Is This A TRUE Story Or Not?! | FARGO Movie Reaction *FIRST TIME WATCHING*

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  • Enjoy my Fargo Movie Reaction, this is my first time watching Fargo. This movie was directed so well and the performances were amazing. This is probably one of the most subtle movie reactions I've done. This movie reaction interested me so much, sense it was based off a true story. #Moviereaction #Fargo #FirstTimeWatching #Movie
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    FARGO MOVIE REACTION | 0:00 - 27:48
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    Fargo Movie Description:
    "Fargo" is a reality-based crime drama set in Minnesota in 1987. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi), (Peter Stormare) to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father (Harve Presnell), paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper.
    Fargo is a 1996 black comedy crime film written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating roadside homicides that take place after a desperate car salesman (William H. Macy) hires two criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from her wealthy father (Harve Presnell). The film was an American-British co-production.
    Filmed in the United States during the end of 1995, Fargo premiered at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where Joel Coen won the festival's Prix de la mise en scène (Best Director Award) and the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or. The film was both a commercial and critical success, earning particular acclaim for the Coens' direction and script and the performances of McDormand, Macy, and Buscemi. Fargo received seven Oscar nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, winning two: Best Actress for McDormand and Best Original Screenplay for the Coens.
    The film was selected in 2006 for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"-one of only seven films designated in its first year of eligibility. In 1998, the American Film Institute named it one of the 100 greatest American films in history but it was subsequently de-listed in 2007. A Coen-produced FX television series of the same name, inspired by the film and taking place in the same fictional universe, premiered in 2014 and received critical acclaim.
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  • @HelloMellowXVI
    @HelloMellowXVI  2 года назад +106

    I Can't Believe I Forgot About The Big Lebowski When I Was Recording This Video.... That's My Favorite Coen Brothers Movie

    • @nopewmopan
      @nopewmopan 2 года назад +9

      I gotta go with Fargo as my favorite of theirs. Frances McDormand is so good.

    • @TheGhost-rp3ko
      @TheGhost-rp3ko 2 года назад +10

      I recommend "Brother Where Art Thou" which is also been directed by the Coen Brothers

    • @Carandini
      @Carandini 2 года назад +4

      You need to watch their gangster movie, 'Miller's Crossing.'

    • @kellynembhard8810
      @kellynembhard8810 2 года назад

      You will love William H. Macy in the Showtime series Shameless.

    • @governorboltz
      @governorboltz 2 года назад +4

      This, and Raising Arizona

  • @gggooding
    @gggooding 2 года назад +259

    Legend/Rumor: the Coen brothers bet each other if they said a film was "based on a true story" (which it ain't) that they'd finally win an Oscar. Which they did.

    • @joconnell8145
      @joconnell8145 2 года назад +12

      It's not a true story as it is, but a culmination of several true events.

    • @pete_lind
      @pete_lind 2 года назад +10

      True part is that these type of crimes have happened in USA .
      They did win 3 oscars with , No country for old men .

    • @davidebele1284
      @davidebele1284 2 года назад +5

      @@joconnell8145 The disclaimer at the end clearly states that it is a work of fiction and any resemblance to ...

    • @garylee3685
      @garylee3685 2 года назад +5

      @@joconnell8145 well, kidnappings happen and murders happen so yeah, a culmination of true events.

    • @CRAZYHORSE19682003
      @CRAZYHORSE19682003 2 года назад +7

      There were two different real life crimes that inspired Joel and Ethan Coen to write, direct, and produce Fargo the movie. Unlike in the movie, these real life cases weren’t connected in the slightest. The first was a man who defrauded the General Motors Finance Corporation. The second was a murder in Connecticut where a man killed his wife and disposed of her body in a wood chipper.

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 2 года назад +124

    No, it's not based on a true story, but it's inspired by real events that happened it 1963 and 1987. The Coen Brothers were just messing with the Audience. Lol!

    • @tritiumH3
      @tritiumH3 2 года назад +4

      Oh the Coen brothers. They also claimed that "O Brother Where Art Thou" was based on the Odyssey.

    • @miou-miou-
      @miou-miou- 2 года назад +9

      it did fool some woman from japan though, who went to look for that money and ended up dying..
      or something like that, cant remember the details.

    • @herbyragan7801
      @herbyragan7801 2 года назад +4

      @@tritiumH3 it was

    • @LordHoth_09
      @LordHoth_09 2 года назад +1

      @@tritiumH3 it… it kinda was

    • @tritiumH3
      @tritiumH3 2 года назад +2

      @@herbyragan7801 only very vaguely. Joel Cohen later confessed to never actually reading The Odyssey

  • @gasperdn
    @gasperdn 2 года назад +86

    I believe the reason why Walter always was telling Donny to "Shut the Fuck up" in The Lebowski was because Steve Buscemi's character in Fargo would not stop talking so they made that the running joke in The Big Lebowski.

    • @silentandcliche
      @silentandcliche 2 года назад +5

      Ha! I've never thought of that. Would be cool if it was true.

    • @AutoPilate
      @AutoPilate 2 года назад +6

      He talked a lot in Miller’s Crossing too. The joke between the three movies is that he ends up in smaller and smaller pieces in each one. I can’t remember if he died in Barton Fink or not.

  • @madmammoth9022
    @madmammoth9022 2 года назад +109

    It's genius how a movie can trick you into believing a story is real just by saying it is lol. Probably one of my favorite movies ever.

