In 1996 I was an expat Minnesotan sitting in a movie theater in Taipei Taiwan when the Fargo trailer came on. I was sliding down my seat laughing, crying and marveling that the Coens had done an entire film in MN dialect. Everyone else looked at me like I was crazy. I was the only person in the theater that got the joke. Also, the most true to life Minnesotan character was the guy sweeping his driveway, the taciturn Mr. Mohra. There are a million guys like that up north.
I used to be one of 'em, eh? Except I was upscale, had a Honda snow blower, doncha know? You know it's really cold when a Minnesotan you pass on the street says "Cold enough for ya?"
+Vincent Vega Keep an eye on the TV they have in the Cabin, where they keep the Hostage, and you see Bruce Campbell the Actor From the "Evil Dead" Francise.
If you like Fargo I really suggest checking out Kumiko The Treasure Hunter, which is the story of a girl who thinks that Fargo really is a "true story" and goes to find the buried money. It really plays off of Fargo and has a lot of little details and references.
Fun Fact: Bruce Campbell plays a small part in the movie. In the scene where Peter Stormare is watching Television while having breakfast, Bruce Campbell appears as an actor in the show.
I love this movie. I rewatched recently. No scenes are filler. Every scene was a "oh I love this one". Know lots of folks in smaller roles and that's a bonus. Rewatch if you haven't seen for awhile. Just so damn good.
Even the controversial scene of the high school friend Mike meeting Marge and breaking down in the Radisson restaurant. That scene sets up Marge going back to Jerry for a second interview with eyes more opened, that people lie. Marge is basically a good person, but she then realizes that people lie to her face.
@@marywatkins6798 gotcha .. I understand how it was perceived as out of place, I wasn’t sure if there was something explicitly controversial .. thank you for clarifying
In 1997 I was on a flight to Korea and watched it in the front projection of a 747. It has since been my favourite movie. It reminds me of the flight everytime I watch it.
In about 1992 I was drinking on a Sunday morning in the King of Clubs bar in Northeast Minneapolis where the hooker scene was filmed. I was looking through the want ads for a kitten. The waitress came over to take my order and asked what I was looking for in the want ads. When I told her that I was looking for a kitten she said, "hang on". 20 minutes later she walked over and put a kitten on my table. Apparently a friend's cat had just had kittens. I tipped her well. I had some interesting times in that bar. Too bad they tore it down.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the incident in 2001 that, through a misunderstanding/language barrier, inspired an urban legend about Takako Konishi dying trying to find the treasure from Fargo which inturn inspired a movie staring Rinko Kikuchi called Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter. I think a real life event becoming an urban legend due to the movie is a neat fact most people wouldn't know.
Another thing to mention is that the Coen Brothers we’re trying to make Jerry Lundegards office look like a jail cell with the white walls and the grey vertical blinds shown either in front of him or behind him.
I remember that some of the snow scenes looked a little weird in Fargo, like when a guy is shoveling snow but it's actually wet slush which didn't seem right. Funny thing is in 1990 when Die Hard 2 was being shot the production crew was chasing snow and went all the way from Montana through Colorado to Michigan with warm temperatures just a day or two behind them after every move. In Alpena Michigan the temperature went from 10° below zero one night to 50° the next day and the snow piles that they collected melted and forced them to move even further north into Michigan's upper peninsula
In 1984 I was a RISD student, and had been a cinephile since childhood (my dad took me to Buñuel films since I was 6 or 7, and I loved them!). There was a lovely small film theater in Providence that showed only the so-called "art movies"; it was called Cable Car Cinena, and it had about 30 couches instead of regular seats. I went as regularly as I had meals, maybe 3 or 4 times a week, and one day the words "BLOOD SIMPLE" were written at the door in marker, as it was customary. I watched it, and got utterly transfixed by it. Next day I was so enthusiastic describing the film to everyone ai knew that the 6 PM showing had a hefty line of RISD kids, and I know this because I was there too. The day after, the line was a lot longer because of hip Brown students who frequented our side of the hill got word of it. In the end, the theater owners extended the showing of Blood Simple for an extra 21 days, and myself and a few other kids went at least a dozen times for details. Since then, I must have watched it maybe 40 or 50 times on DVD with the 'shorter' director's cut, which only the CBs could come up with and it has to have been a joke, knowing those two. Then, when Raising Arizona rolled around I was terribly disappointed, because that smart bit of screenplaying Pauline Kael referred to as "Providing the audience with a God's eye view" was subbed by a frenetic pace exhausting even to a 19 year old
Andrew Wiens Sooooo NOT true fella! Texan through and through and I LMFAO EVERY time I watch this movie~ Pure genius those Coen brothers possess~ I love 'em! And their movies!! Ya? Ya! You betcha!😂
I saw this with my dad when it first came out on VHS when I was 11, we watched it twice back to back, while there was bad snowstorm outside that kind of added to the ambiance of the movie.
+James Hicks (Shamus of Sodom) Yeah, that's how many Southerners feel when every movie supposedly about the South has actors either sounding like ignorant hicks or Blanche Devereaux on steroids. Oh well, guess that's why they call it comedy. lol
+James Hicks (Shamus of Sodom) Yeah so movies especially comedies and action films aren't a facsimile of real life, they are an over the top version of everyday life. I hope this helps!
+James Hicks (Shamus of Sodom) I have relatives from Minnesota. Been in the state many times, and I have never, ever heard one person there talk the way they do in this movie. Now, if you go up to the Yooper, there you will find that accent. For those of you who don't know what the Yooper is, it is what the inhabitants of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan call themselves, the U. P. or the Yooper. James Hicks, are you a player in a fairly popular band in the Mpls area?
Having grown up in Minnesota, the scene that bugged me the most is when Jerry carries his groceries into the house......through the front door. This house would have had an attached garage.
