Hippie long, unkempt hair, a striking beer belly, a beard, a pair of sunglasses, a confused eyes, a worn-out gray wide sweater, no interest in alcohol or anything other than video games, and no regard for the gradually blessed figure...
The image of Thor in [Avengers 4: Endgame] is simply too impressive, it is too familiar, although I kind of want to say that this is not the weekend of me hahahahaha, but when Tony Stark teased him "lebowski", I still immediately got this stem, only to smile.
©️ Thor in Reunion 4 (sorry the movie is still released, did not find the Thor who has been "Overseer", this is not fat when it is not yet fat)
Lebowski is the name of the protagonist in the movie "Murder of Green Toe", in fact, the English title of "Murder Green Toe" is "the big lebowski", and the title of the Film in Hong Kong is more interesting, called "Big Bowling Bizarre Kidnapping".
©️ [Murder of The Green Toe] poster, Douban 7.7, imdb 8.8
The classic cult film, which occupied the top 250 of imdb for a long time, was completely smashed at the box office when it first released in 1998, collecting only $5 million in its first weekend, completely hanging by the big hit [Titanic] at the time.
You know, at that time, the Coen brothers' previous work [Ice Storm] won two Oscars, who knows that the audience did not buy his new film at all.
©️In 1996, [Ice Storm] received 7 nominations at the Oscars that year, and finally let "Cohen Sister-in-law" take the film queen
But don't worry, it was only a few short years later that the film's videotape unexpectedly spread widely among the university community, which also allowed the film to accumulate a large number of loyal fans in a few years, and [Murder Of Green Toe] finally became one of the most classic cult movies in film history.
In fact, you don't have to say that this trajectory still has a little bit of the meaning of the direction that [Journey to the West] was on fire in the mainland.
Lebowski was a scruffy and lazy middle-aged uncle who said "take it easy", he didn't like to be called "Lebowski", he always had to correct him over and over again, "Call me the dude".
The movie is called "The Big Lebowski", but The Governor is not a superhero, not even a hero, in every sense he is more like a "loser", what is the job? Nothing. What is love, marriage? inexistent. What is a decent life? Not considered.
He was obviously more concerned about his carpet, the carpet that was "too much with the house", and more concerned about whether there was a "white Russian" to drink. A loose nightgown with cold drag, revealing a belly with a large belly, holding a cup of "white Russia", and occasionally making a beautiful dream of a champagne beauty bowling ball, it is indeed comfortable and comfortable.
©️ Wear a loose nightgown to buy milk
©️ Hang out with friends in the bowling alley
©️ Dancing on the carpet with "White Russia" in hand
What does [Murder Green Toe] say? The story takes place in the early 90s, and in the "City of Angels" in Los Angeles, in addition to our "high homeless" overseer, there is a big man named Lebowski, which may be the real "the big lebowski", a rich old man in a wheelchair, but with a young and beautiful restless wife Bonnie.
The Overseer is accidentally involved in an intricate and bizarre kidnapping case because of his name as the big man:
First he went out to buy milk, and when he came home, he was put on the toilet by the little bastards and shouted for money, and he didn't look at the poor man like a rich man, and then inexplicably peed on his most precious carpet.
©️ Getting up from the toilet is also a look of unfazed
The Governor can endure anything, only this carpet, that can't work. He went to the big man of the same name to ask for compensation, but he was inexplicably given the responsibility of delivering ransom to the kidnapped rich man's wife.
Hanger Lang Dang's overseer called his bowling friend, the Vietnam War veteran Walter, to send the ransom, but this Walter had to come to a package to embezzle the money. The result was self-defeating, the money was not privately swallowed, and the money was accidentally lost along with the car, at this time, who can let go of the grandfather?
©️ As soon as I went out, I didn't even see the money for the car
The little bastards over there didn't get the ransom and broke into his bathroom and threatened to cut off his little brother; the rich man over there waited to pay him back; on the other hand, Bonnie owed money to the porn tycoon, and the tycoon also found the governor; and on the other hand, the rich man's daughter heard that her father had given her stepmother a ransom, and also chased after the governor for the ransom...
It's almost like sailing on a moonless night and driving everything to a bottomless black hole. The plot is consistently very Coen brothers, which is really a sad story of mistakes in the busy, wrongs, no solutions, and snowballs.
But despite all that I've said about the plot, in fact, for [Murder Green Toe], the plot of the movie is the least important. It sounds hilarious, but the Coen brothers have not put much effort into the plot from the beginning.
The characters are talking confused all the way, the story is slowly staged, there is no rush, there is no explanation, and even when they first watch it, it is reasonable to be confused about the complex and unexplained plot, because the Coen brothers do not care about the plot, and they do not want the audience to care too much about the plot.
©️ For example, this scene may be far more famous than the plot of the movie
The style of Grandpa's life, the strange bowling friends around Him, The Strange and Wonderful Dreams of Grandpa, and the soundtrack of the movie, the nagging style of the lines... There's so much you can find about [Murder Green Toe], which is far more impressive than the plot.
The story is playing out, but it doesn't make sense; the characters are talking, but it doesn't make sense. Dissolving the "meaning" may be the meaning of [murdering the green toe].
More wonderful than the plot, [Murder Green Toe] is indeed the Overseer, an old hippie character living in the 90s.
He cares more about his carpet that fits into the room than he cares about the rich man's money, and he only silently puts on his black-framed sunglasses in the face of repeated provocations and offenses from the little gangsters. Suddenly being hijacked into the car, he looked helpless, but he was more worried that the cup of "white Russia" in his hand would be spilled.
