427 FARGO (1996) Part 1

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Cine-Files, Steve Morris and John Rocha continue The Season of the Coen Brothers with Part 1 of their deep dive and exploration of FARGO. This modern black comedy crime classic that elevated the Coen brothers to A list level filmmakers. The film features Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating a triple homicide that takes place after a desperate car salesman played by William H. Macy hires two dim-witted criminals in Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormar) to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from her wealthy father Wade, played by Harve Presnell. Steve and John go thru the movie scene by scene to break down the direction, acting, story beats, score, action sequences and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard the Turkish Airlines podcast channel.
0:07.2	Are you ready for a new adventure?
0:11.0	Merhabah passengers, this is your captain speaking.
0:13.6	Welcome aboard the inaugural episode of the Wideen Your World podcast, part of the Turkish Airlines series.
0:25.9	Thank you. podcast, part of the Turkish airline series. So why don't you just ask him for the money?
0:28.1	Well, your fucking wife, you know.
0:29.5	Or your fucking wife, Jerry.
0:30.9	Well, they don't know I need it.
0:33.4	See, okay, so there's that.
0:35.0	And even if they did, I wouldn't get it.
0:37.3	So there's that on Topton.
0:38.8	See, these are personal matters.
0:40.6	Personal matters?
0:41.3	Yeah, personal matters that needn't...
0:44.3	Okay, Jerry.
0:46.2	You're tasking us to perform this mission, but you won't...
0:50.3	You won't...
0:53.1	Oh, fuck it. Let's take a look at that Sierra.
1:02.6	Hello and welcome once again to the Cinephiles, where we are continuing our exploration of the Cohen Brothers.
1:08.0	My name is Steve Morris.
1:08.9	I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California.
1:12.5	Oh, yeah. Hello, everyone. No, I'm just joking. I'm just joking. I'm not going to happen, man. It's going to happen in the course of this episode. It has to.
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