    • @krautgazer
      @krautgazer 2 года назад +3

      This is one of my 4 all-time favorite movies ever. It's just a perfect movie from beginning to end. To this day it's the only movie that I've watched 2 times back to back. It's interesting how some people get so serious watching this movie when it's basically a comedy. I laugh at almost every scene of this, lol.

    • @lizd2943
      @lizd2943 2 года назад +5

      Oh yaaaahhh?

    • @donkfail1
      @donkfail1 2 года назад +1

      Yea, but the Coens usually trolls the audience in some way in most movies. Their interviews before release are often funny to watch after you have watched the movie. They just lie and make things up. :D
      I never trust them.

    • @eldeano9964
      @eldeano9964 2 года назад

      A Japanese woman did think it was real, she went looking for the money and died.

    • @mohammedashian8094
      @mohammedashian8094 2 года назад +1

      When I watched it for the first time last week and I didn’t believe it was true because I already watched their later movies before Fargo and was familiar with their work so I knew it wasn’t true

  • @derickalsept
    @derickalsept 2 года назад +87

    I don't see if anyone posted the "Why Jerry needs the money" answer:
    We don't know why he did it, but the scene where GMAC calls asking for serial numbers to match for loans tells you that he forged financing paperwork to get the payment from the financing company. He's hatched the plot to kidnap his wife for ransom to cover his tracks.
    You're left to infer that he feels very inferior in his life, so he likely faked the financing to get the check so he could look like he was a successful car salesman...which he's not.

    • @diogenesagogo
      @diogenesagogo 2 года назад +12

      Basically his business was failing & he forged invoices for non-existent sales to try & keep it afloat. He got in deeper & deeper ... I suspect he was trying to impress his father-in -law with his business acumen (equally non-existent). A sad & pathetic individual.

    • @nicolewilliams3434
      @nicolewilliams3434 2 года назад +2

      Exactly . Simple !!!!

    • @flibber123
      @flibber123 2 года назад +8

      My thoughts on the money are that he wanted to do that $750k deal. He had little hope that his father in law would loan him the money. He scammed the 300k+ money with the car fraud thing, thinking the company auditors would just accept the partly smudged numbers and assume it was legit. Then he comes up with the kidnapping plan to get the remainder of what he needs. Everything starts unraveling though. The auditors know their job and he's going to get busted for fraud or embezzlement. His father in law is going to steal the big deal he was counting on. Then to make things really bad, his father in law won't let him take the money so Jerry never even gets to so much as touch the money. Jerry is as cold blooded as the psycho dude though. The proof is how he never thinks of his son's reaction until someone mentions him. Other people really mean nothing to him, even if they are his wife and son.

    • @santaonthecross
      @santaonthecross 2 года назад +3

      Well said. Side note, GMAC does not fuck around when it's payment time.

    • @freespeechchampsusanwojcic2528
      @freespeechchampsusanwojcic2528 2 года назад

      @@flibber123 Correct. I don't know why everyone's having such an issue with this, it was pretty well obvious the entire movie.

  • @reservoirdude92
    @reservoirdude92 2 года назад +128

    Of the many things to praise Joel and Ethan Coen for, they've crafted some of the most truly evil antagonists in film.

    • @vinnygi
      @vinnygi 2 года назад +7

      And some of the most stupid…

    • @gluuuuue
      @gluuuuue 2 года назад +7

      ​@@vinnygi, @Maurice Lee: I mean, apart from Peter Stormare's psycho killer character (which was great carryover to his character in Prison Break), what I find so engaging is how non-(overtly)-evil-more like just really greedy-and how plausibly ordinary mosta the rest of the characters are (and why the "based on a true story" claim was so believable): it's fictional crime that *feels* like reports you read of actual crimes.
      Jerry's character is probably most fascinating 'cause he's not at all hostile or super aggressive, really rather meek and milquetoast, yet his slimy, weasely, and half-assed incompetence sets the other characters on their paths, getting most of them and his own wife killed Then he just tries to run. Buscemi's char's personality is such a petty, penny-pinching tightwad, to a fault, that he snatches defeat from the jaws of just taking the cash and running. An' would Crazy Killer have that likely gotten caught had he not stuck around to intentionally feed Buscemi into the woodchipper?

  • @tmpreardon4200
    @tmpreardon4200 2 года назад +69

    The Coen Brothers balance comedy and crime very well.
    Raising Arizona is one of their funniest.

  • @zeke6319
    @zeke6319 2 года назад +25

    This movie is an unforgettable experience and the cast played their parts perfectly. I had a thing for Frances McDormand after this. Now William H. Macy played the biggest A-hole in this movie but if you watch the film "The Cooler" you will not only have sympathy but will root for him in the end.

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 2 года назад +31

    Nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture but won:
    Best Original Screenplay
    Best Actress for Frances McDormand.
    The film that won Best Picture was The English Patient taking home 9.

    • @terrancebrown87
      @terrancebrown87 2 года назад +3

      Props for giving us who they lost to.

    • @smokeyverton7981
      @smokeyverton7981 2 года назад

      @@terrancebrown87 The English Patient was pretty awesome

    • @DavidVines1991
      @DavidVines1991 2 года назад +3

      The English Patient sucks

    • @googlesucks2449
      @googlesucks2449 2 года назад +5

      Fargo and Sling Blade are both superior to The English Patient.

    • @aadams1006
      @aadams1006 2 года назад +1

      I'm with Elaine on the English Patient and all similar movies. "Quit telling your stupid story about the stupid desert, and just die already! DIE!"

  • @LiveAlcheme
    @LiveAlcheme 2 года назад +26

    Peter Stormare!!! God, he’s phenomenal.

