Ms. Oates thinks about THE BIG LEBOWSKI.

[Perry Noid]

I was just making a lame joke but one thing his dying does, I think, is
flesh out Walt's character, transforms him from a caricature into a human.
That would certainly be more valuable as a result of someone dying than a
silly ashes-in-the-beard gag, although I do love that scene as well.
On Jul 28, 2014 11:40 AM, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, someone commented he always dies in a Coen movie.....yet, aesthetic
> structural reasons might also be true...Coens ain't unthinking.
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jul 28, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think it was because Buscemi got the part.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> *Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates
>> <https://twitter.com/joycecaroloates>)*
>> 7/28/14, 11:34 AM
>> <https://twitter.com/joycecaroloates/status/493796670338256896>
>> Do we know why Donny had to die in "Lebowski"? hope not just for
>> scatter-ashes-funnily scene.
>> I think it was the logical end of "Shut Up, Donny"---shunted aside and so
>> hapless, he had to go.
>>
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