OMG! Have you seen Fargo?!

I laughed so hard. It reminded me of how stupid Sara Palin is so much! I couldn't stop laughing. If you've never seen it, I suggest renting it.

Okay... good night.

I'll rent it.

I've enjoyed several other Coen Brothers films, but not that one.

called "black humor"

and it was indeed funny and that's why it's a great movie.

It's "black comedy."

Fargo for some damn reason. I watch it every now and then if its the only thing on and for some reason I want to watch a movie. Francis McDormand and William F. Macy were briliant. And so was Steve Buschemmi (or however you spell it). It has that dark morality of an old Roger Corman 'B' movie starring Boris Karloff or Vincent Price.

BTW, your sense of humor called, it misses you.

Oy.

Julie

Fargo is SUPPOSED to be funny.

"He's fleeing the interview"
:rofl:

Whether you like it or not, Fargo was a comedy.

That's why I describe No Country for Old Men as being like Fargo with none of the humor.

Oh and its not really a true story so don't get upset about reality.

What's not to like?

This is GD, not the lounge, dude. :rofl:

18 responses, though. My snark doesn't get that strong a response when people realize it's snark. :(

That's what makes it a great film!

:headbang:
rocknation

i generally laugh my ass off at them.
especially when they're well done. or done well.

Which is not unusual. :)

with the leg sticking out

:rofl:

was undoubtedly some of the best acting Steve Buscemi has ever done. :rofl:

Seth MacFarlane must have based that character off of him

...so I put it down as another drama post, of which we sadly have many.

nt

:toast:

Who could make that shit up??

...they just put that on at the beginning to mess with people's minds.

I'm one of the few people who really disliked that movie.

I almost left the theater, but my ex convinced me to stay. It is my #1 all time worst movie pick. I didn't find it funny. I found it to be disgusting. And the accents were like nails on a chalkboard to me. Sitting through 2 hours of that was pure torture.

on his way out to work and back home.

We left it there for a couple of weeks. I'm sure he didn't get it, but we had a giggle over it.

Nobody is actually stupid in the movie. They are all (bar one)articulate and their scheme is quite intelligently thought out. The point of this movie is not to point out how stupid people are, but how greed and circumstance may make intelligence irrelevant. That is, the best laid plans go awry. It is also a cautionary tale of impulse vs deliberative tenacity.

I think you are confusing colloquialism and regional accent with stupidity.

Especially when the dialect has grammatical differences from Standard American English, such as the dialects of many Southerners and African-Americans

I have a North Central accent that fits the "Fargo" stereotype quite well and I sure as hell ain't stupid.

n/t

(that's the William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare characters).

Lundegaard has been very stupid about trying to defraud the car company about the loans, and hires 2 people he knows nothing about for the kidnap; his attempt to escape was never going to work. Showalter leaves a huge trail of hookers and threatened bar staff behind him, after the dumbest move of all - not getting proper license plates for a car you're using for a crime (or you can blame that on Jerry too). He also quibbles about paying a few dollars for parking - again, drawing attention to himself. Grimsrud too was more interested in getting laid, and thus noticed, helping to get him traced.

Nothing to do with the accents, I'll agree.

It just struck me funny.

The Coen brothers play the accents for laughs, to be sure, but a perfect example is the scene between the cop and the guy shoveling his driveway who overheard the "funny lookin' little guy" talk about how he was "goin' crazy up at the lake."

Or the two women in the bar, with perhaps the thickest accents in the whole movie, giving Marge more clues on "the little guy" and his friend "the Marlboro man." All of these little bits and pieces led up to the climax of the film.

The "Marge" character was not only a rock-solid cop but a whip-smart detective as well...but she didn't "crack the case" on her own. She had help...help from people with regional accents.

I think it's more of a matter of "selective stupidity." For example, I do not believe that everyone from Texas is stupid, just as I do not believe that everyone from Texas is a card-carrying member of MENSA. But when I hear Bush fire up his fake-ass Texas accent and talk about smokin' bin Laden out of his cave, I think "Here is a stupid man talking in a fake regional accent."

:patriot:

Excellent movie. We had not seen it since it was first released. My wife and I had forgotten nearly the entire movie in that time.

:blush: It's one of my favorite movies.

I just watched it again a couple of days ago

Palin, though, has one redeeming quality, she destroys the myth that the accent is the result of Scandinavian influence, because people of Scandinavian ancestry aren't a major component of the Palin's home state of Idaho.