@@GradyPhilpott You'd still go through the garage......and you wouldn't take off your boots in the nice foyer, but in the mudroom/laundry room. I'm just nit-picking. It's a great movie.
Sheev Palpatine I mean, I guess you’re allowed to not find it funny, but it’s intended as a black comedy. The comedy is not super overt and it’s intentionally blended with some really dark subject matter. The intentionally over embellished accents are a big part of what I loved, considering there’s a juxtaposition of these silly kind of upbeat accents and polite mannerisms with some pretty brutal violence and greed. The absurdity of the whole thing is what makes me laugh, but hey, humour’s subjective, you’re not wrong for not finding it funny.
MildGonolini that’s pretty interesting and I enjoy a lot of black comedies with pulp fiction being my favorite film, but there was nothing that seemed funny to me. I still enjoyed the movie though as a crime thriller but there was never anything that was funny to me aside from one or two lines that made me give a slight chuckle
Sheev Palpatine I personally love it, obviously, but yeah may be worth rewatching. I’m surprised the humour wasn’t as noticeable to you if you like Pulp Fiction, I love it too because I find it (and Fargo) does black humour so well.
Love this movie, a couple of things I noticed i never heard mentioned. One was when Jerry comes home to find Jean kidnapped, he goes upstairs with the groceries, i mean no one would do that. Do they have a kitchen, upstairs, i doubt it. Not sure if that was done intentionally for the wtf effect. Also near that scene, if you look at the magazine holder near the toilet, you clearly see an issue of playboy. Lmao, who would leave a copy there, i doubt a family with a child, i am sure that was done intentionally, lol.
In a Twin Cities split-level house, you DO have an "upstairs" kitchen; it's the way the house was designed. Floors are only half-floors, they have half-landings between them. My uncle had a house just like that.
Ok so I'm not sure how I found this channel, but I definitely subscribed after the first video I watched. I've been watching at least 3-4 videos from this channel a day/night. I was wondering if they've done any videos on scores or soundtracks of movies.
North Dakotans say a or aye like eh but say ope more than that and Minnisotans sometimes say it too though we mostly only say it when we are surprised there is also the word uffda or at least where I'm from - a fact from your southern North Dakotan neighbor in a small town
I love Raising Arizona. The funniest film of the 80's. So many great lines "Son, you got a panty on your head". My favorite was "Buford already knows his ABC's" and it shows the kid writing the word FART on the wall with a crayon. "Everybody leaves microbes and what not." "You've got to get him his Dip Tet" "Sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real hard" and of course "...and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand"
I love behind the scenes stories and this persons voice! he just made me smile when I was feeling really down, so many thanks you mellifluous gentleman!
Colin Knapp I live in Fargo/ Moorhead area and never really hear the "eh's" or "darn tootin's" but still hear a lot of of ufda's when farmers come into town
My favorite bit of trivia from Fargo -- which, it seems, not a lot of other people noticed -- is the part where Marge is at the woodchipper. When the guy throws a piece of firewood at her they switch to her, and quite a large and heavy piece of firewood HITS HER, damn hard, on the side of her calf. I can guarantee you that had to hurt like hell and made a HUGE bruise. She acted like it didn't even hit her. Anyone who has handled firewood like that (and, basically watched it's trajectory to have an idea of the heft of it) would know how much getting hit like that would hurt. EDIT: You can see it here, at about time 1:36 ruclips.net/video/LyPhsD1vHGk/видео.html
@@coolnamebro No. You can tell by the way it hits her leg that it's a real (heavy) piece of wood (so says I, who have been around a LOT of pieces of wood just like it). It would actually be quite a process to make that piece of wood out of foam and then make it look like a real piece of wood. Nope, she took a pretty nasty little hit there, and kept the scene going. What you're saying is what you WANT to believe, what I'm saying is what I see.
In the early '80s I worked for an airline that flew into North Dakota. However, Fargo was not one of our cities. But the people in Eastern North Dakota all sounded that way. You betcha.
3:30 "Based on a true story" and "completely accurate historical docu-drama" are two WILDLY different things. "based on a true story" could be anything from a fairly accurate depiction of what really happened to what might have happened had an event gone differently. The "Hunt for Red October" was kind of sort of based on a true story. It was a surface ship, not a submarine, and the captain was captured before he got very far.
First time I saw this film, in the scene when Marge discovered the car and was sneaking around the Moose Lake cabin, I got disappointed in a continuity error of the films sound. As she’s sneaking around the cabin, I could hear the sound of the wood chipper, but I assumed that the sound engineer was trying to recreate the sound of a snow blower, but figured a sound bit from a chipper could suffice! Who uses a wood chipper in winter? Then I saw the not so funny looking guy at the chipper. Gotta go now for breakfast. I think I’ll have pancakes.
+Tyler Stokes I thought it was amazing, with its homages to all the major film genres of the time, and with the fact that Hollywood is historically a city of sin and shady business, yet the two most pure-hearted characters are the ones who resolve the most conflict.
I didn't really like it. it was kind of all over the place and had too many character that didn't matter. plus the trailer sold a completely different story for me so I was disappointed overall. i understand the point of it and I'm not saying it was bad it just didn't click for me
You didn't mention that one of the two hookers was the "Minnesota Nice" voice-coach for Francis McDormand and W/H Macy. She asked if there was a way to get some on-screen time and the Cohens asked if she'd be offended to play a hooker. "Well Gosh...heck NO!", she said.
One thing they have said about the based on a true story thing is that the studio were pushing for cell phone product placement and this was their way of making that impossible by saying it is a true story from years before cell phones were common. The one cell phone you see is a huge 1990s brick.
