History Awesome / TheBigLebowski

* The Dude is very good at throwing someone's words right back in their face. After Maude's pretentious speech involving feminist sexuality, Maude makes a reference to Bunny Lebowski staring in, "that beaver picture." The Dude responds, "You mean ''vagina''?"

** Actually, when you think about it, the Big Lebowski barely gets anything out of his whole gambit: he never gets the money, Maude now has even more leverage over him, he wasted probably a ton of money on the whole thing, and he hasn't gotten rid of bunny. If anything, he's now even worse off than what he was.
* "Jesus" (the pederast bowler) has something of a 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.
** Although Walter might claim a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome 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 [[UnknownRival 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.

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

* 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. . .

** He then proceeds to snark at the goons by pointing out that he's clearly not a millionaire and making fun of them for not recognizing a bowling ball, The Dude give ''no shits''.

* The movie itself counts as one for Creator/TheCoenBrothers. 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 awesome movies ever, making it a prime example of SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome in filmmaking. Sure, [[MagnumOpusDissonance the Coens themselves don't personally consider it among their best films]], but that's just, like, their opinion, man.

* The movie itself counts as one for Creator/TheCoenBrothers. 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 awesome movies ever, making it a prime example of SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome in filmmaking.

'''Walter:''' [{BringIt Come and get it.]]\\

* 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 ("Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?" "No, it's alright, Donny; these men are cowards.") and that they're mainly {{Wangst}}y poseurs ("''Fair''?! Who's the fucking ''nihilists'' around here, 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:''' Come and get it.\\

** Although Walter might claim a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome 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.

-->'''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. ''(The chief of police beans him in the face with a coffee cup)'' OW! Fucking fascist!

* The movie itself counts as one for Creator/TheCoenBrothers. 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 SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome in filmmaking.

* A meta-example that's Awesome, Funny, and Heartwarming all in one: when John Goodman got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxOWoHxAAY Jeff Bridges gave a speech in Goodman's honor...]] while ''in character as The Dude.''

* Even better, it's actually a version of Walter's Eulogy for Donney from the end of the movie.

** The utter ease with which he delivers the ass-kicking of the nihilists deserves further mention. Without breaking a sweat, Walter takes out one by hurling a ''bowling ball'' at his chest, then he punches out the sword-wielding one and proceeds to ''bite off his ear'', and finally he beats the one attacking the Dude with his toolbox. The nihilists had no idea that they were BullyingADragon.

* 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 here, 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!!!"'''):

*** Him humiliating The Big Lebowski by tossing him off his chair. After putting The Dude through hell over a fake kidnapping it was nice to see him get some kind of comeuppance.

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

-->''Where's the fucking money, Lebowski?''
* "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.

* 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."

* A meta-example that's Awesome, Funny, and Heartwarming all in one: when John Goodman got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Jeff Bridges gave a speech in Goodman's honor... while ''in character as The Dude.''

** Also, even though he is a loud-mouthed, over-reacting asshole, every single theory Walter advances [[spoiler: ends up being absolutely correct]].

-->'''The Dude:''' [[spoiler: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.\\

-->''[[spoiler:Where's the fucking money, Lebowski?]]''

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

* The Big Lebowski's pain, grief and anger when he confronts The Dude with the severed toe, when you realize [[spoiler: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. . .]]

** Also, even though he is a loud-mouthed, over-reacting asshole, every single theory Walter advances [[spoiler: ends up being absolutely correct]]

* The movie itself counts as one for Creator/TheCoenBrothers. 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 CrowningMomentOfAwesome in filmmaking.

** Although Walter might claim a MomentOfAwesome 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.

** The utter ease with which he delivers the ass-kicking of the nihilists deserves further mention. Without breaking a sweat, Walter takes out one by hurling a ''bowling ball'' at his chest, then he punches out the sword-wielding one, and finally he ''bites off the other one's ear''. The nihilists had no idea that they were BullyingADragon.

** The Dude also gets one in this scene when, after the nihilists threaten to kill the girl if they don't get the money, he snaps "You don't ''have'' the girl, dipshits! We know you never did!"

* 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 CrowningMomentOfAwesome in filmmaking.

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-->'''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.\\

-->''Where's the fucking money, Lebowski?''

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