After being clocked by Maude's henchmen, and having his new rug repossessed, Dude meets with Maude, the raging, sexy feminist daughter of the Big Lebowski.
@@balrog322 I believe it's a Dostoevsky reference if you read "The Idiot" there's a scene where "The Nihilists" are waiting for the main character outside and there's a whole conversation about them being nihilists.
yeah.... "they don't believe in anything" but the deep irony of the story and film is that they all believed in some money inside a suitcase, and one of them even sacrificed own flesh for that idea, money idea, a sort of circumcision of faith leap into such money visions for the unfaithful, the detail of the also circumcised tip of the cowboy boot is just a deep surreal brilliance joke on such "believers/non believers" and the extremes they would go, also ironic she was the only female in the group to sacrifice her bits, and it had to be my fave 80's singer, Aimee Mann The layers of mockery to the whole of Western Society from the richest to the broke (in the head as of pocket, not that the rich are any less broken) are so many in-built jabs within each other, like Russian dolls, and it takes a cowboy delivering his revelations on these characters and being of sorts the anchor as counterbalance to all of them as Will Rogers once was for America's heavy weights of the Teddy Roosevelt's era of larger than life personalities.... but also as another character off its own saddle, within such an oddball Americana tale in film about the other sides of such American invention as Lalaland. Not to forget he isn't the stranger new in town really from some off place zanier heartland, cowboy ranches have always been AT HOME all over in LA before even any filming crews came around. All of these weirdos came only after, the Nihilists not the first or last. It's a wink to all coming in circle where you less expect it. Sam Elliott finely rubricate that wink with his squinty eyes and old chap smile
That’s not literal... I’m so tired of people that don’t understand what “literally” means, lol. It’s a guy talking to a woman, people aren’t forces, they’re people.
@@stevestever8907 Hey Steve, you ever heard the phrase "take the stick outta your ass"???? It doesn't literally mean take out the stick that may or may not be in your ass, it's merely a turn of phrase.
@@lopamurble4056 Yes, but you're missing the point. In your example you didn't use 'literally' before the phrase. If you had said "literally take the stick outta your ass" you'd have been just as wrong. So your comment was even more pointless.
You must be either gay or a liberal. I guess you could be whatever flavor of gender confusion ya'll got going on these days. Cat's binary what-have-you.
Julianne Moore's Mid-Atlantic accent is perfect. She captures its original essence while accommodating phrases like "banging Jackie Treehorn, to use the parlance of our times" in hilarious fashion.
I see it as an homage to the 'classy' women characters portrayed in old '40s noir films. Her affectation aids in setting a noir vibe in a movie about a slacker looking for his rug.
Emp1231231 congratulations for picking up on the subconscious imagery. Wait until you realize the dude, Walter, and Donnie all represent different aspects of the male ego
@@alexmeyer6958 thats arguable. Lebowski is not egoless for sure, but he is actually not really that far from his true self. He does only what he loves, doesn't care about money or anything, doesn't care what other people think or do. If it was his choise, he wouldn't even start or attent all of the plot in this movie. He was just drawn into it.
Funny, another thing I never picked up, and it once again proves how the Dude - even though inebriated - is quite present most of the time, because all these things pop up in his dreams. Also like how he remembers the Lebowski achievers :)
4:50 The Dude is being offered a large sum of money but all that is on his mind is that carpet. We all gotta appreciate how good of a guy he is. He is never materialistic. He is also zero narcissism. All he really pursues in life is simplicity and peace. He is always chilled and laid back no matter what kind of shit he gets himself into.
I like how the first time the dude visits maude he helps himself to a drink without being offered but the second time Knox Harrington offers him one but he has to make it himself
I love how even after she mentions potentially compensating him $100K he (almost immediately) goes back to asking about the rug...and how casually Maude gives him the straightforward obvious answer. This movies entire dialog was GOLD.
excommando1 some men just can't say "dollar" so add that to the list of words men avoid to say like penis and vagina. Funny that bones and clams are also used in place of well you know lol This movie is a masterpiece.
@@frauleinhohenzollern8442 she's the most rational one of the main characters. Shows your own irrationality if you're unable to acknowledge that because of a political difference.
Always loved how Maude is the only person in the movie who had a full understanding of what was actually happening and yet she's so over the top that The Dude, and by extension us, don't really pay attention to her.
James K What exactly constitutes “mid-Atlantic”? I’m a lifelong Virginian, which pretty much the exact midpoint of the Atlantic, and haven’t heard anyone speak that way before.
When you have a nerdy friend you visit on an errand and they are trying to ramble on to you about shit you don't even understand, even though you would like to.
I still like the theory that Maude was behind everything. I think she took the money and got her father to go along with everything and put Dude in the middle of it so he could be the scapegoat if it went bad.
@@scottmatheson3346 there certainly is enough evidence to support what your saying. It’s just a couple of things don’t add up for me. Ok Bunny owed Jackie Treehorn money but it’s never said how much. Maude seemed more the likely suspect to me because all the money was a part of the foundation which she was the head of. Maybe she concocted the whole plan and agreed to pay off Bunny’s debt for her dad in exchange for his cooperation in stealing the foundations money. Along comes the perfect scapegoat with The Dude and the rest is up to him.
Every fucking sentence can be quoted in this fucking film, and it would get you likes, because they're good. What a masterpiece, man. What a fucking masterpiece. How do you write dialogues like that? Are there movies like that anymore? Even Coen brothers lost their own touch.
Have you watched "A serious man" by the Coen Brothers? In my opinion it should definitely be in the top 3 movies from them. For some reason it turned out to be a pretty obscure movie. Most people don't know of it unless they are hardcore Coen bros fans.
My favorite scene. When I turn 80 in thirty years I'm going to program my robotic health care aide to sound exactly like Maude. Or better yet, maybe I can program my Amazon Echo to sound and talk exactly like her---that wonderful high class blue blooded East Coast from the early 60's way of talking, that posh, Manhattan, almost British (but not quite) accent. So cosmopolitan.
Kinda odd in hindsight that Maud wanted someone with the same last name as her to be the father of her child. She wanted the child to be 100% polish i guess.
The father of a child has some claim to the child's last name and it can cause problems sometimes. In this case there would be no debate or argument required. Not that The Dude would have given a damn about it anyway, but Maude didn't know that.
Well on top of simply wanting a kid from a guy she knows would not want any responsibility raising him or her, the fact that this guy's last name is Lebowski was no doubt a big "Fuck you" to her father. The Big Lebowski dismissed him as a bum who will always lose. Yet said bum screwed his daughter and got her pregnant, which in turn would probably lower the allowance she gave him because she'd need that money to help raise her child. Putting him further in the doghouse.
Wait anybody notices the painting of a scissor on red background? It's like that scene where the dude is dreaming of those nihilists chasing him with huge scissors
