The film is amazing but that's like stating the obvious.
My favorite moment in the film is (there are so many good ones) Philip Seymore Hoffmans reaction to Bunny's "I'll suck your cock for 1000 dollars." His laugh is priceless.
Walter's replies to whatever Donny has to say: "Shut the fuck up, you miserable piece of shit."
I think this one is totally up for the place as the best comedy ever (for me anyway). How funny do you think this one is, really? Favorite moment?
"Lingonberry pancakes"
"You want a toe? I can get you a toe by this afternoon. With nail polish."
:evil:
Quote from: kotteMy favorite moment in the film is (there are so many good ones) Philip Seymore Hoffmans reaction to Bunny's "I'll suck your cock for 1000 dollars." His laugh is priceless.
Very agreeable.
Don't forget this one :
"You mark that frame an eight, and you're entering a world of pain !"
Now that's been said, let's go to work... :twisted:
John Goodman rules!!!! (In this film, anyway...)
Shut the fuck up, Donny ! :wink:
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumJohn Goodman rules!!!! (In this film, anyway...)
I agree. I didn't recognize him at first, with that beard, but the voice... He's great in that film. :)
Quote from: mollyQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumJohn Goodman rules!!!! (In this film, anyway...)
I agree. I didn't recognize him at first, with that beard, but the voice... He's great in that film. :)
How could you NOT recognize him??? It's John fuckin' Goodman. You can't miss that! :)
No no, John Goodman pretty much rules all the time. I just didn't realize it until I saw this movie.
And does anyone else think the term 'Lebowski Achievers' is just utterly hilarious? :-D
Quote from: markums2kAnd does anyone else think the term 'Lebowski Achievers' is just utterly hilarious? :-D
Knocks me flat every time... :)
QuoteAnd does anyone else think the term 'Lebowski Achievers' is just utterly hilarious?
:yabbse-thumbup:
QuoteNo no, John Goodman pretty much rules all the time. I just didn't realize it until I saw this movie.
:yabbse-thumbup: :yabbse-thumbup:
Quote from: kotteQuote from: mollyQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumJohn Goodman rules!!!! (In this film, anyway...)
I agree. I didn't recognize him at first, with that beard, but the voice... He's great in that film. :)
How could you NOT recognize him??? It's John fuckin' Goodman. You can't miss that! :)
I deeeeeply appologize :)
id say nowadays this is my favorite movie. it is brilliant. in every way.
one of my favorite lines:
Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not Mr. Lebowski. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
The Dude's a nice guy. He's a man of heart.
He has the loss of 1 million dollars, Woo - the rug soiler, Maud, Brandt and the nihilists on his mind...still, he finds the time to attend his landlords dance quintet.
We need more guys like him...seriously.
Quote from: kotteThe Dude's a nice guy. He's a man of heart.
He has the loss of 1 million dollars, Woo - the rug soiler, Maud, Brandt and the nihilists on his mind...still, he finds the time to attend his landlords dance quintet.
We need more guys like him...seriously.
Errr..... didn't you forget that he also has the time to, you know, go bowling?
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteThe Dude's a nice guy. He's a man of heart.
He has the loss of 1 million dollars, Woo - the rug soiler, Maud, Brandt and the nihilists on his mind...still, he finds the time to attend his landlords dance quintet.
We need more guys like him...seriously.
Errr..... didn't you forget that he also has the time to, you know, go bowling?
Sure, but the dance quintet is the most insignificant thing in the world for him...
But ok, I forgot the bowling.
Quote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteThe Dude's a nice guy. He's a man of heart.
He has the loss of 1 million dollars, Woo - the rug soiler, Maud, Brandt and the nihilists on his mind...still, he finds the time to attend his landlords dance quintet.
We need more guys like him...seriously.
Errr..... didn't you forget that he also has the time to, you know, go bowling?
Sure, but the dance quintet is the most insignificant thing in the world for him...
But ok, I forgot the bowling.
Isn't coitus,the physical act of love, the most insignificant thing in the world for him? :)
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteThe Dude's a nice guy. He's a man of heart.
He has the loss of 1 million dollars, Woo - the rug soiler, Maud, Brandt and the nihilists on his mind...still, he finds the time to attend his landlords dance quintet.
We need more guys like him...seriously.
Errr..... didn't you forget that he also has the time to, you know, go bowling?
Sure, but the dance quintet is the most insignificant thing in the world for him...
But ok, I forgot the bowling.
Isn't coitus,the physical act of love, the most insignificant thing in the world for him? :)
Hehe...he's a crazy motherfucker...
Quote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteThe Dude's a nice guy. He's a man of heart.
He has the loss of 1 million dollars, Woo - the rug soiler, Maud, Brandt and the nihilists on his mind...still, he finds the time to attend his landlords dance quintet.
We need more guys like him...seriously.
Errr..... didn't you forget that he also has the time to, you know, go bowling?
Sure, but the dance quintet is the most insignificant thing in the world for him...
But ok, I forgot the bowling.
Isn't coitus,the physical act of love, the most insignificant thing in the world for him? :)
Hehe...he's a crazy motherfucker...
