Funny thing is Lorne wasn’t even bothering Lester, he hadn’t seen him for over a year and was quite content to let Lester just get on with his life but Lester had to keep poking the sleeping bear
@@chuckwalla-yr4ob I know but when he said “walk away” in the bar all Lester had to do was listen and could have gone on enjoying his life but like I said he had to keep poking until he got a reaction
@@boxmad5523Not really in that scene. He faked being scared to get the jump on Lorne and succeeded. So he really became a menace by the end of the show.
Right, even though he was the one who pulled the trigger. Malvo could've easily made something up at the bar and Lester probably would've went along with it. As long as he'd complemented Lester everything would've been fine.
@@bellamafiaquackafellarecor7770more so leveraging people for his own gain as opposed to merely his amusement, so if he has dirt on people it might make his “hits” easier as he has access to a bigger network, potentially even police officers or judges under his influence
@@bellamafiaquackafellarecor7770 apparently you don't knoe the palette of really weird friendships people can have. I know this one dude that annoys me to no end. I hate spending time with him. I hate the way he lives his life. I hate the choices he made, the ways he does things. I try my best to avoid him and meet him as rarely as possible. I consider him to be one of my best friends.
I always thought it was ridiculous knowing that this man is a killer, as soon as he acted like he didn’t know who you were wouldn’t you obviously know he’s pretending to be someone else and walk away, not keep nudging. Haha
@@Infinite.Worldz still, his final act was making Officer Grimly a criminal and a killer. That's why he smiled as he shot him. Malvo only had one purpose in his life, dragging other people down with him. I mean what's the one thing he did in his freetime? Tricking other people into crime and suffering and listining to tapes of people he manipulated before. He truly was and is the devil. If you rearrange the letters in his name "Lorne Malvo" (which is a highly unsual name) you even get "Malevolent" just by two letters off.
Lorne Malvo is legit terrifying in this scene . 2:07 -2:18 you can see he goes from annoyed to bubbling with anger . While Malvo has no qualms manipulating meek people and turning them into heinous pieces of work , he will not have those people defy him, and Lester giving him attitude is what really hits his nerve . The look he gives at 2:49 where he kills the people in the elevator is nightmare fuel right there. In that brief moment , he 's not an animal in human form , he's just an animal. Even more so when he kills them , he barely breaks eye contact with Lester ,staring at him the entire time as he does it.
that's not what i see. he's not bubbling with anger. he just doesn't care and while it would be nice for him to have this bounty, toying with lester and letting him know "you're interrupting my work, now i have to kill them" is just as amusing to him.
Well he literally tightens up the mood after Lester tries to expose him. he doesnt really care about what happens probably because of his higher ego as shown when he tells Lester there are no rules in the first episode, and encourages Lester to kill Hess, and he knows that he is the one holding the gun in the end. Since we figured out that he was with his boss everyone was probably afraid of him because they probably knew what would happen when he gets that serious look and speaks in that tone.
As much as people claim that Lesters pride is to blame for this… Lester simply wanted to show off his newfound confidence after all the events in Minnesota
This was Lester's chance to level up again. It was clear that Lester has learnt the previous lesson well and now, the teacher was here again and the circumstances were right. He could have leveled up, instead he has just squandered the opportunity.
Nah he would have killed him after getting rid of the bodies and probably would have pinned the elevator murders on him but Lester understood that immediately and hit him and bolted the fuck outa there.
I feel like Lester respected and appreciated Lorne for teaching him to “stand up to the red tide” and was wanting to impress Malvo for how much he had changed from zero to hero. He got carried away with it though lol
Freeman and Thornton are absolutely fantastic in this show, everyone is tbh but sometimes I forget about the two cop lead characters being in it because Lester and Malvo are just that great.
