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Steve Buscemi
Also referred to as Steve Bouchemey, Buscemi, Bishemi, Brascemi, Steve Bushy, Shemi
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- Episodes featuring their films
- 10
- Movies in this archive
- 9
Rewatchables episodes featuring Steve Buscemi’s films
The Big Lebowski
1998 film
Chris Ryan · Sean Fennessey · Jason Concepcion · David Shoemaker
Aired March 9, 2018
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Approx. transcript time · 00:55:59Read transcript
- Last week listeners were asked to tweak the Danny Trejo category (transcribed 'Danny trail'), since it had already been decided Trejo should be in every movie; a couple of people suggested variations of the adopted idea, so no one person gets credit: three actors, taken from a time machine in their primes, and the hosts decide which fits best.
- Buscemi is the obvious pick for both: he could have played seven parts, Moron Number One or Two, the donuts guy, Joey Pants, an FBI agent, even the Duke on a budget; the game is called fun and the suggestions are thanked.
In the discussion (10)
Approx. transcript time · 00:50:05Read transcript
- Goodman’s Walter is proposed as an exceptional career peak, with memorable line readings throughout.
- Walter feels fully inhabited rather than merely a performance, strengthening the Goodman case. — Sean Fennessey
- The Dude transforms Bridges’s screen persona so completely that the achievement can be overlooked.
- Bridges’s earlier clear-speaking handsome-leading-man persona gives way to a more mumbled, relaxed register after this film. — Sean Fennessey
- A run of earlier successes and disappointments is contrasted with later dependable supporting appearances. — Chris Ryan
- Bridges embodies the role beyond the Coens’ usual joke of making handsome leading men ridiculous.
- After this movie, audiences know the actor’s name and how to pronounce it, rather than simply recognizing him as that guy.
- Donny is a sincere, slightly dopey guy, contrasting with the actor’s earlier tough-guy roles.
- Turturro is rejected in favor of his Rounders role by one participant.
- The Coens are rejected because other films rank higher for the speakers, who also perceive the directors as dismissive of this one.
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Films in the archive
Armageddon
1998
Big Daddy
1999
Con Air
1997
Domestic Disturbance
2001
Fargo
1996
King of New York
1990
Pulp Fiction
1994
Reservoir Dogs
1992
The Big Lebowski
1998