Both of the animals in the film are incorrectly named. The nihilists' "marmot" was actually a ferret, and Cynthia's "Pomeranian" was a terrier. Lehrmann noted that it's common knowledge that prior restraint, or censorship prior to an expression taking place, has been largely rejected by "the Supreme Court, this Court, Texas courts of appeals, legal treatises, and even popular culture.
Jeff Bridges wore the same baseball t-shirt in The Fisher King Critic Roger Ebert only gave the movie 3 out of 4 stars in his review at the time of its release in In he added it to his Great Movies list and rated it four stars in a re-review. For example, the star motif featured predominantly throughout the film, started with Production Designer Richard Heinrichs ' design for the bowling alley. According to Joel Coen , he "came up with the idea of just laying free-form neon stars on top of it and doing a similar free-form star thing on the interior.
In the first dream sequence, The Dude gets knocked out and you see stars and they all coalesce into the overhead nightscape of Los Angeles. The second dream sequence is an astral environment with a backdrop of stars", remembers Heinrichs.
For Jackie Treehorn's Malibu beach house, he was inspired by late s and early s bachelor pad furniture. The fast-food restaurant In-N-Out Burger is referred to during the movie, for which John Goodman once did a commercial. Although the dialogue mentions In-N-Out several times, the hamburgers and drinks consumed by the characters in the car are not wrapped or contained in the still privately owned company's distinctive food wrapping paper or cups.
Julianne Moore said in an interview that she was pregnant during the filming of The Big Lebowski, but didn't tell anyone because she wanted to do the painting in harness scene herself. Walter's home security business works under the slogan "Peace of Mind". In Barton Fink , John Goodman 's character says he sells peace of mind. While filming The Dude's dream sequence, the actresses who played the line dancers reached out to the makeup department to play a prank on Jeff Bridges in which they applied fake pubic hair underneath their skirts.
As he was "flying" underneath them and looking up their skirts, each woman was hairier than the next. In the bathroom scene the Treehorn thug tells the Dude that his wife, Bunny, owes money to Jackie Treehorn.
The Dude says "My wife? Do you see a wedding ring on my finger? He actually holds up his right hand which wouldn't have a wedding band. Although John Goodman denies it, Jeff Bridges claims that he and John ad-libbed most of their dialogue. This may be true, due to the fact that they often interrupt their own lines and stutter in the film. According to the plaque on the dog carrier, the Pomeranian's name is Thurston.
Woo and Blond switch shirts in their two scenes. In the first, Woo wears a sleeveless plaid shirt and Blond wears a gray tank top. In the second, Woo wears the gray tank top, while Blond wears the sleeveless plaid shirt. Unusual for an American movie, a bad guy wields a cricket bat rather than a baseball bat.
The famous sweater the Dude wears is a Pendleton Westerly. Due to the film's popularity, Pendleton resurrected the style for a line called "The Dude's Collection". The sweater can still be purchased in the same style as the film on the Pendleton site. David Cross auditioned for the role of Brandt. The Dude's gait in the opening shot to the "Gutterballs" sequence resembles the gait used by the characters in Robert Crumb 's famous "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon.
The film is included on Roger Ebert 's "Great Movies" list. Due to the films cult status among fans, the religion 'Dudeism' was created which follows the philosophy and lifestyle of 'The Dude. There is a Lebowski's pub in the Finnieston neighborhood of Glasgow, Scotland. The check that The Dude writes in the beginning of the movie, for only sixty-nine cents, is post-dated. The white shoes The Dude wore are commonly mistaken for Adidas because of the three parallel black stripes.
The Dude wears an early version of their M model. A poster-sized photo on the Dude's wall is of Richard Nixon bowling. When he assumed office Nixon had an underground one-lane bowling alley installed. While most counter culture folk of the Dude's generation hated Nixon, the Dude is so laid-back that he only cares about the bowling.
Although John Goodman and Steve Buscemi were the Coens' first choices for the roles of Walter and Donny when they wrote the script, they didn't have any particular actor in mind for the role of The Dude.
One possibility that did come up early on was Mel Gibson, then one of the biggest stars in the world. Ultimately Gibson didn't take their pitch too seriously, and the Coens moved on with their Dude search. The phone is a Fujitsu Commander Phone. John Goodman wore prescription yellow tinted shooting glasses. The gun that Walter pulls in the bowling alley is a Colt model Standard U.
