{"id":3193,"date":"2021-04-05T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T13:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2023-05-23T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T07:30:25","slug":"fargo-deceptive-simplicity-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/blog\/fargo-deceptive-simplicity-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look at the Deceptive Simplicity of Fargo on its 25th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Coen Brothers\u2019 Fargo turns 25, let\u2019s take a look at some of the elements that make this dark crime comedy so memorable and how its cleverness lies in its deceptive simplicity.
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The \u201cso-called true\u201d story follows car salesman Jerry Lundegaard from Minnesota (William H. Macy), who hires 2 mercenaries (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife, planning to get his hands on the ransom her wealthy father would pay to free her. Needless to say, things don\u2019t work out as planned, as the very pregnant sheriff Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress) investigates the crime.
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Not a true story<\/h2>\n

Like the entire film, the story has a deceptive simplicity to it, and the deception is right there at the beginning when the \u201cThis Is a True Story\u201d caption comes up and stays that much too long to become questionable. And in actuality, the film is not based on one real event that happened in Minnesota in 1987; it\u2019s more of an assortment of various factual events expertly blended into one narrative.
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