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Movie Analysis: Tumbleweed

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The western genre is used during the beginning of the movie with the tumbleweed and the background music. Fantasy occurs when Lebowski has dreams him being in his dream called “Gutterball”. I believe that the Coen brothers used different genres to appeal to a wide spread audience. Multiple genres were used from different films; however, in order to understand the movie the audience had to have seen the films that the brothers took characters and genres from. The brothers pulled numerous of different pieces from films. Example, the tumbleweed is known in Western films. I feel that this piece in the film can also be looked at as comical. Tumbleweeds are in dry desert lands, but in the movie it’s in a vibrant city.

There are several leitmotifs that stood out in the film to me in the movie. Dude was in the store and he brought milk with a check. Writing a check it is known that an I.D. has to be shown to verify the check. Dude had his value club card at the Ralph’s grocery store. This was his form of identification. It was also shown again in the movie when he was taken …show more content…

The way that he is dressed leads me to believe that Dude is lazy. His hair isn’t combed, he is dragging his feet and he has on a house robe. Then dude goes to open and taste the milk that he buys for with a check. I believe that Dude is so lazy that carrying around money is a hassle. He wrote a check out to the grocery store for $0.69. The way that Dude is dressed look as if he is not a dependable person. I figure if he does not care enough to dress himself properly could he be really a reliable person. Dude looks like he just does not care about what people have to say about him positive or not. He is a laid back kind of guy. Throughout the movie that is confirmed through his attitude and his dress

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