This was amazing! Fargo Movie Reaction!! 

I live two hours from Fargo, in Minnesota. Everyone up here hates this movie - they say the accent was overdone. ...it absolutely was not. It's just that you don't hear it so much anymore, outside of the older farmers. But, they actually nailed the accents and the personalities of the people up here.

The Coen brothers were being interviewed and they were asked about the true story aspect. They said that was not a true story. The interviewer said "Well you can't say that it is then!!" The brothers just shrugged and said, "Well, we did!" The series Fargo is great as well (at least the first 2 seasons) and they continued with the true story theme, even though it wasn't!! I highly recommend watching it!!!!

Steve Buscemi's character in this film never stops talking, so in "The Big Lebowski", the Coens cast him as a guy who keeps getting told to shut up. When this film came out, I was friends with a guy from Minnesota. He kept complaining how the accent was so exaggerated. Thing is, he hadn't been back to MN in twenty years. A couple of months later, he did go back on a vacation. When he returned, he sheepishly admitted that yeah, they really do talk like that. 😂

My kids bought me a snow globe one Christmas of the leg in the woodchipper.

For me two things stand out. First, the contrast between the brutality of the crimes and the "Minnesota nice" environment. Second, the hilarious accents, which do so much to establish that contrast. One of my all-time favorite films.

I love how much THE BIG LEBOWSKI recalls this film: Both films have a million-dollar ransom for a wife. In both films, Steve Buscemi says, “in and out.” Peter Stormare wants pancakes in both films. The Dude is eager to give 4 dollars because Carl is reluctant to give 4 dollars. In Malibu, The Dude gets the Shep Proudfoot treatment (beaten on the floor). Bunny Lebowski is originally from Moorhead, Minnesota, the city next to . . . Fargo.

Frances McDormand…3 Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri

The satchel is the same one they used in No Country for Old Men Also, when Norm gets the 3 cent stamp, it’s like him getting the most popular little stamp ever because when this movie takes place, the stamps were going up in price from 29 cents to 32, so everyone all of a sudden had to get 3 cent stamps.

"You betcha!" 😎 👍 Fun Fact: The role of Carl Showalter was written specifically for Steve Buscemi. Lost In Translation Fact: The actors used a book called "How to Talk Minnesotan" to help with their accents. As Written Fact: William H. Macy stated in an interview that, despite evidence to the contrary, he did hardly any ad-libbing at all. Most of his character's stuttering mannerisms were written in the script exactly the way he does them. Background Creation Fact: Joel Coen had Frances McDormand and John Carroll Lynch conceive a back-story for their characters to get the feel of them. They decided that Marge and Norm met while working on the police force, and when they were married, they had to choose which one had to quit. Since Marge was a better officer, Norm quit and took up painting. Movie Magic Fact: Frances McDormand wore a "pregnancy pillow" filled with birdseed to simulate her pregnant belly. She says that she didn't deliberately try to move in a "pregnant" way, it simply came as a natural response to keeping the extra weight balanced. Frances McDormand accidentally left her pregnancy suit in her trailer one night. The silicone breasts in the suit froze, and one of them exploded the next day on set.

A few years ago a friend and I did a road trip to the Pacific Northwest, stopping at roadside attractions. One of those was the North Dakota Visitors Center in Fargo to get our pictures taken with the wood chipper from the movie. They even loaned is ear flap hats to wear. (Being the middle of August, I had left mine at home.) The thing even has a leg sticking out of it.

There is a real story, which morphed into an urban legend of a woman from Tokyo Japan, flying to North Dakota, supposedly searching for the money case that was left in the snow. The reality was that she had a connection to a businessman from the Twin Cities that had gone bad, and she had mental issues. She ended up freezing to death out in an open field near Detroit Lakes Minnesota, which is about 50 miles from Fargo. Having lived near there, it's hard to imagine how surreal it would be for someone who had lived all their life in a city with millions of people around her every day, and going to an area where there is so much open space, with no light pollution, looking up through clear skies at the stars... there are worse ways to go... There was a movie made about her - Search "Suicide of Takako Konishi"

Ohhh great choice on the polls!! That scene in the car where Marge disappointedly talks about how money isn't the only thing in life lives rent free in my head-- ever since I first watched Fargo over a decade ago. It's simple and powerful.

"Jerry...you're the brains behind this whole stupid operation" made me laugh out loud! I've long considered this one of my top 5 movies (maybe 10 if I'm being objective), watched many times, love all the Coens but this is among the best they've done. The Coens are so good at doing enthralling, satisfying stories where nearly everyone loses. I also feel like they're some of America's best landscape photographers in history just incidental to their film work. I do hope you do Miller's Crossing someday, right up there with this and Old Country in their filmography IMO.