Bulk of the show", he states. The series only lasted two seasons. Which accounts for forty-six total episodes. After the second confrontation with Jesus, Walter begins to expound to the others about the "concept of aish," that is, the implications in Jewish law of the use of fire on the Sabbath. His exposition is cut short when they exit the bowling alley to find the Dude's car Originally scheduled for a Christmas release, Polygram moved the film out of the crowded holiday frame to March , where it opened in the same frame as the Coen Brothers' Oscar-winning Fargo The noises heard while the bowling alley's neon lights illuminate the black after the Nihilists confront the Dude, Walter, and Donny in the bowling alley parking lot reference the tape of whale sounds that The Dude is listening to during his bath earlier in the film.
Even though bowling is a major part of the film and several scenes take place in the bowling alley, the Dude can actually never be seen bowling. The name on The Dude's last shirt is "Art".
It is unknown if Walter stole the idea from him, but Paul Newman used the same ploy of putting his dirty laundry in the saddlebags designated for ransom money in the movie western, "Hombre. Jesus proclaims that Walter's Sabbath observance "don't matter to Jesus. Cynthia's dog is not a Pomeranian, but a terrier. In the bowling scene, when they are all leaving the bowling alley, to find The Dude's car missing, you can clearly see Walter still wearing his bowling shoes.
Two actors from this movie played the Devil in separate projects. Mark Pellegrino one of Treehorn's thugs played Lucifer in Supernatural , and Peter Stormare leader of the nihilists played Lucifer in Constantine Nagelbett, the name of the Autobahn album, means "nail bed" in German. The photograph on the cover shows a bed of nails. Jeff Bridges teamed with the Coen brothers one more time in True Grit In a interview with Terry Gross on her NPR program "Fresh Air," the Coens said that the drugged, bowling-themed dream sequence was inspired by the work of classic Hollywood choreographer and director Busby Berkeley.
The famous line, "The Dude abides," is a reference to the sci-fi novel by American writer George R. Stewart, entitled "Earth Abides. When The Dude writes a cheque for the milk, the address on the cheque is the actual address of The Dude's house in the movie. You can search in Google Street View - it is the actual same place.
The Dude says "man" times in the movie, nearly 1. As The Dude writes the sixty-nine cent check for his half and half, you can see a phone number in the upper half of his checkbook: All the shopping is done at Ralph's - when the Dude buys his half and half, when the sheriff finds his Ralph's card, and where they buy the can of coffee.
The number of times the "f" word is said is two hundred twenty-two. The number of times Walter tells Donny to "shut the fuck up" is five.
The mansion, in which The Big Lebowski lived, was the same one that was used in Out for Justice While he is writing the check, President George H. Bush can be heard on the television railing against Saddam Hussein.
The film was released in , three years before September Although not very visible, the name of Smokey's team is written on the back of his bowling shirt: "The Cavaliers". Steve Buscemi played a sidekick to the anti-hero in Escape from L.
Russell, who was also a good friend of Bridges, got the role because he had worked with John Carpenter before, and was Carpenter's choice for the role. Bridges was also considered for the lead role of MacReady in The Thing , but turned it down. It too went to Kurt Russell under John Carpenter's direction. It became a cult classic, as did Escape from New York and this movie. Bridges worked and became friends with Carpenter on Starman , which earned him an Oscar nomination. Three of this film's actors would reunite the following year in Magnolia : Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julianne Moore both as actors , and Aimee Mann who wrote and performed most of the soundtrack for Magnolia.
John Goodman reprises his role as the voice of Hound and Turturro reprises his role as former agent Seymour Simmons. Steve provides the voice of a junk collector Autobot Daytrader. The song "Viva Las Vegas" is heard 3 times in the film. In the end credits, Shawn Colvin performs the song as a folk ballad.
A rock version heard on Bunny's car stereo twice in the film first, when she is shown singing along to it after the Dude gets thrown out of a cab, and again when the Dude and Walter arrive at the Big Lebowski's mansion is styled after the recording by ZZ Top , and is credited to a fictional band called "Big Johnson. When The Dude and Walter are pulling away from the strip mall where Walter's business is located to do the hand-off with the nihilists, a Del Taco restaurant is visible in the background.
Larry Cohen the real writer of "Branded" bristles at the notion that he was portrayed in the movie as a man in an iron lung. Bush made a statement on the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Maude calls The Dude "Jeffrey" in their first scene together.