A possible connection between two Best Picture nominees: about halfway through "All the President's Men" (1974), Bob Woodward, played by Robert Redford, phones a Twin Cities businessman in the course of trying to "follow the money" that will connect the Watergrate break-in to Pres. Nixon. The man, Kenneth Dahlberg, explains on the call that he is distraught because his neighbor's wife has just been kidnapped. That really happened, and it has been proposed that the kidnapping of Virginia Piper (who was recovered alive in Duluth after a $1 million ransom had been paid) was one of the Coens' sources.
Oofta! Not enough snirt! One of my favorite films - right up there with Gummo, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Time bandits, Sling Blade and Parents.
and at dat der time ay, the bar they meet up at in dat der Brainerd wasn't in the middle of field, there was a flipping amusement park in this town, cheese and sprinkles
Excellent film! I like the story of how Macy campaigned for his role. I always felt sorry for Scotty, the son. Of course, Frances was superb. You betcha!
The dude who plays Mr. Lundegarde is one real fabulous actor. He has played all kinds of characters. So I am really not surprised at all seeing his unbelievably perfect portrayal of the SLIMY COWARDLY WEASEL he plays as the kidnapped- woman's WEENIE husband. Really good ! When you see someone act in a way, - and you can't believe that they're not really like that ! - NO résumé could ask for more.
William H. Macy - he actually insisted to play that role and said to the Coens "Only I can play a character that goofy and ruthless. Anybody else will spoil this movie."
apparently some Japanese woman who thought film was true story , travelled to Fargo and looked for cash hidden by Bushimi, she topped herself when found out film was fiction.
Lots of movies have been plagued by the “warmest winter in years” phenomenon. ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ was the 007 film where the Switzerland skiing scenes featured trucked-in snow.
Another little piece of trivia is about the satchel. The same satchel Buscemi's character tries to hide in the snow along the highway is the very same satchel discovered by Josh Brolin's character in "No Country..."
+Alex Stephens Most of the plot and dialogue is taken directly from the book. The only difference I can really remember is in the book, Llewellyn picked up a young female hitch hiker who was a companion for a while, whereas the movie portrays her only briefly as the woman offering him the beers in her room at the hotel just before he died.
The "burying the briefcase of money" scene was shot between the city of Grafton, ND and the municipal airport. If you google map the coordinates, 48.412539, -97.377878, you can still see the barbed wire fence. When the camera pans right, you can see the sillouette of Grafton, and when it pans left, you can faintly see the airport light tower. Buscemi and the crew ate at the local diner for breakfast that morning. Filled up with gas at the old Jet Oil station which is now a Subway and my brother was working the counter.
And the scenes with the car flipped in the ditch and all the Paul Bunyan statue scenes were filmed about 6 miles south of Neche and 4 miles west of Bathgate. Pretty sure the opening shot of the highway was done on Highway 18
@@crazyjohnt8012 I am actually trying to locate the spot where the car was flipped over in the ditch.. where the 2 people were shot. In the movie.. poles were along the road.. 6 mi south/4 mi west of Bathgate,,, I am not seeing any poles along the ditch.
I am actually trying to locate the spot where the car was flipped over in the ditch.. where the 2 people were shot. In the movie.. poles were along the road.. 6 mi south/4 mi west of Bathgate,,, I am not seeing any poles along the ditch.
The scene where Jerry is arrested is filmed with a handheld camera. The Coens said in the director's chat that a steadicam or tripod wouldn't have worked. They wanted it to look like a documentary.
When you're young it's all fillet steak (the grand budapest hotel) but as you get older you switch to the cheaper cuts (Hail Caesar) Which is fine, because I LIKE those. More flavorful they say.
Also, Steve Buscemi and his accomplice Peter Stormare worked together again in Armageddon, when Steve played a member of the drilling crew and Stormare played the crazy Russian who ran the Russian Space Station
I grew up in Fargo and I have heard people say "Fargo Minnesota. Fargo is across from Moorhead Minnesota. I do think the oh yah's are way too much over-done.
Pity there wasn't a "thing you didn't know" regarding Takako Konishi... JTKWLum mentioned her below but it's worth a Google. Just search her name or look for a film called "This Is A True Story" by Paul Berczeller
+Iain Meldrum (mixolosopher) Except that her story didn't actually have anything to do with the movie 'Fargo'. The connection between her story and Fargo is an urban myth. She was actually in the States following a man who had been a banker overseas when she met him. Fargo was his home town and the only interaction between Konishi and a local cop included the word "Fargo" several times (she didn't actually speak any English). She ended up committing suicide by drinking a bunch of champagne and then letting herself freeze to death out in the woods.
MiSt 526 Yes I know - that's why I recommended "This Is A True Story" cos it digs deeper into the myth and reveals the truth behind it. But the fact that the cop - and later the media - connected it to the film ought to make it enough to be a 'thing you didn't know'. It was certainly enough to inspire a fictional film called "Kumiko - The Treasure Hunter" which DOES have a Japanese girl head off to Minnesota in search of the buried money after finding an old copy of the film and believing it to be true.
I grew up in Fargo and we don't have that accent. It comes from some cartoon show. As for the "eh" it is Canadian, but some of us who rubbed shoulders with Canadians during their 3 day weekends did pick it up. In my time (1958 through 1973) Fargo was definitely divided. You were either a North-sider (me) or a South-sider... or else you were a Ridgie (Golden Ridge, the near west side...poor.) We all kind of feared the Ridgies because they were the toughest hockey players. In fact they were tough all around. teams from the Pershing rink were feared in Parkboard hockey. Also... we were all smart-assed wisecrackers. I played in bands in the 1960's... lots of great musicians.
+loudrockacdc yeah... You watched a film, went on the internet and found a video related TO THAT MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEN YOU CLICKED ON IT !!!! OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
+That Guy Well, it's more coincidental when the video was just uploaded. Say that you just read a book, and then your favorite RUclipsr uploads a review of that book an hour later. Is that not a bit coincidental?
