It's quite clear what The Big Lwbowski is about it's about getting the dude's rug back. You know that thing really tied the room together. But then again that's just my opinion.
What i noticed is that Dude is ironically respected by everybody with the exception of people of authority or power. Everybody admires dude where ever he goes. His own landlord respects him even though he fails to pay rent. The wealthy pretentious artsy too good for everybody, Maude even admires Dude. Maude chose Dude out of anybody to reproduce with. The bartender at the alley admired dude and agrees with everything he says. The stranger follows Dude around and tells him he admires him. Defino considers Dude a worthy colleuage and admires his 'work'. Jesus has no problem with Dude, only walter and everybody else. From start to finish, you see admiration for a guy who doesn't expect it. Dude doesn't even realize it. The irony is that Dude has it better than most even though he has nothing to show for it materialisticly. Dude posseses the most precious commodity in life that everybody around him tries so hard to attain but fail in doing so. Being liked.
Good point, man. I noticed the same thing. However, I wonder if it’s a sign of respect or pity. Handicapped people will not get made fun of either, but it doesn’t mean they are liked or respected. Maybe the bartender at the alley figures if he says “right, dude”, then it makes his regular customer happy. Maybe Jesus didn’t bother with the dude because he felt he wasn’t worth it. You argue with people who are a threat to you. Maude was a disgusting feminist who needed to find a disease free man who was able to get a hard on for her to sit on, make a baby with, and would willfully disappear without any pushback whatsoever. This is a blatant disregard for him as a man with any backbone, not a display of respect.
@@blacjackdaniels200 Maude criticized bunny for her performing sex without joy. Yet she literally states in the film that she had sex with the dude only for a child not for pleasure. So I agree with you almost everybody in this movie is a satire of cultural stereotypes.
@@blacjackdaniels200 But we should also remember that the dude wouldn't really care about being liked or respected by others so, none of that really matters. He just wants to be left alone and live peacefully in his house with a nice rug that really ties the room together man.
The book that helped me understand the subtext of The Big Lebowski (outside of Jung) was “A Brief History of Everything” by Ken Wilber. You then see the whole movie is about a single person overcoming the various levels of individuation necessary to become “enlightened” (represented by Sam Elliot’s character).
Although I think you're on to something here and the connection/comparison is valid, I personally think the main problem lies in how The Stranger is in my opinion misinterpreted. I remember reading it and feeling like I didn't really get it, the hype so to say. The eccentric Meursault and his odd takes on the world and the people in it just seemed pretty normal to me and I could really relate to him. I've got Aspergers and that got me thinking if that could be what I related to in him and started to try and identify things to support my suspicion and found quite a lot. Later on I googled it and found that someone had written a paper on it and it confirmed my suspicions even more as the character Meursault was based on Camus' friend Galindo which after some digging (by the author of the paper, not me) showed strong signs of Aspergers. Camus had essentially identified and written a description of Aspergers syndrome before it was a thing and although it would be foolish to say that absurdism itself is a result of Aspergers, a lot of things from The Stranger has been used as arguments for and explanations of absurdism by some people which I find interesting. I completely went of the rails here, sorry. My point was to say that your and many other peoples view of The Stranger makes sense in this connection but there might be more ways to look at it. I don't know what I'm saying to be honest, does it even matter? Great video.
You say the Big Lebowski worked hard and sees his achievements squandered through his children... but he married into wealth and the only chance he got to try and run a business, he failed. His family are the achievers. He is just prideful.
Great analysis! It is not an easy task coming up with fresh ideas regarding this rather recent classic. Rob Ager did a very detailed analysis, pointing out symbolism, hidden messages and metaphors - as he always does so well. Great analysis of connection to literature and another Coen Brothers movie where I didn't spot the connection until you pointed it out. I am a huge fan of The Big Lebowski, because I know there is so much more to discover with each viewing. My personal take on this movie: it is many things, including being a parody (and an upside down version: our main protagonists, and everyone else in one way or another, are neither accomplished nor wealthy, they are out of place and out of touch) - of rather pretentious "ensemble cast - interconnected stories in L.A." such as "Grand Canyon" (1991) and "Short Cuts" (1993) - the latter also featuring Julianne Moore. I would go as far as saying that "Magnolia" (1999) is yet another take (aiming high) on the exact same overall theme, this time taking "The Big Lebowski" into account by adding more absurd, symbolic elements and twists of fate - and including two actors (again: Julianne Moore and Philip Seymour Hoffman). Thanks for sharing your insight!