    • @scottlee7458
      @scottlee7458 2 года назад +2

      I really liked him in 8mm

    • @MFSeaMen
      @MFSeaMen 2 года назад

      Loved him in Dancer in the Dark

  • @krautgazer
    @krautgazer 2 года назад +36

    This is one of my 4 all-time favorite movies ever. It's just a perfect movie from beginning to end. To this day it's the only movie that I've watched 2 times back to back. It's interesting how some people get so serious watching this movie when it's basically a black comedy. I laugh at almost every scene of this, lol. Oh, and Frances McDormand won her first of many Oscars for this movie! She is incredible. William H. Macy was also absolutely incredible in this and their 2 scenes together are a masterclass in acting!
    One thing that many people don't get is the purpose of Mike Yanagita in the story. As soon as Marge learns she has been lied to, that's the moment she drives around with her car and realizes she might have been lied to by Jerry as well, so she goes back to him and finally solves the puzzle.
    Oh yeah, and the reasoning to get the money through those means is not important. That's the message of the movie. At the end, it's just a MacGuffin to move the story forward but the Coen brothers not telling us the reason is also part of the message of the movie, where money shouldn't be that important as to put your family's life in such a high risk, so it doesn't matter at all how much you need the money, don't do stupid shit like Jerry Lundegaard. Be content with your 3 cent stamp and enjoy your family and spouse. :)

    • @AlexG1020
      @AlexG1020 2 года назад +1

      ah jeez

    • @porflepopnecker4376
      @porflepopnecker4376 2 года назад +2

      It's a black comedy AND a drama. Much of it is genuinely serious, even when laced with dark humor.

    • @krautgazer
      @krautgazer 2 года назад +1

      @@AlexG1020 Ya!

    • @krautgazer
      @krautgazer 2 года назад

      @@porflepopnecker4376 Yeah, there's a bit of drama in there too, especially in its overall themes, but it's mostly a subtle comedy.

    • @aadams1006
      @aadams1006 2 года назад +1

      A lot of people think the Mike Yanagita storyline is unnecessary and pointless but I think it shows how Marge dodged a bullet by marrying Norm. She chose well in her marriage and her career and as long as she continues to choose well she'll be rewarded for it. Whereas it's shown that Jerry is a fundamentally selfish man who may have married his wife in the first place because she "comes from money."

  • @billhicks6449
    @billhicks6449 2 года назад +21

    Lol. I live in Minneapolis. The accents are certainly overstated for comedic effect, but as the Coen Brothers are ones of us we take it as a bit if an inside joke since we all have or had family that had a bit of the "yubetcha's" to em.

    • @JoeMama410
      @JoeMama410 2 года назад +3

      A bit has been made of the fact that they were two Jewish kids growing up in the land of Lutherans. They probably noticed the accent more than we Scandinavians.

    • @leonstrand329
      @leonstrand329 2 года назад +2

      Um..... actually it's not that overstated, I dont think you've met my sister.....

    • @LostButBroken
      @LostButBroken 2 года назад +1

      @@leonstrand329 anyone that says it's exaggerated have never been outside of the cities.

    • @leonstrand329
      @leonstrand329 2 года назад

      @@LostButBroken lol yea, my sister who lives in little falls, has a thick Minnesota accent

    • @mohammedashian8094
      @mohammedashian8094 2 года назад +1

      @@leonstrand329 oh Yeah?

  • @okradiohead7430
    @okradiohead7430 2 года назад +31

    The husband is a loser. The family he married into was wealthy. His father-in-law looks down on him. His wife is a sweetheart but does not look at him like he's someone in her father's league. His motivation was getting success and respect when he was not outfitted to get any. He's a "Fredo" type character in a way. He is willing to cheat to get out of it and get that little bit he needs to fool his family and those around him that he's a man after all. The fact that he put his wife's life in the balance suggests he married into the family for all those reasons. Perfect weak character in how he is written. Now, contrast that with Margie's husband....
    There are great contrasts between characters in this movie. These modern day archetypes that the Coen Brothers give us are not much unlike those presented by the Greek playwrights and Shakespeares of times past. There is something fresh (or Minnesota-boring simple folk kind of thing?), but strangely mythological about the people in this story.

    • @unconditionalluv
      @unconditionalluv 2 года назад

      Well said.

    • @aadams1006
      @aadams1006 2 года назад +1

      Speaking in archetypes I think Margie is the "Madonna" character, representing the maternal archetype. She is nurturing and supporting but that does not make her weak. It is, in fact, her strength. No one in the movie that touched Jerry's scheme got out unscathed but I figured Marge would survive the movie because of what she represents. The willingness to see the bad but choose the good.

  • @gluuuuue
    @gluuuuue 2 года назад +21

    6:06 When Jerry brings the deal to his father-in-law, the reason the dad’s friend (Stan?) keeps repeating: “We’re not a bank, Jerry” is because Jerry doesn’t understand investment. He’s got some sort of real estate deal involving a parking lot, which he probably wants to flip/convert to some more profitable use, develop, whatever. And the deal itself we’re meant to take as lucrative enough.. with debt financing to the tune of $750k.
    Jerry’s problem is he takes the deal to his father-in-law and friend who aren’t lenders, which is what Jerry needs: a bank. They’re investors themselves. They make their money doing deals like that, which is why they talk about his finder’s fee. Jerry wanted to be the sole equity investor. But even for Jerry to be able to do that, he would need his own capital to put up (or a partner willing to provide equity, which is hard if he has neither experience nor a track record of his own). Where would Jerry get his own capital from? Well, if I heard correctly earlier on the phone, he was already apparently trying to borrow something like $300k by putting up cars as collateral somehow, cars that he himself didn’t own (they belonged to his dealership, which was already his father-in-law’s), and those cars apparently didn’t even have legit identifying numbers of some kind.
    In effect, Jerry was trying to hustle a real estate deal with 100% debt financing and none of his own equity. Trying to do it with his FIL’s vehicle inventory, fake information, then also trying to borrow it again from his FIL directly..

