Hey let's try this on the 90s board. I have been watching this one on Showtime the last few days. I really think that this flick that starred Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy, and Harve Presnell. Set in Minnesota it surrounds the kidnapping and multiple murder all because one guy gets extremely in debt and everything just goes haywire. I love all of the accents in this film. Frances McDormand won an academy award for best actress because of this film. She played Marge Gunderson who plays a pregnant police chief in Minnesota that is investigating the homicides in question. She really owned this role I don't think that anyone else could have played it. The pregnant fact thrown in really made it interesting. Funny supporting roles by the other big bad guy--that was the Russian in Armageddon, and Drew Carey's brother that played Marge's husband Norm. I remember seeing this at the movie theater right before the Oscars that year. I was glad that she won.
Do any of you have any fond memories of this 1996 satirical comedy.
Posted by Sam Hain 666 (Member # 3150) on :
Hey I've been to Fargo many times. Only the opening scene in the bar was set in Fargo even though it wasn't filmed there. A few of the outdoor winter scenes were shot in the my state of North Dakota because of an unusual lack of snow cover in Minnesota that year.
No we all don't talk that way only a few of the older people speak in those accents.
Any movie that has Steve Busceimi in it can't be half bad; he's one of my absolute favorite actors as he makes all his roles his own and unique.
The Coen brothers made this movie and Frances Macdermond is married to one of them but I can't remember which one.
Posted by HipsterMom27 (Member # 2161) on :
Frances McDormand is married to Joel, the tall thin brother. They have a son they adopted from South America, Pedro. She was in the first Coen brothers flick, "Blood Simple", playing the lead female...you can hear Holly Hunter's voice on an answering machine message in this one...she & Fran were roommates at the time, so the Coens went on to next write "Raising Arizona" for their friend Holly.
I love Coen films..."Fargo" was great on so many levels. A friend in MN told me for sure that the natives talked in that sing-song way, sort of a throwback to their scandinavian roots. Yah...oooo-kay. My favorite scene is when the old guy is being interviewed about an encounter he had with Buscemi..."I'm going crazy out their at the lake, you know..."
What makes this movie great on one level to me is how the pregnancy is just a backdrop...the movie barely mentions it other than "I think I'm gonna barf" and the ending line "Two more months."
Beautiful performance by Frances...Buscemi is just fantastic. Definitely on my '90s Best List!
~Marge Son-of-a-gunderson
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Sam Hain wrote, in part:
quote:No we all don't talk that way only a few of the older people speak in those accents...
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