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1998 film by Joel and Ethan Coen

The Big Lebowski
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Joel Coen
Written by
  • Ethan Coen
  • Joel Coen
Produced past Ethan Coen
Starring
  • Jeff Bridges
  • John Goodman
  • Julianne Moore
  • Steve Buscemi
  • David Huddleston
  • John Turturro
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman
Cinematography Roger Deakins
Edited by
  • Roderick Jaynes[a]
  • Tricia Cooke
Music by Carter Burwell

Production
company

Working Title Films
Distributed past
  • Gramercy Pictures (The states)
  • PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (International)

Release dates
  • January eighteen, 1998 (1998-01-18) (Sundance)
  • March half dozen, 1998 (1998-03-06) (U.S.)
  • Apr 24, 1998 (1998-04-24) (U.G.)

Running time

 117 minutes
Countries
  • United States[1] [2]
  • Uk[two] [3]
Linguistic communication English language
Budget $15 million
Box office $46.seven meg[4]

The Big Lebowski () is a 1998 black comedy criminal offence motion picture written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Information technology stars Jeff Bridges every bit Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler. He is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, so learns that a millionaire also named Jeffrey Lebowski (David Huddleston) was the intended victim. The millionaire Lebowski'south trophy wife is kidnapped, and he commissions The Dude to deliver the bribe to secure her release; the plan goes awry when the Dude's friend Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) schemes to keep the bribe money. Sam Elliott, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, David Thewlis, Peter Stormare, and Ben Gazzara also appear, in supporting roles.

The film is loosely inspired by the piece of work of Raymond Chandler. Joel Coen stated, "Nosotros wanted to exercise a Chandler kind of story – how it moves episodically, and deals with the characters trying to unravel a mystery, as well every bit having a hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant."[5] The original score was composed by Carter Burwell, a longtime collaborator of the Coen brothers.

The Large Lebowski received mixed reviews at the fourth dimension of its release. Over fourth dimension, reviews accept go largely positive, and the film has get a cult favorite,[vi] noted for its eccentric characters, comedic dream sequences, idiosyncratic dialogue, and eclectic soundtrack.[seven] In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the Us National Moving picture Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically pregnant". A spin-off, titled The Jesus Rolls, was released in 2020, with Turturro reprising his role and also serving as writer and director.[8] [ix] [10]

Plot [edit]

In the early 1990s, Los Angeles slacker Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski is assaulted in his home by two enforcers for porn kingpin Jackie Treehorn, who is owed money past the married woman of a different Jeffrey Lebowski. One of the goons urinates on the Dude's favorite carpet earlier they realize they have the wrong man and get out.

Brash by his bowling partners, Vietnam veteran Walter Sobchak and Donny Kerabatsos, the Dude visits wealthy philanthropist Jeffrey ("Big") Lebowski, demanding compensation for the rug. Big refuses, but the Dude tricks Big's assistant Brandt into letting him take a similar rug from the mansion. Outside he meets Bunny, Large's trophy wife, and her German nihilist friend Uli. Presently subsequently this, Bunny is evidently kidnapped and Big hires The Dude to deliver the requested ransom money, i meg dollars. That night, a different pair of thugs accost the Dude, taking his replacement rug on behalf of Big's girl Maude, who has a sentimental attachment to information technology.

The kidnappers adjust to collect the bribe. Convinced that Bunny "kidnapped herself", Walter concocts a scheme to continue the ransom money past substituting information technology with a briefcase full of his dirty laundry. Although things exercise not go entirely according to Walter'south programme, the kidnappers exit with Walter's laundry, and Walter and The Dude return to the bowling alley, leaving the ransom money in the trunk of his car. While the bowlers basin, the car is stolen from the parking lot.

Revealing Bunny is ane of Treehorn's actresses and lovers, Maude agrees that Bunny staged her own abduction and asks for the Dude's help to recover the money, which her male parent illegally withdrew from the family'due south foundation. Subsequently, the Dude is separately confronted for his failure to evangelize the ransom by both Big and a trio of German nihilists who place themselves as the kidnappers. Maude is able to confirm that the Germans are Bunny's friends.

