chronicling the dude

my two cents: i loved the movie. it's NOT the best movie the coen's made though. i also think people tend to see things that aren't there and aren't meant to be there. they tend to OVER ANALYZE. the dude is the dude. no more. no less

Dissertations on His Dudeness
By DWIGHT GARNER

Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1998 movie, “The Big Lebowski,” which stars Jeff Bridges as a beatific, pot-smoking, bowling-obsessed slacker known as the Dude, snuck up on the English-speaking world during the ’00s: it became, stealthily, the decade’s most venerated cult film. It’s got that elusive and addictive quality that a great midnight movie has to have: it blissfully widens and expands in your mind upon repeat viewings. “The Big Lebowski” has spawned its own shaggy, fervid world: drinking games, Halloween costumes, bumper stickers (“This aggression will not stand, man”) and a drunken annual festival that took root in Louisville, Ky., and has spread to other cities. The movie is also the subject of an expanding shelf of books, including “The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers” and the forthcoming “The Tao of the Dude.”.......

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Jeff Bridges as the Dude in the 1998 film “The Big Lebowski,” which has crept into cult popularity over the last decade.

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