Anybody seen _Fargo_ recently?

[lydy]

DDB and I saw it last night at the Riverview. There's a scene where Marge is meeting a guy she knew in from high school at a restaurant at the Radisson. The more I looked, the more convinced I became that it was the Kaffe Stuga, of late, lamented memory. Admittedly, that Radisson was allegedly in downtown Minneapolis, but really, honestly, I think it was the Stuga.

I do love that movie. The body count, though, is surprisingly low. A total of seven people, unless I've missed somebody.

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[david wilford (from livejournal.com)]

As said in the movie, it's the Radisson (and it *is* the Radisson South) and they're in the bar, which is still there but since remodeled. I remember it pretty well even though I rarely went in myself.

Shamelessly Stolen from IMDB:

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Body count: 7. The state trooper, the 2 passers-by, Wade Gustafson, the parking-lot attendant, Jean Lundegaard, and Carl Showalter.

The opening scene contains what might be a hint at the coming mayhem. In the bar scene, there are seven open beer bottles on the table and the body count by the end of the movie is seven. Empty beer bottles are often called "dead soldiers". Also, Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) is finishing the last beer, number seven, and he is the seventh one killed in the movie.

[carbonel]

Not lately, but I did enjoy it.

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

I went to high school with one of the hookers.

I lurve that movie and find that after traveling and returning home we *do* sound that funny.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Yep. There's that scene where Marge and a suburbanite are standing out in the driveway, looking up at the sky and talking about the snow that's about to fall. The whole -"looks like snow"- followed by "-"yup"- (or -"you betcha"-) conversation. I not only knew that entire conversation the moment the first line was uttered, I'd had that conversation.

I haven't seen it since the first time. It's my second favorite Coen Brothers movie, with "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" currently in the #1 spot. From the subject matter and what I've read so far, Inside Llewyn Davis is likely to shake up the lineup when it comes out this December

[lydy.livejournal.com]

Man, I have totally had that conversation.

When _Fargo_first came out, I told Minnesotans "Now you know how New Yorkers feel." Which upset and offended many Minnesotans. But the accent is approximately as broad as many Brooklyn accents are in film, and the casual disregard for local geography is similar, and the outrage of the natives is identical. No, we're not exactly like that, and yes, they did descend the river valley twice from two different directions while pretending all the time to go yet a third direction, and for fuck's sake the Radisson South is not in downtown Minneapolis, but these are all exactly the sort of liberties that film makers take with New York all the time. And in the end, it was vividly and recognizably Minnesota, despite the details being wrong.

Also, I can't think of a film that better encompasses the concept "the banality of evil."

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Huh; I've almost never run into accents that severe, even after living in Switzerland for a year and coming back.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

I do remember that scene, but didn't place the setting. When I get the chance, I'll look out for it.
I remember walking out after the movie and suddenly realizing that I had laughed my way through seven icky murders. That takes a very special, twisted kind of talent.

[lydy.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Pretty much only the Coen brothers can make me say, "Remember that really horrible murder way back about an hour ago, the really brutal and bloody one? Can we go back there? It was better back there." Coen brothers don't do so much "from bad to worse" as "from bad to worse to incomprehensibly horrible to unthinkably, amazingly, mindbogglingly appalling." And often make me laugh in the process.