Ok, so the Coen brothers are true geniuses. Their range can go for miles in their films. From "Fargo" to "No Country for Old Men," their darker story lines have a unique Coen feel. So does their more feel good cult status ones, such as ours, "The Big Lebowski." I was just surprised that their work with Jeff Bridges specifically also has range. Jeff Bridges is indeed a talented actor when I think about it. He recently finally won himself an Oscar quite recently for a movie that I don't know much of but wasn't he the villain in "Iron Man"? He's also the protagonist anti-hero in this conventional Western remake that seems pretty worth seeing. Some of these roles may be forgettable I guess, but not the Dude. How does this relate to his royal Dudeness you might ask? That's the point, I'm not sure! I was just really shocked to see the Dude being a bad ass gun-slinging cowboy in a Coen work nonetheless. The theme song is also pretty cool. This just means, I guess, how much of a true cult classic the Big L really is. I can imagine "True Grit" making a smash in the box office and then that'll be that in the years to come, but the Dude, for better of for worse, has a destiny to stay in our hearts ever so subtly for a long time.
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