Fargo note

[jwgh]

I've been going on a bit of a Coen brothers kick recently; in the past week or so I've watched 'Miller's Crossing', 'The Hudsucker Proxy', and 'Fargo'. (To round it off I should watch 'Blood Simple' again sometime soon; after that I'll have exhausted all of the Coen brothers movies I own.)

After I watched Fargo again I was thinking about how the movie is intentionally vague as to exactly what Jerry Lundegaard needs money for. I think that I've heard the Coens say in an interview that they always figured he was caught up in some kind of pyramid scheme, which makes sense, but I like to think that Jerry might have been the victim of a 419-type scam (variants of which existed as far back as the 1920s, apparently).

Comments

[cgoldfish.livejournal.com]

oh man, i love miller's crossing.

"You ain't got a license to kill bookies and today I ain't sellin'. So take your flunky and dangle."

great quote.

also - some of their newer stuff isn't as bad as it looked originally, ie, intolerable cruelty.

i'm still on the fence about the newest movie, as i scare easily.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the heck out of Intolerable Cruelty. George Clooney's sidekick ought to be in more movies.

[pjamesharvey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Intolerable Cruelty is a whole load of fun! Clooney is wonderful in it, maybe more so than in O Brother, Where Are Thou?

[jwgh]

I should really netflix all of their movies that I don't own and watch them all again. (I think one or two of their new ones I haven't seen yet, but not from lack of interest.)

[jwgh]

After that I can go on a Terry Gilliam kick.

[cgoldfish.livejournal.com]

oh! and ladykillers. don't forget ladykillers!

[cpr94.livejournal.com]

A good call, except avoid Tideland at all costs. Pay to avoid seeing it. Unless you like watching horrendous dysfunctional squalor and insanity, that is.