@SlippinSaulGoodman They become the two best hit men west of the Mississippi and spend most of their time watching two rich chemists deposit money for the sake of a deranged meth lord
I like how Mulvo spent 6 months pretending to be a dentist, making friends with his target and also developing a love relationship with a beatifull woman just for 100k when he made a million like in 3 days lol
I remember when this season was still airing, and there was a legitimate, popular theory that Lorne Malvo was the actual devil and that he was immortal. Moments like 4:10 really helped sell that
Not the devil but certainly in other worldly agent of chaos. I view him similar to Anton "sugar"In No country or The preacher and blood meridian. Or Randall flag in Stephen King's the stand.
"but still... the look on his face when i pull a gun.. classic, huh." When I first saw the ad for Fargo I had never seen the movie but a friend told me to check out the show. I gotta say... Casting Billy Bob Thornton in this role as the main antagonist of the first season was BRILLIANT. He is just the embodiment of Chaos. When he tells the guy at the motel to stick up for himself then calls his mom on him. When he tricks the Supermarket owner into thinking some supernatural plague type shit is happening to him. DUCT taping Dennis from Sunny to an exercise bike and causing him to get mowed down by swat. I could go on and on but I'd have to ice my damn fingers afterwards.
1:00 and 2:05 Billy Bob went from charming and normal guy to stone cold effortlessly, especially the stare when he said “is this what you want?” You can see how his eyes especially change
His eye did twitch when he shot his GF. I think he was at least like damn I was having fun with this smoke show. But the jig was up and its not fun for him any more if he isn't manipulation people.
Funny how Lester says his name two separate times at 0:08 and 1:43 and then acts like he caught Lorne at 1:52 with the line "oh so now you do know me" when Lorne says/repeats his name for the first time. Only thing Malvo apparently did wrong was showing dominance in telling him to walk away, but the guy was high off some personal accomplishment and not disposed to taking a hint. Doesn't Lorne strike you as a professional? Maybe he's working ...
The way billy bob thornton plays Malvo is unbelievable, he’s able to portray a psychopath so amazingly, it’s like there’s nothing behind his eyes, it reminds me of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal lector in silence of the lambs
It seems that every little bit of joy and happiness Lester is given in life, he throws it away. He is never satisfied with what is given to him. He has a deep sense of unfullfillment. He's jealous of others. One of his problems is fitting in. It's hard for him to fit in. He lacks that deep human connection. His social skills are below average. The inability to connect and form strong social connections stems from his teenage years and earlier. He was bullied as a teenager. He suffers from emotional trauma. Certain parts of his past he has not healed from. Lester is a broken, and battered man inside. Outside people don't know the pain he lives with.
@@dextermacher6363 I mean, YEAhHh its on him too he legit did the murder xD. The Idea is and thats what the directors where trying to show you and why they had them say his line, lester is FULLY aware of how he operates. His ego took over trying to call his bluff. And thats why I say "In a way it kinda was on Lester"
Is a gun responsible for death? Or the person behind the gun? Malvo gives up all his agency and becomes akin to a weapon in this scene. Lester pointed and used that weapon.
I just have one question I'd ask 'Back in the elevator when you killed that fat guy and those two girls, were you going to kill me as well after I helped you deal with the bodies?'
Lester thought about asking him that but he knew if he did Malvo would have killed him right there and then because Lester knew Malvo most certainly was going to kill him after they dealt with the dead bodies.
Loved the show. Loved it even more when I thought it was based on a true story. Still don't get why Lester wanted to push Lorne though. I get he had a new found confidence and wanted Lorne to acknowledge it but not at the expense of risking his new life.
Hollywood can say anything is based on a true story. It has to say based on factual events, then you know it's real, but that'll never happen cuz even true story movies fabricate a lot of it.
The Fargo show and the movie are about how media like movies can influence our world views to the extreme. For something to be true, it doesn’t need to have happened. You just need enough people to think it’s true. It’s the whole core of Fargo. There is more to say to this, but it would take too much time to write a whole essay now^^
