Just finished watching "Fargo".

[MiddleFingerMom]

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It's not fair that the Coen brothers are Bogarting all that moviemaking awesomeness!!!
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And now "The Princess Bride" is coming on.
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Often AMC sucks. Not today, though. Not today.
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[Major Nikon]

1. AMC and IFC are my two favorite channels

[Flaxbee]

2. you betcha / as you wish

The first time I saw Fargo was in a movie theater - I was laughing out loud almost the whole time. There was a very grumpy couple behind me who kept shushing me ... I don't think they "got" black humor...

The first time I saw The Princess Bride was my freshman year in college - had just moved in to the dorms and there was a free screening. A good omen.

[pokerfan]

3. Oh for Pete's sake, he's fleeing the interview! He's fleeing the interview!

[earthbot1]

4. I just purchased Fargo...

I got tired of waiting for it to come on. The closing scene is really good.

Love Princess Bride also.

[riderinthestorm]

5. Wow! A double feature worth staying awake for!

Hope you are having a good night MFM...

[Taverner]

6. Dude, have you ever seen Lebowski?

[zonkers]

7. Those guys are brilliant. I love em. Them and Danny Boyle have

are my favorite, probably. All three have are just brilliant.

[OriginalGeek]

8. Fargo is one of my top ten favorite movies

and just the other day I asked my wife if we had The Princess Bride. I don't think I've seen that since we went to see it at the drive in theater when it came out. For some reason I had an urge to watch it again.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. It starts with the talent. Lots of talents on that show.

Lesser actors would have made it feel and look like a B movie.

[Incitatus]

10. I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper

[Aristus]

11. "Iy'm havin' 'em run doan a parshul with DLR"

"I doan't think I agree hunnert persint w'yer pleecework there, Irv!"

"Oh yah?"

"Yah. DLR prolly stands fer 'dealer'."

"Ooh shur."

[Odin2005]

12. Yes, we really do talk like that up here!

[Little Star]

13. I absolutely love Fargo, great movie!

[raccoon]

14. Well, I hated the movie FARGO. It was full of gratuitous violence, and purports to be true-which it

decidedly IS NOT.




Fargo opens with the following text:


THIS IS A TRUE STORY. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. 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.

Although the film itself is completely fictional, the Coen brothers claim that many of the events that take place in the movie were actually based on true events from other cases that they threw together to make one story. Joel Coen noted:


"We weren't interested in that kind of fidelity. The basic events are the same as in the real case, but the characterizations are fully imagined...If an audience believes that something's based on a real event, it gives you permission to do things they might otherwise not accept."[4]

The Coens claim the actual murders took place, but not in Minnesota.[5] The main reason for the film's setting is the fact that the Coens were born and raised in St. Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis.[6]

On the special edition DVD's trivia track for Fargo, it is revealed that the main case for the movie's inspiration was based on the infamous 1986 murder of Helle Crafts from Connecticut at the hands of her husband, Richard, who killed her and disposed of her body through a wood chipper.[7]

The end credits bear the standard "all persons fictitious" disclaimer for a work of fiction.[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(film)