“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 …showed first 75 words of 985 total…

…showed last 75 words of 985 total…questionably able categorical loser; the Dude. Instead of the voluptuous curves and iron will of the femme fatale, we have the irrational artwork and feminism of Maude Lebowski. The dark alley is traded in for a bowling alley and the cigarettes are traded in for white russians and marijuana. Where typical film noir has one thing, the Coen brothers take it, flip it around, make it ridiculously funny and put it into The Big Lebowski.