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04 November 2006

At this very moment, Me & Pips are watching The Big Lebowski for the 975th time. We've decided that we have the neccessary personell to cast an all-Mecha version of this cinematic masterpiece. →[More:]

our cast is as follows:

The Dude: jonmc
Walter: Divine Wino
Donnie: jason's_planet
Smokey: Zach Replica
The Big Lebowski: BoringPostcards
Jesus Quintana: quonsar
Maude Lebowski: occhiblu
Jackie Treehorn: joe famous
Bunny Lebowski: orange swan
Karl Hungus: item
Brandt: moonbird
Nihilists: dobbs, OmieWise, dg
The Stranger: hugh janus
Knox Harrington: Lipstick Thespian
Larry Sellers: sasshat
Delfino: mischief
Gary the bartender: Tennesee Sam
Bowling Alley Dream Sequence Dancing Girls: Miko, essexjan, gaspode, trishalynn
doctor: ikkyu2
cops: taz, seanyboy
toeless nihilist girl: pips

feel free to amend and change.

*sips caucasian*

post by: jonmc at: 19:21 | 41 comments

I don't know how many people on Mecha have camcorders, but it seems that you could break the film down by scene, assign a member a scene to act out with friends, then compile it into our own full version. It doesn't matter that characters aren't the same in each scene, nor that its shot in the same part of the world.

posted by urbanwhaleshark 04 November | 20:02

How nice of you to cast me!

Perhaps I should actually watch this movie sometime.

posted by jason's_planet 04 November | 20:14

all good Americans should watch it, my man. seriously

posted by jonmc 04 November | 20:20

From Wikipedia:

Theodore Donald "Donny" Kerabatsos (Steve Buscemi) is a member of Walter and The Dude's bowling team. Charmingly naïve, he interrupts conversations between The Dude and Walter to inquire about the parts of the story he missed, evoking responses such as "you're out of your element" and "you're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie."

Oh, yeah! I'd be perfect for that role. You nailed it.

posted by jason's_planet 04 November | 20:24

I can't believe you gave the Tara Reed role to someone else. When you think Tara Reed, you think drunken slut and when you think drunken slut, you should naturally think jrossi. (OK, admittedly, for the next 4 months I'm not so drunken. But the slutty never goes away.)

posted by jrossi4r 04 November | 20:28

wouldja settle for topless trampoline girl, jrossi?

*blows on toes*

posted by jonmc 04 November | 20:38

Thanks for casting me!

...oh... wait.....

posted by Doohickie 04 November | 20:45

I am truly honored.

posted by BoringPostcards 04 November | 21:23

Okay, first of all - thanks for the role. Secondly, can I just say that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE jrossi's turn of phrase, "but the slutty never goes away" - GODS that should be on a t-shirt or a movie tagline or in a song or who-know's-what!

Love it. I'll be in my trailer.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 04 November | 21:33

Doohickie, how's your interpretive dance skills?

(we'll have the rent next week, promise)

posted by Pips 04 November | 21:34

BoPo: that's great now dye your stache grey and start calling me a bum.

posted by jonmc 04 November | 21:38

I can't believe I wasn't cast for Liam, Jesus' bowling partner.

Hmph.

Stomps off set, goes to trailer.

posted by WolfDaddy 04 November | 21:50

I knew I forgot somebody! Don't have quonsar put a gun up my ass and pull the trigger until goes 'click.'

