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Added 2023-10-03 00:24:51 +0000 UTCFor me this is easily one of the best scenes in Fargo. Nice to hear Park talk about the performance. It's so so underrated.
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He did. And yet, I feel more pain for this guy, than I ever could for Jerry.
Deepfocuslens
2023-10-03 01:43:51 +0000 UTCYou make a good point, and so did the actor...about how the performance and character is such a contrast to the rest of them, and so on the surface in how he presents himself, likely because he has no one to fulfill him. And yes...it is tragic. Park saw the mental illness and used that to make his situations feel literal. Thus in the performance...he just can't keep it together. It's a true moment of sad and pathetic vulnerability weirdly. Also...Dean Stockwell, excellent choice.
Deepfocuslens
2023-10-03 01:43:27 +0000 UTCAbsolutely! Him talking about getting in the head of the character reminds me of probably my favorite example of a great character who only has a few minutes of screentime. It's Nancy Mette in John Sayles's Passion Fish. Anyone who's seen it will never forget "I didn't ask for the anal probe."
Wolfman Brandon
2023-10-03 01:22:30 +0000 UTCYeah, that’s one of those great one-scene performances where a character just takes over a movie for a few minutes. Probably my favorite of this kind is Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet. So much is shown in so little time. There’s something really tragic about how a guy is so self-loathing that he feels he has to make up his own sob story in order to gain sympathy from a woman he has a crush on. And it’s weird that even though he’s lying the whole scene, Mike may be one of the more genuine people in the movie because he’s such a raw open wound. He can’t help but show his pain even as he lies to Marge, whereas every Minnesotan in the movie, especially Jerry, buries their true feelings and frustrations under a veneer of Minnesota Nice (though in Jerry’s case it’s especially comical because people know he’s full of shit anyways). The only other time a Minnesotan drops the politeness and shows their hand is Marge in the car with Peter Stormare’s sociopath. It’s there that we see beneath her sunshine demeanor lies an inner core of strength and resilience. In the history of film, there’s no shortage of psychos and villains we’re captivated by, but with Marge the Coens created something much more rare and remarkable: a character that’s utterly mesmerizing in her decency.
Bennett Oliver
2023-10-03 00:56:06 +0000 UTCNot only one of the best scenes but also the most important, reminding us that some things just aren’t as they seem. He used his pathetic charm for a deceitful/sinister way, just like Jerry Lundegaard (as you pointed out in your review).
Shane Palamara
2023-10-03 00:55:45 +0000 UTCIt's an easy thought to get caught up in, I find.
Deepfocuslens
2023-10-03 00:28:39 +0000 UTCWas quite literally just thinking about how much I love Fargo and then you post this. Weird lol.
Tyler Shobe
2023-10-03 00:26:16 +0000 UTC
