I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 6:05PM Michael C here. Have you heard that according to LA Weekly the Venice, California bungalow owned by the none other than Big Lebowski's The Dude is on the market and can be yours for the low, low price of 2.3 million dollars?
Cozy place. Perfect for entertaining ferret-bearing nihilists or special lady friends you are helping conceive. Rug not included, but would really tie the room together.
Right about the moment I was chuckling to myself about the type of person who would make such an important decision based on movie trivia, a voice in my head chimed in to remind me that I am totally that person. It was not unlike asking yourself “Who is that total loser over there?” before realizing you are looking at your reflection.
Fortunately I’m a New Yorker and can't be tempted by The Dude's iconic pee-stained floors. Still, I know in my heart that if presented with a similar situation I would jump at the opportunity. If the realtor mentioned I might recognize this as, say, Diane Keaton’s apartment in Annie Hall, the place could have exposed wiring shooting sparks onto the living room floor and I would still sign the lease on the spot. Then I would be out on the balcony trying to speak in subtitles before the ink was dry.
I put the question to you, the reader:
What movie character's residence would you pony up the dough to live in?
Annie Hall, California, NYC, The Big Lebowski, real estate
Reader Comments (24)
In 1973's The Long Goodbye, Elliot Gould's Philip Marlowe lives in the coolest 1970's-ish apartment building. I'd take that.
Robert - Does it come with the neighbors? If so I'd say that's an excellent choice
Diane Keaton- "Something's Gotta Give."
I know I was supposed to have the opposite reaction, but I thought the white house in Revolutionary Road was cute. Also, Kate and Leo (squeal!!!). I know this is equally weird, but I was really drawn to the retirement community from In Her Shoes. Technically, I'm in my early 20's, so living in a retirement community would be discouraged, still...
Gosford Park. Nuff said.
The Royal Tenenbaums' house. Well, I'd want to see the master bedroom first -- I'm not sure it ever got screen time.
That or either of the title characters' houses in "Harold and Maude." So full of the bizarre.
I love houses in movies. I completely understand something like Howards End, where it's about the love of a house. I like the 2 suggestions so far of Diane Keaton's house in the Hamptons and the Royal Tenenbaum house.
I also like the houses in Meet Me In St Louis, Practical Magic, Pollyanna, Summer Magic, Enchanted April, A Good Year, The Holiday (Nancy Meyers again, queen of desirable abodes), the country house and Mr Tumnus' house in The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe; Bilbo Baggins' house.
The apartments in Jumpers (with the jumping ability attached) and Just Like Heaven (with roof garden), and Bertie Wooster's 1930 London apartment (with Jeeves included of course).
I'd like to live in the ad agency in What Women Want. That Nancy Meyers sure knows how to grab spectacular spaces and pretty them up.
I love this post ("Rug not included, but would really tie the room together.") Please tell me you've seen the "Big Lebowski Kit." My cousin has it. Coffee mug, rug mousepad and severed plastic toe -- with green nail polish. Movie not included, but would really tie the whole thing together.
Renee Zellweger's house in Down with Love. Crappy movie...awesome place.
If just because it was one of the first movie houses to excite my imagination,, I'd say the one in North by Northwest.
Besides that one, there was an old house in my neighbourhood that looked like the one in A Strreetcar Named Desire, with the spiral staircase outside and all. It looked abandoned, the blinds were always shut. It stayed there for years and years and I used to daydream about buying it when growing up and earning enough money. Then the construction frenzy came in, and it was demolished to build tiny apartments. I'm sure Kowalski would've approved.
Colin Firth's crystal house in A Single Man
First things that came to mind were the beach house in The Ghost Writer or Sally Fowler's apartment in Metropolitan. But now that I'm reminded of Colin Firth's house in A Single Man, I might well go with that.
I’m so jelly for the house used for Alex’s residence or Mr Alexander’s house.
In A Clockwork Orange, I mean.
Christina Ricci's manor in Casper.
I'm torn between Colin Firth's house in "A Single Man" and the Recchi's mansion in "I Am Love."
Goldie Hawn in Cactus Flower I'm in love with that tiny, 60s apartment.
Carrie Bradshaw's apartment, the old one, not "heaven on fifth".
Kurtis - The kit is news to me. But I am slightly embarrassed to admit I have considered ordering my own copy of the Dude's trademark cardigan
Scott C - Oooh. The Ghost Writer house. Good call. Love the big glass wall.
If forced to pick I'd think I'd go for the apartment Woody has in Manhattan before he quits his job and has to move. Something about having a winding spiral staircase is very appealing.
Satine's Elephant. Though, I doubt it would have running water or a flush toilet, but the view is stunning. (Throw in Ewan crooning to me and I'd learn to conquer my fear of heights.)
the house in LIFE AS A HOUSE
I'm gonna shout out Nancy Meyers again...Something's Gotta Give, The Holiday, and Meryl's house in It's Complicated...also Crimes of the Heart, Rachel Getting Married, Rabbit Hole.
Lucille & Kurtis -- seriously? Re: Nancy Meyers and her art direction. I could never live with that much beige. Her preferred aesthetic is just so vanilla.
Anyplace that is still infused with the aroma of Dominic Cooper's bare ass