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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Google who her husband is.
She had an uncredited role in “Miller’s Crossing,” and lead female in “Blood Simple.” She can act....
No clue what the article is saying. Seems to be written for and by people who know the truth and all others are insane, so nothing needs to be said
The actual truth though is anti abortion is closer to keeping real people out of wood chippers, as abortionists do to innocent people
These writers and hollywoodians are ignoramuses I don’t care how many awards and how much money they have.
she herself was adopted.
Raising arizona..she was hilarious
Frances McDormand was
very good in that freaky movie
“No clue what the article is saying”
Me either....I loved that flick and I have no idea what a scene like that would be doing in a movie like that to begin with.
BTW, I can’t think of one movie the Coen brother’s have done that I DIDN’T like.
I’d like to see A Serious Man but after 16 years the dang thing is STILL pay per view. SMH
“The film was heralded, among other things, for its matter-of-fact treatment of Marge’s pregnancy, and McDormand revealed the film may have also blazed a trail in terms of the clothes worn by pregnant cops in Minnesota.”
“There were no pregnant cop clothes in Minnesota. [Costume designer Mary Zophres] had to make [them],” McDormand said. “And all the women who were working in the police force up there were like, ‘Can we get some of those? Those are great!’”
I could NOT make heads or tales of what was even being said
It's strictly O Brother, Where Art Thou? (an American classic which will survive them), Lebowski (almost too iconic), and Miller's Crossing (probably the best 'nobody saw it' Coen movie).
Raising AZ is not terrible but lacks cohesiveness and Coen-ism in long stretches.
No Country is gimmick after gimmick, it's almost a parody. Tommy Lee never realizes he's being put on. I mean completely put on. He's an egomaniac but they did him a disservice to get the effect they wanted.
I want a parody of No Country where Javier goes around with a coin belt, he asks for tree-fiddy and the guy gives him a fiver and he rings it out on the belt but puts the change in the gun.
No Country didn’t make any sense.........
that’s like, your opinion, man
Fargo is top of the heap
Her character portrayed “Minnesota nice”.
No more nice in a state that boasts Mogadishu North, statues of dope fiends and Tampon Timmy.
“No Country didn’t make any sense........”
I thought it was terrible.
How did the Mexican know who had the money?....
I don’t think she’s in it, but their remake of True Grit has some golden moments.
I’d also recommend Burn After Reading(brad Pitt is over the top and she is flawless) and
Hail Caesar—a very plausible presentation of Hollywood leftists and parasitic Frankfurt School pseudo-intellectuals.
They may be making the only films worth watching these days.
I didn’t have any issue with No Country. The bolt impactor I figure is used on cattle.
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