jasonbaldwin:

merlin:

“My Business Papers”

Dan’s cover letter.

The Big Lebowski (1998) - Memorable quotes

Younger Cop: And was there anything of value in the car?
The Dude: Oh, uh, yeah, uh… a tape deck, some Creedence tapes, and there was a, uh… uh, my briefcase.
Younger Cop: [expectant pause] In the briefcase?
The Dude: Uh, uh, papers, um, just papers, uh, you know, uh, my papers, business papers.
Younger Cop: And what do you do, sir?
The Dude: I’m unemployed.

I stopped counting how many times I’ve watched this movie, but I *did* use it to inaugurate the Apple TV I got yesterday.

Eight-year-olds, dude.

I still remember the one semester in college where at every movie watching gathering I went to, somehow a plurality of the room had not seen The Big Lebowski. I practically brought the DVD every time I went anywhere, just in case.

I am still astounded at how rich the script is. There are of course stronger plots in films (it’s a shaggy dog story that’s almost all shag, no dog), but the way the script uses and reuses language constantly blows my mind.

Like Python (the flying circus, not the one with the whitespace) it’s been quoted to death by that kind of nerd friend, but like Python, it is so rich that you can lean away from the stuff that gets damaged from overuse (your “Shut the fuck up, Donny” or your “Nobody fucks with the Jesus”) and still find endless veins to mine.

While Dan and Merlin have been making a strong case for “Calmer than you are”, I still think all my favorite underrated hilarious lines are in this one scene:

Any movie in which one minor character can, in 1 minute drop both “I don’t like your jerkoff name, I don’t like your jerkoff face, I don’t like your jerkoff behavior and I don’t like you…jerkoff” AND “keep your ugly fuckin’ goldbrickin’ ass out of my beach community”, that is a film comedy for the ages and no mistake.