I think you’re insight is magnificent! Very beautiful. I am going to research some of your intellectual connections! Especially the Ansurd hero and Camus! Wow! Thanks so much! -jj👦🏻
It's certainly an interesting perspective, but I personally don't think The Big Lebowski was created with absurdism in mind. I found the case for the dude as somebody who lives his life on basis of the principles of Taoism more convincing. Note that Meursault ultimately lives his life from day to day is because he realised that death is waiting for him and every decision he makes is thus meaningless, even killing a man. It does not really matter. The dude abides and does not seem to believe in the idea of societal succes in life (getting money, women etc.) but this is still pretty far away from him being amoral or apathetic. He obviously cares about other people for example, he just lives his life more according to eastern philosophies of circulation instead of western ideas of progress.
Sorry mate but as someone who studied a lot of Absurdism, Meursault is not meant to be seen as an Absurd Hero. He doesn't believe in anything nor does he strive to be happy and live life. The primary tenant of Absurdism is the necessity of living life intensely, doing otherwise is, in Camus' words, Suicide. By contrast Clamence from The Fall is much more of an Absurdist Hero. He sees the only "meaning" being that which comes from man kind. He sees that all of this is meaningless and chooses to through the judgements of others and his connection with other human beings to build a meaning. The Stranger is definitely an Absurd book, and I'd say TBL is an Absurd movie but it's not because Meursault is and Absurd hero, and The Dude isnt either. The dude has committed suicide just like Meursault, the only difference is that Meursault gave into Nihilism, and The Dude into Sartesian Existentialism.
The Dude is more of an anti-hero (perhaps an Ironic Hero) in that he's not particularly heroic, though his actions as a "detective" in the film lend more toward the hardboiled detective genre of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, characters who are "errant knights" who right wrongs and create order from chaos..though doing so unconventionally. The Dude could easily have been a rogue (picaro) who has many adventures, which also would have been an interesting flick...similar to a Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or of course, Huck Finn.
I really think this was an experimental movie for the Cohen brothers. It seems like they were playing with a lot of strange ideas that they wanted to see if they could work in a film.
Goodman character pfs.... IS FRIKING WALTER!!!!.. And he throw the bowling ball because that's the first object he have in hand, also bowling balls are a hell of a weapon, those shit are heavy as fuck....
I’ve seen this movie probably quite literally 100 times over the years, since the release. I graduated with a BA in Philosophy at one point of all this Lebowski-viewing. It hurts my brain to try to compare this film to any philosopher that I have studied. My very own applied life philosophy might just be like the dude: live every day to its fullest. Don’t sweat the small stuff. California is a wonderful place to live (unless you’ve pissed off the police chief of Malibu or criticized your taxi driver on his choice of tunes). People are weird, and “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro” (Hunter S. Thompson). Staying level and not freaking out is far out. Anyone who has the nerve to get on stage like the dude’s landlord in that outfit has a lot of courage. And finally, laughing your ass off will cure pretty much any ailment. There ya go.
Actually, you never see Walter bowl. You see him with the ball in hand ready to roll, but no actual bowling. [Check my avatar. I won Best Walter at the LebowskiFest in L.A. in 2005, and twice more in NYC and L.A. again.]
I always thought I made these connections just because I was hyperfixated on both this movie and Camus at the same time, but maybe I was fixated on them both BECAUSE of these connections?
I'd say the dude is Sisyphus, trying to accomplish this task he wasn't supposed to, and every time he gets to the top of the mountain the rock rolls and he has to begin all over again. It's been a while since I saw the Big Lebowski, but that's how I remember it. Anyway, thank you for you great analysis!
