The Big Lebowski Page #5

Synopsis: When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Production: Gramercy Pictures
  4 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
R
Year:
1998
117 min
6,469 Views


WALTER:

This was a valued, uh.

Donny, the strike-scoring bowler, enters and sits next Walter.

DONNY:

What tied the room together, Dude?

WALTER:

Were you listening to the story,

Donny?

DONNY:

What--

WALTER:

Were you listening to the Dude's

story?

DONNY:

I was bowling--

WALTER:

So you have no frame of reference,

Donny. You're like a child who

wanders in in the middle of a movie

and wants to know--

DUDE:

What's your point, Walter?

WALTER:

There's no f***ing reason--here's my

point, Dude--there's no f***ing reason--

DONNY:

Yeah Walter, what's your point?

WALTER:

Huh?

DUDE:

What's the point of--we all know who

was at fault, so what the f*** are

you talking about?

WALTER:

Huh? No! What the f*** are you

talking--I'm not--we're talking about

unchecked aggression here--

DONNY:

What the f*** is he talking about?

DUDE:

My rug.

WALTER:

Forget it, Donny. You're out of

your element.

DUDE:

This Chinaman who peed on my rug, I

can't go give him a bill so what the

f*** are you talking about?

WALTER:

What the f*** are you talking about?!

This Chinaman is not the issue! I'm

talking about drawing a line in the

sand, Dude. Across this line you do

not, uh--and also, Dude, Chinaman is

not the preferred, uh. . . Asian-

American. Please.

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