Essay 6 and Today's Movie #9

"Big Lebowski"(1998)
Directed by Joel Coen

This offbeat film’s story is about three men named Lebowski, Sobczak, and Kerabatsos: Lebowski is an unemployed middle-aged man who prefers his nickname “The Dude” rather than his real name, Jeffrey. He spends his careless life with playing bowling. Walter Sobezak, one of The Dude’s close friend, was a solder who joined the Vietnam war long time ago. He has a terrible temper and a gun in his bag to threaten someone at gun-point. Donny Kerabatsos is retired pro surfer. He also plays bowling with The Dude and Walter, but he is not smart enough to follow along to other people’s conversation.
Once upon a time, bill collectors came to The Dude’s house and asked The Dude for his wife’s debts. However, The Dude doesn’t have any wife or debts. He tried to explain the mistaken identity, but the bill collectors didn’t lend an ear. At last, the bill collectors peed on his rug which ties the room together. Next day, as The Dude told Walter and Donny the story, Walter got very upset. He told The Dude to go to the real Lebowski’s house and tell him what happened on the rug last night. And then The Dude did it, but the real Lebowski didn’t believe The Dude’s story and will never pay the damage for the rug.
Some days later, The Dude got a phone from Lebowski. Lebowski said his wife is kidnapped by a party of crazy Germans and asked The Dude to save her. If The Dude has made it, Lebowski would pay him a lot of money as a reward. The Dude accepted offer, but he wondered if Lebowski's wife had kidnapped herself for the ransom money. At the night, The Dude and Walter made a plan. They were planning to hand a case of Walter's dirty undies over to the Germans party instead of the ransom money which Lebowski gave over to them. Finally, The Dude, Walter and Donny found the lager truth and went back to their ordinary life.

“The Big Lebowski" is one of my favorites. I have watched this movies a jillion times so I’m able to remember almost all lines. I also bought the DVDs, including the US version, New US version and JP version. Now I want the shirt which has a picture of The Dude and the soundtrack.
Coen brothers, who directed this masterpiece in 1998, had made a great movie called “Barton Fink” too. It was also great. You can find them at any video store in your town.

WEI 2

How many words
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in Week 2 : 364
in Week 3 : 561
in Week 4 : 772
in Week 5 : 541
in Week 6 : 552
in Week 7 : 343
in Week 8 : 232
in Week 9 : 430
in Week 10: 516
in Week 11: 342
in Week 12:
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Total words up to this point:5,516

How many posts
in Week 1 : 1
in Week 2 : 3
in Week 3 : 2
in Week 4 : 5
in Week 5 : 2
in Week 6 : 3
in Week 7 : 3
in Week 8 : 3
in Week 9 : 2
in Week 10: 6
in Week 11: 3
Total posts up to this point:37

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Book Review 1-9

"Rip Van Winkle"
Written by Weshington Irving

There is a no-hoper man named Rip Van Winkle. He lives in a small village which located at the foot of a huge, mystery-shrouded mountain. Rip has wife and children, but he doesn’t like being with them so much because his wife always complains about his laziness. The other day, Rip went up to the mountain and took a nap until the sun is in the west. As Rip wake up and began to go down the mountain, he found a strange old man near him. The old man with a huge bag is walking very slowly and looks tired. Rip thought he should help him with his bag, but every time Rip talks to the old man, he is entirely-ignored by him. And then the old man passed the bag to Rip with saying a words and the two went toward to the small village.
I chose this book because I like its cover art. The story was fine too, but it wasn’t very interesting at all.

Drinking Party!

Yesterday, my junior fellow and I went to a bar.
We were drinking and taking until 2:00 A.M.
Both of us want to be there again because it was so fun!