What a great film. I watched it again only the other day. The acting was as good as I had remembered it the second time round. I will undoubtedly watch it again in the future as it is truly such a great film to watch. I often wonder, from time to time anyway, if these great film companies employ people like myself? I suppose I shall never know. Kind regards LM
We watched Fargo on videotape from Blockbuster not knowing anything about it except it was a new release. POW KA-BOOM ! What a great surprise it turned out to be, we kept looking at each other like WTH is this ?!😂 The clincher was my husband was from MN and I kept telling him he and his relatives talk just like that. He denied it completely 😂
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In 1996 I was an expat Minnesotan sitting in a movie theater in Taipei Taiwan when the Fargo trailer came on. I was sliding down my seat laughing, crying and marveling that the Coens had done an entire film in MN dialect. Everyone else looked at me like I was crazy. I was the only person in the theater that got the joke.
Also, the most true to life Minnesotan character was the guy sweeping his driveway, the taciturn Mr. Mohra. There are a million guys like that up north.
I used to be one of 'em, eh? Except I was upscale, had a Honda snow blower, doncha know? You know it's really cold when a Minnesotan you pass on the street says "Cold enough for ya?"
Not an american but i did notice that
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@@prsguitars42 oh ya!
As a Minnesotan we don't talk like that to often don'tcha know
oh great now I've gotta watch Fargo again.
+Vincent Vega I was thinking the same thing. Need to pick up some popcorn, definitely a popcorn movie
+Vincent Vega Keep an eye on the TV they have in the Cabin, where they keep the Hostage, and you see Bruce Campbell the Actor From the "Evil Dead" Francise.
+Vincent Vega I just watched it for the first time the other day! That was close!
Nate England That wood chipper lol
Vincent Vega That was awesome huh
If you like Fargo I really suggest checking out Kumiko The Treasure Hunter, which is the story of a girl who thinks that Fargo really is a "true story" and goes to find the buried money. It really plays off of Fargo and has a lot of little details and references.
This movie is so damn good
A True Cinema Masterpiece and then some.
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Super good 😌
i honestly thought it felt dated. Especially the acting and dialogue.
Fun Fact: Bruce Campbell plays a small part in the movie. In the scene where Peter Stormare is watching Television while having breakfast, Bruce Campbell appears as an actor in the show.
Now I just gotta find out who Bruce Campbell is.
Yaaahhh...
It sounds like he’s on the phone with him at one point tok
Gotta love some Bruce
Another fun fact: Bruce had a bit part in the series "Fargo" playing Ronald Reagan! I believe it was season two.
Fargo is basically my favorite film of all time...
Better than Ballad of Buster Scruggs?
@Randy White - I'm pretty sure at least 1/2 of the Coen Bros movies would make it into top 100.
ditto for me, except remove "basically"
Frances McDormand really stood out for me in Fargo. Such presence in every scene. Well deserved Oscar recognition years later in Nomadland.
Please do "No Country For Old Men".
Forever tied with "Fargo" as the Coen Brothers'
Masterpiece
Please. The Big Lebowski????
+Klapaucius Fitzpatrick I'll give you that but TBL is a fucking classic. I didn't like NCFOM that much.
+Brad Harris : Then watch it again. It's brilliance becomes more evident with each viewing. IMO it's the best film in the last 10 years.
Millers Crossing is their best, followed by Raising Arizona.
+Alan_ S. okay. I will.
I love this movie. I rewatched recently. No scenes are filler. Every scene was a "oh I love this one". Know lots of folks in smaller roles and that's a bonus. Rewatch if you haven't seen for awhile. Just so damn good.
Even the controversial scene of the high school friend Mike meeting Marge and breaking down in the Radisson restaurant. That scene sets up Marge going back to Jerry for a second interview with eyes more opened, that people lie. Marge is basically a good person, but she then realizes that people lie to her face.
I agree. Fargo is brilliant. I can still watch it, years later, and thoroughly enjoy it all.
@@marywatkins6798 why is the scene controversial?
@@alesele20 it’s a scene that is singled out as baffling viewers: why it is there? What’s its purpose to the story?
@@marywatkins6798 gotcha .. I understand how it was perceived as out of place, I wasn’t sure if there was something explicitly controversial .. thank you for clarifying
I just finished watching Fargo five minutes ago, instantly became my favourite movie
Oh Yaa! ;-)
same here!
In 1997 I was on a flight to Korea and watched it in the front projection of a 747. It has since been my favourite movie. It reminds me of the flight everytime I watch it.
Mine too 😌
Weird that both of my favorite movies takes place in the snow, both of them being "The Great Silence/Il Grande Silenzio" and "Fargo".
I never forget when i first saw Fargo, it's been 23 years and it's still my favourite movie.
In about 1992 I was drinking on a Sunday morning in the King of Clubs bar in Northeast Minneapolis where the hooker scene was filmed. I was looking through the want ads for a kitten. The waitress came over to take my order and asked what I was looking for in the want ads. When I told her that I was looking for a kitten she said, "hang on". 20 minutes later she walked over and put a kitten on my table. Apparently a friend's cat had just had kittens. I tipped her well.
I had some interesting times in that bar. Too bad they tore it down.
hows the cat now?
Cats don’t live to 27, Jeff.
@@TimTkachyk It might be a magic cat!
True, I hadn’t accounted for that.
Well the suit changed but you can try the King of Diamonds....and it's in Inver Grove Hts....not Minneapolis. Now open for your viewing pleasure.
The entire movie Fargo was fantastic from start to finish!
Super
I'm surprised you didn't mention the incident in 2001 that, through a misunderstanding/language barrier, inspired an urban legend about Takako Konishi dying trying to find the treasure from Fargo which inturn inspired a movie staring Rinko Kikuchi called Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter. I think a real life event becoming an urban legend due to the movie is a neat fact most people wouldn't know.