The Dude's automobile, minus the briefcase, is recovered by police. Driving home after a coming together with Maude, the Dude finds homework stuffed down in the seat, signed "Larry Sellers." Walter and the Dude face Larry at his father's home, interrogating him about the missing briefcase. When he is unresponsive, Walter bashes a new sports car parked outside, thinking the teen had used the money to buy it. The car's actual owner, a neighbor, appears and retaliates by bashing the Dude'southward auto, mistaking it for Walter'due south.

The Dude returns abode, where he finds Maude wearing only a robe. They have sex activity, and Maude tells the Dude that her male parent has no coin of his ain; the family unit fortune belonged to her late mother who left him none, the terminal slice of information which The Dude needs to piece of work out the entire scheme: after Bunny left town, her nihilist friends faked her kidnapping to extort money from her husband. Big withdrew the ransom from the family trust but kept it for himself, not caring what happened to his married woman, giving the Dude a briefcase containing phone books instead.

In a concluding confrontation exterior of the bowling aisle, the nihilists ready the Dude'south machine on fire, and demand the ransom money. Walter violently fends them off, but during the scuffle, Donny dies from a heart attack. Before scattering Donny'due south ashes from a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Walter delivers a eulogy that turns into a diatribe about the Vietnam State of war. He scatters the ashes, which an updraft blows back over himself and the Dude. The Dude chastises Walter for the eulogy and Walter apologizes; the two go bowling.

Cast [edit]

  • Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski
  • John Goodman as Walter Sobchak
  • Julianne Moore as Maude Lebowski
  • Steve Buscemi every bit Donny Kerabatsos
  • David Huddleston equally Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman as Brandt
  • Tara Reid every bit Bunny Lebowski
  • John Turturro every bit Jesus Quintana
  • Sam Elliott as The Stranger
  • David Thewlis every bit Knox Harrington
  • Ben Gazzara as Jackie Treehorn
  • Peter Stormare, Torsten Voges, and Flea as Uli Kunkel/Karl Hungus, Franz, and Kieffer, the nihilists
  • Jon Polito as Da Fino
  • Philip Moon and Marking Pellegrino as Treehorn'southward thugs
  • Jimmie Dale Gilmore every bit Smokey
  • Jack Kehler as Marty, The Dude'south landlord
  • Dom Irrera as Tony, the chauffeur
  • Harry Bugin as Arthur Digby Sellers
  • Jesse Flanagan as Larry Sellers
  • Leon Russom as the Malibu Police Main
  • Warren Keith every bit Francis Donnelly, funeral director
  • Marshall Manesh as Doctor
  • Asia Carrera as Sherry, porn actress[11]
  • Aimee Isle of man as Franz's girlfriend
  • Richard Gant and Christian Clemenson as cops

Product [edit]

Evolution [edit]

The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, an American film producer and political activist the Coen brothers met while they were trying to find distribution for their offset characteristic, Blood Simple.[12] : ninety [thirteen] Dowd had been a member of the Seattle Seven, liked to drink White Russians, and was known as "The Dude".[12] : 91–92 The Dude was besides partly based on a friend of the Coen brothers, Peter Exline (now a member of the faculty at USC's Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts), a Vietnam State of war veteran who reportedly lived in a dump of an apartment and was proud of a petty carpet that "tied the room together".[14] : 188 Exline knew Barry Sonnenfeld from New York University and Sonnenfeld introduced Exline to the Coen brothers while they were trying to raise money for Blood Unproblematic.[12] : 97–98 Exline became friends with the Coens and in 1989, told them all kinds of stories from his ain life, including ones about his thespian-writer friend Lewis Abernathy (one of the inspirations for Walter), a fellow Vietnam vet who afterward became a individual investigator and helped him rail down and confront a high schoolhouse kid who stole his car.[12] : 99 As in the film, Exline's motorcar was impounded by the Los Angeles Constabulary Department and Abernathy found an 8th grader'due south homework under the passenger seat.[12] : 100

Exline also belonged to an amateur softball league just the Coens changed information technology to bowling in the film, because "information technology's a very social sport where you tin can sit effectually and potable and smoke while engaging in inane conversation".[14] : 195 The Coens met filmmaker John Milius when they were in Los Angeles making Barton Fink and incorporated his honey of guns and the military into the character of Walter.[fourteen] : 189 John Milius introduced the Coen Brothers to i of his best friends, Jim Ganzer, who would have been another source of inferences to create Jeff Bridges' character.[xv] Too known every bit the Dude,[16] Ganzer and his gang, typical Malibu surfers, served as inspiration as well for Milius's film Big Wednesday.[17]

