Character Analysis
Jesus Quintana, who calls himself The Jesus, is a very minor character in the film; he has less than 5 minutes of screen time. But John Turturro, a Coen favorite, makes the most of it. His skin-tight purple polyester jumpsuit, dance moves, and unusually sensuous relationship with his bowling ball are all pretty over-the-top hilarious. Turturro even stuffed a bag of birdseed down his pants to get that serious bulge. As far as Jesus is concerned, he really is The Jesus: God's gift to the world. The world of bowling, that is. He's got swagger:
QUINTANA: I see you rolled your way into the semis. Dios mio, man. Liam and me, we're gonna f*** you up.
THE DUDE: Yeah, well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man.
QUINTANA: Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any your crazy s*** with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you and stick it up your ass and pull the f***ing trigger til it goes click.
Subtle.
The Jesus is definitely not impressed with Walter's "shomer Shabbos" thing:
QUINTANA: What is this bulls***, man? I don't f***ing care! It don't matter to Jesus! But you're not fooling me! You might fool the f***s in the league office, but you don't fool Jesus! It's bush league psych-out stuff! Laughable, man! I would've f***ed you in the ass Saturday, I'll f*** you in the ass next Wednesday instead!
The Jesus has a dark side underneath his swagger, though: he's a sex offender, a disturbing fact that isn't really addressed in the film other than to show The Jesus having to go door to door in his neighborhood in street clothes meekly telling everyone this fact about himself. It's a great juxtaposition of images.