I actually watched Fargo because of that docu
Another thing to mention is that the Coen Brothers we’re trying to make Jerry Lundegards office look like a jail cell with the white walls and the grey vertical blinds shown either in front of him or behind him.
Extra good
I can watch Fargo over & over -
Not sure why
The lady sheriff is so awesome
I remember that some of the snow scenes looked a little weird in Fargo, like when a guy is shoveling snow but it's actually wet slush which didn't seem right. Funny thing is in 1990 when Die Hard 2 was being shot the production crew was chasing snow and went all the way from Montana through Colorado to Michigan with warm temperatures just a day or two behind them after every move. In Alpena Michigan the temperature went from 10° below zero one night to 50° the next day and the snow piles that they collected melted and forced them to move even further north into Michigan's upper peninsula
In 1984 I was a RISD student, and had been a cinephile since childhood (my dad took me to Buñuel films since I was 6 or 7, and I loved them!). There was a lovely small film theater in Providence that showed only the so-called "art movies"; it was called Cable Car Cinena, and it had about 30 couches instead of regular seats. I went as regularly as I had meals, maybe 3 or 4 times a week, and one day the words "BLOOD SIMPLE" were written at the door in marker, as it was customary. I watched it, and got utterly transfixed by it. Next day I was so enthusiastic describing the film to everyone ai knew that the 6 PM showing had a hefty line of RISD kids, and I know this because I was there too. The day after, the line was a lot longer because of hip Brown students who frequented our side of the hill got word of it. In the end, the theater owners extended the showing of Blood Simple for an extra 21 days, and myself and a few other kids went at least a dozen times for details. Since then, I must have watched it maybe 40 or 50 times on DVD with the 'shorter' director's cut, which only the CBs could come up with and it has to have been a joke, knowing those two. Then, when Raising Arizona rolled around I was terribly disappointed, because that smart bit of screenplaying Pauline Kael referred to as "Providing the audience with a God's eye view" was subbed by a frenetic pace exhausting even to a 19 year old
o brother where art thou would be pretty interesting.
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+KamatemateLIVE Third
+Just Curious Another Haddock fan?
+Just Curious kind of like your mother. BOOOM!!!
Andrew Wiens
Sooooo NOT true fella!
Texan through and through and I LMFAO EVERY time I watch this movie~
Pure genius those Coen brothers possess~
I love 'em! And their movies!!
Ya? Ya! You betcha!😂
I saw this with my dad when it first came out on VHS when I was 11, we watched it twice back to back, while there was bad snowstorm outside that kind of added to the ambiance of the movie.
They're FROM Minnesota and they still overdid the accents? WTF
-A Minnesotan
+James Hicks (Shamus of Sodom) oh ya?
+James Hicks (Shamus of Sodom) They kinda sound Canadian to me, the way the movie did it.
+James Hicks (Shamus of Sodom) Yeah, that's how many Southerners feel when every movie supposedly about the South has actors either sounding like ignorant hicks or Blanche Devereaux on steroids. Oh well, guess that's why they call it comedy. lol
+James Hicks (Shamus of Sodom) Yeah so movies especially comedies and action films aren't a facsimile of real life, they are an over the top version of everyday life. I hope this helps!
+James Hicks (Shamus of Sodom) I have relatives from Minnesota. Been in the state many times, and I have never, ever heard one person there talk the way they do in this movie. Now, if you go up to the Yooper, there you
will find that accent. For those of you who don't know what the Yooper is, it is what the inhabitants of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan call themselves, the U. P. or the Yooper. James Hicks, are you a player in a fairly popular band in the Mpls area?
Love Fargo. Matter of fact, love all these guy's films.
Having grown up in Minnesota, the scene that bugged me the most is when Jerry carries his groceries into the house......through the front door. This house would have had an attached garage.
Maybe the garage is full and Jerry had to park in the driveway.
@@GradyPhilpott You'd still go through the garage......and you wouldn't take off your boots in the nice foyer, but in the mudroom/laundry room. I'm just nit-picking. It's a great movie.
I found it interesting he carried the groceries upstairs.
@@lennomenno that part bug me as well....lol
Not everyone can afford a home with a garage? Does every home there have a garage?
For 40 years I never knew that that was Frances McDermond in Raising Arizona!!!
She's a really good actress!
I can't believe it took me so long to watch this movie. I was laughing my ass off the entire way through.
How though. I didn’t find anything funny and didn’t even know it’s supposed to be funny. Did I miss something.
Sheev Palpatine I mean, I guess you’re allowed to not find it funny, but it’s intended as a black comedy. The comedy is not super overt and it’s intentionally blended with some really dark subject matter. The intentionally over embellished accents are a big part of what I loved, considering there’s a juxtaposition of these silly kind of upbeat accents and polite mannerisms with some pretty brutal violence and greed. The absurdity of the whole thing is what makes me laugh, but hey, humour’s subjective, you’re not wrong for not finding it funny.
MildGonolini that’s pretty interesting and I enjoy a lot of black comedies with pulp fiction being my favorite film, but there was nothing that seemed funny to me. I still enjoyed the movie though as a crime thriller but there was never anything that was funny to me aside from one or two lines that made me give a slight chuckle
I think I need to give a rewatch, though. Maybe if I rewatch I’ll like it more. It seems like one of those movies to me
Sheev Palpatine I personally love it, obviously, but yeah may be worth rewatching. I’m surprised the humour wasn’t as noticeable to you if you like Pulp Fiction, I love it too because I find it (and Fargo) does black humour so well.
Jesus, this movie has always made me so happy that I'm from Southern Minnesota.
You might as well be a dirty Iowan! Get with accent or get out
Made me laugh when they announced Roderick James for Fargo
One of the best films EVER made
Fargo is such a great movie. Its so compelling you forget how bloody and violent it is.
