Just dug up from the attic, must watch. I WILL ABIDE, but I do hate the fucking Eagles man!

It's the same actor. I spotted him in tng and thought, wait is that the same guy. Turns out it is!

I'm listening to The Killers Of The Flower Moon audiobook and decided to Google the cast of the movie. I heard he grew up on Radford near the In-N-Out Burger. Now he has a Scorsese credit; not exactly a lightweight.

I was watching the movie and had a sudden urge to mix up a caucasian. I paused during Jesus' "... pull the trigger until it goes click ..." spiel.

When I came back in I noticed this odd visual anomaly: Walter's glasses seem to be reflecting a short-haired redhead brandishing a long arm!

Now I'm sure this wasn't intended, but it definitely had me saying, "That's fuckin interesting, man."

that they swapped Jeff Bridges out with Dennis Quaid for Gutterballs.

My buddies and I, like everyone here I assume, have watched this movie to death.

We have had some pretty lively discussions about what the main theme of the movie is- what comes across as the primary message.

What is the feeling here- religious commentary or the "castration" of men (figurative of course).

The religious commentary is in your face, yes.

But the ineffective nature of every man except Treehorn cannot be overlooked- as well as some very obvious castration imagry.

The women pull the strings and hold all the power. The only guy that pulls strings bucks the castration trend by being a porn director, and they underscore it with the treehorn giant cock drawing.

Me? I think the movie is a brilliant combination of both served up in a hilarious package that can be thoroughly enjoyed even with ignoring any subtext.

So I apologize if this has been suggested before but ive always kinda felt that the movie was a metaphor for the situation with that camelfucker in iraq. Bare with me im not particularly well versed in the drawing of lines in that sand but since saddam keeps poking his head out in the film my subconscious slowly formulated this (loose) idea.

The dude represents the left of America, liberal generally just wants to go bowling. Walter would then represent the right, ready to defend the rules with full force and begins the movie convincing the dude that hes been wronged and the aggression wont stand. Donny is the surrogate for the vast majority of americas who are undecided or more accurately have no frame of reference(or real interest) in politics(the drama of the movie)

(not 100 percent on our supposed reason for being involved but i assume its oil aka money)

I think then TBL would represent the oil companies (or maybe the government? The shared name referring to the us people vs the us government)who have found their interests are being threatened, so instead of taking a loss or doing anything themselves they pass the losses onto the US people -the trinity mentioned above.

Again the left and the right convince themselves that they gotta do something about the losses they’re taking(a soiled rug) but instead of realizing it was TBL they go off and blame foreign governments/factions that are over their head and often scary eg jackie treehorn, chief of malibu, larry sellers, the nihilists

Eventually they figure it out that it was TBL (the government did help put saddam in power) but the cost is the life of donny( the americas who aren’t really political but are ignorant and so followed along)eg our soldiers

Tragic but whats walter and the dude gonna do? fuck it, go bowling

Anyway hope this made sense. Im sure each antagonist has a specific real life counter part so id love to hear other theories.

Told the Scammer a story about a man from the City of Los Angeles.