I am a native Minnesotan. The accents are typical old school Minnesota accents. You hear less of it these days as Minnesota has become a magnet for refugees with their own accents. "Yeah", "oh yeah" "you betcha" and "jeez" are frequently sprinkled throughout conversations. If you look closely at the scene where Jean's body is on the floor of the cabin there is blood on the oven. I think the reason for the scene with Mike Yanagita and Marge is that it makes her realize that she is that she can be too trusting in dealing with people. After she finds out that Mike was lying to here she reassess her prior conversation with Jerry and goes back to requestion him. Great reaction. I just became a member.

Frances McDormand's performance in Fargo is absolutely brilliant.

The curmudgeon father-in-law is played by Harve Preshnell, in real life a trained opera singer. You can find the segment of his rendition of 'They Call The Wind Mariah' from "Paint Your Wagon" on youtube.

Great move 👌 would recommend "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri", another great movie with the same female lead! The Fargo TV series is also worth checking out.

The saddest fact is that Scotty didnt know

“I feel like this man shouldn’t be doing crime..” Correct.

A couple of elements were taken from news stories: a guy trying to scam GMAC with fake VINs, and someone putting a dead body in a wood chipper. The rest is made up. This bothers some people, but most actual "fact based" movies don't stick very close to reality. The score is one of my favorites. It was composed by Carter Burwell, based on a Norwegian folk song called "The Lost Sheep." Burwell wrote the music for a lot of movies, including several by the Coen Brothers. Frances McDormand won the Oscar for best actress for her role as Marge. William H. Macy was nominated for best supporting actor, but Cuba Gooding, Jr. won for his role as Rod Tidwell in Jerry Maguire. IMO, Macy should have gotten the award. His performance is much more impressive than Gooding's, which is most remembered today for him jumping up and down while screaming "Show me the money!" Steve Buscemi put in a great performance, too. Is Jerry Lundegaard the biggest schmuck ever? Most movie villains are smart, or tough, or formidable. Jerry is just a cowardly idiot.

No, it's $920K buried in the snow. The ransom was for $1 million.

Awesome movie. Awesome reaction video. Looking forward to see more reactions. You need to check out The Sixth Sense. A little scary, but you got through the Shining so you will easily get through The Sixth Sense.

As a native Minnesotan, the most unrealistic scene in the movie is where the cop is interviewing the bartender in the street by the elevator, and both have their hoods up, and there is unfrozen water running down the street. If it had been that warm in winter, they would have been in shirt sleeves!

The swelling notes in the start of the movie are *distinctly* Scandinavian; I'm Norwegian, in Norway, and it sounds super-familiar - so, without a doubt, they went for that vibe :D which is cool! Like a... cold melancholy mountain vibe!

Ahh, been forever since I’ve seen this one! Such a great movie!

Steve Buscemi in the woodchipper! A reference people have been making for the last 25 years.

They are great film makers, but if you are tempted to watch their version of The Ladykillers, then watch the original version staring Alec Guiness and Peter Sellers instead. You will love it.

There's a great little 2014 film based on this movie named 'Kumiko The Treasure Hunter' about a Japanese woman who watches Fargo, believes its real, and travels to Minnesota to search for the lost Fargo treasure. Oddly, it more 'based on a true story' than Fargo was.

Frances' first Oscar- so well earned!

Gosh, the father-in-law’s partner cared about Jerry’s wife and kid more than either Jerry or her father. SMH. (The first season at least of the British show Happy Valley being inspired by this, from what I recall? Very good, but oof quite heavy. I have yet to see the third and final season though I want to heh.)

Some trivia about local Minnesota things in the movie: The TV show @6:38 that Jean was watching at the time of her kidnapping was a real show called "Good Day Minnesota hosted by a married couple Steve and Sharon. The potato chips Norm is eating @15:37 are from the MN based company Old Dutch. When Marge tells Shep @18:59 that he could end up back in Stillwater, she's talking about Stillwater State Prison ( I live 1 block from there).

You might remember the guy playing Wade as Daddy Warbucks in Annie or Johnny in The Unsinkable Mollie Brown.

I can't believe how that grew and grew to death after death. It was a great movie, I really enjoyed this.

The special edition dvd of this came with a snow globe of the ending wood chipper scene. Shake it around and it filled with red snow flakes.

So I only saw this film relatively recently, but I absolutely adore the Fargo TV series. Anthology show, each season a different story. They vary a little in quality but they're all brilliant, and I would highly recommend it for the channel.

I think the meaning of the story is that bad people sometimes thing that they're very clever, but in the end, they fail and good people, by contrast, steadily improve their lives. I'm not sure I always see that in the world, but to me, that's what the movie is saying.

The Coen brothers love to make films where the plans slowly fail through the plot. Often hilarious, but dark. There is one where Tom Hanks is the leader of a bunch of robbers who are digging through the ground into a bank vault, but a little old lady's inadvertent actions make things difficult. The title escapes me right now. The Coen brothers were born and raised in Minnesota.

