4.1.07

Allegory: The Big Lebowski... I cannot vouch for the originator of this theory, nor give proper (read: full) credit to the individuals from whom I learned of it, but while in Spain during the '00 Spring Term, I found myself at a bar -- Alpisco -- for the send-off of one of my house-mates at my host-family's flat. Therein, I met one of the instructors from Sam's study-abroad programme -- an American (Minnesotan, precisely) who taught English to the Spanish faculty -- & one of the teacher's friends from Minnesota. We discussed Lebowski, & they posited to me that the movie is a cinematic evocation of the Gulf War ('91).

This has gotten me to thinking, intermittently, & when bored of everything else, as to how the characters in the film line up with events & figures central (& not) to the Gulf conflict.

I have so far:

Jeffrey "Dude" Lebowski: Kuwait
Walter Sobczak: U.S. administration, namely defense, possibly Schwarzkopf (given Vietnam pedigree & physical immensity)
Donnie: Israel
The Big Lebowski: President Bush
Brandt: The U.N.
Bunny Lebowski: Saddam
Woo & his cohort: Iraqi Army
The Nihilists: The Elite Republican Guard (division of the Iraqi army)
Jackie Treehorn: Egypt
Sheriff of Malibu: Islamic Brotherhood
Smokey: Pacifists (the most literal symbol)
Jesus Quintana ("The Jesus"): Osama bin Laden
O'Brien (Jesus's partner): Ayman al-Zawahiri
The Stranger: CNN

More??

15 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The check Lebowski writes for Milk is dated Sept 11, 1991. I don't know if you can add to your theory with this info or not.

5/1/07 10:07  
Anonymous Jason Lackey said...

I thought bunny was kuwait and the dude was the kurds... i figure the dude gets betrayed by the big lebowski, and all he ever wanted was his carpet back... it tied the room together. being the geographic distribution of the kurds.... I say bunny might be kuwait, because she is the actual subject of aggression/retaliation; though it is not consistant with her being the perpetrator

9/7/09 18:12  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

much more interesting to view it as an allegory for the GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR post 9/11 foriegn policy. the film is prophetic for sure. films that hold a strange/cult allure today are just allegories for future wars. many sallams.

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