‘A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere’
The tagline of the Coen Brothers’ sixth film creates a genius little bit of intrigue in one short sentence. It doesn’t give away any specific details yet nonetheless grabs the viewer’s attention; we have no idea about the myriad possibility of events that could take place, and we don’t know the specified location where these happenings will occur. Unless you knew about Fargo before the film, and also knew where precisely in the world it was. In which case, congrats. But even if you did, that’s immaterial, because not a single scene was actually filmed in Fargo, with most of the film being shot in Minnesota. The more you know, eh? The tagline also neatly summarises the film’s outstanding opening sequence, where the slow journey of a car through snow is complemented with a majestic, Odyssean grandeur through the use of the powerful orchestra of regular Cohen collaborator Carter Burwell.
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