Great analysis, but one statement really 'hurt' as a movie-nerd:.Clint Eastwood never rode off into the sunset! After (or except from) Rawhide, he became famous in Spaghetti Western, quite the opposite of the 'happy ending' up 'til then American Western. Eastwood's characters were anti-heroes, which in a sense, is also what the Dude is.
Great point, this is why I hate watching my older videos...If you'd give me the chance, I actually made another video that looks at The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and how it added morality to the Western genre...
Not to nitpick, but: Clint rides into the sunset -- more or less -- in at least three movie Westerns: For a Few Dollars More and The Outlaw Josey Wales and HIgh Plains Drifter. Clint's characters are seen leaving and heading off into the horizon line at the end of each movie. In particular, Clint's angel of death character i n HPD dissolves into the landscape like a mirage. . Figuratively, Clint has "ridden" into the sunset in other genre picks (drives or walks away as the camera either stays in place or crane/helicopters upward) in such movies as Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, pretty much all of the Dirty Harry movies and Heartbreak Ridge. I'm sure there's a few others. I agree, Clint is almost always the anti-hero...that's why I love his movies.
great job! i believe though that the movie is set in the early 90's bush has his this aggression will not stand speech about saddam..having struggled with trying to find meaning it really opened my mind on maybe why i like this movie....again great job
I was ordained as a Dudeist priest in 2009. I think the basic tenets of our 'Way' can accommodate your theories - rather like turning over the coin and seeing another side. We simply preach non-preachiness and takin' it easy.
It occurs to ask which man in the movie is happy. It's men, actually. There the hippie Zen Master, the Dude, who doesn't care whether other people think that he is insufficiently masculine. A Zen Master doesn't care what people think about himself at all. Then there is The Narrator, a man so confident in his masculinity that he doesn't even think about it, doesn't need to shout and bully and threaten to prove it. Yin and yang.
Was this video originally titled "How the Dude Embodies the Absurd"? If so, I wish you hadn't changed it. That title was creative and interesting, albeit bit vague, but still.
Religion and political ideas are pitted against each other as we as the characters. The characters present as an interesting cross section of human society, dealing with confrontation in their own unique way. The reason for all the confrontation is absurd, as it usually is in reality. But much more entertaining when the Cohen brothers do it.
Geoffrey Adams I know, I was joking there! I've only grown more and more fond of his work since I made this video, and once you start to study his work, it really becomes clear of how much of an influence he has had on pop culture and the media.
I haven't looked through all your reviews yet. Have you seen Enemy or Under the Skin. Two very philosophically provocative films I have seen recently. Surprisingly, the horror film It Follows is interesting too. I have an interpretation of the film: the monster is actually the audience, it's a fourth wall breaking monster. The opening scene shows it's victim as she is running around in the street. But, the audience is in the first person perspective where the monster would be. It's somewhat of a commentary on horror films in general... that we are the monsters for putting kids in harms way. There are also the themes of sex as a monster. Often, in American Culture, we tend to demonize sex, ignore sex, or pretend it doesn't exist, especially when it comes to kids. In the film, the only people who recognize the threat are the people who have had sex. The adults can't see the monster, or are mostly not present in the film. In American Culture, a kid's first experience with sex is often in horror films. That's typically the first R-rated film a kid sees. So, the monster is a manifestation of our culture and how we impose our desire for sex and violence in film.
Geoffrey Adams I have seen Enemy and Under the Skin, I am yet to cover either of them but there is a LOT to talk about. I haven't covered IT FOLLOWS yet, but in October I am looking at a couple of horror movies that I love, and I think I am going to be talking about it Follows.
Kierkegaard's existentialism relates deeply to what is, in essence, a 'leap of faith'. Camus represents an entirely different approach to existentialism, so much so that he refused to be called an existentialist (rather an 'absurdist'). Camus philosophy is esoteric, and can only really be regarded as a 20th century movement. In The Myth of Sisyphus, he directly advocates against 'Philosophical suicide' which could quite easily be equivocated in some senses with Kirkegaard's 'leap of faith'.
The Stranger by Camus was actually a type of anti-hero, showing the boredom and dangers of leading an absurd life. The book's tragic ending in particular promotes the ideals of existentialism: which is to create meaning/order in life or suffer the consequences of it's absurdity (the senseless murder of the arab leading to "the stranger" being himself sentenced to death. All because he followed an absurd impulse to pull out the gun and fire without even having any reason.)