Love this movie, a couple of things I noticed i never heard mentioned. One was when Jerry comes home to find Jean kidnapped, he goes upstairs with the groceries, i mean no one would do that. Do they have a kitchen, upstairs, i doubt it. Not sure if that was done intentionally for the wtf effect. Also near that scene, if you look at the magazine holder near the toilet, you clearly see an issue of playboy. Lmao, who would leave a copy there, i doubt a family with a child, i am sure that was done intentionally, lol.
In a Twin Cities split-level house, you DO have an "upstairs" kitchen; it's the way the house was designed. Floors are only half-floors, they have half-landings between them. My uncle had a house just like that.
I loved Hail Caesar; great ensemble, nice humor, and an all around inspiring religious film
and great editting. hail roderick james
that movie was nufyn short of dog sh*t ..salute to anyone who managed to watch it twice
Oh, gonna watch this movie again! One if my favorite films.
I'd love to see a 7 facts on 'O, Brother where art thou?'. I love that movie.
The music/main theme is beautiful.
I've eaten at the Tinucci's Restaurant where Marge eats in the movie. It still looks pretty much the same 20 years later.
Oh yaa?
@@jbot91 Yaa.
Ok so I'm not sure how I found this channel, but I definitely subscribed after the first video I watched. I've been watching at least 3-4 videos from this channel a day/night. I was wondering if they've done any videos on scores or soundtracks of movies.
Minnesotans don't say "eh." You're thinking of Canada. I should know. I live here.
North Dakotans say a or aye like eh but say ope more than that and Minnisotans sometimes say it too though we mostly only say it when we are surprised there is also the word uffda or at least where I'm from
- a fact from your southern North Dakotan neighbor in a small town
@@hayliew611 yeah we don’t really say eh in Minnesota unless we are spoofing ourselves
Coming from a northern Minnesotan, I can say this is one of my favorite movies, even though they didn’t overdo the accents in some ways
Raising Arizona please would ya
I love Raising Arizona. The funniest film of the 80's. So many great lines "Son, you got a panty on your head". My favorite was "Buford already knows his ABC's" and it shows the kid writing the word FART on the wall with a crayon. "Everybody leaves microbes and what not." "You've got to get him his Dip Tet" "Sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real hard" and of course "...and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand"
Even funnier if you live in Arizona and you know someone living in a mobile home in the middle of the desert!
That movie is so great! It’s one of my favorite comedies
Great casted movie. Nicholas cage fit that role perfectly.
I love behind the scenes stories and this persons voice! he just made me smile when I was feeling really down, so many thanks you mellifluous gentleman!
Minnesotans don't the "eh" thing, that's Canada, doncha know!
Oh, ya, yer right. I just think about it, but yer darn tootin.
Minnesotan accents and Canadian accents are the same.
Yes they do. I've been to West Fargo, ND and Moorehead, MN. All the people I met there said "Eh" and had the accent.
I watcheeeed Fargо full movie heeereeee twitter.com/e88ef449cbee844eb/status/822783738442436608 7 Things You Prоbaaably Didnâ t Know Аbout Fargo
Colin Knapp I live in Fargo/ Moorhead area and never really hear the "eh's" or "darn tootin's" but still hear a lot of of ufda's when farmers come into town
One of my all-time favorite movies
My favorite bit of trivia from Fargo -- which, it seems, not a lot of other people noticed -- is the part where Marge is at the woodchipper. When the guy throws a piece of firewood at her they switch to her, and quite a large and heavy piece of firewood HITS HER, damn hard, on the side of her calf. I can guarantee you that had to hurt like hell and made a HUGE bruise. She acted like it didn't even hit her. Anyone who has handled firewood like that (and, basically watched it's trajectory to have an idea of the heft of it) would know how much getting hit like that would hurt.
EDIT: You can see it here, at about time 1:36 ruclips.net/video/LyPhsD1vHGk/видео.html
@@coolnamebro No. You can tell by the way it hits her leg that it's a real (heavy) piece of wood (so says I, who have been around a LOT of pieces of wood just like it). It would actually be quite a process to make that piece of wood out of foam and then make it look like a real piece of wood. Nope, she took a pretty nasty little hit there, and kept the scene going. What you're saying is what you WANT to believe, what I'm saying is what I see.
Looks like a glancing blow that her Sorels took most of the impact.
This was a great list and the movie is fantastic! Thanks, ay?
If they waited another year to film Fargo, they would've had all of the snow they needed.
In the early '80s I worked for an airline that flew into North Dakota. However, Fargo was not one of our cities. But the people in Eastern North Dakota all sounded that way. You betcha.
3:30 "Based on a true story" and "completely accurate historical docu-drama" are two WILDLY different things. "based on a true story" could be anything from a fairly accurate depiction of what really happened to what might have happened had an event gone differently.
The "Hunt for Red October" was kind of sort of based on a true story. It was a surface ship, not a submarine, and the captain was captured before he got very far.
+Eric Taylor Jaws was also based on a true story but implemented differently.
Raggical Traggical
It was. True-nuff.
"Exploding boobs seems like it should be sexy..." thought no one else ever.
First time I saw this film, in the scene when Marge discovered the car and was sneaking around the Moose Lake cabin, I got disappointed in a continuity error of the films sound.
As she’s sneaking around the cabin, I could hear the sound of the wood chipper, but I assumed that the sound engineer was trying to recreate the sound of a snow blower, but figured a sound bit from a chipper could suffice!
Who uses a wood chipper in winter?
Then I saw the not so funny looking guy at the chipper.
Gotta go now for breakfast.
I think I’ll have pancakes.
