Devotees who originally congregated on the chat rooms of Web 1.0 now gather in their thousands at fan festivals. All these years later, the Dude endures
usually top polls of the Best Coen Brothers Films, but those lists are wrong. Both are great movies, masterpieces even, but they are not the singular cinematic achievement that is. Joel and Ethan Coen’s finest hour is a hilarious riff on a classic detective story, a Californian neo-noir, a hangout movie, a quest, an examination of male friendship... it’s a lot of things to a lot of people.
Jeffrey Lebowski, aka The Dude, a truly great performance by Jeff Bridges, is caught in a case of mistaken identity, which morphs into a missing-persons hoo-hah that descends into a where’s-the-money ding-dong. Along the way The Dude goes bowling with his friends, drinks White Russians, is rendered unconscious twice , suffers damage to his car and his home furnishings, is propositioned by a woman and her father’s wife and accidentally communes with the ashes at his friend’s memorial service.
Bridges did supply some of The Dude’s wardrobe: the jellies he wears when not in bowling shoes or white Otomix weightlifting shoes, and a three-quarter raglan sleeve baseball shirt with the Japanese outfielder Kaoru Betto on the front . With his bathrobe, faded hoodie, checked shorts, gaudy pyjama trousers and Pendleton Westley cardigan, The Dude was in goblin mode decades before the rest of us started referring to our tracksuit bottoms as loungewear.
The first Lebowski Fest, in 2002 in Louisville, Kentucky, was attended by 150 Achievers. At the tenth annual gathering in New York in 2011, Bridges and fellow cast members John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi and John Turturro reunited on stage at the Hammerstein Ballroom in front of a sell-out crowd of 2,200. Moore, asked for comment by a New York Observer reporter at the event, said “I’ll suck your cock for a thousand dollars” – a line from the film that isn’t even one of hers.
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