The Dude abides. (this thread approved by Spaliznad)

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Open to discuss "the dude", and/or the movie "The Big Lebowski"

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Main characters



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Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), a single, unemployed slacker, living in Venice, California, enjoys cannabis and spends his days "bowling, driving around, [and having] the occasional acid flashback." A devoted Creedence Clearwater Revival fan, he actively hates the 1970s soft-rock band, Eagles. He freely uses profanity and is not above postdating a check for $0.69 to buy a carton of half and half for his favorite drink, White Russian cocktails, which he refers to as "Caucasians". He claims to be one of the members of the "Seattle Seven" and a former roadie for Metallica, though he is not fond of the bandmembers (he refers to them as a "bunch of ********"). The Dude is a laid-back pacifist who gets caught up in a scheme of kidnapping and embezzlement after seeking reparations for his beloved rug — which "really tied the room together" — after it was peed on.




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Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) is a Vietnam War veteran who "lives in the past"; he is the Dude's best friend and bowling teammate. Born a Polish Roman Catholic, he converted to Judaism when he married his wife Cynthia and is accused of having a "sick Cynthia fetish" by The Dude ever since the two were divorced five years prior to the events in the film. Walter is a paranoid, mentally unstable man who often relates situations to his experiences in Vietnam. He often deals with situations aggressively and stubbornly, providing the main impetus for much of the story. He is boisterously confident in his actions, though his plans usually backfire, often ending disastrously for himself and the Dude. Walter runs his own security firm, Sobchak Security, and places bowling second to only his reverence to his religion, as evidenced by the memorable line "I'm as Jewish as the ****ing Tevye" and his strict rule against bowling on Shabbos.




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Theodore Donald "Donny" Kerabatsos (Steve Buscemi) is a member of Walter and The Dude's bowling team. Charmingly naïve, Donny is an avid bowler and was a surfer in his younger days. Following his death and cremation, Walter and The Dude scatter his ashes over the ocean, in accordance with what his final wishes "might well have been." Donny frequently interrupts Walter's diatribes to inquire about the parts of the story he missed, evoking responses such as "Donnie, you're out of your element", "You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to be ...." and "Life does not stop and start at your convenience, you miserable piece o' ****!".



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Maude Lebowski (Julianne Moore) is the Big Lebowski's daughter. She is a feminist as well as an avant-garde artist whose work "has been commended as strongly vaginal." She is good friends with video artist Knox Harrington (David Thewlis), and she is also the person who introduced Bunny to Uli Kunkle, the nihilist and would-be kidnapper. Maude strongly disapproves of her father's marriage to Bunny.



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Jeffrey Lebowski (David Huddleston), "The Big Lebowski" to which the movie's title refers, is a multi-millionare who lost the use of his legs to "some Chinaman [...] in Korea." He is married to Bunny and is the father of Maude by his late wife. He is a very vain man who prides himself on the fact that he has "accomplished more than most men, and without the use of [his] legs."




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Brandt (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a sycophant and loyal assistant to Mr. Lebowski, tries to please everyone. Brandt, who is one of the few people outside the Dude's circle who calls him by his preferred title, has a habit of echoing his boss as well as forcing out nervous laughter during awkward moments.


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Bunny Lebowski (Tara Reid), born Fawn Knutsen, is the Big Lebowski's "trophy wife." She ran away from her family in Moorhead, Minnesota and soon found herself making pornographic videos under the name Bunny LaJoya. She is a careless, irresponsible person who is an annoyance to her husband who hopes "she will one day learn to live on her allowance, which is ample."




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Jackie Treehorn (Ben Gazzara) is a bigtime pornographic film producer who lives in Malibu. His credits include Thrust, Balls-zac, and Logjammin' starring Bunny and "Karl Hungus". He employs the two thugs who ambush The Dude in his home at the beginning of the movie. In spite of this apparent disrespect, he does call Lebowski "The Dude".



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Smokey (Jimmie Dale Gilmore) is on a bowling team that the Dude and Walter play in order to qualify for the semifinals. When Walter claims that Smokey goes over the line, constituting a foul, Smokey opposes him and goes to mark the frame an eight. At this point, Walter takes a pistol out of his bowling bag and threatens Smokey with the famous line "mark that frame an eight and you're entering a world of pain." As the Dude explains to Walter, Smokey is a "fragile" person who was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and remains a pacifist to this day.




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The Stranger (Sam Elliott) is the mysterious narrator who sees this story unfold from an unbiased perspective. He does not see the Dude as a low-life, but rather as an ironic tragic figure. The Stranger enjoys a good sarsaparilla, dresses as a cowboy, and is always accompanied with the song "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" in the background.