    • @Misericorde9
      @Misericorde9 2 года назад +7

      IIRC Jerry had GMAC providing financing for vehicles that didn’t exist, allegedly sold to customers who did not exist. He was then pocketing what GMAC payed the dealership for the vehicles.

    • @gluuuuue
      @gluuuuue 2 года назад +6

      @@Misericorde9 lol, so straight up trying to defraud both GMAC and his FIL then. And getting both his FIL and own wife killed in the process..

    • @Misericorde9
      @Misericorde9 2 года назад +6

      @@gluuuuue It worked for a guy named John McNamara, until it didn’t. He was a rather more competent swindler than Jerry, though that is... not a difficult achievement.

    • @PB-tr5ze
      @PB-tr5ze 2 года назад +9

      Yeah it was an embezzlement scheme, probably to get out from under his father in law.
      Its clear he wants his own money and is resentful of the fact he has to both work for his father in law and is looked down on by him.
      I think his plan was to repay the embezzled money then use the difference to buy the lot and use the profits to show his family that he wasn't a loser.

    • @Jeff_Lichtman
      @Jeff_Lichtman 2 года назад +8

      Jerry also misjudged his relationship with his father-in-law. Wade despised him. If Wade had liked Jerry even a little bit, he might have been willing to give him a loan (although he'd probably have required Jerry to have some equity).

  • @TKinfinity01
    @TKinfinity01 2 года назад +22

    I highly recommend the Fargo TV show. It’s one of my favourites of all time.

    • @charlesderosas5577
      @charlesderosas5577 2 года назад +1

      Is it really that great?

    • @TKinfinity01
      @TKinfinity01 2 года назад +3

      @@charlesderosas5577
      Yes, 100% YES!!! I highly recommend it.

    • @lindanicholson950
      @lindanicholson950 2 года назад

      Seasons one and 2 were good.

    • @TKinfinity01
      @TKinfinity01 2 года назад

      @@lindanicholson950 I think 3 was good to. Season 4 was mixed but still better than most shows out there.

    • @lindanicholson950
      @lindanicholson950 2 года назад

      @@TKinfinity01 I didn't like 3 as well. I disliked the villain a lot. I didn't watch 4. It was in Kansas City I think and involved crime gangs. I would like to watch the series again. I have forgotten most of what happened.

  • @sonofstan2251
    @sonofstan2251 2 года назад +30

    Fifth element, the Hobbit and fargo? You are killing it today. Keep up the good work.

  • @ProkNo5
    @ProkNo5 2 года назад +5

    I'm from the upper midwest and I think they did a fantastic job capturing the language. The accents are a little strong, but there are definitely people with accents that strong up there...but the real gem is how they captured the delicate passive aggression in the midwest. So many subtle things that are EXACTLY the way people communicate up there.

  • @jamielandis4308
    @jamielandis4308 2 года назад +15

    Loved that you noticed Accordian King! Be sure to check out “Raising Arizona”.

  • @michellelamar8965
    @michellelamar8965 2 года назад +25

    My dad (and of course his 5 siblings) where all born and raised in northern Minnesota. It definitely has its own culture! We would visit every year, and while the accent and culture is somewhat exaggerated/caricatured in this movie, at the same time it’s very accurate lol!!
    “Oh Jeez” “Yah, you betcha” “and adding “there “to things really is part of the dialogue I grew up hearing when visiting Bemidji.

    • @user-ex9ti7ds3m
      @user-ex9ti7ds3m 2 года назад +1

      The accents match the Minnesotans I’ve met

  • @mr_k4tz
    @mr_k4tz 2 года назад +43

    So stoked you did this and can’t wait to watch. How brilliant is Francis McDormand?! One of the greatest actresses of our generation. Carter Burwell is one of my favourite film composers. This film is definitely on my Mt Rushmore.

  • @mgeek1
    @mgeek1 2 года назад +16

    Two words for you: "Miller's Crossing," the Coen Brothers underrated masterpiece from 1990 and my favorite movie of all time. I really hope you react to that one someday.

    • @AutoPilate
      @AutoPilate 2 года назад +3

      My favorite gangster film, which is saying a lot because I love gangster films.

    • @mckenzie.latham91
      @mckenzie.latham91 2 года назад

      Isn’t that the film with john goodman shouting sig heil and heil hitler before he kills people with a shotgun?

    • @AutoPilate
      @AutoPilate 2 года назад +2

      @@mckenzie.latham91 that’s Barton Fink.

  • @mtn_linda364
    @mtn_linda364 2 года назад +33

    "Yah, funny looking," was a tag-line in our house for years after seeing this movie.

    • @caralayne503
      @caralayne503 2 года назад +2

      You betcha! [for a Jersey gal, whom visited the Dakota’s] this was spot on … and we get made fun of more than anyone in this country with how we speak lol!!! #JerseyStrong

    • @garycharboneau4219
      @garycharboneau4219 2 года назад

      No, the White Bear Lake teen said "He was a little guy, kinda funny looking, ya know"

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 3 месяца назад

      Don't forget, "he wasn't circumcised"

  • @tyinyvr
    @tyinyvr 2 года назад +4

    It's based on two different cases. One in the 1960s is about a husband who kidnaps his wife. And one case in the 1980s where a husband uses a wood chipper to get rid of his wife.

