Lebowski!

[hjames]

After Seawolf swapped his Avatar over to Davinci's DUDE,
I notice references to The Big Lebowski popping up more frequently all over the web!

So today, I read about a Shakespearian retelling of the tale ...

for your amusement ...

Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, by Adam Bertocci

[JeffW]

Word has it that The Dude will be filling in as The Duke in the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit.

"Uh, like you might want to start thinking about maybe, uh, filling your hands or something, guys!"

[hjames]

And of course, there's always this homage,
available in poster or stretched canvas form available here -
http://www.lebowskipainting.com/

[hjames]

And of course, as I posted in another now gone thread, Emma is a big fan of that Coen Brothers film, so I got her the special 10th Anniversary Edition for Christmas a few years back ...

[SEAWOLF97]

Obviously you're not a golfer.

[hjames]

Obviously you're not a golfer.

Gopher?

[SEAWOLF97]

Gopher?

Hey, nice marmot!

[demon]

great movie!!

thanks for this *bump* on my memorythread. so i recently watched the short version of the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jRhgNp-fNc
wich is quite long actually

cheers,
mikey

[SEAWOLF97]

great movie!!

thanks for this *bump* on my memorythread. so i recently watched the short version of the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jRhgNp-fNc
wich is quite long actually

cheers,
mikey

The F-word or a variation of the F-word is used 292 times.

The Dude says "man" 147 times in the movie, nearly 1.5 times a minute.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/trivia

[Ducatista47]

This has been my candidate for the funniest film I have ever seen, ever since I caught it at a last chance theater late in its initial run.

It was a small theater in a multiplex. Total attendance was myself (solo), a thirty or forty something married couple, two young guys, a dating couple and another group of two or three college students.

A group dynamic soon established itself. We all became so sore from laughing that no one wanted to be the initial victim of the next gag. But each time someone would start laughing and we all helplessly joined in, EVERY TIME.

We really did think we could hold out once, but the next thing The Dude dropped the joint in his pants and his Torino ended up sideways in the alley. After that we gave up on even trying. It was the most powerful bonding experience I ever had with strangers in a theater.

I have always been completely high on Jeff Bridges' talent, wondering why he was not appreciated like DeNiro, Duvall, Hackman, Pacino, etc. It seemed odd to me that he will probably be remembered for playing this part, but now I think that might not be a bad fate after all. I think he is like Robert Mitchum - the best Hollywood actor alive, under appreciated because he makes it look so easy. Lebowski is the perfect example of that. It looks like a simple acting job but no one could have done it better, or even as well.

To give the Coen Brothers their due, the one-two-three roll of Fargo-The Big Lebowski-Oh Brother, Where Art Thou may be unmatched in cinema history. And they keep getting better.


Clark

[SEAWOLF97]

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