15 Year Anniversary of The Big Lebowski

Years With 15 THE OUDE A Celebration of The Big Cebowski In March of 1998, The Coen Brothers released their own twisted version of a noir-ish Los Angeles-centered detective tale to the world. As The Big Lebowski celebrates its 15th anniversary, spend a couple hours with El Duderino, and read these 15 awesome facts and quotes that made this film an instant classic. DESPITE BEING AN AVID BOWLER The Dude never actually rolls a bowling ball in the film. 只 TT THIS IS NOT NAM THIS IS BOWLING THERE ARERULES. The character of The Dude is based off the Coen Brothers' friend who plays in an amateur softball league. "We changed it to bowling because it was more visually compelling, and it's the kind of sport you can do while you'reI drinking and smoking."- Joel ! Coen Maude Cebowski calls intercoursE. 66 THE PHYSICAL ACT OF LOVE" It is a direct quote and reference to one of the Coen's favorite movies, Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb. THE F-WORD IS USED 293 TTY IMES- THROUCHOUT THE FILM Despite this, the film doesn't ! even break the top 10 of films with the most F-words! i 66 NOBODY Fs WITH THE JESUS S" THE DUDE DRINKS WH 코 USSTANS ER, CAUCASIANS... THE FILM. 66 "HEY CAREFUL MAN THERE'S A BEVERAO-4PRE Ihose awesome jelly sandals? THEY ACTUALLY BELONGED > TO JEFF BRIDGES Many of the Dude's clothes belonged to the actor. THE DUDE SAYS "MAN" 147 TIMES That's 1,5 TIMES IN THE FILM EVERY MINUTE "BLOW ON THEM' 99 THE WORD "DUDE" IS USED 160 TIMES IN THE FILM 66 I'm not Mh. Cebowski, you're Ph. Cebouski. THTHE DUDE SO THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL ME THAT, OR HIS DUDENESS EL DUDERINO if. y know, you rE not into that whole brevity thing. - The Dude YY!!Y " THAT RUG REALLY PD THE ROOM TOGETHER DID IT NOT? "We wanted to do a [Raymond] Chandler kind of story - how it moves episodically, and deals with the characters trying to unravel a mystery. As well as having a hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant." - Joel Coen When you're tumbling like a tumbleweed through this journey called life, remember: "SOME DAYS YOU EAT THE BAR. AND SOME DAYS. THE BAR EATS YOU" 66 Sources: http://www.indiewire.com/article/the_coens_speak_reluctantly http://sfy.ru/?script=big_lebowski http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv WPROM OTE Years With 15 THE OUDE A Celebration of The Big Cebowski In March of 1998, The Coen Brothers released their own twisted version of a noir-ish Los Angeles-centered detective tale to the world. As The Big Lebowski celebrates its 15th anniversary, spend a couple hours with El Duderino, and read these 15 awesome facts and quotes that made this film an instant classic. DESPITE BEING AN AVID BOWLER The Dude never actually rolls a bowling ball in the film. 只 TT THIS IS NOT NAM THIS IS BOWLING THERE ARERULES. The character of The Dude is based off the Coen Brothers' friend who plays in an amateur softball league. "We changed it to bowling because it was more visually compelling, and it's the kind of sport you can do while you'reI drinking and smoking."- Joel ! Coen Maude Cebowski calls intercoursE. 66 THE PHYSICAL ACT OF LOVE" It is a direct quote and reference to one of the Coen's favorite movies, Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb. THE F-WORD IS USED 293 TTY IMES- THROUCHOUT THE FILM Despite this, the film doesn't ! even break the top 10 of films with the most F-words! i 66 NOBODY Fs WITH THE JESUS S" THE DUDE DRINKS WH 코 USSTANS ER, CAUCASIANS... THE FILM. 66 "HEY CAREFUL MAN THERE'S A BEVERAO-4PRE Ihose awesome jelly sandals? THEY ACTUALLY BELONGED > TO JEFF BRIDGES Many of the Dude's clothes belonged to the actor. THE DUDE SAYS "MAN" 147 TIMES That's 1,5 TIMES IN THE FILM EVERY MINUTE "BLOW ON THEM' 99 THE WORD "DUDE" IS USED 160 TIMES IN THE FILM 66 I'm not Mh. Cebowski, you're Ph. Cebouski. THTHE DUDE SO THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL ME THAT, OR HIS DUDENESS EL DUDERINO if. y know, you rE not into that whole brevity thing. - The Dude YY!!Y " THAT RUG REALLY PD THE ROOM TOGETHER DID IT NOT? "We wanted to do a [Raymond] Chandler kind of story - how it moves episodically, and deals with the characters trying to unravel a mystery. As well as having a hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant." - Joel Coen When you're tumbling like a tumbleweed through this journey called life, remember: "SOME DAYS YOU EAT THE BAR. AND SOME DAYS. THE BAR EATS YOU" 66 Sources: http://www.indiewire.com/article/the_coens_speak_reluctantly http://sfy.ru/?script=big_lebowski http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv WPROM OTE