As for "Fargo", it is a great movie because it is so realistic. Like that scene where the customer and his wife come in to yell at that sleazy car salesman is classic because everybody's been there before (bought a car only to find it ends up costing "more" when they come to pick it up). Or that awkward scene at the Radisson where the old classmate of the police officer who had a crush on her in high school makes a total mess of his lunch date with her. Or the one crook who would rather go to "Pancake house" than go to a strip club. And on and on.
My favorite scene is when the pathetic and sleazy car salesman "flees the interview" with the police officer.
Meanwhile, around these ordinary scenes is pure evil as a "simple kidnapping" gets completely out of control.
Singin’ in the Rain was dismissed...and that is one of the greatest and funniest and best films ever made. Plus, it starred the gorgeous Gene Kelly. Nuff said.
That’s exactly what i loved about Fargo. That it was realistic. Sometimes sheriffs get pregnant. Whaddya gonna do? Yep, Fargo is a great film.
Fargo and Shawshank are two of the movies we always stop and watch on tv even though we have it on dvd...along with "Raising Arizona" and "Jaws" and any of the "Godfathers" or "Rings"....and of course "Hoosiers" and one that I like a lot "Breaking Away".....
And surrealistic as well. That scene where the one masked guy comes up to the sliding glass door and peers in, crowbar in hand, while the woman stares in wonder gave me a major WTF moment? The scene when one of the kidnappers comes in with a bleeding bullet hole in the jaw and says "You should see the other guy!" cracked me up. Steve Buscemi should have gotten an Oscar for that performance. You're right though, that the movie had many true-to-life scenes.
What also crossed my mind was the question that What If she had grabbed a gun instead of the telephone when she fled into the bathroom? Ergo, no story as she would have shot the two perps and saved her life as well as all the others.