Originally posted by Klodomir:
Hm, so non-Americans like it too. Must be just me then. And I hated the "jaaa's". To me, a joke just doesn't get any better by being repeated 100 times.
But I just remember one funny bit... where she has a bout of morning sickness and then just stands up and says, "Well, that passed", very matter-of-fact. That did provoke a bit of a giggle.
Actually, the funny thing was that they do talk like that in Minesota, don't they? I mean, perhaps not so exaggerated but they do speak in such a dialect... that's what makes it funny. Ever hear of the expression 'its funny because its true' - thats exactly why this movie works on so many levels. It is painfully funny, but its also horrific and really quite tragic when you think about it, all the more horrific and tragic for being true.
I mean, the English have been taken the piss out of ever since the beginning of Hollywood, and thats why now they either play really effeminate characters or really snobbish/posh villains.... but if you go down the road where I live everybody talks more like people out of 'Last Orders', did anybody see that movie? Oh well.
On another note... has anybody seen Robert Altman's masterpiece 'GOSFORD PARK'... ah, that film is terrific as well. Very funny, very sad, very British. Might not appeal to all tastes but definately for the anglophiles.
As for FARGO, the most effective/funny/horrific/surreal and disturbing mental picture that stayed with me was the one where Marge turns her head slightly in the forest and sees a man shoving another man down a sawmill, with Steve Buscemi's feet sticking out of the contraption! Now, thats something you expect out of a DALI painting, not something that actually happened in such a Christmas Card setting. Wow.
Oh, and also... the funniest scene for me was the Mike Jamakiya scene...u know the Japanese fellow who's wife just died and hence is all lonely, so he desperately tries to get it on with pregnant Marge? That scene was fantastically well written and acted.
I think I'll go watch it now...
Ant.