He is indeed! That's why we love him like we're all a bunch of gays!
Wait...
hey...
OK, that was too much. But we love him, don't we? Or am I the one who needs help?
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumOK, that was too much. But we love him, don't we? Or am I the one who needs help?
"You're outa line, mr." :)
Ofcourse we love him...
"Way out of line. Strictly business"
Who do we love more? The Dude or Ed Crane? Or Bunny Lebowski? :wink:
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaum"Way out of line. Strictly business"
Who do we love more? The Dude or Ed Crane? Or Bunny Lebowski? :wink:
Both are hilarious but I'd choose The Dude as a friend and Ed as father...he's more of a fatherfigure...if nothing else a stiff one.
Yeah...I'd sell my DVD-collection for $1000...
Quote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaum"Way out of line. Strictly business"
Who do we love more? The Dude or Ed Crane? Or Bunny Lebowski? :wink:
Both are hilarious but I'd choose The Dude as a friend and Ed as father...he's more of a fatherfigure...if nothing else a stiff one.
Ed Crane couldn't be anyone's father because he and his wife don't perform the sex act in a long time.
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumEd Crane couldn't be anyone's father because he and his wife don't perform the sex act in a long time.
Sure...but he would
like to be sexually active...he does have a boner when he listens to Birdy...
The passion always dry up in marriages...I don't see him as a asexuall person at all...he's very sexuall...or eh... :?
Quote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumEd Crane couldn't be anyone's father because he and his wife don't perform the sex act in a long time.
Sure...but he would like to be sexually active...he does have a boner when he listens to Birdy...
The passion always dry up in marriages...I don't see him as a asexuall person at all...he's very sexuall...or eh... :?
He does have a boner when he LISTENS to Birdy. That should be enough to not wanting him as a father. I mean, imagine going with him to piano concert. He'd have to bring a lot of tissues with him.
If you can get over that, you'll realize that Crane is an amazing character. The Man Who Wasn't There is my second favorite Coen brothers film.
I can't rank their films...they're all good in different ways.
The hard-on proves Ed could be a father...
Not my father
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumNot my father
theoretically yes...a hard-on proves willingness to engage in hard fucking...
Quote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumNot my father
theoretically yes...a hard-on proves willingness to engage in hard fucking...
But my feeling is that Ed has a hard-on when he listens to beautiful music. Music gives him hard-on. Not Birdy. And you can't fuck music. Not even in a Coen brothers film. That would just be wrong...
I'm a simple man...I just think he has the hots for Birdie. Can you blame him??
he totally has the hots for her. and she delivers, and then he doesn't take!! Silly Ed...
Quote from: kotteI'm a simple man...I just think he has the hots for Birdie. Can you blame him??
Well, I have the hots for Birdie and that's why I wouldn't say "Heavens to Betsy" or whatever the father figure says when she wants to give him a blow job.
By the way, does anybody now what exactly he says? That's just because by not having English as a native language I don't know if "Heavens to Betsy" mean anything and I'm not really sure if that's what he said. I think he actually said that and my guess is that it doesn't mean shit. I might be wrong, though...
Quote from: SoNowThenhe totally has the hots for her. and she delivers, and then he doesn't take!! Silly Ed...
Real men do NOT turn down a good blow...but I think it shocked him...and the fact that the boner wasn't actually a part of the character...just a gag Billy Bob pulled...though the Coens didn't seem upset...
Sorry to hop in on this conversation a little late, but it was just too fascinating to let slip away: Do we know if Ed actually has a boner when listening to Birdie? Did any of you see it? I mean, maybe she's the one source of passion remaining in his otherwise dried-up stalk of a life, which is why he's so driven to help her succeed...plus the fact that he does turn down her offer for a "flute lesson" cements the idea of a plutonic interest in her. That's just my two cents.
oh yeah, he's got it, BBT talks about it in the commentary.
And, Royal Tenenbaum, "heavens to Betsy" is just an old expression, kinda like "oh my!!"... essentially a shocked reaction.
I say "Heavens to Betsy," "For the Love of Mike," "Holy Stromboli" and cheesey stuff like that all the time. Especially during the day shift, when normal people work and I'm not supposed to curse around them.
But once they night shift kicks in, it's F--ks Away!
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS, LARRY. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS.
Hey, thanks for the Heavens to Betsy explanation guys. That's just about what I thought it meant.
And yeah, Billy Bob talks about that boner in the commentary and how only him and some props guy knew about that and the fact that the Coens didn't even know Ed had a boner until Billy Bob talked about it in the commentary. Maybe it's Billy Bob Thornton who gets boned while listening to music naturally... that would explain something about... well, I'm not the kind of guy who talks about this kind of thing. I'm just glad coffAngelinacoff is free again :twisted:
Ethan knew about it...I think someone told him on set...I still think Ed's horny...the car incident confuses me though.
I bet you didn't get anymore confused than Birdy.
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumI bet you didn't get anymore confused than Birdy.
I don't think she knew about Eds hornyness...but maybe she did...female intuition is like a pair of eyes on the back.