I Love Marge& Norm's marriage ❤ They are adorable😊 There is a lot I like about thiis movie and it really does pull me in . I live in an area where it rarely snows even in cold months do I do enjoy movies that have snow in them. My heart went out to the mom and son.... that husband put money over Family. Chris although I have seen Fargo before I really enjoyed your reactions and comments here added more . Thank you😊

Get READY! This is going to be good. (I've seen the movie), I am really interested in his reaction to this one!

Chaos is the recurring theme of the Coen Bros. I highly recommend their True Grit, Raising Arizona, and No Country for Old Men, not knowing what all else you have reacted to.

This really is a great movie. Lots of movies claim to be true stories that aren't. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Serial Mom are the two examples that occur to me off the top of my head. My favorite detail in Fargo is that Prince has a secret cameo. We see someone else's face in the car, but when the person gets out on the passenger side and runs into the field and gets shot in the back, that's Prince. He's in the credits under the symbol that he used for a name at that time. He's credited as "Victim in Field."

I also highly recommend the Fargo tv series - at least the first three seasons.

I cant think of anything more horrifying than going down to Florida to stay with Pearl and Marty.

Coen's Blood Simple should be on the watchlist. I believe it's their first and has a lot of elements found in their later work.

I heard an interview with the Coen brothers where they said that they put the true story notice at the beginning so people would pay closer attention to the plot of the movie. That was a weak explanation because who doesn't pay attention to the plot of a Coen brothers movie. I love their movies, but this is one thing that has forever taken them down a notch in my opinion. People often do extreme things in tough circumstances, but Jerry created this situation himself. They don't spell it out, but he did something crooked with a car deal from a supplier. This kidnapping scheme was to get money to cover that crime. If he had just been as honest as a car. Dealer can be then this whole situation would not have happened.

I think this is probably the best film in the Coen Brothers filmography, I would not change a single moment or line from it. Despite not being a horror movie this is one of the few films that actually made me scream out loud the first time I watched. I was so not expecting Steve Buscemi's character to get shot especially not in the face so when it happened I shrieked and jumped out of my chair.

Jerry was a car salesman! -- what sort of moral character did you expect he would have!?

Despite the disclaimer at the beginning of the movie, this is not based on a true story. It is just a dark comedy.

Well, it wasn't a true story, but these things happen. Complicated murder sprees are often based on stupid decisions escalating out of control.

That "this is based on a true story" card is famously not something to be taken literally. The Coens say they heard of an actual incident or two, and imagined a story around them.

Ja!!!! It is the reason why I loved Frances McDormand and Fargo is a top 5 fave

Coen brothers have such a unique style. Check out Intolerable Cruelty, about a divorce lawyer that falls in love with a golddigger.

Wade is the worst kind of businessman, worried about his money MORE than his daughter!

Such a great film! I need to watch it again soon myself.

I appreciate how the whole bogus "True Story" intro makes the viewer consider everything a little more deeply: the characters, their feelings, their decisions. By thinking it's all true, it makes us ponder just how close our own lives are to this sort of chaos, violence, and absurdity. Great reactions!

It is a true “story.”

Oh , yeah ? Yeah ! Oh yeah ? You bet ya ! Oh yeah ? You bet ya !

One of my favorite movies, I watch it almost every year …

One thing that isnt explained is how Marge knew who Mrs Lundegard was when she apprehended the kidnapper. In all prior scenes Jerry had kept the kidnapping a secret from the cops. He even hid Wade's in his trunk in his last appearance. So how'd she know? I recommend for your next encounter with the Coen brothers, TRUE GRIT and their first movie, BLOOD SIMPLE. And is there any chance of PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN getting to RU-vid soon?

Your math is off by $800000! That’s a lot to leave in the snow!

Alvin and the chipmunks jacket lol

Even if the original kidnapping went smoothly, how would Jerry explain the 980 thousand bucks he got from stingy father-in-law? Still, he is in a lot of trouble for embezzling the 320 thousand from his lender!

Such a good movie ... Watching this reminds me of another one you might like called A Simple Plan with Billy Bob Thorton, Bill Paxton and Bridget Fonda

Most movies based on historical events or people are at least somewhat, and sometimes mostly fictional, even when advertised to the contrary, so a disclaimer that a fictional movie is true isn't farfetched. The beloved musical trifle _The Sound of Music_ is, even aside from the songs, almost entirely fictional, being based on Maria's rather self-serving "memoir", and even that was changed for dramatic effect; plus, the screenwriters inserted some errors of their own. One critic at the time called it "a sugar-coated lie that people seem to want to eat". Because it's a sweet and entertaining story, but promoting it as fact to help advertise the Trapp family's ski lodge diminishes it, at least for me. Any historical spectacle directed by Mel Gibson you can depend is more about his own sometimes peculiar political, social, and religious beliefs than it is about the historical characters and what actually happened. _Titanic_ was advertised as the most accurate depiction of the many versions of the story that had been filmed; it was the most accurate in terms of the way the ship sank, but a lot of the other stuff is bollocks, and it was known at the time. Yet a lot of people think it's trustworthy as a documentary. Some of the living descendants of the real people depicted sued for libel of their ancestors in the UK, where it was possible.

