History Awesome / TheBigLebowski

* The Big Lebowski's pain, grief and anger when he confronts The Dude with the severed toe, when you realize he's ''faking''. If he even believes Bunny is kidnapped, he has no intention of paying the ransom to get her back as long as he has The Dude to take the blame for the missing money; he's just putting on a show for Brandt, or maybe even just The Dude. Makes you wonder if that leg twitch when Walter throws him on the floor was an acting mistake. . .

-->'''Chief of Police of Malibu: Mr. Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town. You don't draw shit, Lebowski. Now we got a nice, quiet little beach community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet. So let me make something plain. I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I don't like your jerk-off face. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off. Do I make myself clear?
-->'''The Dude''': I'm sorry, I wasn't listening.

-->'''Chief of Police of Malibu[[lablenote:]] real reactionary [[labelnote/]]''': Mr. Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town. You don't draw shit, Lebowski. Now we got a nice, quiet little beach community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet. So let me make something plain. I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I don't like your jerk-off face. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off. Do I make myself clear?

* The Malibu Police Chief asking if his long and cautionary TheReasonYouSuckSpeech was clear only to get a "Sorry, I wasn't listening" reply from The Dude. His subsequent mug in the face almost comes out justified or sympathetical.
* Donny's ''out of his element'' questions never cease to entertain.
-->'''The Dude''': I don't need your fucking sympathy, man [Walter]. I need my fucking Johnson.
-->'''Donny''': What do you need that for?

-->'''The Dude''': It's like [[VladimirLenin Lenin]] said [...]
-->'''Donny''': [[TheBeatles I am the Walrus]]?
* The Dude does not particularly abides Treehorn's adult ''software'', [[ComicallyMissingThePoint he still jerks manually]].
* The thug who defaces the rug pronouncing "Ever thus to deadbeats" in the process, as in making a political point a la "Syc Semper Tyrannis" in the assasinations of JuliusCaesar and AbrahamLincoln.

* And how can anyone forget after receiving a verbal beating by The Big Lebowski, The Dude, calm as ever, just puts on his sunglasses and delivers a perfectly cool "Fuck it."

* Maude Lebowski: "Love me, Jeffrey." And as it happens, she ends up knocked up (as planned) from that one night stand.

** Although Walter might claim a CMoA back from him; once Jesus has strutted off, Walter's nonchalant mutter of "Eight-year-olds, Dude," to the Dude (reminding everyone that Jesus is a convicted pederast) suggests that he's unimpressed despite the bluster, and simply finds Jesus and his taunts not worth responding to. Which, in light of the fact that throughout the movie Walter will otherwise respond to ''any'' insult, real or imagined, with bombastic HairTriggerTemper sensitivity perhaps gives an indication for the sheer level of contempt he views Jesus with.

** Although Walter might claim a CMoA back from him; once Jesus has strutted off, Walter's nonchalant mutter of "Eight-year-olds, Dude," to the Dude suggests that he's unimpressed despite the bluster, and simply finds Jesus and his taunts not worth responding to. Which, in light of the fact that throughout the movie Walter will otherwise respond to ''any'' insult, real or imagined, with bombastic HairTriggerTemper sensitivity perhaps gives an indication for the sheer level of contempt he views Jesus with.
** The Dude somehow manages to make a LameComeback one by offering it in an utterly unconcerned fashion in the face of Jesus' bluster about he and his bowling partner will "fuck you up":
-->''[Utterly nonchalant and calm]'' Yeah, well, you know, that's just like... uh... your opinion man.