It's amazing, Ed is crazy for not wanting to receive oral treatment. Reverse it and Ed would still be the maniac for wanting to give Birdie the same thing...It's a gender thing...eh...
Quote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumI bet you didn't get anymore confused than Birdy.
I don't think she knew about Eds hornyness...but maybe she did...female intuition is like a pair of eyes on the back.
It's amazing, Ed is crazy for not wanting to receive oral treatment. Reverse it and Ed would still be the maniac for wanting to give Birdie the same thing...It's a gender thing...eh...
Ed is just a strange gentleman.
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumI bet you didn't get anymore confused than Birdy.
I don't think she knew about Eds hornyness...but maybe she did...female intuition is like a pair of eyes on the back.
It's amazing, Ed is crazy for not wanting to receive oral treatment. Reverse it and Ed would still be the maniac for wanting to give Birdie the same thing...It's a gender thing...eh...
Ed is just a strange gentleman.
Emotionally empty...
Quote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumI bet you didn't get anymore confused than Birdy.
I don't think she knew about Eds hornyness...but maybe she did...female intuition is like a pair of eyes on the back.
It's amazing, Ed is crazy for not wanting to receive oral treatment. Reverse it and Ed would still be the maniac for wanting to give Birdie the same thing...It's a gender thing...eh...
Ed is just a strange gentleman.
Emotionally empty...
Who's not big on parties...
Sorry guys, but I'm trying to get a handle on this...
Ed actually did have a boner in that scene?
Quote from: coffeebeetleSorry guys, but I'm trying to get a handle on this...
Ed actually did have a boner in that scene?
He did. You can see it briefly in a scene where Birdy is playing the piano at her house and Ed is sitting listening to her play.
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumHe did. You can see it briefly in a scene where Birdy is playing the piano at her house and Ed is sitting listening to her play.
That's just the fold in his pants, you know, like Larry David's.
Quote from: NewtronThat's just the fold in his pants, you know, like Larry David's.
are you referring to the episode with the little girl's doll head?
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumI bet you didn't get anymore confused than Birdy.
I don't think she knew about Eds hornyness...but maybe she did...female intuition is like a pair of eyes on the back.
It's amazing, Ed is crazy for not wanting to receive oral treatment. Reverse it and Ed would still be the maniac for wanting to give Birdie the same thing...It's a gender thing...eh...
Ed is just a strange gentleman.
Emotionally empty...
Who's not big on parties...
What would happen to Ed if filled with alcohol?
How can a person just not care about the life he's living? What makes him not care?
Quote from: Meatwadare you referring to the episode with the little girl's doll head?
Yes.
Quote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumI bet you didn't get anymore confused than Birdy.
I don't think she knew about Eds hornyness...but maybe she did...female intuition is like a pair of eyes on the back.
It's amazing, Ed is crazy for not wanting to receive oral treatment. Reverse it and Ed would still be the maniac for wanting to give Birdie the same thing...It's a gender thing...eh...
Ed is just a strange gentleman.
Emotionally empty...
Who's not big on parties...
What would happen to Ed if filled with alcohol?
How can a person just not care about the life he's living? What makes him not care?
I always think about Ed on alcohol or drugs. That would be... weird.
As for him nor caring about his own life, I think it happens to a lot of people. It becomes routine and it gets to a point when we just don't care. He just cuts the hair. Then, he sees dry cleaning and Birdy as chances to do something good with his life. That would make him care again, I think...
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumI bet you didn't get anymore confused than Birdy.
I don't think she knew about Eds hornyness...but maybe she did...female intuition is like a pair of eyes on the back.
It's amazing, Ed is crazy for not wanting to receive oral treatment. Reverse it and Ed would still be the maniac for wanting to give Birdie the same thing...It's a gender thing...eh...
Ed is just a strange gentleman.
Emotionally empty...
Who's not big on parties...
What would happen to Ed if filled with alcohol?
How can a person just not care about the life he's living? What makes him not care?
I always think about Ed on alcohol or drugs. That would be... weird.
As for him nor caring about his own life, I think it happens to a lot of people. It becomes routine and it gets to a point when we just don't care. He just cuts the hair. Then, he sees dry cleaning and Birdy as chances to do something good with his life. That would make him care again, I think...
I guess you're right...that's why he put himself through all that. The possibility of a better life.
He's in the audience and his life is the movie...he's an observer.
And he is a modern man.
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumAnd he is a modern man.
He
is the modern man.
Quote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumAnd he is a modern man.
He is the modern man.
Exactly. My bad.
I think we've milked this thread for what is had to offer... :?
Quote from: NewtronQuote from: Meatwadare you referring to the episode with the little girl's doll head?
Yes.
I thought you meant the episode about the Pants Tent
Quote from: kotteI think we've milked this thread for what is had to offer... :?
Yeah.... and it is about Lebowski and not Ed...
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteI think we've milked this thread for what is had to offer... :?
Yeah.... and it is about Lebowski and not Ed...
Ed's deep. The Dude's not. The Dude's a great character too though...
I really am not sure if Ed as deep as I think he is.