Camus would heavily disagree. The whole dialogue between the priest and Meursault is the ideological epilogue of the novel, and establishes the Stranger as more of a martyr for the absurd lifestyle. Your conclusion is more akin to his counterpart, Sartre. His proposition is one of the creation of meaning in existential void is the thankless task of humankind on a behavioral level, whereas Camus proposes we reject meaning and frequently revel in the cognitive dissonance constantly inevitable to life in an absurd reality. He proposes the task is to kind of dissent from the natural inclination to create any form of personal confirmation bias as a response to the possible perpetual cognitive dissonance experienced with a fully conscious individual, or what Dostoyevsky called hyperconsciousness in the first existentialist work, Notes From Underground. Camus proposes that this rejection of nature has more to do with human nature than any moral value, which is always fallacious. This distinction is clear throughout their careers after they initially disagreed on the Bolsheviks. Camus was more anarchistic, whereas Sartre was p damn Marxist-Leninist.
You know a film that like a military man, or strong guy militarish enter his house sits on the living room opens his hand and suddenly hiw wife comes from behing and place in his hand a drink,,,,,i cant remember wich film is,,,,hope u knw it... its like a ritual his wife is rubbish for him, gret scene...
I disagree. The dude is clearly in revolt to the absurd. Hes not living his life the way he wants to hes refusing to accept that to be happy he needs to care for his neurotransmitters and body and life. Sisyphus actually pushes the boulder up the hill, you see.
1:42 I got it. That’s why I read 3 pages of L’etranger where Mersault was just looking out his balcony all day long and just you know living day to day.🚬🪐😄
That's just like ... your opinion man
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It's quite clear what The Big Lwbowski is about it's about getting the dude's rug back. You know that thing really tied the room together. But then again that's just my opinion.
Lol!
The rug ties the story together. It's a plot device, MacGuffin.
It did tie the room together did it not...?
What i noticed is that Dude is ironically respected by everybody with the exception of people of authority or power. Everybody admires dude where ever he goes. His own landlord respects him even though he fails to pay rent. The wealthy pretentious artsy too good for everybody, Maude even admires Dude. Maude chose Dude out of anybody to reproduce with. The bartender at the alley admired dude and agrees with everything he says. The stranger follows Dude around and tells him he admires him. Defino considers Dude a worthy colleuage and admires his 'work'. Jesus has no problem with Dude, only walter and everybody else. From start to finish, you see admiration for a guy who doesn't expect it. Dude doesn't even realize it. The irony is that Dude has it better than most even though he has nothing to show for it materialisticly. Dude posseses the most precious commodity in life that everybody around him tries so hard to attain but fail in doing so. Being liked.
He likes himself, that's all that matters to him, people like & respect him for that
aight now how to be the dude?
Good point, man. I noticed the same thing. However, I wonder if it’s a sign of respect or pity. Handicapped people will not get made fun of either, but it doesn’t mean they are liked or respected. Maybe the bartender at the alley figures if he says “right, dude”, then it makes his regular customer happy. Maybe Jesus didn’t bother with the dude because he felt he wasn’t worth it. You argue with people who are a threat to you. Maude was a disgusting feminist who needed to find a disease free man who was able to get a hard on for her to sit on, make a baby with, and would willfully disappear without any pushback whatsoever. This is a blatant disregard for him as a man with any backbone, not a display of respect.
@@blacjackdaniels200 Maude criticized bunny for her performing sex without joy. Yet she literally states in the film that she had sex with the dude only for a child not for pleasure. So I agree with you almost everybody in this movie is a satire of cultural stereotypes.
@@blacjackdaniels200 But we should also remember that the dude wouldn't really care about being liked or respected by others so, none of that really matters. He just wants to be left alone and live peacefully in his house with a nice rug that really ties the room together man.
The book that helped me understand the subtext of The Big Lebowski (outside of Jung) was “A Brief History of Everything” by Ken Wilber. You then see the whole movie is about a single person overcoming the various levels of individuation necessary to become “enlightened” (represented by Sam Elliot’s character).
