The Big Lebowski (1998) [10th Anniversary Edition]

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The Big Lebowski is a seminal piece of cult movie-making from the twisted minds of The Coen Brothers – the dynamic duo who also gave us Fargo, Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, No Country for Old Men, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and 2010's True Grit. With a built in audience, and mass appeal, the Coen Brothers are like nihilists of cinema – they do what they want, however they want – and the results are almost always spectacular. (OK, some of their films are a little weak – Intolerable Cruelty, for example.)

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For many, The Big Lebowski is the crowning achievement in Joel and Ethan Coen's amazing career. It's an off-the-wall absurdist tale about a hippie-stoner-bowler who calls himself The Dude (Jeff Bridges, in one of the best roles of his illustrious career).
The Dude is mistaken (by thugs of a porn producer) for Jeffrey Lebowski (The Dude's proper name) who's a heartless millionaire and founder of the Little Lebowski Urban Achievers organization. One of their gang pees on The Dude's favorite rug, ruining it. This forces The Dude to visit the real Jeffrey Lebowski, hoping to receive some sort of compensation for the stained rug.

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Our hapless hero is then enlisted to help Jeffrey Lebowski recover his ex-porn star wife (Tara Reid), who was seemingly kidnapped by several idiotic nihilists. But things go very awry when The Dude asks his friend Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) – a veteran with anger issues – to help out. There's also a subplot about a stolen car, a porn producer, Jeffrey Lebowski's ridiculously pompous daughter Maude (Julianne Moore). Oh yeah, and there's Donny (Steve Buscemi), the hapless friend and fellow bowler of The Dude and Walter. And Jesus (John Turturro), a pedophile who's hoping to beat The Dude, Walter and Donny in the bowling championship.

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To be honest, just writing that out, it's sort of hard to comprehend the film's ridiculous layers. The Big Lebowski is an odyssey of strange and absurd, narrowly built for the cult crowd, and injected with the usual Coen Brothers wit and silliness. When the film first arrived, it was met with confusion and even some distaste among critics and audiences who couldn't quite wrap their heads around the dizzyingly funny, and haplessly convoluted tale.
But over the years, The Big Lebowski has become a massive cult hit, complete with Lebowski conventions and fan clubs (called The Little Lebowski Urban Achievers). While the film may not have been understood completely back in 1998, it's now one of The Coen Brothers most renowned works. Finally, after all these years, The Dude is getting some respect. I just wish he could get some compensation for his rug. It really tied the room together.

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Such willfully bizarre Coen efforts as Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy seem designed to split viewers into two categories: those who get it and those who don't (and the latter viewers usually don't even show up). The Big Lebowski isn't a relatively straight movie like their crossover hit Fargo, which the uninitiated could take as a weirder-than-usual crime drama. No, the new film finds the Coens firmly back on their deadpan-wacko Raising Arizona turf.

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Abduction plots have served the Coens well, and here they are again with ransom notes and inept kidnappers (if there isn't a film-school thesis on the motif of kidnapping in the Coens' films, there probably will be). Jeff Bridges, returning to his shaggy King Kong look, stars as the typical Coen hero: Jeff Lebowski, a stoner and bowler who prefers to be addressed as "the Dude." He has the same name as a disabled billionaire (David Huddleston), which leads to a misunderstanding wherein two thugs show up at the Dude's hovel, rough him up, and pee on his rug. The other Lebowski's trophy wife, you see, has been running up debts all over L.A.; when she's kidnapped, the big Lebowski hires the Dude as a courier for the ransom.

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As if the plot even mattered in most Coen movies. The Big Lebowski, like the Coens' most underrated film The Hudsucker Proxy, is an excuse for Joel and Ethan's patented stylized dialogue ("He's a good doctor, and thorough") and unapologetic caricatures. Coen veteran John Goodman is one of the latter, as the Dude's Vietnam-vet bowling buddy Walter, who takes care of his ex-wife's pooch and refuses to bowl on Jewish holidays. There's also the big Lebowski's "artist" daughter Maude (Julianne Moore, trying to out-enunciate Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsucker), who has about as much reason to be in the film as anyone else – which is to say, not much except to set up a gag or say things that nobody outside a Coen film would say.

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The Coens shrewdly cast Jeff Bridges against type. Usually, Bridges is the most alert of actors; he was ideal as the alien in Starman, trying Earth customs on for size. The Dude, however, is blissfully oblivious, and Bridges gives a relaxed slapstick performance. Sometimes he's funny just sitting there, spread out across the back seat of a limo, sipping White Russians that always stain his mustache. But underneath this slacker is a hard-working professional – Bridges does more with his deflated body language than many comedians can manage by chewing the furniture.

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Like Bridges, the Coens are pros whose work doesn't look like work at all – it looks like goofing off – until you see Coen wannabes try it and fall flat on their faces. The Big Lebowski doesn't really come together; it's as if the Coens consciously avoided easy, audience-pleasing wrap-ups and character arcs. (Another motif in the Coens' work is offscreen deaths of major characters: Judy Davis and John Mahoney in Barton Fink, the kidnapped wife in Fargo. There's another one here.)

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The movie is the Coens' acknowledged tribute to Raymond Chandler (just as 'Miller's Crossing' was a nod to Hammett and 'Blood Simple' their version of James M. Cain), and Chandler wasn't all that concerned with plot coherence either – he used a story as a clothesline on which to hang vivid characters, snappy patter, and local color. That sums up every Coen film, including this one.

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Special Features:
DISC ONE:
*The Film
Mortimer Young introduction (4:42)
"The Dude's Life" featurette (10:07)
"The Dude Abides: The Big Lebowski Ten Years Later" featurette (10:26)
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer (2:29)

DISC TWO:
"The Making of the Big Lebowski" featurette (24:35)
"Flying Carpets & Bowling Pin Dreams: The Dream Sequences of The Dude" featurette (4:19)
"The Lebowski Fest: An Achiever's Story" featurette (13:54)
Jeff Bridges photo gallery (3:27)
Interactive Map
Bonus trailer for "Burn After Reading"

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