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumI really am not sure if Ed as deep as I think he is.
Oh, he's deep alright...he's a modern man and the modern man is a thinking man...hence a deep man.
Quote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumI really am not sure if Ed as deep as I think he is.
Oh, he's deep alright...he's a modern man and the modern man is a thinking man...hence a deep man.
Yeah..... there's that scene when he talks about planting the hair he cuts and scares the kid (he's really scared onscreen). That's deep.
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumI really am not sure if Ed as deep as I think he is.
Oh, he's deep alright...he's a modern man and the modern man is a thinking man...hence a deep man.
Yeah..... there's that scene when he talks about planting the hair he cuts and scares the kid (he's really scared onscreen). That's deep.
That's professional deepness...I'm talking about the personal deep...the deep we follow through out the film. Is he deeper than we think? Is he fooling us? Could he be the man we all should be? Or all are but don't admit to be?
I personally think he's misfit. He doesn't belong here, he doesn't really think much about beeing here. He just lives because that's what we do when we're born. That's why he doesn't really mind going to the electric chair. Maybe there, he'll see Doris again. Maybe there he'll have something to live for.
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumI personally think he's misfit. He doesn't belong here, he doesn't really think much about beeing here. He just lives because that's what we do when we're born. That's why he doesn't really mind going to the electric chair. Maybe there, he'll see Doris again. Maybe there he'll have something to live for.
I'm not gonna be able to continue this conversation.
Why?
I
really believe we've milked Ed for what he has to offer.
And I'm starting to lose a sense of what the fuck we're talking about.
So how about Walter's issues against Donnie? A deep sociologic statement or just fuckin' funny?
Quote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumI personally think he's misfit. He doesn't belong here, he doesn't really think much about beeing here. He just lives because that's what we do when we're born. That's why he doesn't really mind going to the electric chair. Maybe there, he'll see Doris again. Maybe there he'll have something to live for.
I'm not gonna be able to continue this conversation.
Why?
I really believe we've milked Ed for what he has to offer.
And I'm starting to lose a sense of what the fuck we're talking about.
So how about Walter's issues against Donnie? A deep sociologic statement or just fuckin' funny?
LOL. I agree with that, though I think I hardly ever know what the fuck I talk about, so it's normal.
Anyway..... I have (or I think I do) an interesting question to make about TMWWT. And it goes like this: what do you guys think about the Coens seriousness about the story they tell? I ask this because I think the movie is brilliant in a very strange way. It talks about some serious issues (guilt, human condition, etc...) but it does so in a way that's not really serious, nor really comic. I don't know how well I'm explaining myself, but I just think they have a way to talk about these serious stuff in an unique way. I think the cowboy says it all in The Big Lebowski, when he talks about the damn human comedy perpetuating itself. They like to play with that, and I'm really happy that they do.
Oh, and Walter and Donnie.... just really funny I think. Walter uses him because he likes to use his power. Soooo..... do you think he ever was in Vietnam?
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumQuote from: kotteQuote from: RoyalTenenbaumI personally think he's misfit. He doesn't belong here, he doesn't really think much about beeing here. He just lives because that's what we do when we're born. That's why he doesn't really mind going to the electric chair. Maybe there, he'll see Doris again. Maybe there he'll have something to live for.
I'm not gonna be able to continue this conversation.
Why?
I really believe we've milked Ed for what he has to offer.
And I'm starting to lose a sense of what the fuck we're talking about.
So how about Walter's issues against Donnie? A deep sociologic statement or just fuckin' funny?
LOL. I agree with that, though I think I hardly ever know what the fuck I talk about, so it's normal.
Anyway..... I have (or I think I do) an interesting question to make about TMWWT. And it goes like this: what do you guys think about the Coens seriousness about the story they tell? I ask this because I think the movie is brilliant in a very strange way. It talks about some serious issues (guilt, human condition, etc...) but it does so in a way that's not really serious, nor really comic. I don't know how well I'm explaining myself, but I just think they have a way to talk about these serious stuff in an unique way. I think the cowboy says it all in The Big Lebowski, when he talks about the damn human comedy perpetuating itself. They like to play with that, and I'm really happy that they do.
I agree in that they have a unique voice telling stories but I don't actually think they think in terms of genres. Their films are true genre films but I don't think they say to each other 'Let's do something deep, it worked for Paulie T.' or 'I love sex, don't you bro? Let's do porn.' They think in terms of story, nothing else. That's my view on it, if a bit contradicting.
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaumOh, and Walter and Donnie.... just really funny I think. Walter uses him because he likes to use his power. Soooo..... do you think he ever was in Vietnam?
I'm naive. Let's just say it, Kotte is naive...I think he fought the war. Walter is not
that far out, if you know what I mean.
It's a fine line between 'crazy motherfucker' and 'mentally challenged'...
but there is a line...remember that...
Just saw an interview with John Milius...man he sounds and looks exactly like John Good man in that film.
I know the Coens based his character on Milius and god, did they do a good job. :)
I rented The Big Lebowski when it came out and just liked it. I recently rented it for the third time and have watched it about 5 times on just this rental. It's a freaking amazing piece of work IMO.
