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Director: Joel Coen. Story and Screenplay: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Photo: Roger Deakins. Editing: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Trisha Cooke. Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs. Music: Carter Burwell. Cast: Jeff Bridges (Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski), John Goodman (Walter Sobchak), Steve Buscemi (Donnie), Julianne Moore (Maude Lebowski), David Huddleston (Jeffrey Lebowski), John Turturro (Jesus Quintana), Philip Seymour Hoffman . (Brandt), Tara Reid (Bunny). Production: Ethan Cohen for working title. Duration: 118′
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Upon its release in the United States in 1998, The Big Lebowski did not receive the public response that an Oscar for screenplay and earnings from the previous Fargo might have predicted. However, in the following years, the film has developed into a true cult object, full of festivals and celebratory gatherings for fans to use and consume.
What are the causes of idolatry? The formal and narrative awareness and insight demonstrated by the film. A laid-back mix of genres such as noir, musical, western, among which the comic and ironic register stands out. Cinematic allusions and quotes. Again, the dreamy and surreal aspect, enriching the narrative with an appeal to dreams and the grotesque. The story itself is notable for its particular complexity: if the comedy of misunderstandings that starts the story is a face swap, where the beggar Dude is confused with the millionaire of the same name, then the main quest revolves around the kidnapping of Bunny, but the emptiness and his assumptions turn out to be completely unfounded, despite artfully distributed baits , hints and riddles. Add to that a gallery of hilarious and multi-faceted characters, a range of quirky situations, a tone that oscillates between fiercely comic lunges and forward-thinking forays, and a visual catalog of detail, slow motion, zenithal vantage points, masterful tracking. footage and eccentric plots (known as from inside a rolling bowling ball).
But the real engine behind the film’s success is Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski, a beacon character in the dense web of doubling and random action that creates the story’s poetic universe. Lazy, lazy, doing nothing, Dude lives and lets live, involuntarily acquiring the features of Zen, allowing events to flow over him and enduring with stoic resignation a series of events in which he becomes involved in spite of himself. Dude is an outsider, an anachronistic figure who is aware of his own marginality and is able to declare this to the whole world. An icon of the philosophy of life, which is perfectly summed up by the motto “The Dude abides” (“The Dude Endures”).
Alice Autelitano
Just like “Just Blood” “comes” from “The Postman Always Rings Twice” and “Crossroads of Death” from “Lead and Blood”, “The Big Lebowski” owes a lot to “The Big Sleep”: we wanted to capture the feel of the story. , told in Chandler’s modern version; that’s why it was installed in Los Angeles. We wanted the narrative to unfold, a story that moves like a Raymond Chandler book through different parts of the city and through different social classes. This is the aspect that we are interested in when we are writing a script.
Joel and Ethan Coen
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