As Chick said the other day... "
Let's Talk About Movies."
Of course, it isn’t a true story but in 2001 it was reported that a Japanese woman had been hoodwinked by the claim and traveled to the U.S. in search of the suitcase full of money that Steve Buscemi had buried beside a snow-capped fencepost in rural Minnesota.
David and Nathan Zellner, another set of filmmaking brothers, have produced an extraordinary ode to that misguided voyage into America’s frozen heartland. In the film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, a dissatisfied Tokyo office worker discovers a wet VHS copy of Fargo in a cave outside the city. She dries the damaged tape and tries to decipher the crackly scenes; enticed by the prospect of buried treasure, she sets off on an ill-fated odyssey in search of the loot.
“I’ve always loved conquistador stories,” said David Zellner, the director, after the film’s screening in Berlin. “This was the closest thing in real life to a mythology; going across the sea to this exotic strange land—there’s something fantastical about it. I loved the idea of someone going to the New World looking for riches.” READ MORE
Pulled from The Daily Beast (Sadly, the movie does not appear to have a trailer)
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Movies are actually tough topics to discuss. I saw Fargo once a long, long time ago but it was never my favorite Coen Bros movie.
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"Falgo snow, bad for glass"
I liked Fargo quite a lot... it is nice to watch a movie where the protagonist is a decent and ordinary human being, and not a hit man or super-cop or something.
Fargo was an excellent movie. Bleak, dark, very black comedy.
I wonder how hard Pogo laughed at Fargo.
Long time since I've seen Fargo and I really don't remember a lot about it, except the relationship between the Frances McDormand character and her husband. It was lovely in its ordinariness. And it didn't come across as fake-ish, the way relationships in Coen bros. movies sometimes do.
Alrighty then.
lol phx, I finally got that.
Also one of my favorite movies. As Lydia noted, the ordinariness of the McDormand character made the movie work better than many of their other films. But the chipper scene was also good.
Officer Olson: What'd this guy look like, anyway?
Mr. Mohra: Oh, he was a little guy... Kinda funny lookin'.
Officer Olson: Uh-huh. In what way?
Mr. Mohra: Oh, just in a general kinda way.
Fargo was hysterical. You maybe sorta had to have been there but the two guys shoveling snow had me laughing so hard I hurt, and I wondered if anyone who wasn't inside could even see it so why did they include it if you had to be a Minnesotan to get the joke?
I always thought the "true story" part was true... but in a "we made it all up" sort of way. That a guy kidnapped his wife and then disappeared, that money was missing and never found, that someone or other was shot... this hint of a thing in Minneapolis, this other hint of a thing in Fargo, the other hint of a thing in Detroit Lakes... none of it having anything to do with any of the other things at all. And then supposing... what if it all went together?
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