My favorite scene is the entrance of Jesus with Los Lobos, correction: Gypsy Kings playing Hotel California. That slow mo dance routine after his roll is pure genius.....not to mention his character.
Shomer Shabbus! Goodman nails his character as well as Bridges.
Quote from: freakerdudeI rented The Big Lebowski when it came out and just liked it. I recently rented it for the third time and have watched it about 5 times on just this rental. It's a freaking amazing piece of work IMO.
My favorite scene is the entrance of Jesus with Los Lobos playing Hotel California. That slow mo dance routine after his roll is pure genius.....not to mention his character.
Shomer Shabbus! Goodman nails his character as well as Bridges.
Your path is complete, since you can now appreciate one of the most hilarious motion pictures ever made.
Quote from: kotteJust saw an interview with John Milius...man he sounds and looks exactly like John Good man in that film.
I know the Coens based his character on Milius and good, did they do a good job. :)
Really?! That's based on Milius!!! Hahaha, I had no idea.
Quote from: freakerdudeMy favorite scene is the entrance of Jesus with Los Lobos playing Hotel California. That slow mo dance routine after his roll is pure genius.....not to mention his character.
It's actually the Gypsy Kings. :(
Quote from: ShanghaiOrangeQuote from: freakerdudeMy favorite scene is the entrance of Jesus with Los Lobos playing Hotel California. That slow mo dance routine after his roll is pure genius.....not to mention his character.
It's actually the Gypsy Kings. :(
I think it's actually the Gipsy Kings if you wanna split hairs...but I could be wrong.
Anyway, I just revisited this classic in a very sucky way: the comedy central version. Don't even bother checking it out if there's nothing else on like I did, just turn the tv off. It's really sad. Movies with 250+ "fucks" should not be shown edited on tv.
Quote from: SoNowThenQuote from: kotteJust saw an interview with John Milius...man he sounds and looks exactly like John Good man in that film.
I know the Coens based his character on Milius and good, did they do a good job. :)
Really?! That's based on Milius!!! Hahaha, I had no idea.
Just the idea of basing a character on an insane screenwriter is great...but when you compare the two it's scary how similar they are to each other.
Quote from: ShanghaiOrangeQuote from: freakerdudeMy favorite scene is the entrance of Jesus with Los Lobos playing Hotel California. That slow mo dance routine after his roll is pure genius.....not to mention his character.
It's actually the Gypsy Kings. :(
i luv that song. (the gypsy king version, that is) it's funny that the dude talks all that shit about the eagles and yet they use the song. eheheh. sounds so much better when the kings do it.
The Jesus scene is fucking hilarious. I actually just saw the movie for the first time (im not counting the first time when i was 10) this weekend, and my respect for the Coens increased tenfold. my top Coen films are now (in no particular order) Fargo, Barton Fink, Big Lebowski, the Man who Wasn't There, and O Brother, Where Art Thou....fucking geniuses....
For anyone who gives a shit, a little tidbit of info about Johnny Depp's favorite screen badasses from a RS issue.
#1 is Jesus in which he says, "One of the greatest bits of acting. Everything he did was just shocking."
From The Digital Bits:
Universal has let it be known that The Big Lebowski Special Edition is on the way. Street dates and features are TBA.
i'm patiently awaiting regularkarate's response to this.
I'll believe it when I see it.
I find it odd that this is my first post in this thread.
Quote from: MacGuffinFrom The Digital Bits:
Universal has let it be known that The Big Lebowski Special Edition is on the way. Street dates and features are TBA.
so continues the effort to make modernage replace all his old dvds with special editions. :yabbse-undecided:
but this will still be sweet.
does anyone happen to know the page count on THE BIG LEBOWSKI screenplay? any help would be appreciated.
Quote from: cowboykurtisdoes anyone happen to know the page count on THE BIG LEBOWSKI screenplay? any help would be appreciated.
http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/biglebowski.txt
Although that's just the text and not page formatted.
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The book is listed at 128 pages, give or take a couple. And even that isn't page accurate to the actual screenplay format.
Quote from: cowboykurtisdoes anyone happen to know the page count on THE BIG LEBOWSKI screenplay? any help would be appreciated.
I'd say roughly 117 pages, but can't be exact.
The number of pages in a screenplay usually corresponds very closely to the number of minutes of screentime.
Of course, there are plenty of exceptions.
Quote from: RegularKarateQuote from: cowboykurtisdoes anyone happen to know the page count on THE BIG LEBOWSKI screenplay? any help would be appreciated.
I'd say roughly 117 pages, but can't be exact.
The number of pages in a screenplay usually corresponds very closely to the number of minutes of screentime.
Of course, there are plenty of exceptions.
it seems like the page count would be a bit longer than the running time with this paticular film -- usually with dialogue heavy scripts, the pages are less "dense". five pages of rapid dialogue could equal the same screen time of a dense page of action. i wouldn't be suprised if lebowski's script was around 135 pages. I can't find the actual screenplay, with correct formatting anywhere, though. so until then, it's simply speculation.
what is the number going to do for you?
