"The Coen brothers crank their characters up to, like, 12," says 'Founding Dude' Scott Shuffitt, who began his Lebowski festival in 2002 in Louisville, Ky. "But in The Big Lebowski, they turn the characters up to, like, eight. They're very believable. It takes a couple of times watching it to really get the comedy, and the actors nailed the characters, John Goodman and especially John Turturro." While subtlety is not a word one might apply to Lebowski, in the world of the Coen brothers, it is in fact a relatively subtle character film, especially when compared to Raising Arizona's over-the-top white trash or Fargo's manic Minnesotans. Full Article at Weekly Dig