  • @wwk68tig
    @wwk68tig 2 года назад +13

    I'm a newspaper editor, and the story about the "woodchipper" scene moved on AP wires. Beyond that, it's mostly The Coen Brothers having fun........

    • @rpg7287
      @rpg7287 2 года назад +2

      I live in Connecticut. We had a real life case here in which a husband was accused of putting his wife through a wood chipper to dispose of the body. I believe I read that’s where the Coens got the idea for the wood chipper.

    • @wwk68tig
      @wwk68tig 2 года назад

      @@rpg7287 i don't remember the dateline, but............oy.

  • @PacDork
    @PacDork 2 года назад +9

    Pancakes House guy was also in Lebowski...remember the scene where they reveal the girlfriend's toe? They're at Pancake House eating pancakes! :)

    • @adgato75
      @adgato75 2 года назад +1

      The girlfriend was singer/songwriter Aimee Mann. She's awesome.

    • @AutoPilate
      @AutoPilate 2 года назад

      Karl Hungus!

  • @sonofmoss
    @sonofmoss 2 года назад +3

    I love the way the cheeriness leaves her voice and the authority enters it when she says “you have no call to get snippy with me. I’m just doing my job.”

  • @-Default.
    @-Default. 2 года назад +62

    I think the “True Story” thing is saying it may not be 100% facts it’s more true in an abstract sense. It’s truthful in its depiction of human depravity to the point you could believe something like this happened.

    • @paulhewes7333
      @paulhewes7333 2 года назад +1

      some similar stuff happened.

    • @sean437
      @sean437 2 года назад +7

      Once, a man wanted $1M. Based on a true story. 😐

    • @cf9844
      @cf9844 2 года назад +2

      It's cause they wanted people to be cool with the pacing.

    • @confucius12012
      @confucius12012 2 года назад

      Wrong, but you are entitled to your opinion.

    • @TheNeonRabbit
      @TheNeonRabbit 2 года назад +5

      It snows a lot in Minnesota .... based on a true story

  • @cadenstrampe4216
    @cadenstrampe4216 2 года назад +10

    if you like William H Macy, he does great in Boogie Nights and Magnolia

    • @007wars6
      @007wars6 2 года назад +1

      Magnolia is GREAT. So is Boogie Nights. I’m a massive PTA fan

    • @cadenstrampe4216
      @cadenstrampe4216 2 года назад +1

      so am I! that's why I recommended them lol

    • @007wars6
      @007wars6 2 года назад +1

      @@cadenstrampe4216 Awesome! Yeah I’ve gotta see The Master and Phantom Thread REAL soon

    • @cadenstrampe4216
      @cadenstrampe4216 2 года назад +1

      @@007wars6 The Master was great. I've yet to see Hard Eight, Punch-Drunk Love, and Phantom Thread though.

    • @007wars6
      @007wars6 2 года назад +1

      @@cadenstrampe4216 Punch-Drunk Love is FANTASTIC. I haven’t seen Hard Eight either

  • @coyotelong4349
    @coyotelong4349 2 года назад +7

    Such a great movie- The plot of Fargo is like a sordid train wreck, you can’t look away
    Honestly the Cohens were ahead of their time with this. If it HAD been real it would probably be Netflix’s most popular true crime documentary today 😅

  • @kevink1575
    @kevink1575 2 года назад +13

    Just saw your No Country video yesterday and was hoping you'd watch this one soon. Great timing!

  • @franklerch1012
    @franklerch1012 2 года назад +2

    watching you with the serious look at this in the beginning is hilarious. The Coen brothers really know how to play with expectations and to take the fool for a ride. Love them.

  • @iceman10129
    @iceman10129 2 года назад +2

    Roger Deakins top of his game on this one!

    • @reikun86
      @reikun86 2 года назад

      He’s my favorite cinematographer and Birthday Bro. 👍🏽
      Skyfall was just luscious

  • @logann7942
    @logann7942 2 года назад +3

    The accents are the best part. Everyone with a speaking role does an amazing job. My favorite is the old man who talks to the cop.

  • @BloodylocksBathory
    @BloodylocksBathory 2 года назад +3

    I got to meet William H. Macy once. He grew up in my hometown, so he was visiting the high school back when I was still a student. Super nice guy. I believe his parents still live (lived?) around town too. He still has that big heavy coat from this movie too.

  • @sallyh5413
    @sallyh5413 2 года назад +3

    A truly perfect film in every way. ❤️ (The show is also great, different story and cast each season)

  • @kevink1575
    @kevink1575 2 года назад +8

    Carter Burwell is a living legend.

  • @cesarnarro6013
    @cesarnarro6013 2 года назад +2

    "Burn After Reading" is another funny Coen Brothers movie

  • @jrobwoo688
    @jrobwoo688 2 года назад +12

    R.I.P. to the legendary Norm McDonald. Please react to 1998’s Dirty Work Starring Norm McDonald and Chris Farley, featuring a hilarious cameo from Adam Sandler as Satan.