Before David Huddleston was cast as "Big" Jeffrey Lebowski, the Coens considered Robert Duvall (who didn't like the script), Anthony Hopkins (who wasn't interested playing an American), Gene Hackman (who was taking a break from acting at the time), Norman Mailer, George C. Scott, Jerry Falwell, Gore Vidal, Andy Griffith, William F. Buckley, and Ernest Borgnine. The Coens' top choice was Marlon Brando, but he was unable to star in the film due to health issues.[xviii] Charlize Theron was considered for the role of Bunny Lebowski.[19]

According to Julianne Moore, the graphic symbol of Maude was based on creative person Carolee Schneemann, "who worked naked from a swing", and on Yoko Ono.[20] : 156 The character of Jesus Quintana, an opponent of The Dude'due south bowling squad, was inspired in role by a performance the Coens had seen John Turturro requite in 1988 at the Public Theater in a play called Mi Puta Vida in which he played a pederast-type grapheme, "and so we idea, let's make Turturro a pederast. It'll exist something he can really run with," Joel said in an interview.[14] : 195

The film'southward overall structure was influenced by the detective fiction of Raymond Chandler. Ethan said, "We wanted something that would generate a sure narrative feeling – like a modernistic Raymond Chandler story, and that'south why information technology had to exist set in Los Angeles ... Nosotros wanted to have a narrative flow, a story that moves like a Chandler book through different parts of town and dissimilar social classes."[21] The employ of the Stranger's vox-over also came from Chandler every bit Joel remarked, "He is a piffling bit of an audience substitute. In the flick accommodation of Chandler information technology's the primary character that speaks off-screen, only we didn't want to reproduce that though it apparently has echoes. Information technology'south as if someone was commenting on the plot from an all-seeing point of view. And at the same time rediscovering the old earthiness of a Mark Twain."[20] : 169

The significance of the bowling culture was, according to Joel, "important in reflecting that menses at the end of the fifties and the offset of the sixties. That suited the retro side of the pic, slightly anachronistic, which sent us back to a non-so-far-away era, but one that was well and truly gone nevertheless."[xx] : 170

Screenplay [edit]

The Coen Brothers wrote The Large Lebowski around the same time as Barton Fink. When the Coen brothers wanted to make it, John Goodman was filming episodes for Roseanne and Jeff Bridges was making the Walter Loma film Wild Bill. The Coens decided to make Fargo in the meantime.[14] : 189 Co-ordinate to Ethan, "the movie was conceived as pivoting around that relationship between the Dude and Walter", which sprang from the scenes between Barton Fink and Charlie Meadows in Barton Fink.[twenty] : 169 They as well came up with the idea of setting the picture in contemporary L.A., because the people who inspired the story lived in the expanse.[22] : 41 When Pete Exline told them nigh the homework in a baggie incident, the Coens thought that that was very Raymond Chandler and decided to integrate elements of the author's fiction into their script. Joel Coen cites Robert Altman'due south The Long Cheerio equally a primary influence on their film, in the sense that The Big Lebowski "is just kind of informed by Chandler around the edges".[22] : 43 When they started writing the script, the Coens wrote only 40 pages and so allow it sit down for a while before finishing information technology. This is a normal writing process for them, considering they frequently "run across a problem at a certain phase, we pass to some other projection, then we come dorsum to the beginning script. That style we've already accumulated pieces for several future movies."[twenty] : 171 In order to liven up a scene that they thought was too heavy on exposition, they added an "effete art-world hanger-on", known as Knox Harrington, late in the screenwriting process.[23] In the original script, the Dude's motorcar was a Chrysler LeBaron, as Dowd had once endemic, but that machine was non big enough to fit John Goodman and so the Coens inverse it to a Ford Torino.[12] : 93

Pre-production [edit]