Jung actually makes you understand everything about everything in life.
I think of Prospero from The Tempest. Prospero is The Dude in that work!
You had to mention Ken Wilber.
What a fucking crap artist.
1990-91. This movie take place just before Desert Storm. Bush 1`s aggression speech was aimed at Saddam over the invasion of Kuwait.
Although I think you're on to something here and the connection/comparison is valid, I personally think the main problem lies in how The Stranger is in my opinion misinterpreted. I remember reading it and feeling like I didn't really get it, the hype so to say. The eccentric Meursault and his odd takes on the world and the people in it just seemed pretty normal to me and I could really relate to him. I've got Aspergers and that got me thinking if that could be what I related to in him and started to try and identify things to support my suspicion and found quite a lot. Later on I googled it and found that someone had written a paper on it and it confirmed my suspicions even more as the character Meursault was based on Camus' friend Galindo which after some digging (by the author of the paper, not me) showed strong signs of Aspergers. Camus had essentially identified and written a description of Aspergers syndrome before it was a thing and although it would be foolish to say that absurdism itself is a result of Aspergers, a lot of things from The Stranger has been used as arguments for and explanations of absurdism by some people which I find interesting. I completely went of the rails here, sorry. My point was to say that your and many other peoples view of The Stranger makes sense in this connection but there might be more ways to look at it. I don't know what I'm saying to be honest, does it even matter? Great video.
that bowling / boulder reference...well played coen bros
You say the Big Lebowski worked hard and sees his achievements squandered through his children... but he married into wealth and the only chance he got to try and run a business, he failed. His family are the achievers. He is just prideful.
Great analysis! It is not an easy task coming up with fresh ideas regarding this rather recent classic. Rob Ager did a very detailed analysis, pointing out symbolism, hidden messages and metaphors - as he always does so well.
Great analysis of connection to literature and another Coen Brothers movie where I didn't spot the connection until you pointed it out.
I am a huge fan of The Big Lebowski, because I know there is so much more to discover with each viewing. My personal take on this movie: it is many things, including being a parody (and an upside down version: our main protagonists, and everyone else in one way or another, are neither accomplished nor wealthy, they are out of place and out of touch) - of rather pretentious "ensemble cast - interconnected stories in L.A." such as "Grand Canyon" (1991) and "Short Cuts" (1993) - the latter also featuring Julianne Moore.
I would go as far as saying that "Magnolia" (1999) is yet another take (aiming high) on the exact same overall theme, this time taking "The Big Lebowski" into account by adding more absurd, symbolic elements and twists of fate - and including two actors (again: Julianne Moore and Philip Seymour Hoffman). Thanks for sharing your insight!
Thanks Christian! I'm glad you enjoyed
@@JacksMovieReviews I love all your videos
The Coens are akin to Hitchcock, Gilliam, P.T. Anderson, and Kubrick : We'll NEVER see a movie in the same way after viewing a master.
Definitely one of mt all time favorite movies. Also I have read The Plague and The Stranger
I think you’re insight is magnificent! Very beautiful. I am going to research some of your intellectual connections! Especially the Ansurd hero and Camus! Wow! Thanks so much! -jj👦🏻
It's certainly an interesting perspective, but I personally don't think The Big Lebowski was created with absurdism in mind. I found the case for the dude as somebody who lives his life on basis of the principles of Taoism more convincing. Note that Meursault ultimately lives his life from day to day is because he realised that death is waiting for him and every decision he makes is thus meaningless, even killing a man. It does not really matter. The dude abides and does not seem to believe in the idea of societal succes in life (getting money, women etc.) but this is still pretty far away from him being amoral or apathetic. He obviously cares about other people for example, he just lives his life more according to eastern philosophies of circulation instead of western ideas of progress.
Sorry mate but as someone who studied a lot of Absurdism, Meursault is not meant to be seen as an Absurd Hero. He doesn't believe in anything nor does he strive to be happy and live life. The primary tenant of Absurdism is the necessity of living life intensely, doing otherwise is, in Camus' words, Suicide.