Funny thing is the coldest MN winter was the next year, '96. Got down to 60 below in the northern part of the state.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE AND THE COEN BROTHERS!!😃
I loved Raising Arizona.. they should do that one.
Please do the movie you fancy doing next, Ooh ya, it's OK, we can wait.
The guy pushing Buscemi into the wood chipper, is that Slippery Pete, the Frogger electrician off of Seinfeld ? It just hit me 😂
All of them. I would love it if you covered all of the Cohen brothers films.
Fargo is so good I need to watch it again. It has been a while.
I thought that Hail, Caesar was really good.
+Tyler Stokes It was good, but I didn't expect it to be so experimental and subversive as it was. Even for the Coen Bros it was pretty absurdist lol
+Tyler Stokes I thought it was amazing, with its homages to all the major film genres of the time, and with the fact that Hollywood is historically a city of sin and shady business, yet the two most pure-hearted characters are the ones who resolve the most conflict.
I didn't really like it. it was kind of all over the place and had too many character that didn't matter. plus the trailer sold a completely different story for me so I was disappointed overall. i understand the point of it and I'm not saying it was bad it just didn't click for me
adam bray to me its one of de stupidest movie ever made and anyone who puts it on his favorite list probably has a very horrible thirst
I've not heard of 'Hail, Caeser!'.
I've watched this movie 50x and its yet to get old
It would be awesome if you guys did a things you didn't know or what's the difference for let the right one in? That would be awesome!
Wayne Gunderson was played by Harve Presnell, who was in "Paint Your Wagon" and sang "They Call the Wind Maria"
The Unsinkable Molly Brown....
You didn't mention that one of the two hookers was the "Minnesota Nice" voice-coach for Francis McDormand and W/H Macy. She asked if there was a way to get some on-screen time and the Cohens asked if she'd be offended to play a hooker. "Well Gosh...heck NO!", she said.
One thing they have said about the based on a true story thing is that the studio were pushing for cell phone product placement and this was their way of making that impossible by saying it is a true story from years before cell phones were common. The one cell phone you see is a huge 1990s brick.
the tv series is just awesome.
Oh ya!! It's fantastic. Season four just wrapped up. Season two is my favorite. There's no one that plays crazy like Kirsten Dunst and Hanzee!
Great video Cinefix!!!!!!! Do No Country for Old Men next!!!!!!!!
Oh Yaah that snow"ll get ya yur darn tootin ya got that right
A possible connection between two Best Picture nominees: about halfway through "All the President's Men" (1974), Bob Woodward, played by Robert Redford, phones a Twin Cities businessman in the course of trying to "follow the money" that will connect the Watergrate break-in to Pres. Nixon. The man, Kenneth Dahlberg, explains on the call that he is distraught because his neighbor's wife has just been kidnapped. That really happened, and it has been proposed that the kidnapping of Virginia Piper (who was recovered alive in Duluth after a $1 million ransom had been paid) was one of the Coens' sources.
Hail, Caesar! was very good.
Oofta! Not enough snirt!
One of my favorite films - right up there with Gummo, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Time bandits, Sling Blade and Parents.
WE DO NOT TALK LIKE THAT, DONCHA KNOW.
Oh ya?
Rattrap007 Oh ya, ya betcha.
+Rattrap007 Yer darn tootin!
+James Blackheart yaaaaaah
and at dat der time ay, the bar they meet up at in dat der Brainerd wasn't in the middle of field, there was a flipping amusement park in this town, cheese and sprinkles
Excellent film! I like the story of how Macy campaigned for his role. I always felt sorry for Scotty, the son. Of course, Frances was superb. You betcha!
I heard a story that a woman froze to death looking for the money because she thought the events of the movie really happened
Thanks for the upload !! Just loved the movie.
I love the movie and the TV show :D
The dude who plays Mr. Lundegarde is one real fabulous actor. He has played all kinds of characters. So I am really not surprised at all seeing his unbelievably perfect portrayal of the SLIMY COWARDLY WEASEL he plays as the kidnapped-
woman's WEENIE husband.
Really good !
When you see someone act in a way, - and you can't believe that they're not really like that ! - NO résumé could ask for more.
William H. Macy - he actually insisted to play that role and said to the Coens "Only I can play a character that goofy and ruthless. Anybody else will spoil this movie."
apparently some Japanese woman who thought film was true story , travelled to Fargo and looked for cash hidden by Bushimi, she topped herself when found out film was fiction.
+stu. house Is that true story?
+ no that's also a movie, I saw it a few months ago.
+stu. house what was that movie called again
Sebastian Fuentes I thought we were all talkin about Fargo, ! Unless I've mentioned another movie in regards to a different clip somewhere.
Sebastian Fuentes It’s called ‘Kumiko, Treasure Hunter.’
Lots of movies have been plagued by the “warmest winter in years” phenomenon. ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ was the 007 film where the Switzerland skiing scenes featured trucked-in snow.
Fun fact: for some reason this has been on the comedy section on my Netflix for the last 2 months
This movie should of been under the thriller section. Even though there’s dark comedy in this movie, it’s more serious rather than funny.
As a Minnesotan, their accent is hilarious! They took our accent and blew it up into massive proportions! Uff da!
You're darn tootin'!
7 Things You (probably) Didn't Know About CineFix
+Ears726 Number 1. CineFix doesn't exist, it's a shell channel used by the Coen brothers to make videos on RUclips without using their real names.
+ZefVolk made my day😂😂😂😂
+ZefVolk lmao that's stupid bud
Another little piece of trivia is about the satchel. The same satchel Buscemi's character tries to hide in the snow along the highway is the very same satchel discovered by Josh Brolin's character in "No Country..."
do whats the difference? with no country for old man pretty please
+Alex Stephens Most of the plot and dialogue is taken directly from the book. The only difference I can really remember is in the book, Llewellyn picked up a young female hitch hiker who was a companion for a while, whereas the movie portrays her only briefly as the woman offering him the beers in her room at the hotel just before he died.