PolyGram and Working Title Films, which had funded Fargo, backed The Large Lebowski with a budget of $15 million. In casting the film, Joel remarked, "we tend to write both for people nosotros know and have worked with, and some parts without knowing who's going to play the function. In The Big Lebowski we did write for John [Goodman] and Steve [Buscemi], simply nosotros didn't know who was getting the Jeff Bridges role."[24] Mel Gibson was originally considered for the office of The Dude, but he didn't take the pitch too seriously.[25] In preparation for his role, Bridges met Dowd but actually "drew on myself a lot from back in the Sixties and Seventies. I lived in a lilliputian place like that and did drugs, although I think I was a piffling more creative than the Dude."[14] : 188 The actor went into his own closet with the picture'southward wardrobe person and picked out clothes that he had idea the Dude might wearable.[12] : 27 He wore his character'due south clothes abode because most of them were his own.[26] The actor as well adopted the same physicality as Dowd, including the slouching and his ample belly.[12] : 93 Originally, Goodman wanted a unlike kind of beard for Walter only the Coen brothers insisted on the "Gladiator" or what they called the "Chin Strap" and he thought information technology would go well with his flattop haircut.[12] : 32

For the film'due south await, the Coens wanted to avert the usual retro 1960s clichés like lava lamps, Twenty-four hour period-Glo posters, and Grateful Dead music[22] : 95 and for it to be "consistent with the whole bowling affair, we wanted to keep the picture show pretty bright and poppy", Joel said in an interview.[14] : 191 For example, the star motif, featured predominantly throughout the pic, started with the motion-picture show'due south production designer Richard Heinrichs' design for the bowling alley. According to Joel, he "came up with the thought of just laying costless-class neon stars on height of it and doing a similar costless-form star thing on the interior". This carried over to the film's dream sequences. "Both dream sequences involve star patterns and are about lines radiating to a bespeak. In the first dream sequence, the Dude gets knocked out and y'all see stars and they all coalesce into the overhead nightscape of L.A. The second dream sequence is an astral environment with a backdrop of stars", remembers Heinrichs.[14] : 191 For Jackie Treehorn's Malibu beach house, he was inspired past late 1950s and early 1960s bachelor pad article of furniture. The Coen brothers told Heinrichs that they wanted Treehorn's beach party to be Inca-themed, with a "very Hollywood-looking party in which young, oiled-down, fairly aggressive men walk around with appetizers and drinks. So there's a very sacrificial quality to it."[22] : 91

Cinematographer Roger Deakins discussed the look of the film with the Coens during pre-production. They told him that they wanted some parts of the film to have a real and contemporary feeling and other parts, like the dream sequences, to accept a very stylized expect.[22] : 77 Bill and Jacqui Landrum did all of the choreography for the film. For his trip the light fantastic toe sequence, Jack Kehler went through 3 three-60 minutes rehearsals.[12] : 27 The Coen brothers offered him iii to four choices of classical music for him to pick from and he chose Modest Mussorgsky'southward Pictures at an Exhibition. At each rehearsal, he went through each phase of the piece.[12] : 64

Primary photography [edit]

Bodily filming took place over an xi-week period with location shooting in and effectually Los Angeles, including all of the bowling sequences at the Hollywood Star Lanes (for three weeks)[27] and the Dude's Busby Berkeley dream sequences in a converted airplane hangar.[21] According to Joel, the only time they ever directed Bridges "was when he would come over at the beginning of each scene and enquire, 'Practise you recollect the Dude burned one on the way over?' I'd answer 'Aye' commonly, so Jeff would go over in the corner and kickoff rubbing his eyes to get them bittersweet."[14] : 195 Julianne Moore was sent the script while working on The Lost World: Jurassic Park. She worked simply ii weeks on the pic, early and late during the production that went from January to April 1997[28] while Sam Elliott was merely on set for two days and did many takes of his final speech.[12] : 46

The scenes in Jackie Treehorn's house were shot in the Sheats-Goldstein Residence, designed past John Lautner and congenital in 1963 in the Hollywood Hills.[29]

Deakins described the look of the fantasy scenes as being very crisp, monochromatic, and highly lit in gild to afford greater depth of focus. All the same, with the Dude's apartment, Deakins said, "it's kind of seedy and the lite's pretty nasty" with a grittier look. The visual bridge between these ii different looks was how he photographed the night scenes. Instead of adopting the usual blue moonlight or blue street lamp look, he used an orange sodium-light outcome.[22] : 79 The Coen brothers shot much of the film with wide-angle lens considering, according to Joel, it made it easier to hold focus for a greater depth and it made photographic camera movements more dynamic.[22] : 82

