The Big Lebowski Movie Details
The Big Lebowski taglines:They figured he was a lazy time wasting slacker. They were right.
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| Directors: Joel Coen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 out of 163,656 votes |
“The Big Lebowski” 1998 by Joel Coen – Movie Goofs
“The Big Lebowski” Plot Summary
“Dude” Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
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“The Big Lebowski” Goofs List
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Walter draws the firearm and the Dude says, “Man, they’re calling the cops.” The cops show up as they are leaving. A call from Smokey and Dude and Walter’s tournament advancement imply that they stayed long enough to win the round. This is presumably a sly comment on the lethargic response time of LAPD to what they consider a non-urgent call.
- Continuity: When Dude is attacked in his bathroom, there are two toilet bowl brush holders to the left of the toilet. During the course of the fight, the position of the blue holder changes – it goes from standing to lying on its side and then back to standing.
- Anachronisms: When Walter, The Dude and Donny are sitting at the bar in the bowling alley, discussing the kidnappers, Donny’s can of Slice and a can of Pepsi are both newer, post-1991 designs.
- Anachronisms: Post-1991 cars can be seen in the background where Walter and The Dude are sitting and having their coffee in the diner. Another, a black Nissan Maxima, drives past as The Dude is thrown from a taxicab in a later scene.
- Crew or equipment visible: When The Dude is driving, and first notices the blue Volkswagen following him, the hood-mounted camera equipment is reflected in his sunglasses.
- Revealing mistakes: When The Dude mixes a White Russian during the second visit with Maude, he adds powdered milk to the glass, then picks up an entirely different pre-mixed White Russian.
- Continuity: The mat in front of the toilet disappears and reappears between shots.
- Continuity: When the Dude and Walter are scattering Donny’s ashes, the time of day changes and the waves change direction.
- Continuity: When the Dude is reading the ransom note at The Big Lebowski’s home, the joint he is smoking is in his hand. When the shot focuses on him, it’s in his mouth. This occurs twice.
- Continuity: When The Dude is in the bathtub smoking a joint with all of the candles lit, the Nihilists come in and throw the ferret in the tub with him. There are four candles in the corner to the left of The Dude. When The Dude starts thrashing around he puts three of the four candles out with the water and when it cuts away then goes back to him, the three candles that were out are lit and the one candle that was still lit is out.
- Anachronisms: In the opening sequence, one man (who later turns out to be Jesus’ bowling partner) is bowling with teal Rhino Pro bowling ball which was not available until 1993.
- Continuity: When Walter jumps out of the car at the drop-off point, he loses control of the Uzi and it shoots out the Dude’s left tail light. But when the Dude recovers the car from the police, the same tail light is perfectly normal.
- Crew or equipment visible: When The Dude and Walter are making the money drop off, after Walter jumps out and The Dude crashes the car, when The Dude runs out saying “We have the money,” police lights blocking off the road they are filming on are clearly visible.
- Anachronisms: The car Ulli drives in the adult movie “Logjammin”‘ is a BMW E36 convertible. Production of this car did not start before 1993.
- Revealing mistakes: The ball that the Jesus rolls down the lane is on lane 23, yet the lane number is reversed, as is lane number 24, indicating a flipped shot.
- Continuity: After Walter bails out of the car, he limps favoring his left leg. That night after bowling, when walking away from the lanes, he favors his other leg.
- Continuity: When The Dude is at Jackie Treehorn’s and he rubs the pad of paper with a pencil revealing Treehorn’s drawing of a naked man, The Dude tears the page off the pad and quickly crumples and shoves the paper into his pocket. Later while in the Chief of Police of Malibu’s office and the Chief is going through The Dude’s wallet, the same paper he tore off of Treehorn’s pad is neatly folded in the wallet, with no sign of previous crumpling.
