Zach's Lead Blog Post Response

At first, I was skeptical after reading Zach’s blog that described a movie about the life of a guy who sells rugs for a living. Yet, after watching the seven-minute YouTube video of “The Best of The Big Lebowski”, I fell in love with the ‘The Dude’ as well the plot. The Dude obviously has a “take it easy” mindset which influences the way he lives out his life and gives a lot of sense about his general attitude and decisions throughout the film. Like Zach mentioned in his blog, he lives life as it goes and never really take into account of what the future holds for him. Needless to say that this approach does get him in a considerable amount of trouble that resulted in severe consequences. This is where I believe the superiority theory plays a great role in the film. The Dude’s misfortunes due to his carelessness create hilarious moments that the audience loves. For example, there is one scene early in the movie where he basically steals a rug from Jefferey Lebowski, the millionaire that The Dude was mistaken for by the thieves. This ultimately led to Jefferey Lebowski’s butler figuring out what he did, throwing him in a cab, and making him achieve a task that leads the movie’s main storyline. I also noticed that anyone who watched The Big Lebowski may fall in love with The Dude because they envy his lack of will to think before he does something. Not many people are able to take on a challenge that entails a lot of risks and therefore find great pleasure in watching The Dude play out these actions for them. Even though I only watched a few clips of the film I did come to realize the philosophical significance of ‘The Big Lebowski’ and is something that I definitely need to add to my movie list.  

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