By contrast Clamence from The Fall is much more of an Absurdist Hero. He sees the only "meaning" being that which comes from man kind. He sees that all of this is meaningless and chooses to through the judgements of others and his connection with other human beings to build a meaning.
The Stranger is definitely an Absurd book, and I'd say TBL is an Absurd movie but it's not because Meursault is and Absurd hero, and The Dude isnt either.
The dude has committed suicide just like Meursault, the only difference is that Meursault gave into Nihilism, and The Dude into Sartesian Existentialism.
The Dude is more of an anti-hero (perhaps an Ironic Hero) in that he's not particularly heroic, though his actions as a "detective" in the film lend more toward the hardboiled detective genre of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, characters who are "errant knights" who right wrongs and create order from chaos..though doing so unconventionally.
The Dude could easily have been a rogue (picaro) who has many adventures, which also would have been an interesting flick...similar to a Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or of course, Huck Finn.
one of the most interesting videos on this movie thanks!!
It seems like most people overlook the irony of the Dude quoting Bush, and then him having a picture of Nixon bowling.
I really think this was an experimental movie for the Cohen brothers. It seems like they were playing with a lot of strange ideas that they wanted to see if they could work in a film.
It definitely seems that way, it's either a love it or hate it movie.
Why does the Goodman character brandish a gun to his buddies but only throw a bowling ball at thugs trying to kill him?
Goodman character pfs.... IS FRIKING WALTER!!!!..
And he throw the bowling ball because that's the first object he have in hand, also bowling balls are a hell of a weapon, those shit are heavy as fuck....
Worthy fucking adversaries.
I’ve seen this movie probably quite literally 100 times over the years, since the release. I graduated with a BA in Philosophy at one point of all this Lebowski-viewing. It hurts my brain to try to compare this film to any philosopher that I have studied.
My very own applied life philosophy might just be like the dude: live every day to its fullest. Don’t sweat the small stuff. California is a wonderful place to live (unless you’ve pissed off the police chief of Malibu or criticized your taxi driver on his choice of tunes). People are weird, and “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro” (Hunter S. Thompson). Staying level and not freaking out is far out. Anyone who has the nerve to get on stage like the dude’s landlord in that outfit has a lot of courage. And finally, laughing your ass off will cure pretty much any ailment. There ya go.
Very insightful and well said .
You must live in Cali
I've never been so mind blown in my life... :) Wow, just wow.
Actually, you never see Walter bowl. You see him with the ball in hand ready to roll, but no actual bowling.
[Check my avatar. I won Best Walter at the LebowskiFest in L.A. in 2005, and twice more in NYC and L.A. again.]
Wow that is Rly cool my man.
I always thought I made these connections just because I was hyperfixated on both this movie and Camus at the same time, but maybe I was fixated on them both BECAUSE of these connections?
I'd say the dude is Sisyphus, trying to accomplish this task he wasn't supposed to, and every time he gets to the top of the mountain the rock rolls and he has to begin all over again. It's been a while since I saw the Big Lebowski, but that's how I remember it. Anyway, thank you for you great analysis!
Great analysis, but one statement really 'hurt' as a movie-nerd:.Clint Eastwood never rode off into the sunset! After (or except from) Rawhide, he became famous in Spaghetti Western, quite the opposite of the 'happy ending' up 'til then American Western. Eastwood's characters were anti-heroes, which in a sense, is also what the Dude is.
Great point, this is why I hate watching my older videos...If you'd give me the chance, I actually made another video that looks at The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and how it added morality to the Western genre...
Sure man, I'll definitely check it out
jailbreak74andmore who toucha my speget
Not to nitpick, but: Clint rides into the sunset -- more or less -- in at least three movie Westerns: For a Few Dollars More and The Outlaw Josey Wales and HIgh Plains Drifter. Clint's characters are seen leaving and heading off into the horizon line at the end of each movie. In particular, Clint's angel of death character i n HPD dissolves into the landscape like a mirage. .
Figuratively, Clint has "ridden" into the sunset in other genre picks (drives or walks away as the camera either stays in place or crane/helicopters upward) in such movies as Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, pretty much all of the Dirty Harry movies and Heartbreak Ridge. I'm sure there's a few others.
