Becoming cult: The Big Lebowski, replay culture and male fans
Becoming cult: The Big Lebowski, replay culture and male fans
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成为邪教：大勒博夫斯基、重播文化和男性粉丝
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2010
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B. Klinger
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在许多电影节上首映后，乔尔和伊桑·科恩的《大勒保斯基》于1998年3月在北美首次亮相，作为他们之前的冒险《法戈》（1996年）的备受期待的后续。《法戈》是一部以北达科他州和明尼苏达州为背景的犯罪惊悚片和地区讽刺片，不仅迅速成为评论家的宠儿，而且在最初的700万美元预算中获得了三倍的票房收入。尽管在电影院有更广泛的开放，但以洛杉矶为背景的黑色喜剧《谋杀绿脚趾》在美国只赚了1750万美元，勉强收回了1500万美元的预算。虽然这部电影在海外电影院的票房收入增加了2900万美元，但它作为票房失败的名声仍然存在。不利的批评反应加剧了其开幕式周围的失望气氛。对于《谋杀绿脚趾》的剧本，一位评论家写道：“很难相信这就是去年凭借《冰血暴》的原创剧本获得奥斯卡奖的团队。”大量的亵渎。. .这似乎是一个软弱的试图掩盖对话的差距。另一位评论家则哀叹科恩兄弟“越来越多地走上懒惰的大卫林奇的路线，只是在屏幕上扔一些奇怪的东西。”[1]唯才是举。. .他们似乎没有能力从之前的失败中吸取教训。评论家们认为这部电影是票房失败和“巨大的艺术失败”，他们认为这部电影的情节不连贯，角色怪异，剧本参差不齐，甚至无法吸引科恩兄弟的独立电影和艺术观众。鉴于其不祥的开端，大勒保斯基的索赔对公众的注意力可能已经结束后不久，它从银屏幕消失。但事实远非如此。它在售后市场上成为一个邪教，收集了世界各地的死忠球迷，激励1彼得豪厄尔，“科恩的最新不坚持在一起”，多伦多星星，1998年1月19日。2 Paul Tatara，'Big Lebowski is fun，but won't bowl you over'，CNN Interactive，1998年3月5日。，http：www.cnn.com/ SHOWBIZ/9803/05/ review.big.lebowski/. [2009年11月14日访问]。3 Steve Palopoli，“The last cult picture show”，Metroactive Movies，2002年7月25日。http：www.metroactive.com/papers/ metro/07.25.02/lebowski10230.html。[2009年11月14日访问]。
After premiering at a number of film festivals, Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Big Lebowski debuted theatrically in North America in March 1998 as a much anticipated followup to their previous venture Fargo (1996). A crime thriller cum regional satire set in North Dakota and Minnesota, Fargo had not only quickly become the critics’ darling but had grossed three times its $7 million budget in its initial run. Despite a wider opening in film theatres, The Big Lebowski, a comedy noir set in Los Angeles, earned only $17.5 million in the USA, barely recouping its $15 million budget. Although the film proceeded to gross an additional $29 million in film theatres abroad, its reputation as a box-office failure endured. Unfavourable critical response exacerbated the aura of disappointment surrounding its opening. Of The Big Lebowski’s script, one critic wrote, ‘It’s hard to believe that this is the team that won an Oscar last year for the original screenplay of Fargo. The large amount of profanity . . . seems a weak attempt to paper over dialogue gaps.’ Another lamented that the Coen brothers were ‘more and more taking the lazy-ass David Lynch route by simply throwing weirdness at the screen. [Though] uniquely talented . . . they don’t seem capable of learning a damn thing from their previous misfires.’ Judged as a box-office flop and a ‘massive artistic failure’, reviewers blamed what they saw as the film’s incoherent plot, bizarre characters and uneven screenplay for its inability to appeal even to the Coen brothers’ independent film and arthouse audiences. Given its inauspicious beginnings, The Big Lebowski’s claim on public attention might have ended shortly after it disappeared from the silver screen. But this was far from the case. It became a cult hit in the aftermarket, collecting throngs of die-hard fans worldwide, inspiring 1 Peter Howell, ‘Coens’ latest doesn’t hold together’, Toronto Star, 19 January 1998. 2 Paul Tatara, ‘Big Lebowski is fun, but won’t bowl you over’, CNN Interactive, 5 March 1998. ,http://www.cnn.com/ SHOWBIZ/9803/05/ review.big.lebowski/. [accessed 14 November 2009]. 3 Steve Palopoli, ‘The last cult picture show’, Metroactive Movies, 25 July 2002. ,http:// www.metroactive.com/papers/ metro/07.25.02/lebowski10230.html. [accessed 14 November 2009].