Musick Hund Guest Blogger Comments:
DR. Strangelove and The Big Lebowski
Well, both titles refer to scheming men in wheelchairs! But seriously, the Coens have a tendency to blur the distinction between terrible violence and shenanigans. I think that tendency comes from the influence of Kubrick, Strangelove in particular, where a war room pie fight scene almost made it into the final cut. The criminality of the "nihilists" in TBL and that of Generals Ripper, Turgidson and the other inhabitants of the war room comes from the same need to be taken seriously along with a simultaneous refusal to actually be a
grown up.
grown up.
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