Trust me-NO Minnesotan would dress like that when there is water running down the driveways and in the street. That's above freezing...If parkas are worn, they're opened.
No Minnesotan or North Dakotan would be that bundled up if the snow was melting and there was standing water, at that point we are in spring coats or just a thick sweater. Also they aren't standing at a 45 degree angle.
+20somthingdrifter11 If the snow is melting, we are outside in hooded sweatshirts. I have lived in Minnesota all of 47 years. Never would you see those two guys with hoods up with melting snow.
Good observation, but as someone who grew up in rural Minnesota, the whole conversation is dead on. The language and mannerisms are perfect. But yes way overdressed considering there is a thaw going on here
Yup. That there she's a thaw is what's happening. Unh-hun. And then some 'a that arctic air, it'll be a coming domn and next you know it's all Ice City. Yup.
I watched the export version in french and I realize the whole savory of this scene was lost in translation. So I'm gonna watch the full film again in actors voices, this is why you never watch dubbed movies folks.
So the folks that noticed lack of snow in the movie are spot-on; it was certainly a mild winter in MN that year. As per Wikipedia: "However, due to the region's unusually mild winter that year, the crew moved locations on March 9 to Hallock, Minnesota to find more suitably snow-covered landscapes for the film's winter setting. A second unit under the direction of Roger Deakins filmed near Bathgate, North Dakota where the film's Paul Bunyan statue was constructed.[10] In some scenes, artificial snow had to be created as pools and streams of meltwater are visible." And, this is not a documentary about the fair city of Fargo, ND ;-) It is a dramatization, and the title refers to Fargo because that's where the kidnapping plot was hatched.
+mehboob ahmad Yah. As a Minnesota girl through and through, I know that the parkas and covering their heads would be way out of character. We'd be running around in shorts in that weather! The push broom vs shovel in his hand is, however, appropriate.
+Kathleen Skott-Myhre Did 1 1/2 years at Grand Forks AFB in ND, the accents are a little over the top, but still somewhat accurate. My roommate was from Duluth, seems like he couldn't get a sentence out without a you betcha or an oofta. :)
He says, "What do ya think about that?" And, I says, "Well... that don't sound like too good a deal for him then." Ohh man, love it. So perfect. This guy wouldn't be from the city Fargo, rather one of the outer lying hillbilly semi-city's, but his character IS spot on for an older guy from a rural part of that area.
As a kid my folks had friends that were Minnesotans that moved to Missouri near us. Always had that pleasant sounding accent and were simply super polite and warm people that knew how to party also. Every Christmas they had lutefisk and would eat it like some sort of delicacy which we Missourians couldn't understand. It would get -20 with windchill sometimes here in February and we'd be bundled up complaining about it while they would simply laugh and say "Try living in Minnesota." However in the summertime it would get 100+ degrees with high humidity and they would turn a bright red instead of tan while we were fairly used to it. One thing in common were the huge parties my folks and them would throw with plenty of booze, good food and my German mom's sing along drinking songs which the Minnesotans seemed quite familiar with.
They’re probably northerners. Like nw angle boundary waters red county northern. Accent is normal but lutefisk is a stereotype. Never even seen it sold and I’ve traveled the whole state. Sounds cool tho, and yes it goes deep into the negatives so if you ever visit be prepared
The way they ended the conversation by suddenly commenting on the weather and just sort of walking away from each other always made my die lmao. I moved to MN from the west coast and it has always struck me as odd how Upper Midwesterners end conversations like that.
They wanted it to be in the dead of winter, but it was the warmest winter in the region in 50 years. Most of the snow in the movie is fake; there was no snow anywhere
See the water on the road, that means its above 32 degrees and its very comfortable, and nobody wears hoods in those temps...hoods and stocking hats are for 10, 20, and 30 below stuff. 20 and 30 degrees is long sleeve of light jacket weather. I'm from MN
Hell, I’m from Lawn Guyland and even we don’t dress like that in above freezing weather. I do remember my father though, with his hood pulled up over his face - like the cop - when he was out shoveling snow. He’d come into the house looking like Elephant Man.
for me to bundle up like that it'd have to be in single or negative digits, and then it would depend- I can't stand the friggin warm car, freezing parking lot, blazing house/store, freezing parking lot, warm car, freezing parking lot, blazing store shit, rinse and repeat. Wearing a winter coat with the hood up through all that would make me nauseous and I'm not even from MN
As a born an raised Minnesotan, this is classic in so many ways. But they really didn't need to be wearing all that garb, not enough snow so it must not have been that cold. A little off topic here: no such thing as Minnesota nice. It's Minnesota Passive-Aggressive as fuck. Meanest bunch of people in this state but we say it in the nicest of ways. If someone says, "Oh! Nice to meet ya! Have to get together someday here, k?!" That is translated, "GTFO and don't bother me ever again. Got it?"
Born and raised in Northern Minnesota. I agree with you, though it depends on the context, and I don't think it's as harsh a thing to say. It can mean "I'm kinda too busy to talk right now" or something else. But if "Maybe" is used it definitely means "probably not" or "I'm not going to go out of my way to..." sometimes. For example: "Maybe we should go out for coffee sometime" or "That might be something we could do". Usually means "probably not".
There are also a lot of "indirect insults" that people here use. If someone thinks a person or thing is weird or bad in some way, they might say "Dat's diffurnt" ("that's different" for those who need a translation)
@@simplesimon2960 By scandinavia I really ment Norway. Sayings like "uff da" and "ja"/"yah" are norwegian words. Same with the last names like "Gundersen", "Nygaard" and "Lundegaard" etc. And keep in mind that these are descendants of norwegian amaericans who came to minnesota in the 1800's so the accent is washed out of course. You can google it if you're interested.