    • @blackdynamite5016
      @blackdynamite5016 2 года назад +1

      He was on a pretty funny movie with Dave Chappelle as well. I can't remember the title tho

    • @kingjellybean9795
      @kingjellybean9795 2 года назад +2

      Whaaaaat? How the fuck did I just hear this from a RUclips comment? Why are the flags not at half mast? Where's the nation wide moment of silence..... fuck😔

    • @billhicks6449
      @billhicks6449 2 года назад +1

      @@kingjellybean9795 short battle with cancer that was kept private (as Norm would). It sucks but in hindsight the signs were there. He'd really been looking a bit rough lately. I figured it was just age catching up to a man who didn't necessarily live the healthiest of lifestyles but it turns out he was on his way out.

    • @jrobwoo688
      @jrobwoo688 2 года назад +1

      @@blackdynamite5016 Screwed, it featured Danny DeVito.

  • @bkenwood88
    @bkenwood88 2 года назад +3

    Didn't watch the subsequent seasons, but the first season of the show version of "Fargo" was amazing. Didn't think anyone could top William H. Macy, but Martin Freeman just might.

  • @AutoPilate
    @AutoPilate 2 года назад +3

    I remember there was a “making of” featurette on the DVD in which William H. Macy talked about how he approached the Coen Brothers and asked them if these events really happened. Evidently they sort of laughed and said no, at which point he said that they couldn’t do that. Then they laughed again and asked him why not.

  • @gluuuuue
    @gluuuuue 2 года назад +10

    Apparently the guy who played Mike Yanagita was actually a semi-famous stand-up comedian who was also in In Living Color for a season, so I think his bit was intended to be simultaneously hilarious yet in that cringey way, not unlike mosta the movie.

    • @reikun86
      @reikun86 2 года назад +1

      Steve Park is great. I remember him from In Living Color. His character in the movie was great because it showed Marge that people try to lie and take advantage of her good nature.
      That incident led to to interrogate Jerry again.

    • @HelloMellowXVI
      @HelloMellowXVI  2 года назад +1

      I knew he looked familiar

  • @fileani
    @fileani 2 года назад +1

    5th Element, Fargo and the Hobbit

  • @als3022
    @als3022 2 года назад +3

    GASP!!! Fargo, you betcha. A great movie that has the hero as a pregnant sheriff near her time of delivery. And she still totally kicks ass while remaining a good character despite that horrible wig. lol.

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 2 года назад +4

    7:29* this scene was William H. Macy's idea on what to say to his father in law after his wife was kidnapped.

  • @007wars6
    @007wars6 2 года назад +7

    YESSS ITS FINALLY TIME!!!! This is my 3rd favorite film of all time, I hope you enjoyed it!!

    • @smokeyverton7981
      @smokeyverton7981 2 года назад +1

      What are your top two?

    • @007wars6
      @007wars6 2 года назад +1

      @@smokeyverton7981 No Country for Old Men and Black Swan

    • @smokeyverton7981
      @smokeyverton7981 2 года назад +1

      @@007wars6 Black Swan did my head in. Had to watch a couple of times to understand. Wonderful movie. As for the other, can't go wrong with Tommy Lee Jones

    • @glennthompson1173
      @glennthompson1173 2 года назад +1

      It's in my to 20 at least.

    • @007wars6
      @007wars6 2 года назад +1

      @@smokeyverton7981 hahaha, agreed on both of those statements

  • @Hawk170122
    @Hawk170122 2 года назад +1

    “Move the antenna around…”. Man your stock just went up!!

  • @TheEMFB
    @TheEMFB 2 года назад +1

    I could go on about specifics and details with this one. But it boils down to being one of the best mixes of tragedy, comedy, and suspense of all time. And Frances McDormand's performance was flawless. I love this film.

  • @gitchygitchy3106
    @gitchygitchy3106 2 года назад

    Bro I can’t get enough of your reactions, you watch movies the same way I do. You pick apart everything, the only thing I ask as a fan. MORE MOVIES ON THE DAILY. Also, I hope you can one day be in something I can react too. Keep on keeping on brotha

  • @ThisLoveIsSweet
    @ThisLoveIsSweet 2 года назад

    I appreciate the effort you put into your fun intros

  • @martinbraun1211
    @martinbraun1211 2 года назад +4

    Please watch THE NEVERENDING STORY!

  • @gowkie3940
    @gowkie3940 2 года назад +5

    Nice chair man! Love this movie, one of my favorites of the Coen brothers.

    • @IntoTheWhite04
      @IntoTheWhite04 2 года назад

      Obviously 10 hours of TV gives you more scope to flesh out a plot than a film does

    • @gowkie3940
      @gowkie3940 2 года назад

      @@IntoTheWhite04 I think you replied to the wrong comment chief

  • @AtomicVampire1
    @AtomicVampire1 2 года назад +1

    The wood chipper scene was inspired by a real case that happened right here in Connecticut. In the 80s a man put his wife in a chipper instead of getting a divorce.

  • @caralayne503
    @caralayne503 2 года назад +1

    I can’t believe u hadn’t seen this! Classic. The accents, the cast, the ending!! Just so fucking good!! I loved this man, I feel like so many of the actors, except Frances McDormand, get such little respect for how great they are!! I LOVE this film. So well done 🙌🖤🖤🖤. … should’ve won best picture. God Bless Steve Buscemi (NYC proud! 🖤), “was he funny lookin apart from that ?” you betcha! Yaaaa. I admit i Lol’d again, having seen this many times, as if new again , with u. The accents tho!!! Im from Jersey,/NYC, we’re allowed to be weirded out, our accents are legendary.

