"Sometimes you eat the bear... and, well, sometimes the bear eats you".
El Dude es un personaje de culto, como lo es la película en que aparece. Quien no haya visto The Big Lebowski, de los hermanos Coen, debe verla lo antes posible porque es una de las mejores comedias de los últimos tiempos y His Dudeness (Jeff Bridges) es un verdadero arquetipo de esta época, un looser gringo espléndidamente retratado.
Copio tal cual un par de párrafos de la Very Short List (muy recomendable servicio, por cierto) que me ayudan a hablar de los méritos de la película:
It’s hard to believe that upon its release in 1998, The Big Lebowski wasn’t universally regarded as a masterpiece. (“Disjointed, incoherent, and even irritating,” sniffed the Los Angeles Times’s Kenneth Turan.) But now, as we view it through the haze of history, it’s impossible not to see the film, about an aging stoner’s Raymond Chandler–esque adventures, for what it is: a deceptively shaggy yet almost perfectly plotted comedy.
What endures from the Coen brothers’ transcendently effortless follow-up to the cutesy hit Fargo isn’t just its relentless quotability (“That rug really tied the room together”; “It don’t matter to Jesus!”) but the way that no character, scene, or joke is wasted, and every setup builds to a precise payoff. Beneath the pot jokes and Busby Berkeley dance sequences, there’s a recurring theme of educated and moneyed elitists’ resenting the movie’s slovenly protagonists. Though the Coens have been (fairly) accused of pretension over the years, for one film, at least, they clearly wished they were slobs.
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