I agree, Clint is almost always the anti-hero...that's why I love his movies.
And the music doesn't really sound like a Clint Eastwood movie. More like a John Ford western.
Writing a check for 60 something cents with his rewards card right there...and dated 9/11 looks like ‘91 now that’s absurd
instead of pushing a boulder he's just rolling the bowling ball and he imagines himself happy....
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great job! i believe though that the movie is set in the early 90's bush has his this aggression will not stand speech about saddam..having struggled with trying to find meaning it really opened my mind on maybe why i like this movie....again great job
Thank you, and I think you are right about the date!
Not too many ppl look at the themes of the film..
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"I told you it's not father's money, it's the foundations'." -Maude Lebowski.
Camus was from the 20th century not the 19th century. And the accent is on the final syllable of his name, not the first.
I was ordained as a Dudeist priest in 2009. I think the basic tenets of our 'Way' can accommodate your theories - rather like turning over the coin and seeing another side. We simply preach non-preachiness and takin' it easy.
I appreciate it! Take it easy!
It occurs to ask which man in the movie is happy. It's men, actually. There the hippie Zen Master, the Dude, who doesn't care whether other people think that he is insufficiently masculine. A Zen Master doesn't care what people think about himself at all. Then there is The Narrator, a man so confident in his masculinity that he doesn't even think about it, doesn't need to shout and bully and threaten to prove it. Yin and yang.
6:15 ''anyone can enjoy this movie''
this guy clearly doesn't know my grandparents
The dude loves the people he hangs out with. He says he loves Walter and scatters Donny's ashes
The Dude hates the Eagles. s that significant?
This may be a shot in the dark, but The Eagles were founded in the early 70's, changed the music scene away from the hippie 60's music.
The Dude tells Walter he is living in the past, but so is he, he's still in 60s. Another example of hypocrisy in the movie.:)
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I'm a Dudeist Priest 😎
HIs High Dudeness
What about the big guy who got angry when they weren't playing by the rules? He gave the game "meaning"
Cool vid. ty for posting
Was this video originally titled "How the Dude Embodies the Absurd"? If so, I wish you hadn't changed it. That title was creative and interesting, albeit bit vague, but still.
Albert is pronounced without the t
Good interp.
Thank you!
One must imagine the dude abiding.
good interpretation
No wonder I liked the Stranger so much.
Really interesting idea, I'm going to check out the original story
The only real person in the movie is Sam Elliot, everyone else is just a representation of his mind.
while satiring the mystery film noire The Big Sleep.
I'm not sure if I would call it a satire so much as paying homage to the film noir era!
always mentioned? ha! the love for this film comes from the same folks who thought the emperor was wearing clothes. the dude is just garfield the cat.
Religion and political ideas are pitted against each other as we as the characters. The characters present as an interesting cross section of human society, dealing with confrontation in their own unique way. The reason for all the confrontation is absurd, as it usually is in reality. But much more entertaining when the Cohen brothers do it.
*Dudeness or El Duderino!*
The Cowboy guy is what exactly? narrator? seems to know the Dude, alot .. but they never met..
I was hoping you would bring up The Stranger.
The Steve Austin version or Albert Camus?
Definitely, Camus. It always seems more and more relevant.
Geoffrey Adams
I know, I was joking there! I've only grown more and more fond of his work since I made this video, and once you start to study his work, it really becomes clear of how much of an influence he has had on pop culture and the media.
I haven't looked through all your reviews yet. Have you seen Enemy or Under the Skin. Two very philosophically provocative films I have seen recently.
Surprisingly, the horror film It Follows is interesting too. I have an interpretation of the film: the monster is actually the audience, it's a fourth wall breaking monster. The opening scene shows it's victim as she is running around in the street. But, the audience is in the first person perspective where the monster would be. It's somewhat of a commentary on horror films in general... that we are the monsters for putting kids in harms way. There are also the themes of sex as a monster. Often, in American Culture, we tend to demonize sex, ignore sex, or pretend it doesn't exist, especially when it comes to kids. In the film, the only people who recognize the threat are the people who have had sex. The adults can't see the monster, or are mostly not present in the film. In American Culture, a kid's first experience with sex is often in horror films. That's typically the first R-rated film a kid sees. So, the monster is a manifestation of our culture and how we impose our desire for sex and violence in film.