Quote from: picolaswhat is the number going to do for you?
he's been telling ppl he wrote it and this is getting to be a gaping hole in his story..
Quote from: PubrickQuote from: picolaswhat is the number going to do for you?
he's been telling ppl he wrote it and this is getting to be a gaping hole in his story..
that one was a real zinger - How does it make you feel, making cheap remarks at people over the internet ? Does it make you feel like a big man, Pubrick? Is that your secret? If so, for your own sake, keep em coming.
Quote from: cowboykurtisthat one was a real zinger - How does it make you feel, making cheap remarks at people over the internet ? Does it make you feel like a big man, Pubrick? Is that your secret? If so, for your own sake, keep em coming.
how old are you?
Quote from: cowboykurtisQuote from: PubrickQuote from: picolaswhat is the number going to do for you?
he's been telling ppl he wrote it and this is getting to be a gaping hole in his story..
that one was a real zinger - How does it make you feel, making cheap remarks at people over the internet ? Does it make you feel like a big man, Pubrick? Is that your secret? If so, for your own sake, keep em coming.
haha, as long as u keep being this insecure, i got plenty of em left..
Quote from: PubrickQuote from: cowboykurtisQuote from: PubrickQuote from: picolaswhat is the number going to do for you?
he's been telling ppl he wrote it and this is getting to be a gaping hole in his story..
that one was a real zinger - How does it make you feel, making cheap remarks at people over the internet ? Does it make you feel like a big man, Pubrick? Is that your secret? If so, for your own sake, keep em coming.
haha, as long as u keep being this insecure, i got plenty of em left..
im happy for you, i really am
hey speaking of happy, Happy Birthday! how old did u turn?
i was seriously posing that question.
I'm wondering if anyone could give me a page count on Picolas
http://www.theonion.com/nib/index.php?issue=4111&nib=3
Further Details
Universal has released early details on a new collector's edition of The Big Lebowski which stars the likes of Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore and Steve Buscemi. The single-disc :yabbse-thumbdown: release will be available to own in shops from the 18th October this year, and should set you back around $19.98 in total. A special giftset will also be available from the 18th October, priced at around $49.98. I'm afraid that's pretty much all we know right now, but we'll bring you further details very shortly. Stay tuned.
Quote from: themodernage02A special giftset will also be available from the 18th October, priced at around $49.98.
The gift-set comes with coasters, cards, and a shammy towel (http://www.travelproof.co.uk/images/jpg/compacttowel.jpg)
That's a giftset that an asshole would buy.
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achievers edition, hilarious
proud we are of all of them
i met a guy at a party recently who has most of the left side of his body tattooed with scenes from and references to the big lebowski.
the last time my aunt dropped me off at school, i accidentally offered to buy her pot if she needed it. i wasn't sure if she was hinting at it. it turns out she definitely wasn't. anyway, this time, we just talked about the big lebowski in the car. the conversation very nearly ended the same way as last time.
Q&A: Jeff Dowd Is the Real 'Lebowski'
Call him the Dude. That or his Dudeness, Duder or el Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
Addressing Jeff Dowd the real life inspiration for Jeff Bridges' character in "The Big Lebowski" is not a formal affair. But as the cult of the Coen brothers' 1998 mistaken identity comedy has grown, so has Dowd's fame.
The 55-year-old film producer first met Joel and Ethan Coen when he helped promote their 1984 debut, "Blood Simple." The Coens decided the large, boisterous Dowd, who referred to himself as "the Dude," would yield endless possibilities if inserted into a genre film a Los Angeles film noir.
"It was sort of imaging him in the context of a (Raymond) Chandler kind of story that got us started on the script," Joel Coen says on the new collector's edition DVD of "The Big Lebowski."
Eight years later, the fan base for the movie continues to grow. A new collector's edition DVD comes out Tuesday, and New York will host the "Lebowski Fest" Oct. 21-22 the fourth year fans will dress up as characters from the film, bowl a few games and sip the Dude's signature white Russians.
Imdb.com notes that the Dude, "the laziest in all of Los Angeles County," says "man" 144 times in the movie. Unfortunately, Dowd didn't drop one "man" talking to the AP, but he did discuss his peculiar "somewhat icon status."
AP: How similar are you to the Dude we know from the movie?
Dowd: A lot of the body language is 110 percent spot on. That's very, very similar. Some of the dress is pretty close. This is what Joel and Ethan imaged I would have been like in the `70s. There was a period of time after when we were very active politically in the late `60s there was no "movement" anymore. A fair amount of people hung out for a couple years. We were hanging pretty heavy, and indeed for a while we drank white Russians somewhere between tequila sunrises and Harvey Wallbangers, or whatever the drink of season was.
AP: Did the Coens tell you they were working on "The Big Lebowski" with you in mind?
Dowd: I actually heard it through a guy named Ben Barenholt who produced a couple of their movies. "The boys are doin' a movie about 'ya, Dude." They told me shortly after that.
AP: Did you work with Jeff Bridges beforehand?
