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12 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Smokey answers the question ... sort of.
 

 

I’ve told this story before, but I worked with one of his drummers a few years after the movie and Jimmie apparently really hated cursing and his scene was really hard to film for him. 

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On 7/5/2024 at 8:06 PM, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

In college, a bunch of my friends invited me to a Big Lebowski convention where everyone was gonna dress up like the dude and other characters. I told them I had never seen the movie before and they immediately made me sit down and watch it. That was over 20 years ago now, and I must have seen this a hundred times since. All time great, I crack up every time John Goodman dumps Donny's ashes all over The Dude.

This is not a joke. My last wishes include taking a Folgers can of my ashes and tossing them into the sea in Hawaii. 

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13 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

You’re killing your father Larry. 
 

 

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About the right age to have a dad named Arthur Digby.  

 

"He lives in North Hollywood on Radford, near the In n Out Burger"

 

"The In N Out Burger is on Camrose"

"....Near the In N Out Burger"

 

"Those are good burgers, Walter"

 

"Shut the fuck up, Donny" 

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On 1/19/2025 at 4:47 PM, Dbeasy said:

This is not a joke. My last wishes include taking a Folgers can of my ashes and tossing them into the sea in Hawaii. 

This is my very favorite scene in the movie. 
Like “Christmas Vacation” when Clark’s light bulbs get smashed by bags of dog food- not a word spoken. 

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I rewatched a bunch of X Files episodes last year and found the one where Mulder is in a Groundhog Day where his water bed leaks and there’s a bank heist gone wrong (Monday, from Season 6). Spotted something familiar

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I'm selfishly kinda bummed about the fact that John Goodman was too big to fit into the car the Coens had originally scripted the Dude to own-a LeBaron-because I had a '79 as my hand me down ride in high school and you know I could kinda sorta claim some degree of coolness all these years later.

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48 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

Is this the most well written movie ever made?

it’s a combination of unique writing and amazing performances giving us  extremely appealing characters.  I feel like with the wrong actors the movie would be odd and horribly forgettable. 

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I've said this before (maybe on this thread, I don't know), but via @henrygandorf I got a copy of The Big Lebowski script before the movie was released.

I vividly remember it for a couple of reasons. The first couple pages were introducing the actors playing the major roles, which was unusual. It was definitely a pre-production version of the screenplay. The first page starts with the voiceover (The Stranger) and the description was something like "a deep, gravelly voice. Sam Elliot, perhaps".  How fucking cool. 

Anyways, almost every word from the film was on the page.  Every "um", "yeah", "well", etc. Every beat. Nothing was improvised by the actors. I once sat down and watched the movie while reading the script. It had to be 99.5% accurate. The Coen Brothers are notorious for not having many revisions. 

 

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At least a few patients today still use the older machines, often in their homes, despite the occasional difficulty of finding replacement parts.[44]

Joan Headley of Post-Polio Health International said that as of May 28, 2008, about 30 patients in the US were still using an iron lung.[45] That figure may be inaccurately low; Houston alone had 19 iron lung patients living at home in 2008.[46]

Martha Mason of Lattimore, North Carolina, died on May 4, 2009, after spending 61 of her 72 years in an iron lung.[47]

On October 30, 2009, June Middleton of Melbourne, Australia, who had been entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the person who spent the longest time in an iron lung, died aged 83, having spent more than 60 years in her iron lung.[48]

In 2013, the Post-Polio Health International (PHI) organizations estimated that only six to eight iron lung users were in the United States; as of 2017, its executive director knew of none. Press reports then emerged, however, of at least three (perhaps the last three)[49] users of such devices,[50] sparking interest amongst those in the makerspace community such as Naomi Wu[51] in the manufacture of the obsolete components, particularly the gaskets.[52][53]

In 2021, the National Public Radio programs Radio Diaries and All Things Considered gave a report on Martha Lillard, one of the last remaining Americans depending on the daily use of an iron lung, which she had been using since 1953. In her interview, she reported that she was having problems obtaining replacement parts to keep her machine working properly.[54]

On March 11, 2024, Paul Alexander of Dallas, Texas, United States, died at the age of 78. He had been confined to an iron lung for 72 years from the age of six, longer than anyone, and was the last man living in an iron lung. With his death, Martha Lillard is the only person in the U.S. known to use an iron lung.[55]

 

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3 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

Is this the most well written movie ever made?