- Continuity: When the blond thug plunges the Dude’s head repeatedly into the toilet we see the water in the bowl is milky white from the exploded carton of half-and-half. Later when the Dude is leaning against the wall and reaches into the toilet to retrieve his sunglasses, the water is clear.
- Continuity: When the Dude is told about the kidnapping, Mozart’s Requiem is playing in the background on Big Lebowski’s HiFi. However, the timeline of the music does not correspond to the actual conversation.
- Revealing mistakes: When the thug with blonde hair is rushing with the Dude towards the toilet, the Dude’s hair is already wet before his head is shoved in the toilet.
- Continuity: When the Dude is at the Malibu police office, the position of the cup of coffee of the officer changes during different shots. When the Dude falls on his desk, he puts his cup of coffee on the white paper on his desk. In the next shot the cup is on the edge of the white paper. Next shot it moves a little bit towards the officer. And then on the next shot it is again on the edge of the white paper.
- Continuity: At the Malibu police office the officer looks at his value club card and throws it down to the side of the white paper. In the next shot when the officer looks at the note from Treehorn’s house, the value club card is lying oblique on the right of the officer’s hand. In the next shot the card is lying again on top of the white paper, and partially covered by the wallet. The other objects (wallet, notes that were in the wallet, cup of coffee) also change position in different shots.
- Anachronisms: Quite a few of the various bowling balls and shoes, both used and background props, were not commercially available until well after 1991.
- Anachronisms: Jesus Quintana’s wrist brace wasn’t made till 1996.
- Factual errors: When the Dude, Walter and Donny are eating the burgers they supposedly got at In-n-Out, the cups they drink from are not white with a ring of red palm trees, which is the way the cups are at that chain.
- Continuity: When the blond thug in the opening scene drops the bowling ball, the tile on the floor is different than when he picks the ball off the floor.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the Dude calls Walter on Shabbas to pick him up after helping Maude conceive, his mouth eventually stops matching his words.
- Miscellaneous: When Walter and the Dude are on the cliff to spread the ashes and Walter is giving his speech, you can see dust in the Dude’s and Walter’s hair and on Walter’s forehead probably from a previous take.
- Anachronisms: The first sex offender laws, like those which would require Jesus Quintana to notify his neighbors of his paedophilic record, weren’t implemented in California until 1996.
- Anachronisms: During the opening scene, in which the camera moves back to show several bowlers release at the foul line, one bowler rolls a translucent bowling ball. The ball, an Ebonite Clear Wolf, was not released until the mid 1990s, well after the events of the movie took place (1991).
- Continuity: While the Dude, Walter, and Donnie talk about the carpet pissers at the Bowling Alley, the bowlers in the next lane (they can be seen behind Walter) change in incongruous ways. Watch for the big black guy and the big white guy with the pony tail. Also watch the movement of the waitress, which is incongruous. She covers 20 meters within the time it takes the Dude to say “Fuckin’-A”.
- Continuity: In the opening scene with the various bowlers, the big African-American bowler throws an orange ball, but the ball that is shown smashing one pin against the other is blue. This is repeated with the next bowler, who throws a wine red ball but the ball that arrives is red-blue.
- Errors in geography: As the Dude is making his way back from Jackie Treehorn’s pad in Malibu to his own apartment in Venice, he is thrown out of the cab and passed by Bunny in her red convertible. However, if Bunny indeed had been in Palm Springs as Brandt later says, there’s no way she would have passed along that route on her way home to Pasadena.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the bathtub scene, The Dude incorrectly refers to the Nihilists’ animal as a “marmot” though it is actually a ferret. However, it is possible that The Dude is not familiar with the difference and may not be a goof by the writers.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When The Dude is talking to Da Fino in his car through the open driver’s side window, we hear music playing on the car stereo. When Da Fino gets out of the car and the door is shut behind him, the volume of the music drops as if the window were shut.
- Crew or equipment visible: At the end of the Gutterballs sequence, when the bowling pins are knoc
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