The Big Lebowski - The Dude/Intro Scene (1080p)

[@katomiler843]

"The Big Lebowski" a modern masterpiece, from start to finish... top to bottom.

[@chrisstanley8053]

Saw this in the theater. I was 18 years old. Left knowing I had just watched something iconic when it was over. One of the all-time greats.

[@dayra6425]

I watch it as soon as it went to dvd .. I was also 18 .. I hated it .. the second time I watched it couldn’t believe how great it was..

[@richierhodes8411]

saw it in jr high with my dad as one of his infamous pay for 1 movie sneak in2 another one for free days loved it so much ended up being bad stealing cash from local library donation jar and buying the movie script book of it at the local borders bookshop cafe then next allowance felt guilty and put the money back in the tray i also did this around the same time by stealing a wrestling magazine and candy bar from local circle k and again felt bad and took it back with money to the clerk and got thank you for honesty speech and only times i ever shoplifted still feel bad all these years even tho i paid back and have hated thieves ever since lol.

[@hklegomaster]

Watched when I was 16 with my older brother and I nearly died laughing when Walter fought the nihilists

[@gswhipkey1]

Go Wolfpack! Typing this from Raleigh 😆

[@Unknown-bq9id]

I like how Sam Elliott narrates this--like he's narrating a Western, and no one told him what the movie really was about...

[@johnstadler9643]

He's credited as the "stranger"

[@nmarbletoe8210]

@@johnstadler9643 my theory is that he is an alien taking human form to study the wildlife of our planet

[@reallyhappenings5597]

Yeah because the movie is a take on the Western

[@jerrykinnin7941]

Ive never heard the Sam Elliott was an alien narrating this. Interesting.

[@WobblesandBean]

@@nmarbletoe8210 That's how I always viewed him, like a Texan version of Ford Prefect

[@odoylerules03]

The expression on the cashier's face as she waits for him to write a check for .69 cents

[@MikeNaples]

She had that bored zombie expression from the gitgo. Probably used to assholes like the Dude paying for inexpensive stuff with checks while stoned and wearing a robe.

[@ars_paulina]

I was looking for this comment...

[@THE-WAY_THE-TRUTH_THE-LIFE.]

@@MikeNaples Just take it easy man.

[@nonameman7114]

@@MikeNaples that’s just like your opinion man

[@blackberyy3450]

69 likes

[@chuckiejoy]

I ALWAYS watch this movie on my birthday. Best bday gift I've given myself

[@sethkaicer319]

Pure unadulterated genius only comes along every once in awhile.

[@normholth577]

Such a great film. No one could have done the narration better.

[@jonahhillmann]

This intro is like the warm blanket of movies

[@NickThorbjørnsen2207]

Sam Elliotts voice is like a warm blanket.

[@jakep1979]

69 cents for a Liter of Milk. That's almost 6 times less then what you pay today! oh please take me back there.

[@Joseph-rx9tp]

That's half and half. Can't make white russsians with milk!

[@supremepartydude]

As a dude living in L A in the early 90s this film is me just without the bathrobe at Ralphs part. Rock on dude!

[@virus2003]

You were naked at Ralphs?

[@crimsonpride9975]

A check for 69 cents? Come on, dude, you could've found that under your rug back home!

[@glowiever]

he was too darn lazy to carry cash

[@WobblesandBean]

Writing a check for an amount less than what it costs to cash the damn thing is so very much The Dude.

[@Andy-Mesa]

A postdated check. It's dated 9/11 and "tomorrow's already the 10th", according to Marty.

[@terminallystupid1123]

that rug really tied the room together, man

[@johnprovince5304]

I saw this in the theater and was the only one laughing.

[@yandhi5016]

This part was not that funny imo. Certainly amusing but not like “laughing” funny

[@erikread3945]

@@yandhi5016 I lost it, when he paid the 69 cent milk with a check :D

[@jackgrimaldi8685]

@@yandhi5016 Pretty sure by "this" he meant he saw the movie in the theater. Did you think he meant he just saw this opening scene, laughed, and then walked out of the theater?

