[Dirty Secrets] A few days ago in Chicago ...
Ron Edwards:
Yeah, I think I wrote in the Al-Sharifi entry because I won that conflict. It's interesting too, because as audience I didn't want him to be guilty, but as author I wanted him under genuine suspicion, and as shared-author, I knew that entailed the risk of him actually being guilty.
Best, Ron
Tim C Koppang:
Ron:
No arguments from me.
Except that I think there is one moment of Revelation in the Big Lebowski -- in the post sex scene with Maude when the Dude figures out that the crippled Lebowski kept the money for himself. It's almost irrelevant at that point in the story, but let's give the Dude at least a little bit of credit.
Ron Edwards:
True.
Must not geek out about this movie! Must not geek out about this movie! Must ...
Oh hell. OK, the whole ferret in the tub scene? Violence with no harm done. The Dude at the bowling alley bar with the Stranger? Reflection. The interview with Jackie Treehorn? Totally Investigation.
""I'll just go find an ATM!"
Best, Ron
GreatWolf:
Okay, so a confession.
I've never seen The Big Lebowski. I've seen other Coen Brothers movies, including Fargo and No Country For Old Men, but not The Big Lebowski.
Speaking professionally here, as one who wants to be conversant with this genre...should I?
jburneko:
Quote from: GreatWolf on June 05, 2009, 02:39:10 PM
Speaking professionally here, as one who wants to be conversant with this genre...should I?
Yes.
Or rather, let me tell you the experience I had the first time I saw it. For context, realize that I saw this before encountering The Forge. Before my thinking about story was completely revolutionized by Ron's Egri influenced ideas. It was even before I got heavily back into role-playing as a hobby at all.
So I'm sitting in the theater and I'm really enjoying this crazy zany film. And then all of a sudden there comes this moment where a realization hits me. My brain suddenly lights up and goes, "Holy God! This is a detective movie!" And suddenly the film took on this awesome mystic.
Jesse
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