As for how us Upper-Midwesterners actually talk...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8MsdcFNUE8

I went to an auction preview of antique firefighting equipment once and found out I'd just missed Steve Buscemi who is apparently a collector. I was so disappointed. He was amazing in Fargo. Actually, all the actors were. I loved the Marge Gunderson character.

He went back specifically to help try and find his fallen brothers. He collects antique firefighting equipment because it was his occupation before he became an actor.

And Fargo is totally brilliant, as is Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski and all the others. My personal favorite, not to say it's the best, just my favorite, is Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

While managing a major county sheriffs department solved the crime through good old police work while pregnant and eating and maintaining her insecure husband and eating and buying her husband worms and eating a lot! and exploring the possibility of an affair with a high school sweetheart while pregnant and on a trip to the 'Cities' to chase down a lead (a true multitasker) and eating some more and not being a bad shot at all with a 38, all through a northern Minnesota winter.

I knew Marge Gunderson. And you, Sarah Palin, are no Marge Gunderson.

:-)

:D

She would have figured out a way to beat Obama.

Just being polite by meeting the guy.

That was funny!!

Marge Gundersen is one of the best movie heroes ever filmed.

The relationship she has with her husband is absolutely beautiful.

"You gotta eat breakfast. I'll cook you some eggs..."

Which is why, despite the juxtaposition of surreal violence and stupidity, this is a wonderful film. Marge, and her relationship with her husband, shine through the entire film as a beacon of stability, sense, and warmth despite the surreal. Just what we all needed to survive the Bush years.

I really think this is a great film, and I've watched a lot of film (I have a top 10 list with 100 films on it, 90 of which most people around me have never heard of).

One of my few regrets in life is that I declined a promotional Fargo snow globe from pre-release. It had the woodchipper scene and bloody snow. I wish I had that now. It was free. I said 'no thanks'. I was a crazy person!

Coincidentally, I just watched it the other night, too. The actors all, the haunting music, and the bleak, cold landscape were excellent.

Warning: don't watch the movie if you're hungry and there's no food in the house. Police Chief Gunderson puts vast quantities away throughout. She's entitled: she's pg!

:bounce:

It's one of my favorite movies, funny, but just a little creepy.

and I'm not sure I understand those who can't stand it. Just not liking it very much is one thing, but the loathing stumps me.

(It also stumps me what, besides the accents, would remind anyone of Palin-- Marge is one of the best and brightest characters to ever hit the screen.)

That's all. Just the accent... And coming from a place (originally) where people talk like that... It just cracked me up. I couldn't help but imagine her and her whole family as cast members.

working the con with Jerry Lundergaard and that whole cast of clowns from Alaska. And hiring that dumbass deputy as an investigator to make sure nobody finds out what's going on.

(That would be funny stuff, you betcha!)

I do get a laugh out of the "yer darn tootin'" line, though.

it's my favorite.

She is such a great actress that I didn't realize she was the same woman who played the wife of the imbecile deputy in "Mississippi Burning," (the woman Gene Hackman was interested in).

Her performance in "Fargo" is one that most other actresses can only envy. Too bad she didn't have any scenes in the movie with Steve Buscemi. One can only imagine the screen exploding with the two of them playing off of each other.

I didn't care for Fargo, The Big Lebowski is a truly funny movie however. The next Coen Brothers movie was actually recently being filmed just two blocks from my parent's home, whether or not the movie is any good remains to be seen but it will be interesting seeing my parent's neighborhood done up 1950's style at least.

by a mile.

... that wasn't directed by Terry Gilliam

Unless you were comparing Palin to the woodchipper guys.

lovely young ladies in the bar scene!

Is that Chief Gundersonn was hands down the smartest person in the movie. I really enjoyed her as a strong and very smart character.

I found it and Fargo so remarkably similar that I thought the Coens actually just made it to say "Cormac McCarthy ripped us off".

Well-meaning, yet flawed people get caught up in a crime.

It's so out of place in the movie, nearly as awkward as the conversation in it.

Brilliance.

Or was it he "wasn't?"

Either way, probably the funniest line in a movie in decades, and definitely the best answer to a cop asking "any other distinguishing marks?"

:rofl:

speak so unpassionately about everything, but you know the feeling is there.

At the end of the movie:
"And here it is, such a beautiful day," Margie says to the murderer during whiteout winter weather. :rofl:

"Oh, I think I'm gonna barf!"

:-)

with dis movie.

''Does that help?''

It is one of the top 100 movies on my top 10 list (i've never been able to reduce it to just 10). It is a fun movie.