That makes me fuckin' sick. Those rich fucks. This whole fuckin thing. I did not watch my Donny die face down in the muck so that this fucking strumpet, this fuckin whore could waltz around town...
It was actually Walter who died of a heart attack during the fight with the nihilists. The Dude adopted Walter as an imaginary friend just like how Walter adopted Donny after Donny died by *his* side in battle. The ashes are Walter's.
That would work if he wasn't responding to Donnie saying phone's ringing. Saying thank you Donnie, would need a prompt. Same thing with I'm going home, it needs a prompt. So unless Walter is impersonating Donnie and saying the prompts, the occasionally responding to Walter's imaginary friend doesn't work with the dialogue.
My ring tone reminds me every time I get a call Donny exists because he asked if where I'm going and I'm always going home. He is more real than the Easter Bunny or that pedderass.
Phones ringing dude
Thank you Donny
Ya! Was driving at the general dialog among them I guess.
The dude smoked a J (hope you don’t mind) and probably was unclear.
Jesus and Liam are on a team of two, whereas the Dude, Wallet and Donnie seem to be a team of three. I don't know enough about bowling - can you play two against three?
Bridges explained a way around this. The Dude preemptively visits the funeral home. This makes sense why Walter would be sooo upset about the modesty priced receptacle. He knows it’s just some random ashes. Just because his process is delusional doesn’t make him a sap.
He hits on a couple other points to enforce the theory.
It's an interesting idea and a nice one on the endless list of reasons to watch it again.
But it quickly falls on it face when you try.
Instead, if you had not noticed:
Pretty much all music plays in the actual movie, there is barely a soundtrack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diegetic_music
Why does the Stranger talk about Donnie?
And The Dude does address Donnie when Donnie says “Phone’s ringin, Dude.”
And whose ashes are they spreading……..????
With all due respect, the great Jeff Bridges can’t say what the Coen Bros were thinking unless they specially told him. Which he hasn’t said was the case. Donnie was real.
If Donny didn’t exist the scene in which we meet The Jesus doesn’t work. The Jesus interacts with Donny by blowing Donny a kiss, which is a very character appropriate interaction for the two of them. The scene is shot and cut as to demonstrate that the kiss is to Donny specifically. If Donny didn’t exist then the scene would have to be deliberately deceptive, intentionally making us think it’s to Donny when it isn’t.
Personally, I think it’s a really fun theory to entertain, and it almost works, and does work at times, but I don’t think it’s true. True isn’t the point though. It’s a fun idea to entertain on repeated viewings.
The theme of the evening in Santa Barbara was, “That’s just like, your opinion man.” He entertained the idea and asked the audience what they thought, while allowing everyone to come to their own conclusion.
If Donny isn’t real then both Walter and the Dude are having the same hallucination because they both interact with him. It’s not like the Dude never speaks to him. “Your phone’s ringing Dude!” “Thank you, Donny!”
Got weirdly upset about Walter talking about Vietnam during the eulogy for a guy who was only going through the motions of a fake service for a man who doesn’t exist.
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