In the town where apparently nothing ever happens, the most heinous crimes in the town’s history take place in a few days. That’s basically the premise of Fargo, the Coen brothers’ masterpiece that turns 25 years since its premiere , back in 1996. To celebrate the Fargo cast gathered for a screening and talk at the Tribeca Film Festival. Both Steve Buscemi, antagonist of the film and its protagonist Frances McDormand commented on some of the anecdotes that they lived at the time of its filming. One of the most curious circumstances is that the premise of the town in which nothing happens is that surely the implication itself and the commotion of the filming would also at the time, be a huge event for the place. The universe of the film is still alive thanks to the homonymous television series that is about to premiere its fourth season.
In one part of the talk, picked up by Entertainment Weekly, the two actors talked about how the film had made two elements of their story part of the local culture of Minnesota and North Dakota. For the filming of the film , a rather iconic statue of Paul Bunyan , a gigantic lumberjack, was erected. While filming, the Fargo cast realized that Bunyan had become a tourist attraction for the most curious . “We finally realized that people were taking their children out to bed to see the statue” McDormand said adding “All these families would come and park and all the children were in their pajamas and they would just sit in their car and watch. the statue. That’s how little there is to do in North Dakota. “
One of the most curious peculiarities of the location is that Fargo was not actually recorded in Fargo , but in Minnesota. But reality sometimes surpasses this fiction so full of the characteristic black humor of the Coens. One of the brothers, Joel Coen, also revealed that the wood chipper used in the film for somewhat sadistic and homicidal purposes has become a fixture in the annual July 4th parades in Delano, the town of Delano. Minnesota.
