And even if he’s a lazy man – and the Dude was most certainly that. “… sometimes, there’s a man, well, he’s the man for his time and place.“Hey, careful, man, there’s a beverage here!”.Yeah, the hazy, meandering plot is almost beside the point, but couldn’t the same be said of Chandler? But things don’t go smoothly, and soon the Dude and his bowling pals and drinking buddies (including John Goodman as Walter, a deranged, recently converted Jew with a more than a few anger issues) are pitted against kidnappers, erotic performance artists, Neo-Nazis, and porn moguls, among others. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.”) is mistaken for a millionaire with the same name by two legbreakers, who piss on his rug, hoping to inspire to pay off his namesake’s debt - a debt that the perpetually toasted Jeff, of course, knows nothing about.įiguring he can convince the real Lebowski to pay for his befouled broadloom, The Dude pays him a visit, only to be roped into accepting a potentially luctative one-time job - delivering the ransom for the millionaire’s kidnapped wife. It starts with a not-so-simple case of mistaken identity, as slacker Jeff Lebowski (“Let me explain something to you.
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Its main character, JEFF “THE DUDE” LEBOWSKI, is by no stretch of the imagination a private eye, yet this hapless, shaggy-haired, pot-addled slacker gets drawn into a series of events–and bounces up against a cast of SoCal crazies–that echoes, step for step, the kind of adventure that Chandler’s Marlowe himself might have found himself in–if Marlowe smoked a lot of dope, drank a lot of White Russions, bowled way more often, and chucked the fedora and trench coat for a bathrobe, that is. The 1998 Coen Brothers film, The Big Lebowski, is one of the funniest and most outlandish parodies of the private eye film sub-genre, but is also, in a bizarre way, as much an affectionate tribute to and continuation of the tradition.
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