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Fargo (1996) - Morning Sickness Scene: Police Chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) investigates the murder of three people while dealing with morning sickness.
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FILM DESCRIPTION:
Filmmaking siblings Joel Coen and Ethan Coen both embraced and poked satirical fun at their Minnesotan roots with this comedy-drama-thriller that earned seven Oscar nominations, winning for Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant police chief whose affable, folksy demeanor masks a whip-smart mind. When a pair of motorists are found slain not far from the corpse of a state trooper, Marge begins piecing together a case involving a pair of dopey would-be kidnappers, Carl (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear (Bergman stock player Peter Stormare). They've been hired by Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy), a car salesman under the thumb of his wealthy, overbearing boss and father-in-law, Wade (Harve Presnell). Jerry's raised some money illegally through a petty scam he's run on General Motors and he's about to get caught. When Wade sours a business deal that could save his son-in-law's hide, the desperate Jerry hires Carl and Gaear to kidnap his wife and hold her for ransom. Things go predictably wrong and a series of murders occur, with Marge, waddling along behind her enormous belly and ever-hungering for an all-you-can-eat buffet, hot on the trail of the killers. Although the credits for Fargo state that the film is loosely based on real events, the story is entirely fictional, the claim being just an ironic jibe on the part of the Coens.
CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1996)
Cast: Bruce Bohne, Frances McDormand
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Producers: Tim Bevan, John Cameron, Ethan Coen, Eric Fellner, Joel Coen
Screenwriters: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
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[@oldschoolm8]

In a film full of despicable criminals, slimy businessmen and murderers, Margie is a gem of honesty and goodness. She’s kooky, kindhearted and very endearing, yet she doesn’t suffer fools gladly and is sharp as a tack. Frances McDormand played the part so well!

[@ccc796]

Oh yeaaa?

[@puterboy2]

And then she plays a nun two years later.

[@acewilliams7917]

@@ccc796 Ya.

[@4Noirr_]

I love her character so much! She played it very wholesome

[@zestybutterfly7161]

I also love how supportive her husband is and how her co-workers take her seriously!

[@eliocosmos]

I always crack up when her left foot sinks into the snow and she looks back suprised. LOL

[@mitchellpak1666]

That was not in the script. Frances McDormand looked back to see if the director wanted to cut the scene but she saw that everyone was still in place so she kept on going. The actor playing Lou ad-libbed the "careful, Margie."

[@eliocosmos]

Mitchell Pak hehe how do you know? Are you a witch 0.o

[@mitchellpak1666]

Angel F. No, I just like movie trivia.

[@MyoclonicJerkCough]

That's so cool, little things like that make them seem more real. There was a scene in a Columbo episode where Peter Falk is trying to follow a cop down "the quickest way down" a 40 foot slope path to a crime scene and pretty much immediately loses his footing and slides down most of the way and ends up tumbling over into a ditch. He says, "I'll tell ya, it WAS the quickest way down..." He and the cop stayed in character so they left it in lol

[@dragondancer1814]

MyoclonicJerkCough Real-life story I read once: This police officer was responding to a property-damage accident where somebody had slid off the road and into the guardrail in the middle of a snowstorm. He approached the scene carefully, only to lose traction in the same area and smack into the guardrail too. The other driver laughed and called out, “That’s EXACTLY how it happened, Officer!” Neither was hurt, unless you count spraining your pride!

[@Gubalicious]

I love how she works out exactly what happened within 2 minutes of arriving

[@andrewclark7559]

This is a very nonchalant type of investigation that helps give this movie its odd charm.

[@jasonmichael3676]

Well it was cold.

[@youarelife3437]

@@jasonmichael3676 nah.. ull see this same type investigation in no country for old men

[@Rex-qf7en]

She's so motherly. It isn't just the baby bump, she's so kind and sweet to her subordinate officer, tells him he messed up in the absolute nicest way she could that he'd still learn from it. A motherly figure with a very motherly figure.

[@peregrinec5477]

I love this scene. I was heavily pregnant at work...Totally get the whole, "I think I'm gonna barf...Now I'm hungry again."

[@dragondancer1814]

Peregrine C I was working as a security guard while carrying my older daughter, and I used to describe how I looked in my ill-fitting “maternity” uniform (they didn’t have maternity uniform shirts and pants in those days) as resembling Marge in this movie. I also remember the “fun” my coworkers had during my first trimester trying to deliberately make me puke when I was dealing with the morning sickness. We worked the main gate at a distribution center and sometimes the truckers who smoked or hadn’t showered in a while made me sick too, but they were really understanding about it when I explained why their smells were putting me out. The yard jockeys were another story-they actually had a pool going on when I would start waddling! I showed them though-I NEVER waddled once!

