The biggest tragedy in this movie is that Marge never got to see how funny looking he was 'cus he was most of the way down a woodchipper by the time she met up with him.
The whole "funny looking" thing is so funny because it seems like such an unhelpful description and yet you know when they see him it will be like: this guy.
In an ordinary film, the hookers are either some troubled junkies/alcoholics or defensive smart-asses who give cryptic answers to the police. Fargo isn't an ordinary movie. I LOVE that these hookers act like a couple of bubbly high school cheerleaders who casually talk about their complicity in illegal activity to a cop, all with a big, friendly Minnesota smile. 😂😂😂
My grandma was from Bemidji, MN, and she had a super strong accent. She was so perturbed when this movie came out. She kept telling us "Oooooo goodness. We dooooo NAHT sowned inytheen at AHL like thayat".😄
Then, they set season two in Bemidji. LOL I'm Canadian, have relatives towards Point Pellee. By Geez eh, certain wey dat people around de great leks talk yknow. If I had a Daller to buy the fashuns, I'd be as rich as the sasuge king of Chicaaago
The way Marge’s eyes get a little bigger when the girl says he wasn’t circumcised and then says “was he funny looking apart from that?” cracks me up every time!!
Years, years, years ago when I tried to describe Steve Buscemi to friends as a rising actor I'd draw a profile sketch of him. Sloping forehead, prominently sticking out nose, bug eyed, receding chin, goatee. It looked NOTHING like him but they all suddenly realized who I was talking about.
The reason they say JAA in Minnesota is that a large number of Germans, Swedes and Norwegians settled there a long time ago (there were some Danes too, but not a lot of them). In all of these countries ja is the word for yes, although it's pronounced differently from country to country.
Most Finns went to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It's the only place in the US with a lot of Finns like 25-50% of people there are Finnish. Of course theres also only like 50k people there too.
Finnish Americans Total population Michigan 68,203 Minnesota 63,929 California 32,028 Washington 31,385 - minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/03/12/finding-minnesota-st-urhos-day/
I think the entire state of Minnesota had a meeting after this movie: "Ok guys we have gotta stop talking like that don't cha know, everyone is laughing at us". Sometimes I hear a little bit of the so called Minnesota nice but its far less pronounced than this movie would have us believe.
I moved up here from Atlanta two years ago. Every once in a while, I'll talk to a Minnesotan who literally sounds just like this. And my coworkers say yah, sure, and you bet constantly. It's adorable.
@@RC_928 exactly I live in Minneapolis and never heard anyone sound like that most black people here sound like there from Chicago since most are but we just had the normal northern accent here
I don't know how this scene came together but my goodness - the story tellers, the writers, whoever got these three characters together, the character actors....Pure genious! Not to mention how good the rest of the movie is. I'm always re-watching this scene. Boy did we have it good in the 90's!
The funny and ironic thing about this scene is, both of those chicks are also funny looking as hell, too! Especially the one on the left! I can only imagine how funny looking their kids would look, if one of them got pregnant by the funny looking guy. 😂
Larissa Kokernot, the actress playing the prostitute on the left, also acted as an assistant dialect coach for the film. I also saw this in the theater with an audience who mostly didn't get it. At "Was he funny looking apart from that?" I laughed so hard that I thought the shocked and uncomfortable moviegoers around me were going to demand that I be ejected from the theater.
Yeah, I also saw this in the cinema and was pretty much the only one laughing. People didn't understand it was a pitch black comedy. Actually (even more bizarrely) it was the same with Lebowski. I guess it takes some people a while to catch on. That's ok, everyone caught on in the end!
"Fargo" and "Drop Dead Goregous" are hilarious to me. I think a lot of people don't like them because they're not familiar with the Minnesota accent and traditions (Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club in "Drop Dead Gorgeous" is funnier than Hell). Both movies are very dark comedies, while maintaining a subtlety about them that are unappreciated by some people.
Upper Michigan--"Da Yoopers"--talk just like that. "Yah, eh." Nothing but snow 9 months per year. Minnesota and Canada radio and TV. Hunting, fishing, and curling. Like intergalactic aliens. And they're all funny lookin'.
Was in college. Saw this movie and they sounded just like my professor. Next day I ask her “are you from Minnesota?” “No Wisconsin but it’s like a 1/2 hour away.”
I don't understand why they insist they don't talk like that. My brother was in the navy and he was friendly with some guys from Minnesota, and they did act like this!
"Go Bears" "He wasn't circumcised" "Subconscious thing" Just funny little barbs like this can make me laugh uncontrollably. Everybody in this movie is a complete idiot. And in the end it was just pointless. Like every Coen Bros flick. Great film
”Ya know, he looked like the Marlboro Man.” ”Oh, Ya??” ”Ya! But maybe I’m saying that ’cuz he smoked a lot of Marlboros?” ”Aha… ” Something about how Marge first sounds really interested and then just gives off that defeated aha just makes me laugh. Great acting from all three actresses.
Ok, I'm now wondering all these years later if the script called for a "funny looking" actor, or if casting Buscemi inspired the "funny looking" dialogue.
I hate all-star casts. The best movies, in my opinion, is where you've got a couple famous actors having several interactions with non-famous actors. It makes everything so much more believable. I love directors who have the confidence and respect in these working class actors to give them their own moment to shine. Not only does it bring more authenticity to have scenes like this or the old guy shoveling or the irate customer, but it also makes the star power of the bigger actors less distracting. That's why a film like "Gosford Park" doesnt do it for me because EVERYONE is famous and I just see the famous actors and nothing else.