Geoffrey Adams
I have seen Enemy and Under the Skin, I am yet to cover either of them but there is a LOT to talk about.
I haven't covered IT FOLLOWS yet, but in October I am looking at a couple of horror movies that I love, and I think I am going to be talking about it Follows.
Brilliant
Solid theory
For me it's a very sorrowful comedy of a man's life going to waste. I couldn't laugh too mich, but it was moving and made me think a lot.
"if you're not familiar with your 19th century philosophic movements" - it's 20th century...
Camus wrote about it in the 1900's, but Søren Kierkegaard was the first philosopher to discuss it in the 1800's.
Kierkegaard's existentialism relates deeply to what is, in essence, a 'leap of faith'. Camus represents an entirely different approach to existentialism, so much so that he refused to be called an existentialist (rather an 'absurdist'). Camus philosophy is esoteric, and can only really be regarded as a 20th century movement. In The Myth of Sisyphus, he directly advocates against 'Philosophical suicide' which could quite easily be equivocated in some senses with Kirkegaard's 'leap of faith'.
We’ll done
4:09 Do you see what happens? 4:14 Do you see what happens?
The Stranger by Camus was actually a type of anti-hero, showing the boredom and dangers of leading an absurd life. The book's tragic ending in particular promotes the ideals of existentialism: which is to create meaning/order in life or suffer the consequences of it's absurdity (the senseless murder of the arab leading to "the stranger" being himself sentenced to death. All because he followed an absurd impulse to
pull out the gun and fire without even having any reason.)
Camus would heavily disagree. The whole dialogue between the priest and Meursault is the ideological epilogue of the novel, and establishes the Stranger as more of a martyr for the absurd lifestyle. Your conclusion is more akin to his counterpart, Sartre. His proposition is one of the creation of meaning in existential void is the thankless task of humankind on a behavioral level, whereas Camus proposes we reject meaning and frequently revel in the cognitive dissonance constantly inevitable to life in an absurd reality. He proposes the task is to kind of dissent from the natural inclination to create any form of personal confirmation bias as a response to the possible perpetual cognitive dissonance experienced with a fully conscious individual, or what Dostoyevsky called hyperconsciousness in the first existentialist work, Notes From Underground. Camus proposes that this rejection of nature has more to do with human nature than any moral value, which is always fallacious. This distinction is clear throughout their careers after they initially disagreed on the Bolsheviks. Camus was more anarchistic, whereas Sartre was p damn Marxist-Leninist.
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I dont see the conection with the absurdism, i think that the dudes represents the Stoicism more than the Existentialism. Good video, tho.
What about the creedence?
Camus is 19th century ? That’s absurd !
You're out of your element
agree with the lebowski analysis... disagree with the absurdism characterization
You know a film that like a military man, or strong guy militarish enter his house sits on the living room opens his hand and suddenly hiw wife comes from behing and place in his hand a drink,,,,,i cant remember wich film is,,,,hope u knw it... its like a ritual his wife is rubbish for him, gret scene...
I disagree. The dude is clearly in revolt to the absurd. Hes not living his life the way he wants to hes refusing to accept that to be happy he needs to care for his neurotransmitters and body and life.
Sisyphus actually pushes the boulder up the hill, you see.
Chrispy Bacon you clearly haven't read Camus.
Who else thinks that Blade Runner is an absurdist film?
How so?
I know alot of the dude people
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El Amigo!?
20th century
What a nihilist
on coffe table big lebowski had Sartre book No Exist who is nihilist.
No substance.
Very quotable but also very overrated imo
Way way off dude. Terrible analysis.
EVERY TIME THE MEANING OF LIFE IS MICTURATED UPON THIS FAIR WORLD, I HAVE TO CONTEMPLATE MY OWN SELF-WORTH?
1:42 I got it. That’s why I read 3 pages of L’etranger where Mersault was just looking out his balcony all day long and just you know living day to day.🚬🪐😄