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Jesus Quintana (John Turturro) is one of The Dude and Walter's opponents in the bowling league semifinals match. This eccentric, Latino trash-talking West Hollywood resident served "6 months in Chino for exposing himself to an 8-year-old". He speaks with a thick Hispanic accent, wears a uniform which matches his purple bowling ball, and refers to himself as "The Jesus". Although he only appears in two scenes, his line "You said it man! Nobody ****s with The Jesus!", is one of the most oft-quoted lines in the film.



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Da Fino (Jon Polito) is a private investigator hired by Bunny's parents, the Knutsens, to entice their daughter back to their Midwestern farm. He drives a battered blue Volkswagen Beetle (in reference to the Coen Brothers' first film, Blood Simple), mistakes the Dude for a "brother Shamus" (a fellow P.I.), and offends the Dude by referring to Maude as his "special lady" and not the Dude's preferred term, "lady friend".



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Knox Harrington , (David Thewlis) The Video Artist is a rather camp associate of Maude's who manages to aggravate the generally laid-back Dude with his intrusive questions, e.g. "So, what do you do Lebowski ?", and his incessant over-the-top laughter. At one point Knox offers the Dude a drink, then waits for the Dude to take a seat before adding that "the bar's over there, help yourself".






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The Nihilists are a group of ethnic Germans who claim to be nihilists. The group, composed of leader Uli Kunkle, stage name Karl Hungus (Peter Stormare), Franz (Torsten Voges), and Dieter (Flea) is a Kraftwerkian techno-pop band called "Autobahn" from the mid-'70s. The group, along with Kunkle's ex-girlfriend, Lu Ahkrugns (played by Aimee Mann), are the supposed kidnappers of Bunny Lebowski.

Vee believe in NOSSING Lebowski!

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/dude.jpgDUDE:
This Chinaman who peed on my rug, I
can't go give him a bill so what the
**** are you talking about?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/walter.jpgWALTER: What the **** are you talking about?!
This Chinaman is not the issue! I'm
talking about drawing a line in the
sand, Dude. Across this line you do
not, uh--and also, Dude, Chinaman is
not the preferred, uh. . . Asian-
American. Please.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/dude.jpgDUDE:
Walter, this is not a guy who built
the rail- roads, here, this is a guy
who peed on my--

That's it, I'm watching this movie tonight.

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The Dude: Jesus, man, could you change the channel?

Cab Driver: [bleep] you man. If you don't like my [bleep]n' music get your own [bleep]n' cab!

The Dude: I had a rough...

Cab Driver: I pull over and kick your *** out!

The Dude: Come on, man. I had a rough night and I hate the [bleep]n' Eagles, man!

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Maude Lebowski: What do you do for recreation?

The Dude: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Lebowski-47.jpgDONNY: Are these the Nazis, Walter?


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/walter.jpgWALTER:
They're nihilists, Donny, nothing to
be afraid of.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Lebowski-47.jpgDONNY: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/walter.jpgWALTER:
They won't hurt us, Donny. These
men are cowards.

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JESUS QUINTANA: "Liam and me, we're going to **** you up."

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THE DUDE: "Yeah... well... y'know... that's just like, uh... your opinion man."

good wave file.

I think my favorite scene was Walter dumping the Big L on the floor, thinking he was a fake, then finding out he was NOT faking.

It was just so rude and so wrong, and so UN politically correct, I couldn't help but bust up.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/dude.jpgDUDE:Thanks, Gary...Take care, man, I
gotta get back.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Color-SamElliot.jpgTHE STRANGER:
Sure. Take it easy, Dude--I know
that you will.



THE DUDE, LEAVING, NODS:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/dude.jpgDUDE: Yeah man. Well, you know, the Dude
abides.

Gazing after him, The Stranger drawls, savoring the words:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Color-SamElliot.jpgTHE STRANGER: The Dude abides.

He gives his head a shake of appreciation, then looks into
the camera.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Color-SamElliot.jpgTHE STRANGER:

I don't know about you, but I take
comfort in that. It's good knowin'
he's out there, the Dude, takin' her
easy for all us sinners.

Hells yeah.

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Q&A: Jeff Dowd Is the Real 'Lebowski'

NEW YORK - 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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I am buying the Special Edition DVD, that book, and going to the next Lebowski party. Man that is freakin' sweet.

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this thread makes me want to drink a White Russian.

I need a flask full of it. Oh hells yeah.

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Man, that James Bond scene, where the Dude meets up with the bad guy,

don't remember his name, the porn king guy,

and it's all James Bond villian stuff,


and he is drinking those White Russians and gets slipped a Mickey, and has that messed up Bowling dream,



well, that my friend, is just about the funniest stuff I ever seen.

I approve of this thread.

lol what in tarnation?

who changed the title to this thread?

I'm looking at you, Whidden.

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slick

The best parts in the movie were the crazy drug/blow to the head induced dreams. Good times.

