Big friend of Jim Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd and went diving with them. He’s a former private eye, mercenary and screenwriter. I kept talking about my friend “Big” Lew Abernathy, also a Vietnam Vet from Denton, Texas. The neighbors had moved out and left behind a rug, which I appropriated for my living room, joked about how it “…tied the room together…” all night long. According to Exline…īack in ’89 Joel and Ethan Coen were in town shooting “Barton Fink,” and I had them over for dinner. One of Exline’s stories provided inspiration for one of the film’s most memorable scenes. The Dude was also based on a Vietnam War veteran named Pete Exline (now a USC faculty member and script consultant). Many believed they would not have been sent to prison had they not provoked the judge with catcalls during the proceedings. The judge declared a mistrial and the defendants were charged and sentenced, following a ruling of contempt of court. During the trial, members of the Seattle Seven disrupted the proceedings, eventually walking out and refusing to re-enter the courtroom. He served three months in prison after a trial for inciting a riot at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Seattle. During the last sixties and early seventies, Jeff was a member of a radical anti-Vietnam war movement called the Seattle Seven, also known as the Seattle Liberation Front. One was Jeff Dowd, a film producer and political activist who helped the brothers finance Blood Simple. They based the character of The Dude on two people. The Coens wrote The Big Lebowski around the same time as Barton Fink. I think that if people get a little confused it’s not necessarily going to get in the way of them enjoying the movie. The plot is sort of secondary to the other things that are sort of going on in the piece. I mean, the plot is kind of not the…and again, this is similar to Chandler. With this one we sort of figured, you know, if things become a little bit too complicated or unclear, it really doesn’t matter.
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