Fargo

 

                                     So, it's like this I needed to find a movie to start off the new month so, I decided to sit down and watch the latest Dungeons & Dragons movie and sadly thirty minutes into the movie I began to slowly see how unimpressed I was with the actors themselves moreover predicting where this was going to go so, I was like I might need a weekend to watch this movie whole. So, sadly I decided to put this movie a side for now, but then realizing well I'm hearing this trend called Noirvember basically a celebration of the film noir genre that is now modernized into neo-noir. For which deep down I was excited to dive into this month with because I've said this million times film noir or neo-noir has become my favorite genre, ever since watching The Third Man. And so, the night became a trial and error for about two minutes till I was like, well I'm binging on the Fargo show that the Coen Brothers film is based on for which leads us to me sitting down and watching the Coen Brothers masterpiece, Fargo.

                                     Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father (Harve Presnell), paying those thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper.

                                     Many of the Coen Brothers films are good and you have to watch it more than once to really understand the story itself, but Fargo is without a doubt a movie you can watch and continue watching a bunch of times. In fact, I would see this as their greatest masterpiece on film next to The Big Lebowski and No Country for Old Men, hell the movie is so good they produced a show on it so, deep down has its impact. Though really what makes the films legendary is that it has a simple murder mystery where all the characters you meet in the movie has that memorable quote for which you'll reference repeatedly but more importantly has two great story tellers as well as legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins and a great list of actors and actress. Like Francis McDormand is an exceptional actress and she was great in it moreover won in Oscar for her performance in the movie, Steve Buscemi has always been that iconic actor that really hasn't lost is touch even though he makes really bad choices in movies like all of Adam Sandler's movies, though I can slide when it comes to Michael Bay's films but dear God there's a time to just say no when staring in a Sandler comedy, but also comes out with some great films like Reservoir Dogs, The Death of Stalin as well as his roles in the Coen Brothers movies. And sure you have these great actors/actresses in McDormand and Buscemi but the tree scene stealers William H. Macy, Harve Presnell and Peter Stomare, Macy at the center of the movie plays his character in a very dumb/over confident character that's not a good guy but for some reasons you kind of sympathize with the guy, then he goes back to just this pathetic man that by the end of the movie you are satisfied of how his fate was sealed. Harve Presnell who plays Macy's father-in-law in the movie who in all honesty is the true scene stealer in the movie I mean the way he delivers his lines through the course of the movie is just pure genius that he steals scenes like Ronald Acuna Jr steals bases. Lastly Peter Stomare who plays one of the thugs is amazing in the movie and even though he has very little lines in the film, Stomare's body language is just incredible that you can't describe it from him looking at Buscemi's character as if he's offended by him not wanting to stop for pancakes is just genius to when he can't hear McDormand in the finale is just great that he's another one of those great treasures that always steals the scene in fact the surprising thing is that him and Buscemi reunite in Michael Bay's Armageddon where he plays the Russian in the satellite station though they both together are in The Big Lebowski and yet they don't share a scene together, but the important thing is that he also is a "that guy" where you look at his face and slowly recognize that he was in a certain movie you don't remember but slowly realize he was in that one movie which is sad but let's be honest the more you live in Hollywood the more housing becomes expensive. If I had to make a list of 100 of the greatest films of all time, Fargo would most certainly be in that category probably in the top ten or fifteen because it has that great story where you can watch it over and over again moreover has a visual sense of a crime drama set in the winter wonderland that his North Dakota and Minnesota, in fact I'd probably have my own parents sit down and watch this great movie because I most certainly know they haven't seen it. Furthermore, I would highly recommend watching this film to everyone getting ready for the cold weather to murder us, but also recommend it to anyone who hasn't indulged in the Coen Brothers filmography.