Dowd: Just a day, but he got it. I'm pretty easy to mimic. (Robert) Redford does a good impression of me too. I'm kind of bigger than life and the way I use my hands and mumble and lay back with my belly sticking out. In the script, it says, "The Dude, in rumpled clothes. Casualness runs deep."
AP: Do you bowl?
Dowd: Not that much. I know where Joel and Ethan got the bowling idea. It was during "Blood Simple," when I was helping them with the marketing and distribution. I had an idea to throw a party at a bowling alley in Santa Monica and it was like a thousand people. That's where that came from.
AP: Sam Elliot narrates at the start of the movie that the Dude is "the man for his time and place." Is that true of you as well?
Dowd: I've been fortunate enough to be in the right place and the right time for the better part of half a century being around a lot of interesting people and a lot of interesting events. ... I'm there at 17 years old traveling around Europe with the Living Theater and, by chance, the Rolling Stones. I was around Ralph Nader when he started up his PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) organization. I got involved with Redford ... there's a whole story about the first year of Sundance and how it was started. I was involved in the last demonstration against Richard Nixon at the Spokane World Fair. (Dowd was a member of the Seattle Seven, an anti-Vietnam protest group alluded to in "Lebowski.")
AP: I hear you're writing an autobiography?
Dowd: I'm almost done. It's called "The Dude Abides." It's about how friends can get together and do things positively and hopefully using this somewhat icon status I have now, bequeathed to me by Joel and Ethan ... it'll help empower the younger generation.
AP: What's it like, this "icon status"?
Dowd: The persona of that character automatically is an icebreaker. People are like, "Wow! The Dude!" And they want to give you a big handshake or a hug. It's a very friendly feeling for them and obviously for me. It's different than what happens with people being in awe with a star it's like a friendly thing. People seem to be instantly at ease. From my point of view, that's great, because that's how the world should be anyway.
AP: Do you indeed have a rug that really ties the room together?
Dowd: Absolutely.
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That's Quite a picture.
um, does he have a right arm?
He was at SXSW this past year. He doesn't really look like that anymore...no moustache, and his hair is grey and crazier. Lebowski-ish mannerisms are noticeable, but mostly if you look for them.
A very short version of the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqtgfjkB6Pg
Quote from: flagpolespecial on July 31, 2006, 03:06:41 AM
how many fucks was that?
a lot
The word "fuck" and its variations were spoken 281 times in this movie. (IMDb)
He-Man + The Big Lebowski... amazing how people do something like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHfDtXh-wLQ
Funny concept but it would have been a lot better if the characters were consistent.
Quote from: Chest Rockwell on October 12, 2006, 12:58:59 PM
Funny concept but it would have been a lot better if the characters were consistent.
yeah the voice inconsistency made no sense. the fight's the best bit.
i thought this one was pretty funny as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfclvdY7E7Y
My highlight of the year thus far; meeting Karl Hungus.
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/hitlist.asp?theme=Big+Lebowski
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the coffee can is the best part about that.
In fact, they should just sell life-size coffee cans with Buscemi's ashes in them.
Official details on Universal's The Big Lebowski: 10th Anniversary Edition (9/9 - SRP $19.98). It actually looks pretty cool. The 2-disc set will include the film in anamorphic widescreen video with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Extras will include the introduction to the film by Mortimer Young, 5 featurettes (The Dude's Life, The Dude Abides: The Big Lebowski Ten Years Later, The Making of The Big Lebowski, The Lebowski Fest: An Achiever's Story, Flying Carpets and Bowling Pin Dreams: The Dream Sequences of the Dude), an interactive map, a photo gallery, production notes and the theatrical trailer. There's also something called Jeff Bridges Photo Book.
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The Big Lebowski: 10th Anniversary Edition
DVD review by Bill Hunt, editor of The Digital Bits
Film Rating: A
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B-/B/B
"Well, I do mind. Uh, The Dude minds. This will not stand, you know? This aggression will not stand, man!"
AT LAST... after ten long years... we FINALLY get a DVD special edition of The Big Lebowski that's actually worth your time and money! If you've been reading The Bits for any length of time, you'll know by now that we are BIG fans of this Coen Brothers classic around here. But how best to describe the film to the... ahem... uninitiated?
Maybe you could think of it as a hard-boiled bowling comedy. Or a post-hypnotic kidnapping caper. A magical musical keggling mystery? Hell, I don't know. What I do know is that there's acid flashbacks, severed toes and a Viking babe with nice horns and a trident. Oh, and league play. A lot of league play.
Jeff Bridges plays The Dude, a.k.a. Jeffrey Lebowski - quite possibly the laziest man in all of Los Ann-gull-as County (which would place him high in the running for laziest worldwide). The Dude arrives home one evening and is ambushed by a pair of thugs, who not only rough The Dude up, but also piss on his beloved carpet. Now... The Dude can endure all manner of slings and arrows, but that carpet really tied the room together, you know?
