Courtesy of © Jeff Bridges/ Jeff Bridges Photography Archivestood out among the decade’s quirky, quippy crime dramas with a detective tale that upended all the L.A. noir tropes. Its tangled mystery — loosely inspired by Raymond Chandler’s— didn’t much matter. Its shaggy stoner hero, Bridges’ “The Dude,” was mainly focused on getting his rug back. When characters drew weapons, they were intentionally made to look ridiculous instead of Tarantino-cool.
When he first read the script, Bridges recalls his surprise at how well he related to the character. “My first impression was it was a great script and I had never done anything like it,” he says. “I thought the brothers must have spied on me when I was in high school.” Half of the Dude’s clothes came from Bridges’ own wardrobe.Courtesy of © Jeff Bridges/ Jeff Bridges Photography Archive
A hugely impressive supporting cast signed on that included John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Sam Elliott, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Tara Reid and Philip Seymour Hoffman. While the film’s dialogue might sound like it was the product of at least some improvising, Bridges says the actors stuck extremely close to the Coens’ script.Courtesy of © Jeff Bridges/ Jeff Bridges Photography Archive
This is true. I saw it opening night, and the people I went with didn't like it. Two years later, I was ready to stab guys with a fork every time they quoted some line in a social setting.
And that's what it pretty much was ...a tumbleweed rolling across an empty street.
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Never seen it.
every time I hear about this movie I can’t stop thinking about the video of the baby being baptized with the “WHERE’S THE MONEY LEBOWSKI” audio
Back when HillaryClinton was POTUS.
Me, upon reading '25 years ago'
It takes a lot of rewatching of The Big Lebowski to truly get it.
Went to it in the theater with my dad when I was 14 years old. We both loved it and watched it many more times on VHS and then DVD over the years.
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I saw it twice in the first weekend. 🤷🏻♂️
When I visited Iceland, I went to a place called Lebowski Bar. Exactly what it sounds like. I met a tattoo artist from Texas. He won two free drinks and gave me one. Then he showed me a video of him beating up up a drunk hoodlum the night prior. Where was I going with this
Jeff is much cooler than The Dude !
A frame with 3 proper top actors... very rare nowadays...
I went to the theaters to see it at 14. I remember thinking what did I just watch? But I loved it! One of my favorite movies ever!
I’ll admit the first time I watched it I didn’t really get it either. To be fair I was like 18. But each time I watched it after I liked it more and more, as I grew up. By the time I was 25 I’d seen it 25 times.
but you know what you can get? my book. 'Dark Fallen Days' available on Amazon and Kindle. If you like evil in small town stories then give it a whirl.
Honestly I hated it the first time I saw it. Second time around I fell in love. That happens rarely for me, with movies.
The Dude abides... ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