[@yandhi5016]

@@jackgrimaldi8685 lmao i just pictured what you said and actually lauged my ass off. Imagine going to watch a movie, and leave as soon as you laugh one time

[@ManBolo5432]

Thank you John I recall seeing it with my big sister in the theater Afterwards talking about Jeff playing drunks

[@Michael-Moo]

Wow, the date on that check is exactly 10 years before 9/11

[@michaelmears7579]

The date on the check is Sept 11 1991, and the new playing is of the 1st IRAQ war airstrikes.

[@derekolivas6943]

I know

[@nonameman7114]

That’s one hell of a coincidence

[@jimwocha4949]

The Dude abides!

[@Spectans1]

This movie belongs to TOP 10 of any consumer with a good taste.

[@trever2244]

Im going as "the dude" for holloween at at work in two days. Its gonna be awesome, hopefully other people dress up.

[@nonameman7114]

Did anyone recognize who you were dressed as ?

[@JakonDeluxe]

check is from 9/11 1991

[@BratoLocoLudiBrat]

This agression will not stand

[@flyingrancidm00nfish7]

The Dude minds!

[@dayra6425]

Crazy his check says sept 11 and a bush was on the tv ..

[@chaddeans4549]

We need more dudes. Just look at LA now

[@itsmannertime]

Dude, this was set in the early 90s. Back in the days when everyone was getting a hot lungfull of lead with every breath- it was way more violent

[@malvolio01]

@@itsmannertime No, it wasn’t.

[@itsmannertime]

@@malvolio01 The President is HW Bush, talking about the First Gulf War. It's set in the early 90s; and that's prior to the complete elimination of lead in gasoline (meaning most people were breathing in lead).

[@erebus79]

@@itsmannertime If you don't think present day LA is an absolute shithole, you are shit.

[@itsmannertime]

@Hanz Mchiggin lmao, are you fucking kidding me. Murder rate was 4 times higher back in 92, violent crime was 3 times higher. The 90s were maybe the most violent decade for crime in the United States. This is babytown frolicks compared to the 90s.

[@fadthetic]

Lonely, but free, I'll be found. Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds.

[@ElizabethKlemm]

69¢. I love it.

[@cramirez3855]

i b€t

[@klausbrinck2137]

Was 69¢ the usual/possible price back then, or did he do that just to flirt with the girl... ? In Europe, it´d have been very expensive at 69¢, so, I guess, he thought it up for the girl... Not even 30 years later is it that expensive over here...

[@ElizabethKlemm]

@@klausbrinck2137 I don't remember exactly how much a quart of half & half cost in 1990, but it's at $2.00 now. So, if anything, I'd think $0.69 would be underpriced for 1990. But I'm not sure.

[@klausbrinck2137]

@@ElizabethKlemm My thought was that milk is by 60 now in Europe, and was cheaper back then, even in America, so 69 must be just for reasons of "flirting" with the cashier-girl...

[@alecnewman6052]

its a lil sly joke n i love it haha

[@Sigmapatrikbateman]

I never saw a better Coen movie!!!

[@Morbid.Angel710]

No country for old men!

[@oldpossum]

All Cohen films are great, and each one is DIFFERENT. Love all of them. Fargo is fantastic, and so is A Serious Man. Don't forget True Grit, or The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. No Country for Old Men is unforgettable, with its poetic ending. One of my favourites is Inside Llewin Davis.

[@andybernaltv]

My entire personality is narrated in the first 3 minutes of this movie 💀 forever a classic 😎🎳

[@guillermoalejandroolmedo1984]

sometimes there is a man...

[@jamesspohn992]

He has to write a check for .69 cents????

[@derp9327]

Noice

[@ast453000]

she has so much judgement in her eyes

[@Melpheos1er]

Sam Elliot voice would melt iron at the North pole

[@abcedertreetoo]

I feel like the Coen brothers were conscious of this word history, from the very outset of the film’s opening monologue… “Now, ‘Dude’, that’s a name no one would self-apply where I come from.” - the Cowboy

[@crimony3054]

Date on the check is "Sept 11"

[@82ghall]

you saw that also

[@rvkice23]

September 11, 1991. Ten years to the day. It's also weird considering George H.W. Bush's speech about "this aggression will not stand" is playing on the TV like it's breaking news, whereas in reality it happened a month before, on august 5

[@Joseph-rx9tp]

He dates the check for 9/11, but when his landlord comes by to remind him about the rent the landlord says tomorrows already the 10th. So the dude either had no clue what day it was or he post dated the check cause he couldnt cover the 69 cents.

