Posted by Mitch on September 10, 2001, at 12:32:55
In reply to Re: Fargo and door chimes, posted by susan C on September 10, 2001, at 10:27:32
> ya ya sure you bet-ch ya, mmmMMMMmmm-m? Seeing Fargo was like going back in time, to being raised in Minnie-s0-ta. Funny, don't recall the chimes, but I can tell you, like florida, everyone goes everywhere in cars. Particularly in the winter when the windchill in N minnesota is 50 below and so you hop from one car to another. One heated glowing blowing place to another. Wet Wool and cold fingers and toes. White food, literallly all scandinavian food is white..potatoes, fish, cream sauces. When she meets her old boyfriend in Minneapolis at the Rassusun hotel. I use to go there...time to go rent more movies I am going through monty python now... Additionally, poingent, for me, was the Massey character, as I used to sell cars...
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> Mouse with a cold cold past
> Susan CHi Susan,
Thanks for bringing up the idea of the cold-yes, when it gets below 10 degrees and the wind is howling you don't spend a lot of time hanging out in the backyard, etc. It also seemed that all of those cars (80's vehicles) had the same door chimes, well come to think of it just about everybody was driving Oldsmobile Cierras! The filmmakers probably just wanted to make a "geographic film" and wanted the sound to be as authentic as possible as well to paint that "sense of place" picture as detailed as possible. Also-more about the fast food-the kid wanted to go to McDonald's and hang out and his grandfather got upset that he wasn't staying around with his family-and that "they do more than eat cheeseburgers down there-I will tell you that!" They also made a big thing in the story about license plates, identification, tags, etc. Drat, if I could READ the script I am sure I could get it unravelled! It reminds me of a recent American fiction class I took in college. Watching this movie was like tackling an extremely complex highly polished short story.
Mitch
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