Funny thing is that people from Minnesota hate the accent in this movie. People cant hear our own accents so if people from Minnesota can hear the accent in the movie then it is 100% not our accent
@@VintageSeanTV Nygaard and Lundegaard is surname of danish origin - the "gaard" prefix is danish, but a lot of Danes settled in Norway in administrative roles during time the Dani-Norwegian Kingdom.
@@chickensandwich77 Ya got that right. Near junction of 3rd St S and Bryan Ave. Hallock MN. The big funny looking building at the end of the street, is the Hallock Elevator Cooperative.
It’s spelled Mora. Mora is a Sweden name that many Minnesotans have. There’s even a small town about an hour and a half north of Minneapolis called Mora, Minnesota
Drumstick74 - This is a special kind of "cop," the kind that is not a cop at all but an actor. It's vital to differentiate between the "cop" on TV or a movie and a real cop on the street in the real world. US cops are federalized so are probably fairly similar throughout the country.
Minnesota, and Wisconsin, too. I'm heading back there next week for the first time in almost 30 years. I'm sure I'll be hearing a lot of this style of chatter while I'm there, you betcha!
Having lived in Austin MN I can fully see the culture in this scene. Its a shadow of what it was in the past when people were more local and isolated, the climate would kill you if you get things wrong. Get to work, prepare, integrate with the network of folk around you who form a wider support, and you may survive the winter. Its implicit in their manner that there is work to be done, and when their need for contact is finished, they turn right to it.
bunberrier - Excellent analysis. Younger folks in "the cities" (this is what Minnesotans outside the metropolitan area call Minneapolis and St. Paul) have an easier life, but the old school Minnesotan (I'm thinking of my elderly German-descent father-in-law) is no crybaby and knows how to survive hard times.
I'm from Kansas and go to the Boundary Waters to canoe once a year. Each time I interact with the locals I notice the differences from the people I'm used to. I can never quite pin it down. Your comment about the need to get to work sheds some light.
@@nokomismn9685 we don't have an easier way of life. We just have a different one. Try dealing with snarling traffic, drug dealers, a rat race at the office, having to hold multiple jobs to pay for a Volkswagen Beetle sized apartments, while you are sharing a bed with a roommate, not being able to have a car in the middle of the coldest major metropolitan area in the world, because parking and insurance is so expensive, and thugs coming in from the coasts and chicago, always trying to size you up.
Hah! When the snow starts melting we start wearing shorts. I lived in White Bear Lake (first city in US to ban cigarette vending machines) which is about 10 miles north of St. Paul. To make it more authentic they could have thrown in a few “you betchas “. Great movie!
Dead and I do not mean of old age. Funny looking in a general sort of way. So I called it in . The acting and casting in this movie is excellent . Some great and memorable lines in this movie.
This scene, like many in the movie, takes place in Brainerd MN, and some people absolutely do talk like that. "Dat' and "da" instead of "that" and "the." The "th" should is used very commonly in the accent but is replaced with a 'd' when starting many words. "Down dere at Ecklund & Swendlin" is another one I associate with Minnesota along up "up dere." Going up meant going in any direction except north (thats "going north") while going down meant going any direction except south (you guessed it, "going south") and so you could say "up there" referring a destination that was actually south of you.
Years ago we had relatives from New England come to Minnesota for a visit. They thought it was funny and peculiar that we would express disgust by saying "ish."
Judging by the water in the street, the temperature is well above freezing, yet they are wearing these super heavy parkas. Everybody watching this must think we are total idiots in Minnesota.
I just finished watching season 3 of the Fargo TV show here in Minnesota and was wandering around the house doing the "Minnesota accent" that is rarely actually heard in most of Minnesota. ;)
I love how all the cops in this movie are so incompetent except for Marge. This cop doesn't even take notes, doesn't ask about what type of car the guy was driving, etc. He doesn't even have the investigative skills to correctly guess which lake the guy was staying at. He even shrugs the whole incident off as "you're right it's probably nothing".
I mean, I haven't seen the movie, so you're probably right, but he could have been wearing a recording device of some sort for example. That's why he'd ask "that lake" to get someone to say the name. And telling the guy it's probably nothing is just cops not trying to excite people. But I'm sure the rest of the movie agrees with you though. :)
I would encourage folks to watch the movie, or at least read the Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(film) before posting comments about Fargo being in N. Dakota (which it undeniably is). The movie is mostly set in Minnesota, and Coen brothers are from the Twin Cities area.
Lived in Minnesota for years, four kids born there: two in St. Paul, two in Maplewood. Been all over Minnesota except for the Boundary Waters area. Was a salesman up there for a while, met all kinds of people. This accent nails it, but I've heard accents up there very similar to even the most exaggerated ones in the movie Fargo, worked with a couple ladies who sounded a lot like McDormand's character..
I was watching this movie the other night and I was growing increasingly annoyed with the caricature-esque accents when this scene showed. I pointed to the screen repeatedly and yelled to my boyfriend, "This is what it's like! This is exactly what it's like!" That man with the shovel does a fantastic job.
in Minnesota we don't button up our jackets really, unless it's below zero. I'm not sure if it's me but right now where I live in MN it's 34 degrees and I have both the fans on it's so hot.
Everyone complaining about them wearing jackets. Its not writing or production mishap. It’s done on purpose for the audience. So they never forget they’re dealing with people from MN. No one really cares that the water isn’t frozen. The point of the movie is that it takes place in Fargo. The directors do not want you to forget that.
the best part of the whole thing is the guy doesnt even really seem to care a whole lot and only bothered to "call it in" cause of Mrs. Mora nagging him, then once he's done talking to the cop he just acts as if it were nothing at all.... it's just so perfect for the area and mannerisms of a guy in that area
