So much amusement, picturing this tough-as-nails woman having to teach every male in her family not to just kill things that annoy them.
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In that sense, Fargo S2 is a lot like Peaky Blinders S1 - the measure of the characters is added-to by whether or not they fought for their country.
Off-hand, I can think of the guy who urinates on the Dude's rug; the creepy kid and his dad who bother the professor in A Serious Man; the Chinese opium-addict in True Grit; the rather stereotypical "General" in The Ladykillers whose implied Viet Cong tunnel history might have inspired Ohanzee; and there's probably…
Oh, was she? My computer does not have the greatest screen resolution ever.
Ah…I see the problem now; it's not available from my current geographic region. Mighty kind of you anyway, stranger…
I'll bet he got it in 'Nam. I'll bet he was holding it for someone's son. Five long years he wore this watch…
"I'd call it animal, but animals only kill for food. This was…Sioux Falls. Ever been?"
It can symbolise two things!
A link would be nice…all I'm seeing on the FB page is a video or two of someone shaking out a polaroid.
What I always liked about Proudfoot, too, was that the Coens were deliberately subverting stereotype. When Marge interviews him he's playing the taciturn Indian from cowboy movies who is generally wise and wary of the white man, etc.
Having now seen "The Man Who Wasn't There" I get the idea that they were trying to enfold a little Ed Crane into Malvo as well. Very obviously in the dentist episode (in fact, almost presenting it as the jury would have seen Crane - a calculating monster masquerading as an upstanding citizen), but also in that both…
Wasn't known to have committed any murders we knew of. I mean, sure, he seemed pretty low-key, but you saw the temper he had on him. That's the kind of anger that breaks spines as easily as it does hearts.
It might just be in the fact that he calls him "Indian Joe" instead of, y'know, his name.
Also also, alas, with the killing of that poor nurse I see that "Fargo" Season 2 is, like Season 1, continuing to indulge in the Coen Brothers' bizarre unspoken-but-heavily-implied hatred of people of East Asian descent.
He's also rather like Shep Proudfoot from Fargo original - not just in ethnicity but in the wary, calculating silence. And the implication that he is highly capable of effing you up at a time of his choosing.
I cannot be the only person who said "Miller's Crossing" when Mike took off the old man's hat. Nice little meta-reference there.
What I love is that Sgt. Ben Schmidt in an earlier episode, hearing of Gus Grimly's blunder, mutters "It's goddamn Sioux Falls all over again", the implication being that a bunch of mistakes and crossed lines were the cause of the 1979 murders and only cooler heads like his prevailed.
One of these days, Laura…
"The Meek ain't gonna inherit sh*t".