And Llewellyn's wife finds out about the hitchhiker when she's brought to the motel. This makes the interaction between her and Chigurh more poignant.
The "burying the briefcase of money" scene was shot between the city of Grafton, ND and the municipal airport. If you google map the coordinates, 48.412539, -97.377878, you can still see the barbed wire fence. When the camera pans right, you can see the sillouette of Grafton, and when it pans left, you can faintly see the airport light tower. Buscemi and the crew ate at the local diner for breakfast that morning. Filled up with gas at the old Jet Oil station which is now a Subway and my brother was working the counter.
And the scenes with the car flipped in the ditch and all the Paul Bunyan statue scenes were filmed about 6 miles south of Neche and 4 miles west of Bathgate. Pretty sure the opening shot of the highway was done on Highway 18
@@crazyjohnt8012 I am actually trying to locate the spot where the car was flipped over in the ditch.. where the 2 people were shot. In the movie.. poles were along the road.. 6 mi south/4 mi west of Bathgate,,, I am not seeing any poles along the ditch.
I am actually trying to locate the spot where the car was flipped over in the ditch.. where the 2 people were shot. In the movie.. poles were along the road.. 6 mi south/4 mi west of Bathgate,,, I am not seeing any poles along the ditch.
@@danabrown6747 you need to go 4 miles west of Bathgate and 6 miles south of Neche.
@@danabrown6747should be on highway 18.
Holy shit. I just noticed Saffron from "Absolutely Fabulous" in that truecoat scam scene. Found my own personal thing I didn't know.
Brigit Bryner it's not Julia Sawalha from Ab Fab. The actress is Sally Wingert
The scene where Jerry is arrested is filmed with a handheld camera. The Coens said in the director's chat that a steadicam or tripod wouldn't have worked. They wanted it to look like a documentary.
Hail Caesar was a great movie if you're the type of person that enjoys films like The Grand Budapest Hotel, which I am :p
That's a good comparison.
I saw both. They were both good, but Grand Budapest was better
When you're young it's all fillet steak (the grand budapest hotel) but as you get older you switch to the cheaper cuts (Hail Caesar)
Which is fine, because I LIKE those. More flavorful they say.
Also, Steve Buscemi and his accomplice Peter Stormare worked together again in Armageddon, when Steve played a member of the drilling crew and Stormare played the crazy Russian who ran the Russian Space Station
When Fargo is actually in North Dakota
Lisa Beth I can’t believe how many people actually think Fargo is in Minnesota. It’s a good town, but come on folks
I grew up in Fargo and I have heard people say "Fargo Minnesota. Fargo is across from Moorhead Minnesota. I do think the oh yah's are way too much over-done.
Loved working with them
Do one on the TV show. I really liked them both. What was with the UFO in season 2?
the second season was pretty disappointing imo,the first season was much better
This movie would be in my top ten a truly excellent movie in story, acting , location , casting and everything else.
Pity there wasn't a "thing you didn't know" regarding Takako Konishi... JTKWLum mentioned her below but it's worth a Google. Just search her name or look for a film called "This Is A True Story" by Paul Berczeller
+Iain Meldrum (mixolosopher) Except that her story didn't actually have anything to do with the movie 'Fargo'. The connection between her story and Fargo is an urban myth. She was actually in the States following a man who had been a banker overseas when she met him. Fargo was his home town and the only interaction between Konishi and a local cop included the word "Fargo" several times (she didn't actually speak any English). She ended up committing suicide by drinking a bunch of champagne and then letting herself freeze to death out in the woods.
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Yes I know - that's why I recommended "This Is A True Story" cos it digs deeper into the myth and reveals the truth behind it. But the fact that the cop - and later the media - connected it to the film ought to make it enough to be a 'thing you didn't know'. It was certainly enough to inspire a fictional film called "Kumiko - The Treasure Hunter" which DOES have a Japanese girl head off to Minnesota in search of the buried money after finding an old copy of the film and believing it to be true.
Love all the fargo shows
i really like Hail, Caesar it was good
I grew up in Fargo and we don't have that accent. It comes from some cartoon show. As for the "eh" it is Canadian, but some of us who rubbed shoulders with Canadians during their 3 day weekends did pick it up. In my time (1958 through 1973) Fargo was definitely divided. You were either a North-sider (me) or a South-sider... or else you were a Ridgie (Golden Ridge, the near west side...poor.) We all kind of feared the Ridgies because they were the toughest hockey players. In fact they were tough all around. teams from the Pershing rink were feared in Parkboard hockey. Also... we were all smart-assed wisecrackers. I played in bands in the 1960's... lots of great musicians.
No way haha I just saw Fargo like an hour ago what a coincidence
+loudrockacdc yeah... You watched a film, went on the internet and found a video related TO THAT MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEN YOU CLICKED ON IT !!!! OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
+That Guy Well, it's more coincidental when the video was just uploaded. Say that you just read a book, and then your favorite RUclipsr uploads a review of that book an hour later. Is that not a bit coincidental?
Yeah, why do you just insist on having to be THAT GUY. I like to appreciate little things like this :)
Hail, Caesar! has great scenes and great performances.
What a great film. I watched it again only the other day. The acting was as good as I had remembered it the second time round. I will undoubtedly watch it again in the future as it is truly such a great film to watch.
I often wonder, from time to time anyway, if these great film companies employ people like myself?
I suppose I shall never know.
Kind regards
LM
We watched Fargo on videotape from Blockbuster not knowing anything about it except it was a new release. POW KA-BOOM ! What a great surprise it turned out to be, we kept looking at each other like WTH is this ?!😂 The clincher was my husband was from MN and I kept telling him he and his relatives talk just like that. He denied it completely 😂