John Turturro played as Agent Simmons. The first of two movies in which Peter Stormare plays a character who loses an ear in the climactic fight. The other is The Last Stand In Raising Arizona, the Dr.
Spock book gets progressively more and more beat up. Is this interesting? The fictional group Autobahn is named for the song by the rock band Kraftwerk. When the dude goes through Maude record collection. He finds a album with Autobahn on it. They pose the same way Kraftwerk did on their on album cover The Man Machine. Julianne Moore and Flea appeared in Psycho Aimee Mann : The musician is the nine-toed nihilist woman whom we see briefly at the diner.
Charlie Kaufman : In the audience during the interpretive dance scene. This may seem obvious to some, but it probably comes as a surprise to others. When it comes to familiar faces from the Coen-verse popping up, The Big Lebowski just might be the ultimate Coen ensemble movie.
Missing, however, is the Coens' most frequent collaborator: Frances McDormand. McDormand, who has been married to Joel Coen since , has had roles in eight of the Coens' movies most recently, 's Hail, Caesar! According to Alex Belth, who wrote the e-book The Dudes Abide: The Coen Brothers and the Making of the Big Lebowski about his time spent working as an assistant to the Coens, casting the role of Jeffrey Lebowski was one of the last decisions made before filming commenced.
Buckley, and Ernest Borgnine. The role would eventually go to the not-particularly-famous but pitch perfect veteran character actor David Huddleston. In true Dude fashion, it all worked out in the end. However, in , it was reported that John Turturro had begun filming a sort of spinoff that would feature his character from the film, the bowling-ball-licking, smooth-rolling, sex offender Jesus Quintana.
Turturro correctly thinks the character needs more face time, and has been bothering the Coen brothers to revisit the character for years, or at least give him permission to go ahead and direct some kind of Jesus-centric spin-off. Currently titled Going Places , there is not a lot of information available on the film, though IMDb does note that it's scheduled for release this year. Get exclusive shortlists, celebrity interviews and the best deals on the products you care about, straight to your inbox.
Sign up. The line, "The Dude abides" is a reference to Ecclesiastes in The Bible : "One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth abides forever. Norwegian promotional posters and videos for the film included the text "Anbefales av norsk bowling forbund" Recommended by the Norwegian Bowling Association.
The film has spawned its own festival. The Big Lebowski has even spawned a religion. Dudeism is devoted largely to the philosophy and lifestyle of Jeff Bridges' character and was founded in It has ordained over , 'Dudeist Priests' via its website. The Dude's rug being peed on is mentioned to 17 times throughout the movie.
The fact that it "really tied the room together" is noted five times. In the script's first draft, The Dude was revealed as the heir to the Rubik's Cube fortune.
Joel Coen later scrapped the idea, choosing to leave The Dude's source of income a mystery. The Dude's character is inspired by film promoter Jeff Dowd, who helped secure distribution for the Coen brothers' first movie.
Like his fictional incarnation, Dowd was a part of anti-war group, the Seattle Seven, and has a relaxed attitude towards grooming and wardrobe. A friend of the Coen brothers, Peter Exline, was also an inspiration for the film. It was Exline who coined the phrase "It really tied the room together", referencing his own rug, and also once found a schoolboy's homework in his car after it had been stolen, later confronting him with it.
Though Donny wears several personalised bowling shirts during the film, none of them bear his name. The word "dude" is said times during the film. It is spoken times and appears once in text, during the credits for 'Gutterballs'. Despite being part of the bowling team, The Dude is never seen bowling during the movie. Even in the 'Gutterballs' dream sequence it is Maude that throws the ball.
Even more spooky, George Bush Sr can be heard on the TV, making his "This aggression will not stand" speech, in reference to the war. The film was made in When filming the briefcase scene, it proved impossible to get Walter's undie-filled case to be thrown correctly. Eventually this was shot in reverse, with a crew member throwing the case into the car as a stunt driver reversed at high speed. Keeping in the tradition of a film noir, The Dude appears in every scene of the movie.
Even when the Nihilists are ordering pancakes, you can see the van containing The Dude and Walter drive past. A lot of the Dude's clothes came from Jeff Bridges' own wardrobe.
In the edited TV version of the film, Walter's line, "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass! The F-word or its variations is said times during the movie - which is more than in Scarface.
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