The Big Lebowski: What Makes A Good Guy?

How do most people define a guy who spends all his days in a bowling room as a deadbeat? Meanwhile, he also does psychedelic drugs, consumes a lot of alcohols and of course uses cuss words like “fuck” and “shit” as his tags. People probably or certainly do not take that kind of people to be a good guy. I do not want to argue with that, since they certainly do not act as a good guy. However, the Dude in The Big Lebowski, a cult favorite film directed by Joel Coen, shows another probability to turn a lazy bad guy to a good guy who has his own bottom line of life as a pacifist. The story unfolds in the early 90s, two Jeff Lebowski live in the city of Los Angeles. Though they have the same name, their lifestyles are in a stark contrast. The
This rug is also the first place people may feel sympathy about the Dude as he gets assaulted by two thugs by doing nothing wrong, and one of those thugs even pees on his rug. One day, he goes back to home with a can of milk and suddenly a guy pushes him to the restroom and presses his head into the closestool back and forth. When he realizes they come for money, the other thug starts to pee on his rug right in front of his face. Those thugs claim he as Jeff Lebowski has to pay for his wife’s bills. He does not have a wedding ring, and certain he does not have a wife. Though he tries to communicate with those thugs that he is not the right Lebowski, he still drinks some toilet water and watches his rug gets peed. How does the Dude thinks when his head gets in such a close touch with a closestool? I bet most people could react very angry to the doer. However, the Dude is a pacifist, he does not show any angry feelings and he also does not want revenge. He goes for compensation from the big Lebowski as his wife owes a guy called Jackie Treehorn’s money, and which causes all those misunderstandings that happen to him. He fails to persuade the big Lebowski, and the big Lebowski gives him a lecture in a very rigorous tone, and the lecture is basically scorning him as an unemployed bummer who wants to scam his money. This part makes people feel sorrow about him because what happens to him is a
Sometimes, a good guy just wants to ask for compensation for his rug. Sometimes, a good guy could be the one who does not take advantages from others to earn personal profits. This is the Dude in The Big Lebowski being a good guy by not harming anyone else, even he involves in a big trouble. This is also a reflection of the real world, many normal people or even some bad guys in our point of view are actual good guys. Though they do not contribute to the society like those rich people do, they have their own way to be a good guy that is they do not harm the society or take advantages from it. They are being good by not go into the wrong