To reach the indicate-of-view of a rolling bowling brawl the Coen brothers mounted a camera "on something like a barbecue spit", according to Ethan, and then dollied it along the lane. The challenge for them was figuring out the relative speeds of the frontward movement and the rotating motion. CGI was used to create the vantage point of the thumb pigsty in the bowling ball.[28]

Soundtrack [edit]

The Big Lebowski: Original Motility Picture show Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by

Various artists
Released February 24, 1998
Genre Rock, classical, jazz, country, folk, pop
Length 51:45
Characterization Mercury
Producer T-Os Burnett, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Coen Brothers film soundtracks chronology
Fargo
(1996) 		The Big Lebowski: Original Motility Moving-picture show Soundtrack
(1998) 		O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(2000)

The original score was composed by Carter Burwell, a veteran of all the Coen Brothers' films. While the Coens were writing the screenplay they had Kenny Rogers' "Just Dropped In (to Run into What Condition My Condition Was in)", the Gipsy Kings' comprehend of "Hotel California", and several Creedence Clearwater Revival songs in mind.[30] They asked T-Bone Burnett (who would later piece of work with the Coens on O Brother, Where Art G? and Inside Llewyn Davis) to option songs for the soundtrack of the film. They knew that they wanted different genres of music from unlike times but, as Joel remembers, "T-Bone fifty-fifty came upwards with some far-out Henry Mancini and Yma Sumac."[31] Burnett was able to secure songs by Kenny Rogers and the Gipsy Kings and also added tracks by Captain Beefheart, Moondog and Bob Dylan's "The Man in Me".[30] However, he had a tough time securing the rights to Townes Van Zandt's encompass of the Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers", which plays over the motion-picture show's closing credits. Former Stones manager Allen Klein endemic the rights to the song and wanted $150,000 for information technology. Burnett convinced Klein to watch an early cut of the film and remembers, "It got to the role where the Dude says, 'I detest the fuckin' Eagles, man!' Klein stands up and says, 'That's it, you can take the song!' That was beautiful."[30] [32] Burnett was going to be credited on the film as "Music Supervisor", but asked his credit to be "Music Archivist" because he "hated the notion of beingness a supervisor; I wouldn't desire anyone to call up of me as management".[31]

For Joel, "the original music, as with other elements of the movie, had to echo the retro sounds of the Sixties and early Seventies".[20] : 156 Music defines each grapheme. For example, "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" by Bob Nolan was called for the Stranger at the time the Coens wrote the screenplay, as was "Lujon" by Henry Mancini for Jackie Treehorn. "The German nihilists are accompanied past techno-pop and Jeff Bridges by Creedence. So there'southward a musical signature for each of them", remarked Ethan in an interview.[20] : 156 The graphic symbol Uli Kunkel was in the German electronic ring Autobahn, an homage to the band Kraftwerk. The anthology cover of their record Nagelbett (bed of nails) is a parody of the Kraftwerk album encompass for The Man-Machine and the group name Autobahn shares the name of a Kraftwerk song and album. In the lyrics the phrase "We believe in goose egg" is repeated with electronic distortion. This is a reference to Autobahn's nihilism in the pic.[33]

