I feel like I missed an opportunity here.
It’s been my opinion for sometime that TBL is actually about Maude and it’s a bit of a double entendre that the Dude’s steals Maude’s rug and then all of his troubles start.
Maude not only gets her rug back but she also shows her superiority, strength, control & dominance when she takes her rug back & she takes what she wants, the Dudes sperm without his permission or knowledge. This also serves as a reminds to the Dude that he has no say in the matter & therefore no control of his life.
Maude also leaves the Dude & TBL to fight amongst themselves causing a distraction for the 2 of them.
She also out does her father & his weakness for the slut Bunny by having a one night stand and using a man that has the same name as her father. A sort of competition or revenge for Maude & her father.
There is also something to Maude achieving conception with a man that has the same name as her father but i haven’t fully understood if she feels in control of her father or if she feels somehow that she has bested her father by having sex with a man that has her fathers name.
Perhaps this is all tied to the idea that Maude sees her father as weak because he is handy capped and she feels that he can’t protect her or he’s not nor has he been able to be masculine enough in her life.
I love this comment. But Mr. Lebowski is not her father though, right? I always figured she was from her mother’s previous marriage — and don’t forget “mother” had all the money.
To the best of my recollection, please correct me if I’m wrong Maude refers to and calls TBL father & never mention her a previous marriage or a “real” father.
Maude is quick to distance herself from Bunny but never distances herself from TBL in the same way.
Maude’s rug resided at TBL’s house.
Her name is Maude Lebowski, one would think if she had as much contempt as she shows for “Father” she’d changer her name back to an actual fathers name and wouldn’t leave mother’s gift at a Step Fathers home.
Now I’m thinking about the connection between Bunny and Maude. How much Maude resents the fact, as the Dude points out (and probably pays for the comment) that Bunny is now Maude’s Mother. Maude really sees Bunny as a power move or some sort of pedo thing from her father. Like it relates to Maude’s childhood some how.
Hmmm, your thinking may have gotten uptight on that one. Maude refers to Mr Lebowski as "my father" seven times in the script. We can probably take that at face value. Also, there was no mention of a previous marriage. The wealth all being mother's was probably her inherited family wealth.
This whole film, all the characters, it’s about sexual tension & sexual power plays.
Walter is still controlled by his X.
All the Dude ever wanted was his rug, his special lady friend. But then he’s too afraid to commit, he’s only helping her to conceive.
You see it yourself.
Walter’s the Alpha, Donnie’s the feminine one.
It’s all part of the Dudes oedipus complex. They are both figments of the Dudes psyche.
The nihilist are wild chaos, random occurrences in the universe that play you from one side to the other. They don’t really exist they’re life happening and the Dude has to navigate the problems as they arise. The flying carpet makes it easy for the Dude to escape his problems.
For Maude the giant scissors represent her ability to cut her ties from her family that she doesn’t respect and feels are below her. Truth be told, she’s no better than, she doesn’t want her child to have a father. She feels she’s better than everyone else just like TBL thinks he is smarter than everyone else and can swindle Maude out of her mother’s money.
I’m thinking that to the Dude the giant scissors represent or are associated to TBL. Maude wants to cut her ties to the family but to the Dude they represent the problems and threat that the Lebowski family has brought him. The Dude is afraid his Johnson will be cut off because he can’t deliver the money to either TBL or the nihilists.
It is reminiscent of the wallpaper in Nixon’s White House bowling alley.
https://photos.com/featured/president-nixon-bowling-in-white-house-bettmann.html?product=wood-print
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