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Posted January 08, 2010 to photo album "Mary Zophres Shows Up and Suits Up"
Go behind the scenes with Mary Zophres, the costume designer of A Serious Man, and click through a slideshow of her work.
Slide 5: The Big Lebowski - "Terminally Relaxed"
“There is a line in the script in The Big Lebowski that says he was terminally relaxed. That said it all. He doesn’t have a job; he doesn’t clean his house; he was not a particularly organized man. I remember a picture of Brian Wilson on the beach, and thought he has the feeling of the Dude. So I started looking in thrift stores in Venice, and while I didn’t really know what I was looking for, I knew that I would find it there. That is where I found the sweater that he wears a lot. I remember thinking also that there are very few buttons or zippers for the dude—it’s all pullovers and drawstrings. The bathrobe came out of a fitting. He threw a robe over a pair of shorts and was wearing a pair of flip-flops. When we saw it, we were, ‘Oh my God, that is what you should wear to the supermarket.’ I mean, who goes to the supermarket in a bathrobe? It told us who he was without being distracting.”
The World's End
We Steal Secrets
Closed Circuit
The Deep
The Place Beyond The Pines
Greetings from Tim Buckley
Admission
Promised Land
Anna Karenina
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brokeback Mountain
Lost in Translation
Pride & Prejudice
The Pianist
Gosford Park