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Dude, Where's My Car?
2000 · Film · 83 min
Directed by Danny Leiner
AdventureComedyMysteryScience Fiction
Two stoners wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.
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The word has potential to mean "without rule", following its etymology. Once in a while, especially in art criticism, it can be unambiguously used that way. If a review of Dude, Where's My Car calls it an anarchic comedy, that doesn't mean it attacks hierarchies. It just means it defies established rules, such as "a successful movie must be any good". But historically, early anarchists were class-struggle types (maybe Irish or Spanish?) with those round cartoon bombs with the lit fuse sticking out, so it's always going to carry both meanings.
I notice this raises the question of the similarities or differences between hierarchies (of people, not html tags or whatever) and rulership. Certainly management, or government, or the church (going etymological again), has a hierarchy of higher-up hierophants issuing commands to lower-down losers, and it's all full of stinking rules, and there's some connection. And, say, HN, has a hierarchy which consists of Dang, and us, and below us, noobs, and that's about enforcing the rules, which I have to admit might not stink in this particular case. But sometimes there can be a hierarchy without a connection to rules. For instance, how fancy is your hairstyle? Do you shave it off as irrelevant, or just let it grow like a hippie, or cultivate dreadlocks, or have a bowl cut, or trim it with clippers, craft it with scissors, or perhaps opt for dye, a perm, a beehive, or Roman braids? In the hair hierarchy there are people, the owners of the hair, but no chain of command or enforced rules. Capitalism, seen as simply people having money, has potential, perhaps, to be as benign as people having hair.
I feel the same!
Its like the *Continuum Transfunctioner* from the film "Dude, Where's My Car", in that, its a powerful and mysterious device! lol :-)
Yes I do.
Do you use JS or TS currently? We've had async/await since ES2017, it's supported everywhere you want, and there's no reason to see .then() chains anymore outside jokes regarding early 2000's film classic "Dude, Where's My Car?".
As an equally valid counterpoint, I submit data from the classic film "Dude, where's my car?" where the simple question "and then?" so greatly exacerbates the customer that there's a strong chance they will never return.
Side note but I absolutely love the reference to Dude, Where's My Car [1] in the title.
It wouldn't have been as entertaining or remotely shocking to me if this were a tech startup's blog, but there's something awesome about a prestigious finance company like JP Morgan referencing an iconic, trashy, Ashton Kutcher stoner comedy film.
From a marketing standpoint, when you establish yourself over decades as a very serious company, I guess it makes it all the better when you loosen that image up.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude,_Where%27s_My_Car%3F
I honestly don't understand this current hang up on things being 'political'. The movies are largely going to be a reflection of the world we live in at that point in time, tapping into the collective consciousness of the moment.
Things feel more turbulent now, for many people, than in the 90s. Therefore we don't have 90's or early 2000s style movies about boring life or other inane things. Office Space would be a different film if it was written now, and Dude Where's My Car probably wouldn't even exist.
Lots of films were political about Vietnam during that period of time.
Lots of films were political about the war in Iraq, arguably too heavily in the US' favour to keep that support drummed up, after 9/11 happened.
Now it's about things like representation of minorities, nationalism, right wing threats, and so on, and I suppose "it's political" is another way of saying you're against the politics the movie chooses to explore, or represent.
To that end, it's only political if you disagree with it, and that lines up with me feeling that 'political' is being used as a pejorative.
(you as in anyone, not specifically you, the parent)
> and I feel like at least one film.
"Dude, Where's My Car?"
Half the dialogue (ok, I'm probably exaggerating a little bit) is the word "dude". Often repeated many times in different intonations.
So, to put it in a meme: https://youtu.be/CkdyU_eUm1U ( not really a smart movie - dude where's my car, but it thought about that the entire time)
The briefcase held the actual, original MacGuffin and the actual, original Chekhov's gun--which was never fired in the movie. The former was the treasure that had been used as a nonspecific plot device by Sophocles, Menander, and an unbroken line of storytellers, through Shakespeare, and ending with Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas, and Quentin Tarantino. The latter had a more recent origin, but somehow ended up in Tarantino's possession without him knowing of its significance.
It is somewhat obvious that Tarantino lost the plot devices some time after production, as they reappeared in fused form 6 years later in "Dude, Where's My Car?"
Movies do not get their theatrical releases cancelled for 50% critic ratings. Particularly not well-publicized stoner movies with big-name actors and fervent fans. That just isn't something that happens. Even Dude, Where's My Car? got its theatrical release.
The idea that Sony is using the DPRK as an excuse to shitcan this movie because of mediocre critic ratings is flat out absurd.
One thing I'd do is work on improving the search.
When I search "dude wheres my car" I get no results. However searching "dude where's my car" gets results. Also I'd work on ranking. For that search Harold and Kumar come up first even though the search I made is also a movie title and referenced more times in the other movie.
Good idea. Spruce up the design and that will help as well. Good start though.
Nick