New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Leonardo DiCaprio has repeatedly said that he drew heavily from The Big Lebowski to portray a stoned ex-revolutionary in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another-by far the finest English language film of last year. In the Oscar-nominated film (available now for rent on Apple TV), DiCaprio's character does indeed capture a scruffy slacker energy reminiscent of the "Dude" played so unforgettably by Jeff Bridges in the Coen Brothers film, a shaggy dog of a man who stirred his White Russians with his fingers and waged war over a rug that really held the room together. Against all and dramatically severe odds, The Dude abides.

DiCaprio plays "Rocketman" Bob Ferguson, explosives expert of a revolutionary group cal...