Big_Lebowski_Film_Noir

Big Lebowski Film Noir “All the Dude wants is his rug back.” When thinking about the “film noir” genre, one’s thoughts usually turn to a private detective in a dark alley smoking a cigarette, wearing a trench coat and a fedora. What about a lazy bum in a bowling alley drinking a white russian and wearing a pair of jelly sandals' Believe it or not, the Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski falls into the genre of film noir. It takes all of the conventions of the genre and turns them upside down in a hilarious “whodunit.” Jeffery “the Dude” Lebowski gets embroiled in a plot full of deceit, twists, turns and nihilists all in search of a new rug. The plot of The Big Lebowski has many film noir themes, such as greed and deceit. In the beginning of the movie two thugs break into the Dude’s apartment and tell him that his wife owes money to someone named Jackie Treehorn. They have mistaken the unmarried Dude for another Jeffrey Lebowski who is a millionaire. When they realized this, the thugs urinate on the Dude’s rug. In an attempt to be compensated, the Dude finds the millionaire dude, lebowski, money, film, millionaire, ransom, noir, instead, inside, dude’s, apartment, wife, very, rug, out, nihilists, movie, maude, lebowski’s, gets, genre, even, bowling, alley, treehorn, thugs, tells, scenes, one, offers, maude’s, light, large, jackie, femme