The brilliance (maybe not?) of it all is that there was NO improv. You would think a movie this well acted and with so much room for movement would be full of improv, but that isn’t how the Cohen Bros work. I was amazed to find out every line was pretty much word for word with the script. Also makes the writing even better. 

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Anyways, almost every word from the film was on the page.  Every "um", "yeah", "well", etc. Every beat. Nothing was improvised by the actors. I once sat down and watched the movie while reading the script. It had to be 99.5% accurate. The Coen Brothers are notorious for not having many revisions. 
 


Yep. Peter Stormarme (nihilist) talks about how while filming Fargo (Grimsrud) during a first cut of a scene he said "we stop at the pancakes house" and the Coens immediately yelled 'cut'. They told him to check his script and to read it as written (we stop at pancakes house). He said when read the line he figured it was just a simple mistake by the typist to leave out the word 'the', but then understood it was intentional & integral to his character's speech patterns. He said that's when understood that not only did the Coens know every single word of their script, they considered all of them to be essential, and it was his job as an actor to deliver every word with that level of respect.
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Mentioning Stormare brings up another memory. It's been almost 30 years so @henrygandorf might be able to correct me if I'm misremembering this story. 

HG and I were young aspiring film writers. We spent a summer in LA, and HG interned at Meg Ryan's production company. He'd bring back dozens of scripts (maybe that's where he got the Big Lebowski screenplay). Anyways I read every one of these scripts that came through, and was very up to date on the business and knew all the good screenwriters. 

During SXSW around 1998, HG and I were at Paradise ($2 Dos Equis pints on Thursdays!) and I saw two guys sitting by themselves at a table. I did a double take and told HG, "That's Andrew Kevin Walker and Brian Helgeland." Nobodies to any normal person, but practically gods to us. Andrew Kevin Walker wrote Se7en. Brian Helgeland wrote the screenplay for L.A. Confidential. We walked up to the table and introduced ourselves...I think they were shocked anyone recognized them, and were happy for us to sit down and chat with them for a while. I had already read Andrew Kevin Walker's upcoming film, 8mm (featuring Stormare), so that was an in to make conversation. That was kind of a magical time for movies. I miss it. 

 

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16 hours ago, Celery Man said:

I rewatched a bunch of X Files episodes last year and found the one where Mulder is in a Groundhog Day where his water bed leaks and there’s a bank heist gone wrong (Monday, from Season 6). Spotted something familiar

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Ah man… lodged where?

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5 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Mentioning Stormare brings up another memory. It's been almost 30 years so @henrygandorf might be able to correct me if I'm misremembering this story. 

HG and I were young aspiring film writers. We spent a summer in LA, and HG interned at Meg Ryan's production company. He'd bring back dozens of scripts (maybe that's where he got the Big Lebowski screenplay). Anyways I read every one of these scripts that came through, and was very up to date on the business and knew all the good screenwriters. 

During SXSW around 1998, HG and I were at Paradise ($2 Dos Equis pints on Thursdays!) and I saw two guys sitting by themselves at a table. I did a double take and told HG, "That's Andrew Kevin Walker and Brian Helgeland." Nobodies to any normal person, but practically gods to us. Andrew Kevin Walker wrote Se7en. Brian Helgeland wrote the screenplay for L.A. Confidential. We walked up to the table and introduced ourselves...I think they were shocked anyone recognized them, and were happy for us to sit down and chat with them for a while. I had already read Andrew Kevin Walker's upcoming film, 8mm (featuring Stormare), so that was an in to make conversation. That was kind of a magical time for movies. I miss it. 

 

i will correct you.

you recognized helgaland, he had payback coming out and was 1-2 years removed from la confidential, which we obviously loved, and he was on fire. we introduced ourselves, and he was like "then you must know andy walker", which we had to put together fast was andrew kevin walker, and then we were like oh wow, and sat ourselves down to hang out with them.

they were sitting with 2 chicks. arguably the ugliest 2 chicks in the bar.

also it might've been austin heart of film or somethig, not sx.

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