Posted on 03/23/2025 12:41:49 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Marge Gunderson remains one of the Coen Brothers‘ most beloved characters, but she could’ve been a bit more polarizing had an original idea to have Marge attend a “right to life protest” been kept in the script...
...Frances McDormand joined Joel Coen and Steve Buscemi at the 2021 Tribeca Festival to celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Fargo,” which won the performer her first Academy Award for Best Actress.
“Is it outing you to ask you to tell them the scene I read first?” McDormand asked Coen. “Her friend invited her to a right-to-life protest! Oh my God! Can you imagine?”
“There are a lot of thought experiments that happen while you’re doing these things,” Coen added. “Some of them you reject, some of them you don’t…There was a big population in parts of northern Minnesota that were very conservative.”
Instead of sending Marge to an anti-abortion rally, the Coen Brothers instead had the character take a detour to meet Mike Yanagita (Steve Park). The scene is perhaps the most hotly debated in “Fargo,” as on the surface it has little to do with the main narrative...
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Fargo is top of the heap"
I dig that you are one of them. Frances was great, Macy was too on the nose for me, Buscemi did his thing but it felt as perfunctory as Christopher Walken in "Wild Side" at the bottom of the exact same slide-zone that was the nadir of the mid-90s -- and "Wild Side" was a bad, bad movie.
Boom. The main would have never gone back to feed water to the pendejos; the plot would have fallen apart from there; and the rest of the movie is B-grade shitty "quelle horreur" artifice, a total cash-out.
Instead NCFOM spawned total schlock like "Breaking Bad" a year later.
NCFOM is the downwind rollercoaster riding out the obvious Coen-for-sale decline, it's a shame.
"A Serious Man" was the snap-your-neck full stop from their bildungsroman-und-kolboynick implosion, and by then the belabored "True Grit" metamorphisized into a shitty retro-con.
Only Ethan plugs on today -- embarrassingly.
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