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Fargo (film) - Wikipedia. This article is about a 1. For other uses, see Fargo. Fargo is a 1. 99. American black comedycrime film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances Mc. Dormand stars as a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating roadside homicides that ensue after a desperate car salesman (William H.

Macy) hires two criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from his wealthy father- in- law (Harve Presnell). Fargo premiered at the 1. Cannes Film Festival, where Joel Coen won the festival's Prix de la mise en sc. A critical and commercial success, Fargo received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Mc. Dormand received the Best Actress Oscar, and the Coens won in the Best Original Screenplay category. The film was selected in 2.

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United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as . A Coen- produced FXtelevision series of the same name, inspired by Fargo and taking place in the same universe, started in 2. He floated a $3. 20,0. GMAC loan and collateralized it with nonexistent dealership vehicles and is unable to pay back the loan. On the advice of dealership mechanic and paroled ex- convict Shep Proudfoot, Jerry travels to Fargo, North Dakota and hires small- time cons Gaear Grimsrud and Carl Showalter to kidnap his wife, Jean, and extort a ransom from his wealthy father- in- law and boss, Wade Gustafson, in return for a new car and half of the $8. Jerry pitches Gustafson a lucrative real estate deal, and he agrees to front $7.

Jerry considers calling off the kidnapping, but learns that Gustafson plans to make the deal himself, giving Jerry a finder's fee. At Jerry's home, Carl and Gaear carry out the kidnapping. As they transport Jean to their remote cabin on Moose Lake, a state trooper pulls them over outside Brainerd for driving without temporary tags. When the trooper hears a sound from the back seat, Gaear kills him, then chases down two eyewitnesses and shoots them. The following morning, Brainerd police chief Marge Gunderson discovers that the dead trooper was ticketing a car with dealership plates. Later, two men driving a dealership vehicle checked into the nearby Blue Ox Motel with two call girls, then placed a call to Proudfoot. After questioning the prostitutes, she drives to Gustafson's dealership, where Proudfoot feigns ignorance and Jerry insists no cars are missing.

While in Minneapolis, Marge reconnects with Mike Yanagita, an old classmate. Mike awkwardly and aggressively tries to romance Marge, before breaking down, saying his wife has died. Jerry informs Gustafson that the kidnappers have demanded $1 million, and will deal only through him. Meanwhile, Carl, in light of the complication of three murders, demands that Jerry hand over the entire $8. GMAC gives Jerry 2. Carl is beaten by a furious Proudfoot for bringing him under suspicion.

Carl orders Jerry to deliver the ransom immediately. Gustafson insists on making the money drop himself. At the drop point in a Minneapolis parking garage, he tells Carl he will not hand over the money without seeing Jean. An enraged Carl shoots and kills Gustafson. After fleeing the scene, Carl is astounded to discover that the briefcase contains $1 million. He removes $8. 0,0.

Gaear, then buries the rest alongside the highway. At the cabin, Gaear has killed Jean; Carl says they must split up and leave the state immediately; but after a heated argument over who will keep the dealership car, Gaear kills Carl. Marge learns that Yanagita's dead wife is neither dead nor his wife. Reflecting on Yanagita's convincing lies, Marge returns to Gustafson's dealership. Jerry continues to insist that he is not missing any cars. Marge asks him to inventory the lot, then spots him fleeing the dealership, and calls the State Police.

The next morning, she drives to Moose Lake on a tip from a local bar owner who reported a . Outside a cabin, she finds the dealership car; nearby, Gaear is feeding Carl's dismembered body into a woodchipper. Cult Movie Clips Burden (2017). Marge shoots him in the leg as he tries to flee, and arrests him. North Dakota police arrest Jerry at a motel outside Bismarck. Marge's husband Norm, whose mallard painting has been selected for a 3- cent postage stamp, complains that his friend's painting will be on the first class stamp. Marge reassures Norm that lots of people use 3- cent stamps; the two happily anticipate the birth of their child in two months.

Production. The film opens with the following text: This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred. Closing credits, however, bear the standard .

If an audience believes that something's based on a real event, it gives you permission to do things they might otherwise not accept. In 1. 99. 6, Joel Coen told a reporter that—contrary to the opening graphic—the actual murders were not committed in Minnesota.

Eugene Thompson, a St. Paul attorney who was convicted of hiring a man to murder his wife in 1. Coens' hometown of St. Louis Park; but the Coens claimed that they had never heard of Thompson. After Thompson's death in 2. Joel Coen changed the explanation again: “. Or, as we like to say, the only thing true about it is that it’s a story.”.

Paul area and around the actual town of Brainerd (which was the film's original title. Due to unusually low snowfall totals in central and southern Minnesota that winter, scenes requiring snow- covered landscapes had to be shot in northern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota (though not in Fargo itself). The site is now occupied by Best Buy's national corporate headquarters.

Paul, which is still in business. Ember's, the restaurant where Carl discussed the ransom drop with Gustafson, was located in St. Louis Park, the Coens' hometown; the building now houses a medical outpatient treatment center. The kidnappers' Moose Lake hideout actually stood on the shore of Square Lake, near May, Minnesota. The cabin was relocated to Barnes, Wisconsin in 2. The Edina police station where the interior police headquarters scenes were filmed is still in operation, but has been completely rebuilt.

The Carlton Celebrity Room was an actual venue in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Jos. The Feliciano scene was shot at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre in Chanhassen, near Minneapolis. Scenes in the Lundegaards' kitchen were shot in a private home on Pillsbury Avenue in Minneapolis. Mohra described the . The motel “outside of Bismarck”, where the police finally catch up with Jerry, is the Hitching Post Motel in Forest Lake, north of Minneapolis. She coached the cast using audio tapes and field trips. She taught Mc. Dormand .

The Minneapolis and St. Paul dialect is characterized by the Northern cities vowel shift, which is also found in other places in the Northern United States as far east as Rochester, New York.

The site's critical consensus reads, . He later ranked it fourth on his list of the best films of the 1. The Marge Gunderson character was ranked 3. AFI's 1. 00 Years.. Heroes & Villains. In 2. 01. 0, the Independent Film & Television Alliance selected the film as one of its . Joel Coen won the top directorial award, the prix de la mise en sc.

Subsequent notable screenings included the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, and the Naples Film Festival. In the diner, when Jerry is urging Wade not to get police involved in his wife's kidnapping, Chuck Mangione's .

An instrumental version of . The restaurant scene with Mike Yanagita is accompanied by a piano arrangement of . All the songs heard in the film are featured only as background music, usually on a radio, and do not appear on the soundtrack album. The soundtrack was released in 1. TVT Records, combined with selections from the score to Barton Fink.