{"id":1730,"date":"2020-03-08T18:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T18:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2025-05-19T20:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T20:53:19","slug":"the-big-lebowski-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"The Big Lebowski<\/em> (1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Big Lebowski<\/em> (1993)<\/h1>\n

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Messrs. Bridges, Buscemi and Goodman at the bowling alley<\/em><\/p>\n

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The story of “The Dude” was not wildly successful in its initial release, but it has since grown into a place on everyone’s short list of cult classics<\/strong>. The film is now in the National Film Registry and has spawned a cottage industry and “pseudo-religion”<\/a> of its own.<\/p>\n

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For this\u00a0movie, the brothers assembled a huge and diverse cast —\u00a0Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Turturro, Sam Elliott, Julianne Moore, Ben Gazzara, and Asia Carrera (yes, THAT Asia\u00a0Carrera<\/strong> –<\/em>– the Rutgers alumnus, Mensa member and former porn star).<\/p>\n

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Julianne Moore as Maude Lebowski — “The Big” Lebowski’s daughter, a feminist and an avant-garde artist<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dancers (and cast members) appear\u00a0in this “bowling fantasy sequence” which cannot be described in words. <\/strong>\u00a0[CAUTION: brief nudity herein].<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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For decades the Coen brothers — two boys from St. Louis Park, Minnesota, have delivered quirky characters and idiosyncratic movies — none more so than Jeff Bridges’ Dude in “The Big Lebowski\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.oganovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/John-Goodman-Jeff-Bridges-and-Steve-Buscemi-in-movie-The-Big-Lebowski.jpg?fit=432%2C270&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}