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Why dud Maude choose Jeffery?

posted 6 years ago by NotASpeckOfCereal (302)
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I mean, she went to the trouble of having him doctor-checked and all. What is it that said to Maude "barring any problems with a Doctor check, he is the right man to father my child, biologically"?

Could it be that she simply recognized the superior genes that must be involved for someone to evolve like this (or rather, perhaps, not evolve), to create a man that can so easily look at all the world's various and complex problems and say "Fŭck it"?

[–] Lord Rake (4454) 6 years ago

She tells him in the film.

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

He's quite physically attractive, for one thing.

For another, he's one of the few men in the world who would be pretty much guaranteed to wander off after he fathers the kid, and not demand a huge role in the kid's life or child support payments. If any other man in the LA basin fathered her kid he'd constantly be trying to use the kid to get money out of her, but not The Dude. He doesn't give a rat's ass about a million dollars in cash, he just wants his rug back.

[–] Techto (1299) a year ago

Yes. Also Maude said it was important that the biological father of her not move in the same social circles as she does. And, one might suppose, that she unaccountably found him attractive.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I didn't totally get that, either.

She could have just gone to a fertility doctor and been impregnated that way. That would have met her requirements, mentioned in the movie.

Maybe she was attracted to Lebowski?

[–] ecarle (14979) a year ago

Because he looked like that real handsome movie star Jeff Bridges.

[–] Zarkoff (1857) 2 months ago

I think she might have been attracted to him, but didn't want to admit it to herself.

Lebowski is a free spirit, whatever else you might say about him. Maybe she saw that as a potential positive for her baby?

[–] Ldlamb (639) 2 months ago

She wanted to engage in a natural, zesty enterprise

[–] moviechatterer (15638) a month ago

do you have to supply your own , er ,seed for that ?

[–] SamHyde (138) 9 days ago

It was supposed to just be the other part of some male's fantasy put on screen