Now, go polish your ball.

posted by Pips 04 November | 21:55

um, that was me, not pips. damned laptop.

posted by jonmc 04 November | 21:57

What, I don't like shiny balls?

posted by Pips 04 November | 21:59

My real name is Donnie. The late 90's were tough times for me.

posted by sourwookie 04 November | 22:33

Score quonsar.

posted by rainbaby 04 November | 23:10

*signs on to do occhiblu's rigging**

posted by rainbaby 04 November | 23:11

What, no part for me? :-(

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 November | 23:24

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by Rhomboid 04 November | 23:26

For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.

posted by Divine_Wino 04 November | 23:42

Where am I? :-(

For those who consider Meatbomb the Dude--the scene I remember best from that movie is him lying in the tub in a darkened bathroom with lit candles, sucking a joint and listening to whale songs. He was NOT one to deliberately stir up shitstorms--and didn't want to be part of the one into which he was sucked.

posted by brujita 05 November | 00:09

Let me tell ya something - I dig your work.

posted by mischief 05 November | 00:26

I want to marry jrossi and have more babies for her, so she can stay drunken as well as slutty.

The Big Lebowski is one of my absolute favorite movies, so thank you for casting me!

Nobody fucks with the Jesus.

posted by gaspode 05 November | 00:42

No one from New York or vicinity could ever be the Dude. Sorry, jonmc. It's such a West Coast thing.

posted by mullacc 05 November | 03:10

Wow, I feel really bad for not ever seeing the movie now.
Next time it comes on, I promise to watch it - I wanna see who this Smokey is.

posted by Zack_Replica 05 November | 03:25

Well. I guess we can close the books on that one.

posted by seanyboy 05 November | 05:17

mullacc is correct on that point.

posted by Divine_Wino 05 November | 08:11

I'm gonna have to see the movie too. So I can slap jonmc around for not casting me.

posted by chewatadistance 05 November | 08:12

*is crestfallen*

posted by mike9322 05 November | 10:17

Urbanwhaleshark is correct.

The question is, who would organise it? This isn't Nam. There would have to be rules. (Or maybe not rules, but, you know, organising).

I'm thinking something like one of those million pixel things, except with a million stoners. "Give me an F"! And so forth.

Actually, the combined properties required to realize urbanwhaleshark's dream are probably so incompatible that were they to be assembled, a wormhole would open.

(This might well be a good thing of course).

Em. Count me in.

(I'm seriously going to do this).

And, jonmc, while I know we all think we are the Dude, I'd've gone for tr33hggr.

posted by GeckoDundee 05 November | 10:30

Nobody fucks with the Jesus.

ain't it the truth. - jq

posted by quonsar 05 November | 10:46

Damn, I would've thought I was a shoe-in for The Jesus.

Jesus Quontana: "You try any of that bush league shit, you pull a fish on the lane, I'll stick it down your pants and pull the dorsal fin til it goes click!"

posted by Eideteker 05 November | 10:49

Can I at least be in the background somewhere?

*stands outside set, wistfully looking in*

posted by redvixen 05 November | 13:39

I see myself as Karl Hungus, and I'd like to thank the Academy for honoring me.

posted by item 05 November | 13:40

De Nada, item. Now, fix my cable.

And, of all of us, I physically resemble him the most, but in temperment, I admit I may be more like Walter.

Next time it comes on, I promise to watch it - I wanna see who this Smokey is.

You'll love it. And trust me, you're perfect for Smokey.

mullacc is correct on that point.

Eh, perhaps, you and I would be better suited for Miller's Crossing, or maybe the two convict brothers in Raising Arizona.

Chewie, you play one of the dream sequence dancing bowling pin chicks if you want. bunnyfire can play the 'family restaurant' waitress.

posted by jonmc 05 November | 17:29

Ok, jon. I can do that! :)

posted by chewatadistance 05 November | 18:25

Oh gaspode, I would be honored if you would have my slutty babies.

LT can make little slogan-emblazoned onesies for them.

posted by jrossi4r 05 November | 18:57

Huh. I watched the movie on the weekend and I can't see myself as Bunny. I'm much more of a Maude type.

Now BLOW ON MY TOES.

posted by Orange Swan 01 October | 09:09

I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself.

posted by Hugh Janus 01 October | 09:57

*throws a marmot into jonmc's tub in response to the casting snub*

(I have always assumed that it's a ferret, and part of the humor is that everyone refers to it as a marmot.)

posted by danf 01 October | 11:11

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