The Big Lebowski Film Analysis
The values and techniques commonly exhibited in the Cohen Brothers films that I wanted to accentuate in my piece are irony, but most prominently, re-contextualization. In “The Big Lebowski,” my source of influence for my piece, text is constantly quoted and repeated, re-contextualizing said text. To depict this re-contextualization so prevalent in Cohen films such as “The Big Lebowski, ” I composed a quote from the movie of which was re-contextualized preceding the creation of my piece in the form of a ransom note. I chose to present the quote as such not only to nod to the ransom note in the movie, but also to feature the re-contextualizing attributes in and of itself. Typically, a ransom note is composed of letters from newspaper clippings