Are you a Coen brothers fan? Have you seen this little number from 1998? If not, it's summer - what are you waiting for??
Synopsis reads: "Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
As you can see it's reality-based. It lives up to every quirky, weird, head-scratching element of a Coen work, with many of their usual suspects, including John Turturro, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare. Throw in Julianne Moore, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Sam Elliott, and you've got enough. But it is in Jeff Bridges's hands, as the title's namesake, that holds this bizarre movie together.
It's not really my bag, yet the darn thing is growing on me. Can't quite wash it out of my daytime thinking.
See it, and then we'll talk more.
Isn't it cute how I made it look like the guys here are reading my post? haha
ReplyDeleteHahaha...love your comment to yourself! The BL by the Coen Brothers is one of my all time favorites. The "dude" is a memorable characters. No one does stupid like the Coen brothers. Weird male bonding....hahahha! I can watch this film over and over again.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my absolute favorites! So silly, but it completely works. It's become a kind of new classic I think - as evidenced by the Big Lebowski Store in NYC's Greenwich Village! The guy who runs it wanders around helping people in his bathrobe.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you have the same sick mind I do, Jenna! Yes indeed, this film is a classic. I wrote a book called Idiots' Delight, trying in fact to mimic the Coen brothers' style of parody. If you consider Fargo, you will also find wonderful portraits of fools. So if you, your wise mama, and I like the Big Lebowski, does that make us crazy too??!!
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