When the Coen Brothers do comedy, you know for sure its gonna be funny as hell. The Big Lebowski has all the Coen Brothers comedy trademarks; eccentric characters, absorbing plot, quotable lines, dream like scenes, profanity and of course, John Turturro who has appeared in 3 of the Coen Brothers movies. The film has an ensemble cast of stars including the amazing Jeff Bridges as the slacker Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski, John Goodman as Walter, Steve Buscemi as Donny, Julliane Moore, Phillip Seymour Huffman, cool as fuck Sam Elliot and err.. Tara Reid.The plot concerns a case of mistaken identity as debt collectors enter Jeff's house demanding that he pay money owed to Jackie Treehorn, wealthy pornographer and loan shark. The person the thugs were really looking for was Jeffrey 'Big' Lebowski, multi millionarre. Jeff goes to see Jeffrey over the cas that the thugs that confronted him peed on his rug and Jeff politely asks Big Lebowski to compensate him. During the course of Jeff visiting Jeffrey's house, he meets Bunny Lebowski, Jeffrey's trophy young wife.
What happens next, Bunny goes missing, Big Lebowski gets ransom note, Big Lebowski contacts the Dude asking him to facilitate the ransom drop. Things get out of hand with the Dude, Walter and Donny picking up the pieces but all they want to do is win the local championship bowling tournament.
And then there's John Turturro playing bowling rival Jesus, proclaiming the immortal line, 'Don't fuck with the Jesus'. Seriously, I have to get that as a bumper sticker.
The Dude is one of the most memorable characters in a movie. He's kind of like half a real person and half a cartoon character with a lot of bad shit coming his way. He's just an average guy that just wants to live the world by his own rules. For a better description, The Dude lacks any ambition whatsoever because he's happy with the way it is. He has a crappy car, a non-existent job and a house without a rug and yet, he's happy and doesn't care. While Jeff Bridges was extraordinary as the Dude, the real scene stealer is John Goodman's Walter who's bigger than life itself personality just grabs your attention. Walter is the fucking man as you can see from the two videos below. In the second video, the profanity is cut out and replaced with a dub which sucks but I can't find another video of this scene anywhere else. In the original film, he says, 'This is what happens Larry, this is what happens when you fuck a stranger up in the ass'. Fuck and ass are censored which is retarded.
Finally, there's Sam Elliot as the narrator and Sam Elliot does what Same Elliot does best, talk in a deep resonant voice sporting that trademark thick horseshoe moustache.
If your looking for a fun film to watch with memorable characters, memorable moments, awesome dialogue that you'll be quoting for years to come and a dash of Coen Brothers style humour, watch the Big Lebowski.
Shut the fuck up Donny!
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