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Starring:
William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Harve Presnell, Steve Reevis, John Carroll Lynch, Steve Park, Kristin Rudrud, Steve Park, Jose Feliciano
Directed By:
Joel Coen
Written By:
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Fargo (1996)
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Movie Review by Richard
June 5th, 2007
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Ohh dah leetle guy!
Minnesota. Land of 10000 lakes. The first state to elect a former professional wrestler as governor, by a landslide, no less. Our 6 months of winter repel even the heartiest of extremists, thankfully. You have to let go of some things to endure being indoors that long.
The movie is good, don't get me wrong. The plot is fascinating, the acting by Macy and McDormand is, by far, better than you could ask for. Superb. Except for one thing.
Every time I watch this movie, I am amazed at how bad the Minnesota accent is over exaggerated. On top of this, it spends, what seems to me, too much imagery and exertion on trying to paint Minnesotans as these backwater hicks with funny accents. Simpletons. Salt of the earth bullsh*t. It's really stupid. I've always hated, with a passion, that aspect of this movie.
What is even worse, is the cultural acceptance that an aspect of suburban acclimation and integration of the over exaggerated nature of this film that occurred. Suddenly, soccer moms if "Inver Apple Grove Valleyfield" had an excuse to be really freaking annoying by raising their pitch and doing that stupid "Oooooh Dontchaknoooww", instead of properly having an intelligent conversation with people.
Those of us who love our state find this behavior degrading. It throws away all of the medical, technical, engineering, financial institutional and academic research and developments that are groundbreaking for such a moderately populated region of the country. I mean, dammit, we invented the Post-It!
But besides that, the movie is good. I find myself watching it and lamenting at the King Of Clubs, over in NE Minneapolis, which no longer exists. Or the shot from the top of the TCF Bank Tower Parking Ramp, and how there are a couple of buildings behind the IDS tower now, that weren't there then. Also, how not one scene of this movie was shot anywhere near Fargo, and how that is strange to me still.
In conclusion, please take the accent with a grain of salt. When you talk to a Minnesotan on the phone, and you try to mimic the accent in this way, the 'sotan on the other side of the phone will be making a scrunchy "f*ck you" face and flipping the phone off repeatedly. I know I do.
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 | Zara
Jun 5, 2007 9:53 AM
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I guess people get a taste of what it's like to get made fun of and it's no fun. Being from California, people automatically have this assumption of blondes, Baywatch and Hollyweird. In reality it's more like BORN IN EAST LA than any of that golden bullsh*t. True, we've got beaches, but the women looking like bikini models just doesn't happen save for a VERY small area. In fact, there are areas that are just a rural here in California than in any other place in the state, with farmers and their shtick as well.
But I must admit, I do that "Don'tchaknow?" not from this movie but from AIRBOURNE, in which Edie McClurg did a pre-Francis McDormand accent. "Come on, father... let's go melt some oleo." (I actually looked up oleo to discover that it was only butter and not some magical Minnesotan gunk. |
 | Lisa
Jun 5, 2007 10:17 AM
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| I adore this movie Francis McDormand, Steve Buscemi rule this movie. I know where your coming from with the whole accent thing, I deteste a baddly done English accent and the steriotyping....Although when I first met my husband I did keep asking him to say "aboot" a la Southpark. |
 | B Movie Ben
Jun 5, 2007 11:28 AM
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| This is one of my favorite movies. McDormand and Buscemiare fantastic. I don't know why you get upset over the accents. I find them charming. |
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Jun 5, 2007 9:53 AM
It's early. I'm tired. Forgive please.