[@mikeoyler2983]

I love his pronunciation of Los Angeles. I wonder where he is supposed to be from exactly.

[@bosej.2621]

I don't know if your joking or not but in the past settlers knew the name of the place but not really the pronunciation. That's why Los "Angle" les caught on.

[@al.n.darodda6183]

You anglicized the Spanish word. Watch old black snd white movies. Angeles is pronounced with a hard “g” not with the soft “g”

[@sardonicus76]

I know I’m two years late to the party but I believe the odd pronunciation might be an in-joke or a callback of sorts by the Coens. In the movie “Barton Fink”, Steve Buscemi’s character (the desk clerk at the hotel where John Turturro’s character is staying) pronounces “Los Angeles” the same way (Los Angle-us).

[@ruskerdax5547]

You ever notice he post dates the check?

[@TheDude8008]

yeah, I watched cinefix's video

[@PureNRG2]

You just know that check will bounce😂

[@Pnanasnoic]

69cents for a quart of half and half. 8/31/23 here and it costs $4.19.

[@dukeofmars4847]

This aggression will not stand man.

[@AbrasiousProductions]

the cashier looks like a young Skyler White

[@nickcormier8571]

And the date on the cheque is Sept 11/91

[@Olegstuff21986]

Did they know something? I wonder.

[@nickcormier8571]

@@Olegstuff21986 there are so many instances of this type in older movies.

[@AmishHitman73.Archive]

at 38% i can hardly hear this but you go to cnn and it blasts you out at 11%

[@garyberuck5636]

I lived in minneola kansas and belive me i saw plenty of tumble weeds . And da cow manure sniff sniff 😢 woooo doggie. Sam is the man here 🙌

[@danmcn61]

Did anyone notice that he wrote the check on September 11?

[@shrimpflea]

Yup, that's been talked about for nearly 20 years.

[@caffeinatedbuffalosauce883]

A classic neo western??

[@mike8923]

The date on the check 10 years before 9/11/01

[@FuckGoogle2]

The day fun was sucked out of the world.

[@nonameman7114]

@@FuckGoogle2 ah yes the day a vacuum cleaner attacked our great towers of joy. Never forget.

[@FuckGoogle2]

@@nonameman7114 I was an adult when it happened I can tell the very real difference in the zeitgeist from before and since, you may just be a millenial edgelord out of your element.

[@nonameman7114]

@@FuckGoogle2 I was just joking man ease up, btw millennials are born between 1980 and 1995. I was born in 01.

[@FuckGoogle2]

@@nonameman7114 I sort you lot all in the bin, having been born in the aftermath. You really did miss out on the 90s, best decade.

[@1vezleien1libro]

Skyler? Is that you?

[@carl-cr7rp]

which Ralph's is this?

[@officerpapajohns9061]

I feel like this movie is just how everyone with last name bridges live tbh

[@vicinvesta8349]

Is cashier played by Walt's wife?

[@johnwilson4158]

"SOMETIMES. SOMETIMES"

[@Johnsmith99663]

Cashier was cute ngl

[@wesleychang2005]

Robin Johnson

[@richardsiciliano7117]

And even if he is a lazy man.....

[@jshepard152]

And the Dude was most certainly that.

[@86Corvus]

writes a check for 67 cents...

[@kemolowlow]

Is he post dating the check by a year? because by Sept 1991 Desert Storm was over and all but forgotten.

[@pizzaparker1651]

Two possibilities. The whole movie is riddled with continuity errors like this, with various cars and even some of the bowling equipment dating after 1991. Even in this same scene, as the camera zooms in on the dude looking at milk, @2:01 on the left if you look closely you can see "Pizza" Lunchables, which didn't hit the market until 1991. Another explanation could simply be that the Dude, being who he is, doesn't care about getting busted over a bad check for 69 cents.

