski visited to try to get paid for his rug being pissed on who just rudely yelled at him and then the dude just told the people working in the house that the old israelite told him he could choose whatever rug he wanted
they peed on his fricking rug man.
Ok but will the dude be a good father? Will it change his act?
He’s never going to see the kid, Maude said she picked him because he won’t be around for the child’s life, and dude says he’s not about children
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Lmao Walter is highly protective of his goyish relationship to his israeli ex-wife
In this context, Walter is the US goverment and his guns and security service is the American MIC. Remember, the film is set right before the first gulf war.
Yep, almost everything in it is political satire. The Pomeranian is a German dog Walter has to watch on behalf of his israeli ex-wife who’s taking advantage of him.
‘If you will it, it is no dream’ - Theodore Herzel. I like to think Walt was just trying to will himself into having a good day with all this ex-wife bullshit
>The Pomeranian is a German dog Walter has to watch on behalf of his israeli ex-wife who’s taking advantage of him.
Excellent observation.
It has papers, you can’t board it or it gets upset and it’s hair falls out (becomes an angry skinhead)
He was out of his element
Hippies were always trust fund homosexuals. Where do you think they went after the 60s-70s? They became the nepo babies of the 80s and 90s.
The movie is about how the Dude is still a hippie in a world that's moved on
>The movie is about
>Shut the frick up, Donny.
Potheads are always cranky.
The Dude is chill when he's doing what he normally does. At home smoking weed and drinking white Russians, sometimes bowling. The thing is with dude bros, its all peace and love until the chill time is disrupted.
Not a hippie but the final evolution of the Westward Dandy (not cowboy). There was no further West he (and his kind) could go. Stuck at the edge of the world, lost. Pissed off? More like jaded and frustrated, even trapped.
>Westward Dandy
Wait, are you talking about Lebowski or the Cowboy narrator?
It's a big stretch to call the Dude a Dandy. I'm trying to stick to it as an evolutionary concept. The final stop on the train westward. Disheveled and disheartened and no where to go. It's a work in progress. The cowboy perhaps hints and that.
God damn, anon. You just described the entire jaded, miserable west coast. Myself included.
They pissed on his rug, man.
life was in disarray
You never met a hippie in your life, have you? Ever. Where do you get your life experience from? I'm actually wondering. Do you go outside?
Plenty. The most recent one I met lives outside of Sydney living in a broken down Vito van parked at the back of his mate's acreage property. He ran a big extension cable from the main house to the van and smoked weed and watched his little TV on his little bed he had in there all day.
They pissed on his rug
Hippies are some of the most passive aggressive homosexuals ever
Because that was one of the points of the movie. The Dude's default state was chill and relaxed and only got upset when he was in stressful situations, whereas his Vietnam Vet bowling buddy's default state was always on. Walter pulled guns on people in bowling, he started yelling at waitresses and made scene when they complained about him being loud, but when the exchanges were made or robberies happen, he was cool head.
Watching those two escalate each other's behavior is hilarious
incredible they haven't made some shit movie based on that kid he had with the artist
The big Lebowski is a retelling of a raymond Chandler novel set in early nineties. Coen bros love to run literature into the faces of people who don't read.
>I thought hippies were supposed to be chill and shit?
He was more post-hippie than an actual hippie, a.k.a. a slacker.
That's what they called them in the 90's.
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1. He wasn't a hippy.
2. His rug really tied the room together.
He was being very un-dude