The Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski is the story of an unemployed, aging hipster named Jeffery Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) who is mistaken for a different Jeffery Lebowski (later referred to as the big Lebowski, played by David Huddleston). Due to a case of mistaken identity, The Dude gets caught up in a messy kidnapping. Along the way, he meets a new lady friend, Maude (Julianne Moore), and is forced to deal with kidnappers, nihilists, a pornographer and a fascist police chief. All this, when “All The Dude ever wanted was his rug back…It really tied the room together.”…
The film stays respectful and honest when dealing with difficult subject matter, while also continuing to be fun and witty. You enjoy watching these characters, even when your heart wants to break for them. Each character is complete.Their struggles are believable, and their motivations real. Whether you have personally experienced their pain or not, everyone will be able to find something relatable in this…
Robert Duvall did an excellent job playing the role as Bull Meecham- or the ‘Great Santini’. He has a very tough love relationship with his family. Then there was Blythe Danner who plays Lillian; she also did an fantastic job with her character. Even though in the book she had red hair, and in the movie she was a blonde, they displayed her as the same woman who has a big heart, and has to help her family get through hard times with him. Last but not least Michael O’Keefe was my favourite character; I was most impressed by his performance in the movie matching so carefully the character in the book. There was a character in the movie that they had left out though- it was Sam Wertzberger, I thought he would have been a great addition to the movie especially because he was such an important character- he showed that people would discriminate against religion. Having Stan Shaw, as Toomer Small in the movie was good because Toomer’s character and what he went through showed how injustice racism…
The most important criteria for judging this film is the great casting. The cast was excellently picked. Actors in a movie must be believable and able to pull their roles off extremely well. If not, the audience will become bored and uninterested. Jim Carrey does perfectly. In this film, he is absolutely brilliant and deserves extensive praise for this role. Kate Winslet…
The movie was entertaining. It had a lot of funny moments. For instance, when Walter and his boss were fighting in the elevator over a childhood toy called Strechy Arm Strong. But the funniest part for me was watching adult men acting like little kids. The scene that got me laughing so…
Our community and society have been facing with the massive mass media for nowadays, and movie is one of them. As many people watch movies, it occupies an important role in their lives socially and economically. There are many different movies and several heroes representing in the world. Heroes are movie's long material, and people have a different point of view when they watch movies. For example, The movie "Independence Day" could give deep impression that airplane pilots sacrificed their lives to save the world, but it could draw unwelcome attention that the world was saved under the leadership of United States. Similarly, movie heroes historical blip on the public's desire to delegate to the body, and its functions as an intensive, which have a specific period movie that soars like a hero's welcome, and it is a communication between the viewer a sense of contemporary popular devices that can be separated. In this essay, how does outlaw hero Jeff Lebowski who wants to be called Dude represent his characteristics and what kinds of social issues can be come up with based on his characteristics in the movie "The Big Lebowsky".…
If you want to laugh, and drop some tears while you are at it. This is your kind of movie. Not that there is nothing wrong it. You see this movie explores issues of youth, sacrifice, coming of age, and reflections as an adult about the past. Something were we all can relate to.…
1. The strong point of the movie is that it shows the parallel worlds of Lana and her uncle Paul. They both are people who try to help the world be a better place and they both end up in horrible situations in two very important cities in the United States. Lana is in Los Angeles volunteering at a Christian homeless shelter and Paul who is a Vietnam veteran tries to prevent Los Angeles from attacks just like 9/11. He suspects everyone who is of Arabic origin. They meet each other when a Pakistani gets brutally murdered. The best part of the movie is the well-assembled scenes, they are very dynamic, and that makes it that the two storylines come together so nicely. The Paul’s character is very tragic, he has suffered so much trauma in his life,…
All in all, it was a great movie with great direction and acting. The storyline is great and makes it hard to stop watching. It keeps the audience glued to their seat to see what happens at the end of the movie. And, the ending is so appropriate for the movie. It was great writing and what an action drama should be like. The recommendation for this movie could not be higher. It is a true…
There's no doubt that Citizen Kane is a great movie. It is a pioneering film that forever changed film making. Its plot is one of the most creative and original in all of movie history. The cinematography is stunning. Citizen Kane is about those images that we all reflect and project, the sum total of which -the impressions we make on other people- are all we that leave behind us. That central, unsolveable riddle of personality is at the core of what makes Citizen Kane so endlessly watchable.…
The Big Lebowski, as a classified as comedy and noir, is a film about a sloppy slacker that likes to call himself “The Dude” who eventually gets into a messy situation involving a kidnapping. The Dude is an Absurd hero who lives his life the way he wants to and doesn’t try to make more interesting by doing other activities other than bowling. It’s about someone who doesn’t belong, about “…he's the man for his time and place.” (Stranger) Regardless of its success in the box office and what critics had to say about it, The Big Lebowski gained its popularity through time and the writings of academics in film and literature. As the story unfolds to the dungeons of nonsense, the audience gets to see fictional characters that undoubtedly relate to…
He got to prove, not only to his dad and family, but to himself. He finally received what he thought the good end of the deal was. I personally loved this movie. I had never seen it before so I enjoyed trying to see the perspective I was looking at. I received a deeper understanding as to why he was so determined and why his values seemed to be so important to him. I noticed that although he was going through so much, he stuck by his own and believed in himself. When I used conflict to observe Fortune, he caught me as the conflict…
I liked this movie because of the settings, the way the movie was done and were it was done was beautiful because they used diffrent settings in a serious manner. One of the reasons i liked this movie again was when madea poured at bucket of water on the girl because, it was an unexpexted part in the movie and extremly funny to me and that happens in reality but its usually a cup, but this was a bucket that part of the movie really helped.…
The Big Lebowski (1998) by the Coen Brothers is no doubt a comedy film about friendships between three bowling buddies with differing personalities who met and stuck together as friends by choice in Los Angeles when the U.S. army invaded the Middle East. The Coen Brothers managed to capture the spirit of friendship bonding, conflicts, characters’ internal struggles as well as personal desires with exceptional cinematography and mise-en-scene through a plot that went from western to Film Noir. There is a cleverly placed contrast between violence, kidnapping, femme fatales and other dark elements that do not really go with the sunny, carefree impression of L.A. where the story is set in. Such metaphorically structured contrasts along with well-constructed dialogues between three characters from varying backgrounds bring out the contradictory nature of how the Dude (Jeff Bridges), a bearded, unemployed long-haired hippie who did not care much about this world that lived in a dressing gown met his two best friends Walter Sobchak (John Goodman), a Vietnam vet who could not move on from the war period and Donny Kerabatsos (Steve Buscemi), a bland character that got ignored most of the time, who all lived with the shadow of intergeneration give-and-take hovering yet still managed to stay committed to their friendships even when they have their own burdens to deal with in life. The ending scene of The Big Lebowski where the Dude and Walter scattered Donny’s ashes pleasantly reflected what seems to be delicate but actually strong bonds of relationships between the three main characters.…
The film has become such an important part of the American culture that there have been countless adaptations of the story. As mentioned before, this movie is important because we are able to identify with all characters and learn something about ourselves while doing so. The creation of additional films and Broadway musicals that tell this story through another character’s perspective and have also found enormous success in doing so. Not only is the movie of high quality with a strong plot line, but it is so universal that is has become woven into both the American culture due to it being a movie that appeals to…