Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.

Today we are talking about The Big Lebowski, the 1998 film written and directed by the Cohen brothers.

I'm joined today by the beyond the screenplay

team, Trisha Arand. Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner. Hello, hello. And Alex Cayetos. Hi. So I'm

excited to get into this film because I had not seen this in a long time. I had seen it once and was

unimpressed. And so then it was, this was thrust upon me as a way to force me to watch it again.

I'm excited to talk about that and uncover some of the things that I appreciated this time around

and we can get into all of that. Before we do, I wanted to just throw out a question for

Spotify listeners. What's your favorite Cohn Brothers film? I think that's an interesting

array of answers I am looking forward to seeing. And I don't know the answer to that question myself.

I think that's a thing that I'm slowly trying to figure out because I'm not super familiar with

their filmography. I'm not Atricia that has seen all of the movies a million times.

There are ones on there that I haven't seen.

I'll go and watch those.

It's kind of a revealing question.

It's interesting.

Yeah,

because their filmography is so diverse in a lot of ways.

I was going to say,

I bet you have not seen Miller's Crossing,

but that's one that I would recommend to you.

Okay.

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