Fake it

Mr. Lebowski, the old man pretending to be a successful millionaire who turns out to be a looser reminds me so much of an old TV show called Fake it. The show is about inviting a person who’s totally irreverent with the identity he or she’s going to pretend, for example a guy who works in a laboratory to be a painter. He gets trained from professionals in the industry for two weeks and then attends an artistic event with other three painters and some dealers. Finally they let the dealers identify who’s the fake painter. I’ve seen episodes about faking a hairstylist, cloth designer and painter. Some participants fail and some partially succeed. All of them are grateful of the special experience and some even thinking about other career options. Thinking of Mr. Lebowski, He never needs to work hard to earn a living and nor the participants who just get stress out of the intense training. He sees so much glamour of being rich just like the participants in the TV show getting a sense of the different identity they pretends. So I’m thinking maybe Mr. Lebowski’s greedy is partially because he’s been taken good care of by Maude and his ex-wife and never gets exposed to the payoffs of being rich.