No. Championship Writer(due south) Performer Length
i. "The Human in Me" Bob Dylan Dylan 3:08
2. "Her Eyes Are a Blueish Million Miles" Captain Beefheart Beefheart 2:54
three. "My Mood Swings" Elvis Costello and Cait O'Riordan Costello 2:10
four. "Ataypura" Moises Vivanco Yma Sumac iii:03
5. "Traffic Boom" Piero Piccioni Piccioni iii:15
half dozen. "I Got Information technology Bad & That Ain't Practiced" Duke Ellington and Paul Francis Webster Nina Simone 4:07
seven. "Stamping Footing" (The track really includes two songs, starting with "Theme", which then leads to "Stamping Ground") Moondog Moondog 5:11
8. "Just Dropped In (To Come across What Condition My Condition Was In)" Mickey Newbury Kenny Rogers & The Offset Edition 3:21
9. "Walking Vocal" Meredith Monk Monk 2:55
x. "Glück das mir verblieb" (from Die tote Stadt) Erich Wolfgang Korngold Ilona Steingruber, Anton Dermota and the Austrian State Radio Orchestra 5:08
11. "Lujon" Henry Mancini Mancini 2:38
12. "Hotel California" Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Don Felder The Gipsy Kings 5:47
13. "Technopop" (Wie Glauben) Carter Burwell Burwell 3:21
14. "Dead Flowers" Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Townes Van Zandt iv:47
Total length: 51:45
Other music used (non on soundtrack anthology)
No. Title Author(s) Performer Length
1. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" Bob Nolan Sons of the Pioneers
2. "Mucha Muchacha" Juan García Esquivel Esquivel
3. "I Hate You lot" Gary Burger, David Havlicek, Roger Johnston, Thomas E. Shaw and Larry Spangler The Monks
4. "Requiem in D Small-scale: Introitus and Lacrimosa" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Slovak Combo Orchestra and Choir
v. "Run Through the Jungle" John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
6. "Behave Yourself" Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr. and Lewie Steinberg Booker T. & the MG'due south
7. "Standing on the Corner" Frank Loesser Dean Martin
8. "Tammy" Jay Livingston and Ray Evans Debbie Reynolds
nine. "We Venerate Thy Cross" traditional The Rustavi Choir
10. "Lookin' Out My Back Door" John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
11. "Gnomus" (from Pictures at an Exhibition) Modest Mussorgsky, arranged for orchestra by Maurice Ravel.
12. "Oye Como Va" Tito Puente Santana
thirteen. "Piacere Sequence" Teo Usuelli Usuelli
fourteen. "Branded Theme Vocal" Alan Alch and Dominic Frontiere
15. "Peaceful Easy Feeling" Jack Tempchin Eagles
16. "Viva Las Vegas" Physician Pomus and Mort Shuman ZZ Tiptop (with Bunny Lebowski); and Shawn Colvin (endmost credits).
17. "Dick on a Case" Carter Burwell Burwell

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

The Big Lebowski received its world premiere at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival on January xviii, 1998, at the ane,300-capacity Eccles Theater. It was also screened at the 48th Berlin International Picture show Festival[34] [35] before opening in North America on March 6, 1998, in 1,207 theaters. It grossed $five.5 million on its opening weekend, finishing up with a gross of $18 million in the United States, just in a higher place its US$15 one thousand thousand budget. The moving-picture show'south worldwide gross outside of the The states was $28.7 1000000, bringing its worldwide gross to $46.vii million.[4]

Critical response [edit]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 83% based on 109 reviews, with an average score of 7.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Typically stunning visuals and sharp dialogue from the Coen Brothers, brought to life with strong performances from Goodman and Bridges."[36] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, has assigned the movie a score of 71 out of 100 based on reviews from 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[37] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the motion-picture show an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[38]

Many critics and audiences take likened the film to a modern Western, while many others dispute this, or liken information technology to a criminal offense novel that revolves effectually mistaken identity plot devices.[39] Peter Howell, in his review for the Toronto Star, wrote: "It'southward hard to believe that this is the work of a squad that won an Oscar concluding year for the original screenplay of Fargo. At that place's a large amount of profanity in the movie, which seems a weak attempt to paper over dialogue gaps."[40] Howell revised his opinion in a later review, and in 2011 stated that "it may only be my favourite Coen Bros. film."[41]

Todd McCarthy in Variety magazine wrote: "One of the motion picture's indisputable triumphs is its soundtrack, which mixes Carter Burwell's original score with classic pop tunes and some fabulous covers."[42] USA Today gave the film iii out of four stars and felt that the Dude was "too passive a hero to sustain interest," but that there was "enough startling brilliance here to suggest that, just like the Dude, those smarty-pants Coens volition abide."[43]

In his review for The Washington Post, Desson Howe praised the Coens and "their inspired, absurdist taste for weird, peculiar Americana – but a sort of neo-Americana that is entirely invented – the Coens have defined and mastered their own bizarre subgenre. No one does information technology like them and, it almost goes without maxim, no one does it better."[44]

