The saddest part of the movie: the fact that Margie never got to see what they meant by "funny looking in a general kinda way." IT'S THE PERFECT DESCRIPTION SHE WOULD'VE IDENTIFIED HIM INSTANTLY!
@@nancyvillines4552 What is the saddest part? …that 2 white girls couldn’t find more gainful employment, in central North Dakota, than prostitution? (remember, comedy)
It is clear to me that had Steve Buscemi's character gone along with Peter Stormare's character and went out for more pancakes he wouldn't have been knee deep in a wood chipper.
Yeah I think the pancake argument was when Gaear decided that Carl was never gonna leave with his half of the ransom money... the Ironic thing is it probably fell into the hands of some farmer or passerby the following spring when the snow melted...
Stormare is a horrible actor and I have no idea why it isn't called out more. Everything he is in, it just pulls me out. Like Paul Dano, who did this potato smoke?
@@TheAndrewj96 - You, like most, like who and what you're told to like. It, and nepotism, are the only thing that explains the Gyllenhaal's, as another example. I still think Heath took himself out because he couldn't live with being forced to call her 'beautiful', twice, in 'The Dark Knight'.
chernebog07 There was an actual murder case involving a wood chipper. The one case that stands out was Richard Crafts. He killed his wife and then dismembered her body before throwing her remains into a wood chipper
Every time I revisit this movie I remember how it was based from a town over from me in Lake Zoar, Southbury, CT. When you grow up in the woods, sometimes you really want to put someone through a woodchipper.
Brian Olson You sound like Richard Crafts. That’s what he did when he murdered his wife. He beat her to death, placed her body in a freezer, before dismembering her body with a chain saw and throwing them into a wood chipper
@@melmelon3393 same reason why you put meat in a freezer before using a food processor. Warm meat likes to stick to itself and snag on the blades. When its cold it particulates better.
@@andu1854 I WANTED, WANTED, REALLY WANTED, to love The English Patient,… and I’ve watched it 3 times already, trying to look for redeeming qualities,… but just NOOOOO!! Beautifully made, well acted, yes, definitely. But just nope.
The rural Minnesota guy who needs to make a major physical effort to say a four-letter word (0:30) got me when I saw this on initial release. The collision between people like that and those like Showalter and Grimsrud is a good part of Fargo, the film.
You know, if he had simply jetted off with the money in the car instead of returning to the cabin he would have been rich and far, far away before the crime had come to light. New name, etc. I'm sure they have no questions asked doctors in Florida.
"There's more to life than a little money you know.. dontcha you know that?" is like when your favourite teacher says "I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed".
Of course, there was no "true story" behind this. But the story was inspired by an actual body-in-a-wood chipper. A killer tried to shove his victim through a chipper, which he'd placed on a bridge in the middle of a river, on a highway. He was caught blithely stuffing body parts into it in broad daylight. Loony as a hoot owl. Other than that, though, the entire story is fiction.
One of the funnier scenes was cut from this. Right after he gets back to his partner they start arguing about splitting the value of the new car since only one of them can take it. Steve Buscemi goes "Did you fuckin notice this? I got shot. I got shot in the fuckin face!"
There is a book written by one of the world's top forensic anthropoligists. Think of a real life "Bones" but this is a man who was the only westerner invited to the USSR to examine the remains of the Romanoff family. The book was full of cases where the murderers thought they did everything right but it's actually extremely hard to destroy tiny bits of humans that can't be traced. Then again some people just don't think through; not that the guy in the movie was the sharpest tool in the drawer. He had an incident where the murderer put his victim through a chipper, at a remote shack next to a frozen lake. The chute fired the bits out on to the lake but being frozen for months to come, nothing disappeared "under the water" like the genius hoped, and it was so spread out, impossible not to see and impossible to go out and cover over. LOL.
If I'm not mistaken, the book is called "Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist" by William R. Maples. Hopefully you still have a desire to find it three years later.
He didn't want to cross Grimsrud, which was probably smart. But then in the end he let his emotions get the better of him by refusing to split the car which is presumably why Grimsrud killed him. I mean, if the opposite had happened and he had not paid Grimsrud, and the end scene is Grimsrud hunting him down and killing him everyone would say "why didn't he just pay him the $40k, he had $1 million, why would he piss off a crazy murderer?"
@@Sphere723 Also because he provoked him ^^ called him a "mute" ^^ And also threatened him by showing him his gun, opening the jacket to the side. Grimsrud never did anything wrong to him really .. and he had probably had enough of his unstable attitude. He was also a liability for the future. He had seen Grimsrud shoot a police officer .. that is a big risk to have someone that unstable go loose, and also be at odds with you.
He also didn't know that his partner had killed Jeanne yet, so he may have thought they still had to deal with the wife issue, also Grimsrud def doesn't seem like the type of guy you want to have a grudge against you
Every time I see that wood chipper scene I think “why?” Not even in the “how could you?!” sense…more in the “this has got to be the worst method of body disposal ever devised” kind of way. There’s fluids and chunks flying EVERYWHERE…evidence getting blown into a pile that’s essentially impossible to conceal in these conditions. I guess you could start a bonfire but among all those trees? It’s just a horribly, horribly stupid method of body disposal.
True fact: That was actually Steve's leg sticking out of the top of the wood chipper. Steve had to hold himself upside down inside the chipper and squirt ketchup onto a blade whirling only an inch from his face to get this scene right.
I can't believe how many people in the comments are assuming Margie cuffed him and put him in the car by herself. She radioed in that she spotted the car. The Coens assumed their audience is savvy enough to understand that a whole bunch of back up arrived on the scene. They don't need to show us every obvious moment to keep the story moving.
EL34BluGlo yes Steve Buscemi was a former New York City Fire Fighter from 1980 to 1984 and on September 11th 2001 he volunteered with his former firehouse. He worked 12 hour shifts for a week and helped dig through rubble looking for firefighters.
No evidence of any other cops around but there is no way Margie got him in the car by herself. Even wounded in the leg he would have killed her. It's not like she could have help him walk while holding him at gunpoint.
(Blood) Simple - Margie told the perp to crawl into the vehicle no matter how much it hurt, because her next shot was going into his balls - you know, dat ding you got down there...
@@TomCheer9 While she is tougher than she looks, it doesn't sound like her and the threat might not be convincing even if she uttered it. How she got him into the vehicle is a mystery. Even with a bullet in the leg, I don't see Grimsrud going meekly to prison for life plus 99 years, assuming there is no death penalty in Minnesota...
Gaear kills Carl with an axe, then looks up from the squad car at Giant Paul Bunyan looming over him in that bleak, snowy grey sky carrying an....axe....(camera zooms in on it). What's Paul saying to him from that grinning face?
The comedy of him not understanding how much of a psycho his own partner was. If he'd just kept his damn mouth shut, he could have just driven off in the car and gotten away with it. Hell, he could have taken all the money with him and skipped over a couple of states. Grimsrud would have just been sitting there in the cabin with his mouth open watching soap operas for a week before even realizing anything was wrong.
Remember she radioed in that she spotted the car. They probably sent a lot of back up. We as viewers didn't need to see the 12 cops in the yard to keep the story moving. That's my take on it.
