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17 unusual facts about The Big Lebowski


Adam Bertocci

On January 6, 2010, Bertocci posted "Two Gentlemen of Lebowski", a melding of The Big Lebowski with the language and writing style of William Shakespeare.

Anelosimus dude

The name A. dude derives from "The Dude," a character in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski.

Barry Asher

He was the bowling technical advisor for the film The Big Lebowski (1998).

Dom Irrera

His film work includes a featured role in Robert Townsend's Hollywood Shuffle, a cameo in the Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski, The Fourth Tenor, starring old pal Rodney Dangerfield, and he played himself in the Rodney Dangerfield / Dom DeLuise film The Godson.

Dudeism

In August 2011, a "Dudeist self-help book" employing life lessons from The Big Lebowski and other sources, entitled The Abide Guide was published by Ulysses Press.

Dudeism is a philosophy and lifestyle inspired by the modern-day fictional character Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, as portrayed by Jeff Bridges in the Coen Brothers' 1998 film The Big Lebowski.

In November 2013 a compilation of mostly-scholarly essays edited by Benjamin which dissected and celebrated The Big Lebowski titled Lebowski 101 was published by the Church.

Duder

"The Dude" or "The Duder" is a character from the movie, The Big Lebowski.

Glück das mir verblieb

The song was used in the Coen brothers film The Big Lebowski, and included on the film's soundtrack.

Greg Hates Car Culture

Released on History of the Future, only 500 copies of it were pressed onto 12" vinyl. "Fuck A Stranger In The Ass" samples The Big Lebowski. "AQAP" samples the fifth episode of Kindred: The Embraced.

Laziness

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

Lebowski Fest

Lebowski Fest is an annual festival that began in 2002 in Louisville, Kentucky, celebrating the 1998 cult film "The Big Lebowski" by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.

Mutts

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.

Piero Piccioni

His song "Traffic Boom" was featured as the song for the fictional Logjammin movie-within-a-movie in The Big Lebowski.

Pinching Penny

The Big Lebowski, Bottle Rocket and The Asphalt Jungle were also sited as films that had an affect on the film's tone, naturally along with the films of Guy Ritchie, predominately Snatch and Rocknrolla.

Tumbleweed

(One example is in the opening credits of the film The Big Lebowski.)

Warren Keith

Among other films, Keith has acted in four films by the Coen brothers; he played an FBI Agent in the Coen brother's film Raising Arizona and the fastidious funeral director in The Big Lebowski.


London Screenwriters' Festival

Tim Bevan - Bevan is an English film producer, producing such films as Four Weddings and a Funeral,The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Shaun of the Dead, and Love Actually.

Shomer Shabbat

In the movie The Big Lebowski, Walter Sobchak, played by John Goodman, the main character's best friend claims to be Shomer Shabbos and refuses to bowl on Shabbos.

Teo Usuelli

He is probably best known for the main theme of the giallo film Amuck!, "Piacere Sequence", that was later used in The Big Lebowski, in an episode of the TV-series Spaced and in the documentary film How to Draw a Bunny.

The Breakfast

Other Freakout themes have included The Big Lebowski and the Star Wars series, where the band has played sets that interspersed their own music with songs from the movies.