Janet Maslin praised Bridges' performance in her review for The New York Times: "Mr. Bridges finds a role and then right for him that he seems never to have been anywhere else. Picket this operation to see shambling executed with nonchalant grace and a seemingly out-to-lunch character played with fine comic flair."[45] Andrew Sarris, in his review for the New York Observer, wrote: "The event is a lot of laughs and a feeling of awe toward the craftsmanship involved. I doubtfulness that at that place'll be anything else like information technology the rest of this yr."[46] In a five star review for Empire Magazine, Ian Nathan wrote: "For those who delight in the Coens' divinely abstract have on reality, this is pure nirvana" and "in a perfect earth all movies would be made by the Coen brothers."[47] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the motion picture three stars out of iv, describing it equally "weirdly engaging."[48] In a 2010 review, he raised his original score to 4 stars out of iv and added the film to his "Great Movies" list.[49]

However, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote in the Chicago Reader: "To be certain, The Big Lebowski is packed with show-offy filmmaking and as a upshot is pretty entertaining. But insofar as it represents a moral position—and the Coens' relative styling of their figures invariably does—it's an elitist one, elevating salt-of-the-earth types similar Bridges and Goodman ... over everyone else in the movie."[50] Dave Kehr, in his review for the Daily News, criticized the film's premise as a "tired thought, and information technology produces an episodic, unstrung film."[51] The Guardian criticized the film as "a bunch of ideas shoveled into a handbag and allowed to spill out at random. The motion-picture show is infuriating, and will win no prizes. But it does have some terrific jokes."[52]

Legacy [edit]

Since its original release, The Big Lebowski has become a cult classic.[vii] Agog fans of the moving-picture show call themselves "achievers".[53] [54] Steve Palopoli wrote about the film's emerging cult status in July 2002.[55] He first realized that the pic had a cult post-obit when he attended a midnight screening in 2000 at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles and witnessed people quoting dialogue from the motion-picture show to each other.[12] : 129 Soon after the article appeared, the programmer for a local midnight pic series in Santa Cruz decided to screen The Big Lebowski and on the first weekend they had to turn abroad several hundred people. The theater held the pic over for half-dozen weeks, which had never happened earlier.[12] : 130

An almanac festival, Lebowski Fest, began in Louisville, Kentucky, United States in 2002 with 150 fans showing up, and has since expanded to several other cities.[56] The festival's main consequence each twelvemonth is a night of unlimited bowling with various contests including costume, trivia, hardest- and farthest-traveled contests. Held over a weekend, events typically include a pre-fest political party with bands the night before the bowling effect too as a solar day-long outdoor political party with bands, vendor booths and games. Various celebrities from the film take even attended some of the events, including Jeff Bridges who attended the Los Angeles result.[56] The British equivalent, inspired by Lebowski Fest, is known equally The Dude Abides and is held in London.[57]

Dudeism, a organized religion devoted largely to spreading the philosophy and lifestyle of the moving picture's main character, was founded in 2005. Likewise known as The Church of the Latter-24-hour interval Dude, the organization has ordained over 220,000 "Dudeist Priests" all over the world via its website.[58]

Two species of African spider are named subsequently the film and main graphic symbol: Anelosimus biglebowski and Anelosimus dude, both described in 2006.[59] Additionally, an extinct Permian conifer genus is named after the motion picture in honor of its creators. The first species described within this genus in 2007 is based on 270-million-year-old constitute fossils from Texas, and is chosen Lebowskia grandifolia.[60]

Amusement Weekly ranked it 8th on their Funniest Movies of the Past 25 Years list.[61] The film was also ranked No. 34 on their list of "The Height 50 Cult Films"[62] and ranked No. 15 on the magazine'due south "The Cult 25: The Essential Left-Field Picture show Hits Since '83" list.[63] In improver, the magazine also ranked The Dude No. xiv in their "The 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years" poll.[64] The moving-picture show was also nominated for the prestigious 1000 Prix of the Belgian Moving picture Critics Association.[65] The Big Lebowski was voted as the 10th all-time motion picture set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years past a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors with ii criteria: "The picture had to communicate some inherent truth almost the Fifty.A. experience, and only one film per manager was immune on the list."[66] Empire magazine ranked Walter Sobchak No. 49 and the Dude No. seven in their "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters" poll.[67] Roger Ebert added The Large Lebowski to his list of "Swell Movies" in March 2010.[49]

Spin-off [edit]

