I love the Dude…simply because the Dude is all of us.
Think of it, he practically lives in a slice of heaven. Simple wants and needs. A good game of bowling, a White Russian (which I challenge anyone openly to say is a girls drink), no Eagles on the stereo, and a fine Rug for his troubles.
I know so many people like this (including myself) it ain’t even funny.
Frankly, the finest part Bridges will ever play.
The Dude: Yeah, well. The Dude abides.
The Stranger: The Dude abides. I don’t know about you but I take comfort in that. It’s good knowin’ he’s out there. The Dude. Takin’ 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals.
[While dunking the Dude’s head in the toilet.]
Thug: Where’s the money, Lebowski? Where’s the fucking money, shithead?
Dude: It’s uh-- uh-- it’s down there somewhere, let me take another look.
Wanna know how much I adore The Big Lebowski? Last year, HBO showed it the evening before the first day of the Texas bar exam. That’s the day they ask you about Texas civil and criminal procedure. I knew nothing about either subject, and was desperately trying to learn as much as possible while sitting in my hotel room.
I watched The Big Lebowski that night. I also passed the bar, but that’s totally unrelated, I’m sure.
I seriously hate this movie. I’m amazed that people are putting these quotes here and thinking that they are such funny lines, and yet I see no humour in any of them at all.
Although this is one of my favorite films, I have to yet again state for the record that the Coen brothers set back my timetable for the Bathrobe Revolution by at least a decade.
I’m a long-haired, goatee sporting guy who used to wear my bathrobe everywhere, especially shopping, but also in the various bars around Arlington, VA. I say “dude” entirely too much.
I saw this film with a half-dozen people on opening night–no, I was not in my robe. When Jeff Bridges appeared on-screen in the supermarket, every single person I was with exclaimed, "its YOU!"
In a brief two hours, my entire life was turned into a disturbingly accurate cliche. The Revolution is, needless to say, at a standstill.
Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski! Condolences! The bums lost! I suggest you do what your parents did: get a job sir. The bums will always lose! Do you hear me Mr. Lebowski! The bums will always…
But what I must know - it’s been bugging me - is what Wu the carpet pisser says just before he does his thing. Something about deadbeats.
See, we must have a DVD with subtitles. This aggression will not stand, man.
I consider myself a normal enough person, but I watch that movie excessively, and can’t understand why others aren’t thrilled by it. I was the same way with Tommy Boy at one time.
The whites. Another thing, Dude doesn’t roll one ball in the film. And the beach scene at Trehorn’s place contains homage to Riefenstahl’s Triumph Of The Will. But you knew that because you love this shit.
Russian literature? Naw, it’s Raymond Chandler all the way. I looove this movie, I own the DVD and watch it over and over. Im convinced the Coens could turn this into a dynamite TV show, a sort of combo Rockford Files/Columbo for the new century. Failure to appreciate this film is clearly proof of a congenital birth defect (sorry, GuanoLad. Maybe you can get some sort of federal aid?)
My favorite line that has not heretofore been mentioned:
“Sometimes you get the bar, sometimes the bar gets you.”
“Is that some kind of Eastern thing?”
When Maude says something about men giving their penises nicknames like Johnson and then later the Nihilists say: “we are going to cut off your CHohnson”. The Dude says something like “excuse me?”
“Dude, now that’s a word no one would self-apply where I come from. But then… there were a lot of strange things about the Dude.” (Incidentally, if you haven’t seen the movie you might not find these lines funny. Let me assure you they are quite amusing when you watch it.)
“He’s a pederast Dude.”
“Oh come on…”
“No really, he likes little boys. When he moved here he had to go around the neighborhood telling everyone he was a pederast.”
(cut to scene of Jesus in a nerdy outfit knocking timidly on a door, which opens to reveal a large biker type. Fade to next scene.)
Karl Hungus: I hear you have a problem mit diene cahble."
Donny: Are these the Nazis Dude?
Walter: No Donny, these are Nihilists, nothing to worry about.
When Dude went off on Walter for rambling about Viet Nam and getting Donny’s ashes all over him, I laughed so hard I broke my couch.
I haven’t thought of that movie in ages. I gotta run out and rent it again…
I, too, like the ‘beverage’ line, and the writing of the check for under a dollar, but my favorite bit has to be when Walter is raging about not ‘rolling’ on Saturday, and the Dude reminds him “you’re not Jewish”.
OK, Billy Baroo. Just for you I popped the DVD in and watched the scene with closed captioning. If a DVD does not have English subtitles, it will usually have closed captions. Many have both.
The guy says, “Ever thus to deadbeats, Lebowski.”
I think it’s supposed to be a riff on the line that John Wilkes Booth might have said after assassinating Lincoln, “Sic semper tyrannis”, which I’ve seen translated as “Ever thus to tyrants.”
Now that I’ve seen the first few moments, I find that I can’t quite put it away. I have the strong urge to watch it again.
Are all of you (except GuanoLad) nuts? This was not a good movie. It had its moments, but the plot went nowhere and never found its way back. The characters were amusing bundles of quirks, nothing more. It’s amazing to me this movie was made by the same Coen brothers who also made Blood Simple,Barton Fink and Raising Arizona. It’s inferior. It’s just inferior.
I once dated a woman for several months, then learned she liked The Big Lebowski better than Fargo. We’re not dating anymore.
“Ulee, her co-star in the beaver pictures.”
“Beaver? You mean, vagina?”
“Dipshit with a nine-toed woman!”
“You know, keeping a wild animal like that, uh, an amphibious rodent, uh, within city limits, uh, that’s not legal either…”
“What are you now, a park ranger, man?!”