It's a grandiose crime, but Jerry is a believable criminal.

It makes me a little sad that Marge never got to see Carl. If I were her it would drive me crazy for the rest of my life not to know what "funny looking, in a general kinda way" meant.

Frances McDormand is so amazing here. In fact, on Oscar night that year I dashed from my shift at Tower Records over to a popular bar here in Toronto's gay village, where I was joining friends to watch the Oscars. When her name was announced as Best Actress the whole place erupted in applause.

I haven't seen the movie (I don't really know why) But the tv show Fargo is freaking good (especially season one)

The reaction I didn't know I needed! 🍿

Jerry Lundegaard watching Jerry Lundegaard?!? I'm seeing double!!!

Midwestern accent? I don't think that I would call it that. It IS a Minnes-OH-tan accent. if you like that, you should watch NEW IN TOWN with Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick, Jr. and Siobhan Hogan. Siobhan does it SO well. Just the language in the film is entertaining. It's a romcom.

I love this movie so much. I love Margie so much. She is such a badass.

Slow and steady. That is the way of it. Messy as it all got, I guess that did win the race.

Oh, you SOOOOO have to do the show now too!

While this is not exactly something that happened before, I promise this movie is based on a true story. In fact, Ive seen a true crime show in the last year that was pretty similar to this. Again, it's definitely fiction, but I can guarantee you a man has paid to have his wife kidnapped before, and tried to extort money from her rich family. So at least it is kind of based on a true story

I always took it as this is a true STORY... as in truly a story. Or... there are truths in this story. Either way I love the Coen Bros. My favorite is their colab with Sam Raimi - Hudsucker Proxy

So perhaps Fargo set a precedent in this use of 'This is a true story' twenty years before Baby Reindeer.

Steve Buscemi into the wood chipper.

Next time you’re looking for a show to react to, you should give the Fargo TV show a chance. The first season is an expanded retelling of the movie, but each subsequent season is its own story featuring new characters, all anthology style, over across a variety of time periods, but all with the same quirky Midwest crime feel.

Highly recommend the first season of Fargo the TV series. It has the same feel as movie and the story is fantastic.

Like the movie, enjoyed your reaction(s).

I've been a huge fan of the Coens since Blood Simple and count them of the same caliber of Alfred Hitchcock and Paul Thomas Anderson, but I thought going out of their way to call this a true story was a cheap trick as storytellers. There was a lot of backlash from other filmmakers for this choice. The Coens said the title card was a nod to the true crime genre and made the viewer more engrossed in the story. While true, it really casts doubt on all other films that make the true story claim, and I don't think they considered that impact.

that would be $920,000 buried in the snow.

“ this isn’t a prequel to Oh Brother Where Art Thou.” In the the Fargo universe it could be a possibility. If you factor in the television show, who knows?

No Country For Old Mem.

That ending dialogue in the police car matches up so nicely with some of the dialogue in _No Country for Old Men._ The Coens love this theme.

I think you're not very much into crass, crude and raw humor much, but ask your fan base if they would like to watch you react to "Paul". Starring the actors from the cornetto trilogy, Simon Pegg and his partner whose name i never remember, "Hot Fuzz" and etc.

Bear in mind that "true story" is part of the movie

Coen Brothers critic on American Capitalism. Just like "No Country For Old Men."

A major question. Why exactly did Jerry need the money?

YEAH, AND they’re gonna watch The Tonight Show. 😂😂

Murthy’s Law: The Movie

Nice reaction.

I love the TV series

Where does the person who needs a wheelchair live? I have a new, barely used one they can have

Love it or hate it, it’s really funny that the Coen Brothers have been trolling audiences for nearly thirty years with the fake true story bit You should DEFINITELY do reactions to the Fargo series! It’s every bit as good as the film, and five seasons long.

The movie is great for two ideas. One is the two villians where one talks too much and the other wants things quiet so he kills him. The other is the idea of a husband in trouble. By being the delivery guy, he is his wife's hero, by having the father-in-law pay the ransom his problems are over, and no harm no foul. Then life happens...

IMO, Marge Gunderson is the greatest law enforcement officer in cinema history.

You should watch Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Has Marge in it.

Not a true story, the card at the front is a Coen brothers joke. There are lots of true crimes with little bist of Fargo's story, but unclear whether the Coens knew of any of them.