Ms. Oates thinks about THE BIG LEBOWSKI.

[Mark Thibodeau]

I think it adds a nice bittersweet tone to the film. Everybody likes Donny.
He's the source of a number of chuckles, but he's just kind of there. We
don't really appreciate him until he's gone.

He's a much more memorable and beloved character for having died, no?

And now I'm thinking how, as a writer, is killing him off for this reason
any less mercenary than killing him off for a great sight gag?

yer old pal Jerky


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> BTW there's an entertaining clip on YouTube of most, if not all, of S
> Buscemi's on screen death scenes that someone spliced together.
> On Jul 28, 2014 1:01 PM, "Perry Noid" <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>> On Jul 28, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>> *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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>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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