“just take it easy, man！” He said this to everyone around him who was nervous and frightened.
©️ The Philosophy of the Governor
The millionaire Lebowski asked the Governor, "How can one be called a true man, fearless, ready to face difficulties, no matter what the cost?" The Overseer thought for a moment, "I still have a pair of testicles." ”
Before getting involved in this file, his daily routine was to call three or two friends and go to the bowling alley together to pass the time. He had three sentences that could not be separated from his friend Walter of the Vietnam War, and a friend who looked silly and could not always insert into their speech. As soon as Doni opened his mouth, he was shouted "shut fuck up" by the always impatient Walter, but The Overseer's philosophy was "take it easy".
©️ The bowling alley is a wonderful world, and there are fun characters like "Little Jesus"
So he was knocked unconscious by the who broke through the door, but in his dream, he flew over Los Angeles, chasing the woman riding the carpet in front of him, he had a ladder that rose to the sky, there were dozens of dancers dancing with him, and he could fly through the dancing girls' forked thighs like a bowling ball, how wonderful!
©️ The dream flew over Los Angeles
©️ Dance on the headless staircase
©️ Pass under the dancing girl's legs
The broke into the house, and the overseer lay in the bathtub and whispered, Hey, this is a private house. Walter drew his gun at his bowling opponent without a word, and the Overseer just said unhurriedly, "Hey, you shouldn't be like this, he's a pacifist."
Everything was messed up by Walter, and he had never experienced good things with him, even if he finally sprinkled the ashes of his friends, The Governor could be confused by the headwind, but Walter apologized abnormally, and the Governor hugged him.
©️ Mushed with ashes
The Governor is a loser, but the Governor is a very gentle and kind loser. If there is only one kind of heroism in the world, it is to recognize the truth of life and still love it.
The Governor was a hippie, an old hippie living in the 90s. He was later borrowed by the rich man's daughter, and he also understated his youth in two sentences. As a student, he drafted the Porthuronstatement, was one of the "Seattle Seven," and worked as an agent for the metallica band.
The Port Huron Declaration is a student-led manifesto of the 60s, advocating civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, etc., "The Seven Gentlemen of Seattle" is an anti-Vietnam Civil Rights group affiliated with the Seattle Liberation Front, and here is the prototype, a producer friend of the Coen brothers named Jeff Dowd, and really one of the Seven Gentlemen of the year.
In any case, these typical left-wing youths of the 60s did nothing less than the governor.
©️The Seven Gentlemen of Seattle, a well-known civil rights group in the 1960s
[Murder Green Toe] is set in the early 90s during the Gulf War, which meant an allusion to the Vietnam War. Fast forward 30 years, what kind of life will the radical, fanatical, flower-wearing hippie generation who dream of love and peace live when they grow old?
Perhaps, the "take it easy" philosophy of the Governor is the new idealism of the post-hippie era, which is why it is so impressive.
Because, I can imagine, is that too many former hippies have finally lived up to be their own opposition, carrying briefcases to work, getting married, and camping dogs for fame and fortune, day after day.
©️Hippies on the "Summer of Love" in the 60s
After the ideals of an era are shattered, after the passion of an era fades, the Governor still lives so loosely and defiantly, so detached from the world. The image of the Governor was so successful that it gradually formed a unique fan subculture.
Fans abroad call themselves "achievers" and get together at the annual Lebowski fest, rent a venue, play bowling all night, have outdoor parties, have bands, barbecues, games, watch [Murder Green Toe] together, and even dress up as movie characters and shout their lines together.
They will invite Jeff Dodd, the prototype of the Overseer, to participate, and at the 2011 Lebowski Festival, actors Jeff Bridges and Julian Moore, who played the daughter of the Overseer and the rich man, also appeared.
©️ Group photo of the Overseers at the "Lebowski Festival"
Julian Moore also once mentioned an interesting thing, after starring in [Murder of Green Toe], she would often meet fans on the road and shout at her excitedly: "You know what! You've acted in one of my favorite movies! Do you know which one it is! Later, when she met more, she simply replied: "Yes, the dude!" ”
Avid fans also founded a new religion based on the Governor in 2005: they called it dudeism. They created websites (https://dudeism.com/) to disseminate the governor's lifestyle and philosophy, and even appointed more than 450,000 dudeist priests around the world.
©️Dudeism website homepage
Fans aren't alone, they're by no means the only fanatical people who love [Murder Green Toe], and many celebrities including comedy stars Jonah Hill and Seth Rogan, actor Jennifer Lawrence, director Sam Remy, and others have nominated the film on Rotten Tomatoes as one of their "five favorite movies."
In 2006, two newly discovered African spiders were named after "lebowski" and "dude," and an extinct Permian conifer genus was named after the film.
In 2014, [Murder of green toe] along with [Rosemary's Baby] and [Saving Private Ryan] was listed by the Library of Congress's National Film Registry as one of 700 films of "cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance" preserved for future generations.
Come to think of it, when the Coen brothers made [Murder of Green Toe] in 1998, they were also ridiculed by film critics, the former [Ice Storm] had just shined at the Oscars, and the next one made such a "meaningless" movie, as if "the opera star had just finished singing a perfect aria, but when he stepped off the stage, he let go of a fart." ”
A few years later, who would have thought that this ironic "fart" would have become one of the most highly regarded great films of the era.
So, "just take it easy, man!" "Who knows the future?