As it turns out, said carpet-pissers were really looking for another Jeffrey Lebowski - an over-achieving Lebowski from Pasadena (no relation). So at the suggestion of his bowling buddies, Walter (John Goodman) and Donnie (Steve Buscemi), The Dude visits his older and far wealthier name-sake in the interest of seeking justice and what-not. A welcome reception The Dude does not find in Pasadena... but he does get himself a new carpet. Briefly, anyway. The Dude also unknowingly stumbles into the middle of an extortion scheme involving Lebowski's hot young replacement wife, his detached and somewhat frosty daughter (who's twice his wife's age, naturally), a Hefner-esque playboy pornographer, a group of New Wave nihilists, a teenaged (and history-impaired) car thief, a bargain-rate gumshoe, an admiring cowboy... and Saddam Hussein. It's... well, you know... complicated. And damn funny.
As fans will no doubt be aware, Universal released a collector's edition (so called) of this film on DVD back in 2005. This new DVD contains the same video and audio quality - basically the same master. It's anamorphic widescreen, with improved color and contrast (over the original Polygram DVD), but there's a bit of compression artifacting visible here and there. In addition, the entire image looks just a little too digital. It's certainly adequate, but it could be better. Audio-wise, the film's soundtrack, which features an eclectic mix of artists (from the Gipsy Kings, to Bob Dylan, to Elvis Costello, to Kenny Rogers and back again), is well presented in Dolby Digital 5.1. The music is full sounding and the dialogue is clear at all times. It's not demo material, but it does the job.
But here's what's REALLY cool: This new 2-disc set features ALL of the extras from the collector's edition - the Mortimer Young introduction, the 25-minute The Making of The Big Lebowski featurette, the gallery of Jeff Bridges photos and the production notes - PLUS it adds nearly an hour of additional all-new material! You get no less that FOUR new featurettes (most in anamorphic widescreen), featuring new retrospective interviews with Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore and John Turturro. The Coens even appear a couple times in previously unseen vintage interviews. The Dude's Life (10 mins) and The Dude Abides: The Big Lebowski Ten Years Later (also 10 mins) are both general looks back at the film by the cast, featuring very funny comments, stories and behind-the-scenes footage. Flying Carpets & Bowling Pin Dreams: The Dream Sequences of The Dude (5 mins) focuses on the two 'out of body' moments from the film. There's a featurette called The Lebowski Fest: An Achiever's Story (14 mins, shortened from the longer Achievers documentary) that examines the history of our favorite annual fan gathering, not to mention the fans themselves. It's worth noting that this includes additional interviews with some of the more obscure cast members, and you also get to see some of the various fests over the years. You even get an Interactive Map of all the L.A.-area locations in the film, complete with footage from the film and video of the locations today, in case you've ever wanted to make the pilgrimage yourself. (And what Achiever wouldn't?) The film's theatrical trailer is here too (it was missing from the previous DVD), as is the 'redband' trailer for the Coens' new film, Burn After Reading... which looks pretty good so far.
Best of all, however, you get a featurette called Jeff Bridges' Photo Book (18 mins). During the making of the film, Bridges took dozens of behind-the-scenes photos, and he had them made into a book as a wrap gift for the cast and crew. In this piece, Jeff actually takes you page by page through the book, and he recalls the stories and anecdotes each shot brings to mind. Best of all, you actually get to SEE each image in big, B&W anamorphic widescreen as he talks. The featurette cuts back and forth from the photos to Jeff turning the pages, talking and cracking himself up. It's really wonderful stuff.
The only thing that's missing here (that you MIGHT want to keep) is the film's teaser trailer and the cast bios that were on the previous Polygram DVD. Other than that, you can completely get rid of the previous Universal versions. Sure, this new edition isn't loaded compared to some other DVD special editions, but you really don't need a lot here - the film pretty well speaks for itself - and what you DO get is great. I found myself laughing pretty much all the way through the new material. Frankly, my only real complaint about this 10th Anniversary Edition is that it's not yet available on Blu-ray Disc. The film was released on HD-DVD previously, but the transfer wasn't much to speak of (not really that much of an improvement over the DVD), so it's possible that the elements need more work before a Blu-ray version can be released. I REALLY hope Universal's already hard at work on it, however, because I want it big time. Until then, this new DVD should make fans very happy. By the way, it's also available in a special limited version packaged in a replica bowling ball, if you're so inclined. (It's like $10 more on Amazon.)
As a film, The Big Lebowski just gets better with age. To my thinking at least, it's the Coen Brothers' best work to date. At least once a month, I find myself pulling this title off the DVD shelf for another spin, and I love it a little bit more with each viewing. The Big Lebowski is a bizarre and nearly perfect comedy. Thankfully, it remains... as ever... every bit as stupefying.
I don't know if you've seen this before but it's hilarious.
someone rewrote this movie as if written by shakespeare.
this is the whole text:
http://www.runleiarun.com/lebowski/
Big Lebowski XXX parody Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJrgFvSQ-f0)
These porn parody movies are getting remarkably elaborate.
Quote from: polkablues on April 05, 2010, 03:53:44 PM
These porn parody movies are getting remarkably elaborate.
wow. ... to the point where it's just ripping off the big lebowski, not really doing anything with it.
Hey, there's a porn star named Eddie Adams!