The Coen brothers have stated that they will never brand a sequel to The Big Lebowski.[68] Notwithstanding, John Turturro expressed involvement in reprising his role every bit Jesus Quintana,[69] and in 2014, he announced that he had requested permission to use the character.[70] In Baronial 2016, it was reported that Turturro would reprise his role as Jesus Quintana in The Jesus Rolls, a spin-off of The Big Lebowski, based on the 1974 French film Going Places, with Turturro starring, writing, and directing. It was released in 2020.[71] The Coen brothers, although having granted Turturro the correct to use the character, were non involved, and no other grapheme from The Big Lebowski was featured in the film.[72]

Stella Artois commercial [edit]

On Jan 24, 2019, Jeff Bridges posted a v-2nd clip on Twitter with the statement: "Can't exist living in the past, human being. Stay tuned" and showing Bridges every bit the Dude, walking through a room as a tumbleweed rolls by.[73] The clip was a teaser trailer for an advert during Super Basin LIII which featured Bridges reprising the role of The Dude for a Stella Artois commercial.[74] [75]

Use as social and political assay [edit]

The film has been used as a tool for analysis on a number of issues. In September 2008, Slate published an article that interpreted The Big Lebowski every bit a political critique. The center piece of this viewpoint was that Walter Sobchak is "a neocon," citing the film'southward references to then President George H. West. Bush and the beginning Gulf State of war.[76]

A journal article by Brian Wall, published in the feminist journal Camera Obscura, uses the film to explain Karl Marx'south article fetishism and the feminist consequences of sexual fetishism.[77]

In That Rug Really Tied the Room Together, first published in 2001, Joseph Natoli argues that The Dude represents a counter narrative to the postal service-Reaganomic entrepreneurial rush for "render on investment" on display in such films every bit Jerry Maguire and Forrest Gump. [78] [79] [80]

It has been used every bit a carnivalesque critique of club, equally an analysis on war and ideals, as a narrative on mass communication and U.s. militarism and other bug.[81] [82] [83]

Home media [edit]

Universal Studios Habitation Amusement released a "Collector'south Edition" DVD on Oct xviii, 2005, with extra features that included an "introduction by Mortimer Immature", "Jeff Bridges' Photography", "Making of The Big Lebowski", and "Production Notes". In addition, a limited-edition "Achiever's Edition Gift Ready" also included The Big Lebowski Bowling Shammy Towel, four Collectible Coasters that included photographs and quotable lines from the film, and 8 Exclusive Photo Cards from Jeff Bridges' personal collection.[84]

A "10th Anniversary Edition" was released on September 9, 2008, and features all of the extras from the "Collector's Edition" and "The Dude'southward Life: Strikes and Gutters ... Ups and Downs ... The Dude Abides" theatrical trailer (from the first DVD release), "The Lebowski Fest: An Achiever's Story", "Flying Carpets and Bowling Pin Dreams: The Dream Sequences of the Dude", "Interactive Map", "Jeff Bridges Photograph Book", and a "Photo Gallery". There are both a standard release and a Limited Edition which features "Bowling Ball Packaging" and is individually numbered.[85]

A high-definition version of The Big Lebowski was released past Universal on Hd DVD format on June 26, 2007. The moving picture was released in Blu-ray format in Italia by Cecchi Gori.

On August xvi, 2011, Universal Pictures released The Big Lebowski on Blu-ray. The limited-edition package includes a Jeff Bridges photo book, a ten-years-on retrospective, and an in-depth wait at the annual Lebowski Fest.[86] The flick is too available in the Blu-ray Coen Brothers box gear up released in the U.k., however this version is region complimentary and will work in any Blu-ray player.

For the film'due south 20th Ceremony, Universal Pictures released a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray version of the movie, which was released on Oct 16, 2018.[87]

Encounter likewise [edit]

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Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Roderick Jaynes is the shared pseudonym used by the Coen brothers for their editing.

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  • "The Big Lebowski" Official Trailer
  • The Big Lebowski at IMDb
  • The Big Lebowski at AllMovie
  • "Is The Large Lebowski a cultural milestone?", BBC, October 10, 2008
  • "Dissertations on His Dudeness", Dwight Garner, The New York Times, December 29, 2009
  • Comentale, Edward P. and Aaron Jaffe, eds. The Year'southward Piece of work in Lebowski Studies. Bloomington: 2009.
  • "Charade and detection: The Trickster Archetype in the film, The Big Lebowski, and its cult post-obit" in Trickster's Fashion

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