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Still Abiding After 15 Years: The Laid-Back World of 'Big Lebowski' Worship
A decade and a half after its initial release, the Coen brothers' comedy is less cult classic than actual cult.
A decade and a half after its initial release in cinemas, the Coen brothers' strange cult comedy often gets mined for—and sometimes creates—spiritual meaning.
On March 6, 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen's cult-classic film The Big Lebowski arrived in American theaters. So this week, I asked two of the world's biggest Lebowski fans—the co-founder of the annual multi-city Lebowski Fest and the founder of the worldwide Lebowski-based religion the Church of the Latter-Day Dude—how they were planning to celebrate the movie's 15th birthday.
One told me he was planning to eat some dinner at home, and perhaps watch part of the movie.
The other said he would probably take a nap.
That wasn't what I expected, given what I'd heard about the yearly of Lebowski Fests, and what I knew from my college years about . But I guess I shouldn't have been surprised: These guys have both devoted substantial parts of their lives to studying, teaching, and celebrating the ways of 's pretense-free, slothful stoner protagonist the Dude. Commemorating the big day in the laziest manner possible might just be the highest form of