  • @IntoTheWhite04
    @IntoTheWhite04 2 года назад +2

    Two words. Roger Deakins.
    Best cinematographer there is

  • @Amy46032
    @Amy46032 2 года назад +2

    I think you would really enjoy the tv show, too. Seasons 1 and 2 are incredible tv

  • @peteyn.y.7960
    @peteyn.y.7960 2 года назад +3

    Absolutely love this and ALL COEN BROTHERS!! GREAT TV SHOW ALSO!! At least the 1st Seasons!! 🔥

  • @jeffbassin630
    @jeffbassin630 Год назад

    You did an excellent job of reacting to this film!

  • @nopewmopan
    @nopewmopan 2 года назад +2

    Your last couple "Mellows" have been extra mellow.

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 2 года назад +1

    3:42, Damn girl, okay! Lol!

  • @glennthompson1173
    @glennthompson1173 2 года назад +2

    Love the Coen Brothers movies. This is one of there best. This is what you call a dark comedy. It's a damn funny dark comedy too. Nice reaction.
    The Man that wasn't There is a great Coen film.

  • @levenkay4468
    @levenkay4468 2 года назад +1

    You kind of skimmed past one of the vignettes that tickled me the most in the film: the sequence where the snow shoveler gives the detective some leads about the "funny-looking guy" down by the lake. Both men are dressed in eight-inch-thick Arctic parkas, with their breath practically freezing solid in the air, and casually agreeing that what they can tell of the weather signs points to a strong possibility of "it turning cold soon".

    • @lindanicholson950
      @lindanicholson950 2 года назад

      Front moving in. The buried money will be even more buried. Someone in the series finds it eventually.

  • @averagegalaxygamer4430
    @averagegalaxygamer4430 Год назад +1

    I’m a Minnesotan and every time I visit out of state and tell someone I’m from Minnesota they always ask me if I’ve seen this movie 😂

  • @PedroCastillo_1980
    @PedroCastillo_1980 2 года назад +1

    Amazing film a true masterpiece very classic Fargo written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Cohen starring Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, Peter Stormare and music score by Carter Burwell. The film was nominated for 7 Oscars and won 2 including best actress by Frances McDormand and best original screenplay by Joel and Ethan Cohen. In 2010, the independent Film & Television Alliance selected the film as one of its "30 Most Significant Independent Films" of the last 30 years. Thank you so much MellVerse great reaction bro excellent👍👍👍👍👍

  • @Pancakeshouse85
    @Pancakeshouse85 2 года назад

    Man, you called it at 24:30! Nicely done!

  • @tremorsfan
    @tremorsfan 2 года назад +1

    Although most of the movie is fictional, the Wood Chipper scene really happened: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Eugene_Thompson
    There's actually an old joke that every time Steve Buscemi dies in a Cohen Brothers movie you see less and less of him. In Miller's Crossing he has his face blown off. In Fargo you only see his foot and by the time you get to Big Lebowski you only see his ashes.

  • @vinnygi
    @vinnygi 2 года назад +1

    Some of the best cinematography you’ll ever see.

  • @jarnodatema
    @jarnodatema 2 года назад +1

    One of my favorites. Thank you

  • @Nedra_K
    @Nedra_K 2 года назад +1

    Burn After Reading was another good one from the Coen bros.

  • @ACinemafanatic
    @ACinemafanatic 2 года назад +1

    One of my favorite movies that Frances did with the Coen Bros. She won an Oscar and she was also amazing in their first film Blood Simple

  • @he-man5049
    @he-man5049 2 года назад +1

    RIP *Norm Macdonald*
    Died: September 14, 2021
    At 61 from cancer.
    *Norman Gene Macdonald* was a *Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, and actor* known for his deadpan style. Early in his career, he wrote for the sitcom Roseanne and made guest appearances on shows such as The Drew Carey Show and NewsRadio.
    *Dr Dolittle* with *Eddie Murphy,* *Norm* play the voice of the dog, *Lucky.*
    👼👼🙏🙏👼👼

  • @moonkersd1227
    @moonkersd1227 2 года назад

    Great reaction! the show is amazing!

  • @DP-hy4vh
    @DP-hy4vh 2 года назад +1

    After the end of the movie, some lucky farmer probably found that suitcase full of money while fixing their cattle fence.

    • @lindanicholson950
      @lindanicholson950 2 года назад

      It's mentioned in the series. I forget who found it but it was a big deal for him and I don't remember if he told anyone.

  • @terranceporter2644
    @terranceporter2644 2 года назад +2

    I recommend watching 'Burn After Reading' next.

  • @trecewaller3862
    @trecewaller3862 2 года назад

    Dude I love your laugh...

  • @vwlssnvwls3262
    @vwlssnvwls3262 2 года назад

    This was one of those handful of films in my lifetime that I was in no way prepared for, and shocked the hell outta me.

  • @TheRadScientist_
    @TheRadScientist_ 2 года назад

    22:10 is one of the most well constructed and most organic comedy scenes I’ve ever seen lol. The camera angle, the oversized parka’s, the dialogue, the accents.. fucking perfect lol

  • @logann7942
    @logann7942 2 года назад +2

    Margie and Norm are relationship goals

    • @smokeyverton7981
      @smokeyverton7981 2 года назад +1

      Anyone who brings me Arby's for lunch is tops

  • @domenicgalata1470
    @domenicgalata1470 2 года назад +1

    The series is amazing. The Coen Bros had input on the first season, and there are references from nearly all of the Coen Bros films across all seasons. Some subtle and some obvious. Excellent casts in each season, and with the great blend of dark comedy and great dialogue.

  • @kurtrivero368
    @kurtrivero368 2 года назад +10

    This wasn't based on a true story. That was a typical Coen Brothers joke that many people fell for.