[@crimony3054]

@@pizzaparker1651 The check number is 2587, so he has written a lot of checks on that account.

[@jshepard152]

@@crimony3054 Or he simply ordered his first check number to be 2500.

[@MikeNaples]

@@jshepard152 Surprised me one time ordering checks and was asked what I wanted the first number to be. Didn't give a crap and said 001. Got me thinking if you're a fraudster it might be harder to pass those low number checks.

[@ADAPTATION7]

Is that actually a possibility in the US to pay groceries with a check?

[@joer1036]

not anymore in most places

[@brianbullivant4753]

@@joer1036 At most grocery stores in the US you can pay with a check. You don't know what your talking about. Just between Walmart, Kroger and Safeway there are well over ten thousand grocery stores that accept checks for payment of groceries here in the US.

[@brianbullivant4753]

Absolutely you can.

[@joer1036]

@@brianbullivant4753 wrong.

[@brianbullivant4753]

@@joer1036 Tell that BS to the three Largest grocery chains in the US, Walmart, Kroger and Safeway where checks are accepted every day. Don't let the facts interfere with you opinion though.

[@sidmf]

Sometimes there’s a man….

[@miltos873]

What’s the name of the intro song

[@sarnxero2628]

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

[@ellerellerek52]

Why is he pronouncing "Los Angeles" in such a way?

[@vishwa5254]

"Shut the fuck up Donny!?"

[@josephnevin]

@@vishwa5254 you're totally out of your element Donny..

[@johnprovince5304]

Its the way old timers pronounced it, though Sam Elliot is too young.

[@ericn32]

The current typical English pronunciation wasn't official until 1952. Prior, it had all kinds of pronunciations like Sam Elliott's line in the film, and the Los Angeles Times used to have a pronunciation guide in its masthead: "Loce AHNG-hayl-ais", similar to Spanish. (from "Lost LA", prod. KCET www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/how-to-pronounce-los-angeles-according-to-charles-lummis)

[@cramirez3855]

cuz he aint a mass murkerer like you sonny

[@derekolivas6943]

Nobody writes the number 9 like that

[@nickdefries8179]

My nines look just like that. Always have

[@Clwnanite]

There was a dude…..

[@benquinney2]

Dictionary definition

[@dayra6425]

02:54 sept 11 ..... again

[@kristinmena21]

U should look up “Out of Shadows” documentary

[@timoh5610]

0.69

[@82ghall]

9-11 date of the check

[@rvkice23]

September 11, 1991. Ten years to the day. It's also weird considering George H.W. Bush's speech about "this aggression will not stand" is playing on the TV like it's breaking news, whereas in reality it happened a month before, on august 5

[@shrimpflea]

@@rvkice23 The war was already over by then (Aug. 1990 - Feb. 1991).

[@Ccirgrg]

69¢ on 9/11

[@Matt-fd9hc]

Never seen this flick. I’m sure I will someday. Just never appealed to me.

[@wausjackbauer128]

It's a very odd film. Best watched under the influence of drugs or alcohol although I don't actually recommend those in general

[@Matt-fd9hc]

@@wausjackbauer128 Never taken any drugs and don’t drink. But one day it is possible I’ll watch it but not any time soon

[@wausjackbauer128]

@@Matt-fd9hc that's good you haven't done those things

[@Matt-fd9hc]

@@wausjackbauer128 Thanks. For the whole not having alcohol thing. It just comes down to simply hating how beer, wine or liquor tastes. Don’t like wine in my food. But I know if I did like how those things tasted I’d be spending way too much money on them. lol

[@mochatech121]

The worst movie that was ever made.

[@brettdelawyer3593]

No

[@memelocomaster]

Well that's like, uhh, your opinion man

[@mochatech121]

DUH! DUDE.

[@buddybubba4200]

this aggression will not stand!

[@mochatech121]

@Hassan Tahri Than you better make sure my dinner is ready when I come.

[@blackfaceturdo9122]

Why is he writing his cheque for september 11?

[@blackfaceturdo9122]

YOU COULD BUY CREAM FOR 69 CENTS A LITER 🥺

[@mikeodonnell6799]

today, weeds be legals