The Big Lebowski
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
The Big Lebowski is a 1998 American comedy film written by Joel and Ethan Coen and directed by Joel Coen. The film chronicles a few days in the life of Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), a burned-out, unemployed California slacker, after he is mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. While The Big Lebowski is not directly based on Raymond Chandler's novel The Big Sleep, Joel Coen has said that "[we] wanted to do a 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."
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "The Big Lebowski" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