* Walter, after spending most of the movie being a [[HairTriggerTemper hot-headed]] [[TheLoad load]] who generally gets the Dude into more trouble than necessary, finally proves himself useful with a LetsGetDangerous moment in which he confronts the Nihilists, who are threatening him, the Dude, and Donny, for money. Not only does he pretty accurately see that they're mostly bark rather than bite ("Don't worry Donny, these men are cowards, they won't harm us.") and that they're mainly {{Wangst}}y poseurs ("''Fair''?! Who's the fucking ''nihilists'' around, you bunch of fucking crybabies?!"), but he proceeds to more-or-less single-handedly hand each of them their asses when things finally get physical. ('''"ANTI-SEMITE!!!"'''):

* Walter, after spending most of the movie being a [[HairTriggerTemper hot-headed]] [[TheLoad load]] who generally gets the Dude into more trouble than necessary, finally proves himself useful with a LetsGetDangerous moment in which he confronts the Nihilists, who are threatening him, the Dude, and Donny, for money. Not only does he pretty accurately see that they're mostly bark rather than bite ("Don't worry Donny, these men are cowards, they won't harm us.") and that they're mainly {{Wangst}}y poseurs ("''Fair''?! Who're the fucking ''nihilists'' here?!"), but he proceeds to more-or-less single-handedly hand each of them their asses when things finally get physical. ('''"ANTI-SEMITE!!!"'''):

* "Jesus" (the pederast bowler) has something of a Crowning Moment of Awesome when he tells off Walter -- "You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger till it goes 'click.'" And Walter has no retort.

'''The Dude:''' ''[Almost proud]'' Well, yeah!

* Walter, after spending most of the movie being a [[HairTriggerTemper hot-headed]] [[TheLoad load]] who generally gets the Dude into more trouble than necessary, finally proves himself useful with a LetsGetDangerous moment in which he confronts the Nihilists, who are threatening him, the Dude and Donny, for money. Not only does he pretty accurately see that they're mostly bark rather than bite ("Don't worry Donny, these men are cowards, they won't harm us.") and that they're mainly {{Wangst}}y poseurs ("''Fair''?! Who're the fucking ''nihilists'' here?!"), but he proceeds to more-or-less single-handedly hand each of them their asses when things finally get physical. ('''"ANTI-SEMITE!!!"'''):

* Walter, after spending most of the movie being a [[HairTriggerTemper hot-headed]] [[TheLoad load]] who generally gets the Dude into more trouble than necessary, finally proves himself useful with a LetsGetDangerous moment in which he confronts the Nihilists, who are threatening him, the Dude and Walter, for money. Not only does he pretty accurately see that they're mostly bark rather than bite ("Don't worry Donny, these men are cowards, they won't harm us.") and that they're mainly {{Wangst}}y poseurs ("''Fair''?! Who're the fucking ''nihilists'' here?!"), but he proceeds to more-or-less single-handedly hand each of them their asses when things finally get physical. ('''"ANTI-SEMITE!!!"'''):

'''The Dude:''' ''[Almost proud]'' Well, yeah!\\

-->'''The Dude:''' You thought that Bunny had been kidnapped and you were fuckin' glad, man. You could use it as an excuse to make some money disappear. All you needed was a sap to pin it on! You'd just met me! You human... paraquat! You figured 'Oh, here's a loser', you know? A deadbeat, someone the square community won't give a shit about.
'''The Big Lebowski:''' Well, aren't you?
'''The Dude:''' ''[Almost proud]'' Well, yeah!

* The movie itself counts as one for the Coen Brothers. Name another of their works that comes half as close to the levels of insanity and awesomeness that this one does. Easily one of the most CrazyAwesome movies ever, making it a prime example of CMoA in filmmaking.

'''Walter:''' ''[[TranquilFury]'' Fuck you.\\

* Walter [[LetsGetDangerous finally proves himself useful]], and accuses one of the Nihilists of being an "Anti-Semite!"
** Walter was always useful. [[spoiler: All of his theories end up being true.]] He's not wrong, he's just an asshole.
*** Well, except for The Big Lebowski not being crippled...
*** 'Right' is not the same thing as 'useful'.
* "What's mine is mine."
** [=~Let's Get Dangerous~=]: '''"ANTI-SEMITE!!!"'''

*** Well, except for The Big Lebowski not being crippled...

* Where do we begin? Putting "the whole movie" isn't acceptable. But a simple one is where The Dude nails down a plank infront of his door and puts a chair against it to stop it from opening. [[spoiler: Too bad it opens the other way!]] It makes a re-appearance later: [[spoiler: The Dude walks home and trips on it.]]