CONSIDERING “THE BIG LEBOWSKI: A XXX PARODY” |
By Lauren Wissot

In retrospect it seems inevitable that some enterprising pornographers in Hollywood’s shadow industry would look to the Coen brothers’ quintessential Venice Beach bum The Dude for inspiration. Not only is southern California the hub of the sex biz, The Dude is SoCal made flesh. And now a company called New Sensations has done just this with The Big Lebowski: A XXX Parody, a passionate, nearly shot-for-shot recreation that shows that cute porn is not an oxymoron. Sure, New Sensations has already tackled pop culture with 30 Rock: A XXX Parody and Seinfeld: A XXX Parody, but The Big Lebowski: A XXX Parody really does feel like something different. This isn’t some mainstream TV touchstone the company is tackling, but a cult film from bona fide indie auteurs. A few years back Lucas Entertainment was the darling of the GAYVN Awards with its serious porn remakes of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (and Dangerous Liaisons prior to that). In its own way The Big Lebowski: A XXX Parody feels closer to those earnest gay versions, more tributes birthed from true movie geek love than of-the-moment knock-offs.

In director Lee Roy Myers’s alternate Lebowski events are set in motion when an “Oriental thug” (as opposed to the original movie’s Persian rug…ouch) ejaculates on The Dude’s new VHS tapes — “the tapes that really tied his porn collection together.” But what’s most shocking in the action that follows is not the abundance of hardcore sex scenes, but how well they blend into the Coens’ original film, which, remember, features a pederast, a porn starlet and a conniving seductress. After all, Tara Reid’s Bunny Lebowski solicits Jeff Bridges’s stoned and horny Dude right from the start. It actually makes perfect sense that in this version he’d pull out his checkbook and engage in some poolside fun.

Fun seems to be a priority for this production company, which is pretty damn refreshing in an age when, following the sober-minded art porn of the 70s, and the cheesy VCR revolution of the ‘80s into the ‘90s (this version’s Dude is adamant that his tapes be … Read the rest

PORN PARODYING “THE BIG LEBOWSKI”

By Scott Macaulay

Okay, it’s the weekend, so I’m allowing myself a frivolous but funny post. Filmmaker was invited to the set of this film just a few weeks ago. We weren’t able to send anybody but I just came across this entirely safe-for-work trailer of the porn parody of The Big Lebowski starring Tom Byron as “The Dude,” Peter, um O’Tool eerily accurate in the John Goodman role, and Kimberly Kane channeling Julianne Moore’s performance artiste. Porn parodies have come a long way. Some of these set-ups compare to the original pretty well.

From the press release we received:

New Sensations, the 2010 AVN award-winning studio for Best Parody is filming their next big hit THE BIG LEBOWSKI – A XXX PARODY. Tom Byron (The Dude) will lead the cast of adult superstars including 2010 AVN and XBIZ award winner for Best Actress, Kimberly Kane (Maude Lebowski), in the highly anticipated Lee Roy Myers directed satire.

Porn Icon and multiple AVN award winner TOM BYRON will lead the dynamic cast of “The Big Lebowski: A XXX Parody” in one of the biggest acting roles of his career as The Dude from 1998 Coen brothers cult favorite “The Big Lebowski.” Directed by the Prince of Porn Parodies, Lee Roy Myers, the sexy send-up of the original will be the first ever porn parody to include “fan roles” hand selected by Myers from submitted audition videos.

See Lauren Wissot’s review of the movie here.… Read the rest