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Mar 6, 2023 · Unsurprisingly, the McDormand-Coen household wasn't what you'd call typical. As Vogue notes, the couple raised Pedro in New York City, with Joel Coen making movies every summer while Frances McDormand took one movie job a year and did theater the rest of the time.
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In 1984, she made her film debut in Blood Simple, the first film by her husband Joel Coen and brother-in-law Ethan Coen. In 1985, McDormand appeared in Sam Raimi's Crimewave, as well as an episode of Hunter. In 1987, she appeared as eccentric friend Dot in Raising Arizona, starring Holly Hunter and Nicolas Cage.
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Directed by Joel Coen. With Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel. A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.
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- Joel Coen
- 2022-01-14
- The Coen Brothers Have A Way with Birds.
- Fargo Killed at The Box Office.
- Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert Gave Fargo Way More Than Two Thumbs Up.
- Fargo's Actors Went Through Extensive Training to Get Their Accents Right.
- The Upper Midwest Has A Love/Hate Relationship with Fargo.
- Fargo Marked A Major Comeback For One Actor.
- Only A Few Minutes of Fargo Take Place in Fargo.
- Fargo Features Two Very Familiar Coen Brothers Tropes.
- Steve Buscemi’s Word Count in Fargo Is A Running joke.
- An Inside Joke Led to Rumors That Prince Had A Cameo in Fargo.
Fargo’s opening scene memorably features a bird in flight set against the frigid Minnesota landscape. The incident was unscripted, as were memorable bird cameos in Barton Fink and Blood Simple. Joel Coen has commented “We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do.”
The Coens' previous film, 1994's The Hudsucker Proxy, had by far their largest budget to date at the time with $25 million. It was also by far their biggest flop, earning less than $3 million at the box office. For Fargo, the Coens returned to a much more modest budget of $7 million, but ended up taking in$60 million at the box office.
Roger Ebert called Fargo "one of the best films I've ever seen" and added that "films like Fargoare why I love the movies." Both Siskel and Ebert named it their favorite movie of 1996.
Having grown up in Minnesota, the Coens were more than familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the “Minnesota nice” accent, but much of the cast—including McDormand and Macy—needed coaching to get the intricacies right. Actors were even given copies of the scripts with extensive pronunciation notes. According todialect coach Larissa Kokernot, who also ...
Fargo received some understandable backlashfrom Minnesotans and North Dakotans for portraying their neck of the American woods as being full of simple, funny-talking folks. Indeed, in the movie's DVD commentary, native Minnesotan Joel Coen referred to the state as “Siberia with family restaurants.” In 1997, then-mayor of Brainerd Bonnie Cumberland ...
Before taking on the role of Wade Gustafson, the rich and hardened father of the kidnapped Jean Lundegaard, actor Harve Presnell hadn’t taken a film role in 20 years and was focusing on stage work. Following his turn in Fargo, he popped up on screen in blockbusters like Face/Off, Saving Private Ryan, and Old School.
Despite the title, only the opening scene—where Jerry meets with Carl and Gaear to reveal the plan to kidnap his wife and hold her for ransom—takes place in Fargo. Most of the movie takes place in either Brainerd or the Twin Cities area. According toJoel Coen, “'Fargo' seemed a more evocative title than ‘Brainerd’” and that’s the only reason why th...
Two of the Coens' favorite plot devices—stolen or missing money and kidnapping—feature in many of the brothers' movies (Blood Simple; The Big Lebowski; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; The Man Who Wasn’t There; The Ladykillers; No Country For Old Men; and Burn After Reading included. Alongside 2009's A Serious Man, it’s also one of two Coen films set pr...
Throughout the entire movie, Peter Stormare’s character—Gaear Grimsrud—has just 16 lines of dialogue. By comparison, his chatty accomplice Carl Showalter (played by frequent Coen collaborator Steve Buscemi) has more than 150. This turns up as a running Coen brothers joke in The Big Lebowski, where Buscemi’s character Donny is constantly being told ...
The Coens provided anyone willing to stick around for the extended credits to a bit of a Minnesota insider joke. The role of “Victim in the Field” is credited to a scribble resembling Prince’s “Love Symbol,” which the late singer went by between 1993 and 2000. This spurred rumors that Prince had a hidden cameo in the film. Anyone paying attention, ...
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- ITS TITLE WAS INSPIRED BY DASHIELL HAMMETT’S RED HARVEST. “It’s an expression he used to describe what happens to somebody psychologically once they’ve committed murder,” Joel Coen told Time Out.
- THE COENS SPECIFICALLY WROTE THE PART OF LOREN VISSER FOR M. EMMET WALSH. “Blood Simple started something else that we’ve done pretty much on every subsequent movie, which was that we’ve always written parts for specific actors,” Joel Coen said in the book My First Movie.
- THE COENS—AND MANY OF THE CAST AND CREW—HAD NEVER BEEN ON A FILM SET BEFORE. Joel Coen admitted in My First Movie, “The first day of shooting on Blood Simple was the first time I’d ever been on a feature movie set in any capacity, even as a visitor.”
- THE COENS CHOSE TO MAKE A FILM NOIR BECAUSE OF THE GENRE’S PRACTICALITY. The Coens liked hard-boiled fiction authors James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler, and used them to their advantage in writing the script.
Jan 28, 2022 · In a filmmaking career of nearly 40 years, Coen has chronicled a spectrum of well-spoken criminals and enlightened dudes in stories inflected with varying amounts of brutality and absurdity. He...
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Apr 24, 2021 · Frances McDormand has been married to filmmaker Joel Coen since 1984. The pair have worked together on films like Fargo, Blood Simple, and Raising Arizona.
