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Three of the antagonists in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski are explicitly described as " nihilists ;" and the 1999 film The Matrix portrays the character Thomas A. Anderson with a hollowed out copy of Baudrillard's treatise, Simulacra and Simulation, in which he stores contraband data files under the chapter " On Nihilism.

The Dude meets Bunny Lebowski ( Reid ), the Big Lebowski's nymphomaniac trophy wife, while leaving the premises with a rug taken from the mansion.

They confront the Big Lebowski with their version of the events.

" " The Stranger " at the bar of the bowling alley hints that Maude may be pregnant with a " little Lebowski ".

Joel Coen cites Robert Altman's contemporary take on Chandler with The Long Goodbye as a primary influence on their film in the sense that The Big Lebowski " is just kind of informed by Chandler around the edges ".

PolyGram and Working Title Films, who had funded Fargo, backed The Big Lebowski with a budget of $ 15 million.

* " Viva Las Vegas " – written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman ; performed by Big Johnson ( with Bunny Lebowski ) and by Shawn Colvin ( closing credits ).

However, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote in the Chicago Reader, " To be sure, The Big Lebowski is packed with show-offy filmmaking and as a result is pretty entertaining.

An annual festival, the Lebowski Fest, began in Louisville, Kentucky, United States in 2002 with 150 fans showing up, and has since expanded to several other cities.

The Big Lebowski was voted as the 10th best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years by a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors with two criteria: " The movie had to communicate some inherent truth about the L. A. experience, and only one film per director was allowed on the list ".

Universal Studios Home Entertainment released a " Collector's Edition " DVD on October 18, 2005 with extra features that included an " introduction by Mortimer Young ", " Jeff Bridges ' Photography ", " Making of The Big Lebowski ", and " Production Notes ".

* The Big Lebowski and the Big Kahuna: Dudeism and Hawaiian Mysticism-Article breaking down the seven principles of Huna and comparing them with the modern spiritual movement of Dudeism.

More recently, some strips have served as an homage of sorts for The Big Lebowski, featuring Mooch as the Dude, with different characters quoting lines from other characters from the film.

He is also known for his frequent film collaborations with the Coen Brothers, including in Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou ?.

He first worked with the Coen Brothers in " Raising Arizona " ( 1987 ), he would go on to appear in " Barton Fink " ( 1991 ), " The Big Lebowski " ( 1998 ) and " O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A versatile actor comfortable with both comedy and drama, Turturro also had an extended collaboration with the Coen Brothers, appearing in their films Miller's Crossing ( 1990 ), Barton Fink ( 1991 ), The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ), and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The film begins with Jeff Lebowski buying cream at a Ralphs in Venice, CA.

* Gipsy Kings: A flamenco version with Spanish lyrics, released in 1988 and later featured in the film The Big Lebowski.

* The Big Lebowski, an iconic 1998 film featuring " The Dude ", an unemployed slacker with a laid-back approach to life that inspired the religion Dudeism

* In the 1998 Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski, Jeff " The Dude " Lebowski ( Jeff Bridges ) is dunked in his toilet by thugs who have mistaken him for someone else with the same name.

Meanwhile, films such as The Big Lebowski, which plucked actor Sam Elliott out of the Old West and into a Los Angeles bowling alley, and Midnight Cowboy, about a Southern-boy-turned-gigolo in New York, transplanted Western themes into modern settings for both purposes of parody and homage.

'" There is also a documentary about Lebowski Fest, entitled The Achievers.

Some films including people fitting the " fish-out-of-water " bill including The Big Lebowski and A Serious Man.

Big movies of this sub-genre would be " The Big Lebowski ", Dude, Where's My Car, Big Nothing, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, and Pineapple Express.

The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) was a flop on its initial release, yet became a cult classic and has been called " the first cult film of the Internet era.

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.

The Big Lebowski was a disappointment at the U. S. box office and received mixed reviews at the time of its release.

The next day, the titular " Big " Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, refuses The Dude's request.

Days later, the Big Lebowski contacts The Dude, revealing that Bunny has been kidnapped.

The Big Lebowski angrily confronts The Dude over his failure to hand over the money, and hands The Dude an envelope sent to him by the kidnappers which contains a severed toe, presumably Bunny's.

In a flash, The Dude unravels the whole scheme: when the Big Lebowski heard that Bunny was kidnapped, he used it as a pretense for an embezzlement scheme, in which he withdrew the ransom money from the family charity to keep for himself.

The Dude and Walter arrive at the Big Lebowski residence, finding Bunny back at home from her trip.

* David Huddleston as Jeffrey Lebowski, the " Big " Lebowski of the movie's title, is a wheelchair-bound ( he lost the use of his legs in the Korean War ) multi-millionaire who is married to Bunny and is Maude's father by his late wife.

* Tara Reid as Bunny Lebowski, the Big Lebowski's young " trophy wife.

The Big Lebowski was written around the same time as Barton Fink.

In The Big Lebowski we did write for John and Steve, but we didn't know who was getting the Jeff Bridges role ".

The Big Lebowski received its world premiere at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 1998 at the 1, 300 capacity Eccles Theater.