Maude Lebowski (Julianne Moore): "My art has been commended as strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable.

Vagina."

When The Dude is in that porno guys house, he answers the phone and writes something down. The ponro guy leaves and The Dude goes over to the notepad and rubs the pencil over it so he can see what was written on the previous sheet, and it's just a doodle of a weenie. That was great.

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I'm bumping this thread. Cause it's way to smoking HOT to let die.



BUMP

Did you check out our fearless leader's avatar? Marc loves this movie. You should send him a link.

"Stay out of Malibu, Lebowski!"

"F'n facist!"



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WALTER
He lives in North Hollywood on
Radford, near the In-and-Out Burger--

DUDE
The In-and-Out Burger is on Camrose.

WALTER
Near the In-and-Out Burger--

DONNY
Those are good burgers, Walter.

WALTER
Shut the **** up, Donny. This kid
is in the ninth grade, Dude, and his
father is--are you ready for this?--
Arthur Digby Sellers.

DUDE
Who the **** is that?

WALTER
Huh?

DUDE
Who the **** is Arthur Digby Sellers?

WALTER
Who the f--have you ever heard of a
little show called Branded, Dude?

DUDE
Yeah.

WALTER
All but one man died? There at Bitter
Creek?

DUDE
Yeah yeah, I know the ****ing show
Walter, so what?

WALTER
****ing Arthur Digby Sellers wrote
156 episodes, Dude.

DUDE
Uh-huh.

WALTER
The bulk of the series.

DUDE
Uh-huh.

WALTER
Not exactly a lightweight.

DUDE
No.

WALTER
And yet his son is a ****ing dunce.

yeah.


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Wish I could go to that. Would totally rule. Man, I would actually go to Texas- on purpose- to attend.

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What I like most about that poster, is they included the severed pinky toe.

I just noticed that... trip out.

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Aight, thanks to YouTube, this thread is about to be on FIRE again.

I'm the DUDE! :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY6o5313UhQ

I love this one, it's the trailer, with the "condition" tune.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_GCRFRcWxA

This is the bowling scene where the Spanish guy (Do not seek the treasure fellow from O' Brother Where Art Thou ) is bowling to the spanish version of Hotel California .

Then he gets into verbal insults with The Dude and crew. Hilarious.


But be warned, it's got foul lang in it, the f word over and over.


WARNING, BAD WORDS IN CLIP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moy69NU1SA8

This is my favorite scene, the drug induced dream with the condition tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z423wD7c8g

The dude hates the Eagles!


BAD WORDS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z92vC-q6mbU

Oh man, I can't even breath anymore. I can't take it.


This is the dude driving to some Credence Clearwater revival while smoking a roach, drinking beer and being tailed by a Volkwagon Bug.

Then he drops the joint, puts beer on it and crashes.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mvvIbSAjNQ

The dude's long winded introduction by Sam Elliot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23zglLwuJnM

This is the cop that laughs at the dude when the dude asks if there are any leads on the theft of his car and briefcase. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBcN...related&search=

What cracks me up about the whole deal, is here is the Dude, just jamming to his tapes, smoking pot and drinking beer, then it gets all serious as he is being tailed.

Yet how can you take a VW Bug seriously? I can't. But he does, and he is all smooth for about 3 seconds as he is checking his mirror and doing the standard movie cliche toughguy hero part.

But that don't last long as he tries to throw his doobie out a closed window and screws everything up. It's like he is such a loser, he can't even outsmart a beetle.

Sandy bought it for me Sat night. I watched it Sunday for the first time the whole way through. It's just an awesome movie.

I put the drunk drug induced dream on my MySpace page.

You had never seen it all the way through? What the duece? I can't believe it.

At least you have it now. My lady bought it for me too.

If I'm doing things around the house I can just put that movie on and listen to it hear and there. There should be a 24 hour channel where it's always on. That would be great.

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No, I caught it on T.V. around the time his fruity neighbor comes over and asks him to come see him dance. Never saw the beginning parts.

And they edited out a bunch of stuff for the t.v. version. I never saw the funeral home cremation coffee can deal, or the nekkid chick on the trampoline, or...

they got a vid on youtube, it's funny, the T.V. version Walter says "see what happens when you find a stranger in the alps?"

That is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps and you feed his children scrambled eggs.

when he is crowbarring the car. So, I heard the vulgar thing he did say when I seen the movie.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=5YHXdnWLvH4

I keep hearing rumors of a Big Lebowski sequel, but I think they are hoaxes. I can't think of any Cohen Brothers movie that they did a sequel too.

It's like they get the "art" out of their system and move on to a new genre. But if there was a good candidate for a sequel, Big Lebowski would be it.

Man that would rule. I seriously doubt it of course but it would still rule. It would have to be one cool ass sequel and not some rehash of the same crap.

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