  • @katec8796
    @katec8796 2 года назад +2

    Love Frances :) You should react to her first film Blood Simple - not only was it the Coen Brotherss debut but it's where Joel and Frances met and they married shortly after. It's a really cool aesthetic thriller crime film that's worth reacting to.
    Also Nomadland was her latest film where she won an Oscar and that film is stunning as well ;)

  • @BigPete44
    @BigPete44 2 года назад +4

    I love this movie Mello!! 💯✊

    • @maryhamer9997
      @maryhamer9997 2 года назад +1

      I knew I could find you here!😂

    • @BigPete44
      @BigPete44 2 года назад +2

      @@maryhamer9997 😂😂 LOL Hey Mary! ❤️

  • @terryyy1944
    @terryyy1944 11 месяцев назад +1

    Jerry needed the money because he got a large loan on vehicles that did not exist. The people who loaned him the money were about to be audited and the needed the serial numbers of the cars. That was what the two phone calls were about.

  • @sonofmoss
    @sonofmoss 2 года назад +1

    What I loved about the scenes with Marge and her husband Norm was how they didn’t revolve around her case. It felt more realistic. In one of the behind the scenes Frances described their relationship as one with no mystery but very loving and happy.

  • @smichelle65
    @smichelle65 2 года назад

    So many satisfying comeuppances in this movie!

  • @adriel88_
    @adriel88_ 2 года назад

    Love the Jurassic Park shirt Melo yay 😁

  • @Sashimiburger
    @Sashimiburger 2 года назад +2

    Inside knowledge: Every Coen Brothers movie is a comedy.

  • @EdwardGregoryNYC
    @EdwardGregoryNYC 2 года назад

    "Looks like she's gonna turn cold tomorrow!" Best line.

  • @Salguine
    @Salguine 2 года назад

    Not only has Frances McDormand been "killin' it lately"...She's been killing it since "Blood Simple," which came out in 1984 and was her first film, as well as the first film from the Coen Brothers.

  • @TheCrazyCanuck420
    @TheCrazyCanuck420 2 года назад +5

    He was trying to pay for a parking lot so he had the two knuckleheads kidnap his wife because he was short of the necessary funds. That's what set off the chain of events in the story.
    If you liked this check out Burn After Reading, it has the funniest gruesome death scene I've ever seen.

    • @blackdynamite5016
      @blackdynamite5016 2 года назад +1

      If that's the movie I'm thinking about, Brad Pitt got done dirty in that movie!

    • @PerfectHandProductions
      @PerfectHandProductions 2 года назад +1

      Burn After Reading is one of the best black comedies, I love it.

  • @JohnWayne1985
    @JohnWayne1985 2 года назад +4

    You should also check out Fargo the Anthology TV series, seasons 1 & 2. After that it falls off a cliff, in my opinion, so I wouldn't even bother.

    • @glennthompson1173
      @glennthompson1173 2 года назад +1

      3 is good too. I prefer it over 2. I love them all. 4 is the weakest, but I think it was because it was filmed during pandemic, or part of it?
      The 1st is easily the best one. IMO.

    • @JohnWayne1985
      @JohnWayne1985 2 года назад

      @@glennthompson1173 I do agree that season 1 was the best but we'll just have to agree to disagree on the rest.

  • @maximillianosaben
    @maximillianosaben 2 года назад +1

    Burn After Reading is my favorite Coen Bros. movie. It's actually very similar to Fargo, plot-wise, but more directly towards the comedy end of the spectrum over drama.
    And I always dearly encourage people to watch one of the Coen Bros. most disliked movies, The Ladykillers. It is just too darn funny, and Tom Hanks alone is just beyond words.

  • @PhantomShadow224
    @PhantomShadow224 2 года назад +1

    Yah gotta love that Wisconsin hospitality ^_^

  • @mztweety1374
    @mztweety1374 2 года назад

    Just saw this movie full length. I have the accent now. thanks a lot Coen brothers, you betcha. Hell, I'm from Michigan and we don't talk this crazy LOL

  • @smokeyverton7981
    @smokeyverton7981 2 года назад +1

    Been lucky enough to visit Minnesota. It was the city of Winona. The people there do speak that way and are very nice. Minnesota nice, you betcha

  • @Nay-kp6uu
    @Nay-kp6uu 2 года назад +2

    This is probably my favorite movie. It is a comedy, to me at least this is my kind of sense of humor. Dark and awkward but serious.

    • @sigmasquadleader
      @sigmasquadleader 2 года назад +1

      It's black comedy. It's a genre.

    • @Nay-kp6uu
      @Nay-kp6uu 2 года назад

      @@sigmasquadleader Yeah, black comedy. I just know when I use that term a lot of people think it means something else.

  • @paragonrobbie9270
    @paragonrobbie9270 2 года назад

    This was the film that taught me how to perfect the stereotypical Minnesota accent.
    "Oh, you betcha, yeah."

  • @phousefilms
    @phousefilms 2 года назад

    Lmao, the whole scene of Shep beating the shit out of Steve Buscemi and just going off on anyone in his line of sight always makes me cry laughing!
    Jerry was pretending to be a good car salesman, saying he was selling nonexistent cars. He needed the money to show that he was actually making a profit, but I think one part of him wanted to put something over on his stepfather and act like a bigshot.

  • @r6iqmain498
    @r6iqmain498 Год назад

    19:45 I like how mellverse puts himself into the scene like that

  • @davidebele1284
    @davidebele1284 2 года назад +2

    I'm from Fargo, the accents are very good.