After Gaear murders a state trooper, he starts butting heads with Carl, while Jerry grows more and more desperate to retrieve his wife. It would be tragic if the Coens weren't so good at finding the dark humor in the most bizarre and violent of circumstances. Jerry's extortion attempt ends up completely collapsing, while Carl finds himself on the wrong end of a wood-chipper in the film's most gruesome and probably most famous scene.
Which all leads us back to the question: Is any of this a true story as the film claims? For the most part, the answer is no. In , in honor of the film's 20th anniversary, Ethan Coen told HuffPost that the disclaimer was added to the film to set a specific tone. However, the "true story" claim isn't entirely a full-on fib, as the Coens did cherry-pick a few details from real life to include in the movie.
The wood-chipper bit was inspired by a real-life murder that occurred in Connecticut about a decade before Fargo was released. A man named Richard Crafts was arrested and found guilty of killing his wife and using a wood chipper to dispose of her body. Well the most obvious reason would be that they've kept it for the sake of the adaptation. Noah Hawley, the creator of Fargo the series, pointed out that even in the film, only the first scene takes place in Fargo. Hawley says Fargo is more like a metaphor than a location :.
Now that's all well and good but maybe there's another reason to keep the name. The trajectory would make sense. In last week's episode, Detective Molly Solverson found out that the man who was found frozen to death in the woods — the one who escaped from the trunk of Malvo's stolen car — was abducted from his workplace in St.
While first screening the film, Gene Siskel leaned over to fellow critic and co-host Roger Ebert and said with a smile "this is why we love movies. Filming took place in the winter of , when the region was experiencing its second-warmest winter in years.
Filming of outdoor scenes had to be moved all over Minnesota, North Dakota, and Canada, and much of the snow was artificial.
Frances McDormand wore a "pregnancy pillow" filled with birdseed to simulate her pregnant belly. She says that she didn't deliberately try to move in a "pregnant" way, it simply came as a natural response to keeping the extra weight balanced. The wood chipper used in the movie is now on display at the Fargo-Moorhead Visitors Center. They have one child together. Frances McDormand accidentally left her pregnancy suit in her trailer one night.
The silicone breasts in the suit froze, and one of them exploded the next day on set. Peter Stormare later formed a band called "Blond from Fargo" as an homage to his breakthrough American role. Three weeks into shooting, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen revealed to their cast and crew that this was not in fact based on a true story.
Jerry Lundegaard William H. Macy was named after film critic Bob Lundegaard. Frances McDormand worked with a pregnant cop from St. Paul to research the role. This may be a reference to the fact that Prince, like the Coen brothers, was born in Minnesota. Harve Presnell hadn't made a movie in over 20 years when he was cast as Wade.
These three brothers frequently win federal and state wildlife stamp competitions. Macy came up with the idea to have Jerry rehearse what he's going to say on the phone to Wade Harve Presnell. Approaching Brainerd from the south, you see a statue of Paul Bunyan with a sign reading "Welcome to Brainerd.
According to the DVD special features, Peter Stormare , who is from Sweden, spent his off-days visiting nearby cities with Swedish names. None of the movie scenes, either exterior or interior, were actually filmed in Fargo.
The bar exterior shown at the beginning of the movie is located in Northeast Minneapolis. In the kidnappers' cabin, Bruce Campbell can be seen on the fuzzy TV screen. The footage was not shot for this film, but was actually old footage of an earlys Detroit-produced soap opera called "Generations" in which Campbell appeared.
When Jerry William H. Macy is first seen talking to the man from GMAC on his office phone, the scene was set up with the vertical blinds in his office windows open to give the appearance that Jerry is in a jail cell due to the scam he is obviously pulling on GMAC, via the fake sales invoices which constitute embezzlement.
The talk show hosts on the TV right before Mrs. They hosted an afternoon show called "Good Company". Tom Hanks said in an interview for CNN's "The Movies" that he considers this film to be a perfect film on every level. The item on the buffet line that Marge Gunderson Frances McDormand skips is lutefisk, which is dried whitefish, cod or ling, that has been soaked in lye.
It has a gelatinous texture and is by all accounts an acquired taste, in part due to its smell. Madison, Minnesota claims to have the highest lutefisk consumption in the U. Richard Jenkins was heavily considered for a role, but ended up losing it to William H. Features William H. Macy 's only Oscar nominated performance.
It wound up as a TV movie, Fargo The movie eventually made it as a series as Fargo by Noah Hawley , which is set in the same universe as the film but did not include any of the same characters. The series features actors who have previously starred in past Coen brothers films.
Since fabricated editor "Roderick Jaynes" was one of seven nominees for the Academy Award on this film, the Coens cooked up a scheme to have Albert Finney appear in disguise at the award ceremony as the "fusty old British cutter from Haywards Heath" in case he won. Fargo's founding dates back to , when the first settlers staked out homestead claims at the point where the Northern Pacific Railroad would cross the Red River.
Railroads played a major role in the development of Fargo. In fact, the city was named for William G. In the beginning, Fargo was a rough and rowdy frontier town, with its fair share of bordellos and saloons.
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