[@peregrinec5477]

@@dragondancer1814 LOL! I love it. Thank God I was working behind the scenes in TV at the time and I just wore whatever. Nobody cared. It's mostly, even today, a "boy's club." The industry is, I mean. But, the guys I worked with were pretty sweet. If a light had to be changed, they would climb the "cherry picker" to do it for me. I only had one really weird moment when a coworker I shared a shift with started to freak the eff out because I suddenly had to vomit but I knew I didn't have time to get to the restroom. So, I just unloaded in a nearby trash can... And, of course, this guy was a serious germophobe. He starts freaking out... "What! What is it? Is it the flu! OMG. I can't be around this. This is terrible. I can't get sick! What is it you have? Can I catch it?" And on and on and on... It took me a few moments to answer him, because I was retching. Once I was finally able to regain my composure I said, "Dude. Chill the f**k out, man. Unless you can get pregnant, I think you will be okay." He was super freaked out when just like 10 minutes later I ate lunch. :D

[@dragondancer1814]

Peregrine C HAHA I had a similar moment with one of the guys at the firehouse during my second pregnancy! I had Kate Middleton-type “morning sickness” that lasted for 24 hours a day for the entire first trimester, and nothing I did made it go away despite trying every morning sickness remedy known to woman, which is one big reason why I stopped at two kids right there. He saw me at the local convenience store one morning looking greener than Kermit the Frog and told me to back off so he wouldn’t catch what I had. I told him, “Dude, if you can catch what I have, you will be the Man In the News!” And another funny point about my first pregnancy was that I started EMT training and got pregnant more or less simultaneously, so you can imagine how much fun my oh-so-supportive classmates and instructors had dealing with me, especially with the unit on emergency childbirth! And when it came to learning about treating pregnant patients in other situations, let’s just say they had a real live model to practice on! And the ambulance ride-alongs when I was six months pregnant were an experience! But I can understand your coworker’s freakout, because after two kids and 17 years as an EMT I am still squeamish about puke too. That’s partly because of how nine times out of ten it’s due to the person having norovirus and I am totally susceptible to that mess! And if the kids had it, you could count on my getting hit for three times as long, and to quote Bill Engvall, “I AIN’T GOT THAT KINDA TIME!!!!”

[@ladyhonor822]

Yes I concur 💯. Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲 AMEN ☦️🙏😇❤️

[@karpovgambit9190]

0:26

[@NightRunner417]

ROFL, this movie was ridiculously entertaining. "Nah, I just think I'm gonna barf!" Once you've seen Fargo, you'll never think of wood chippers the same way.

[@mikeleeson7098]

HuỲnh MinH HiỀn Youuuuuuu arrrrrrrreeeeeee a twaaaaaatttttttttttt......

[@thesnowflakediaries5267]

i can wholeheartedly agree

[@schmittywerbenjagermanjens2649]

“So what’s the deal here? Gary says triple homicide?” That line will never cease to absolutely kill me

[@i-work-at-enron]

That "Yah" at 1:21 killed me

[@skittlehappymatt]

I wonder if that little sink in the snow was planned.

[@Jared_Wignall]

It wasn’t. She was genuinely surprised and looked back to the Coens, who wanted her to keep going and the actor playing Lou improvised “Careful Margie.” Probably the only time the Coen Brothers allowed an ad-libbed line in their films because of how it fit with the scene, since they’re known for not liking actors ad-libbing lines in their films and make the actors redo takes if they ad-lib anything in their films until they say what’s on the page and nothing more.

[@Gravydog316]

no LOL

[@stepmomof2]

1:30

[@finc4164]

@@Jared_Wignall how do you know?

[@karasmith576]

I could watch Marge all day doing police work. Half does come from the actress and half comes from the character. She’s just so entertaining to watch!

[@softball4evalex]

The EXPONENTIAL amount of "Yeahhhhh.... Ohhhhh YEAAAHHH...ohhhGeeezzzz"s in this movie is comically genius!! 😂😂😂😂 You can physically hear the overall passive-agressivene personality of the Minnesotan locals just by how they speak, a key movie trait that the Coen brothers mastered PERFECTLY

[@DonGabagool]

Go Packers

[@John-gr4td]

She is such a natural performer, Love her!

[@Bradgilliswhammyman]

I love the lack of urgency, there is a serial killer on the loose somewhere and they aren't calling in all police resources available.

[@jasonmichael3676]

Well it was cold.

[@farenheit2456]

@@jasonmichael3676 And it was time for second breakfast

[@AndrewNenakhov]

For them, it is Tuesday.

[@casey583]

We havent always been a police state. 1996 was a different time. Wasn't much of a calvary to call. States took care of their own issues, generally.

[@jasondierbeck4392]

They already have all police resources needed, and her name is Marge

[@farenheit2456]

She will find a clue She will pull through But most importantly She doesn't agree with your police work there, Lou

[@LM-mn7ll]

But she said that to Lounso so politely & cheerfully. She’s just so damn loveable!

[@TalibanHatesme13]

Lol in the very next part Margie asks if he thinks Dave is open yet..... and the male officer says “aww geez you don’t think Dave is mixed up in all this”..... gets me everytime

[@stevengladden1314]

One of the most brilliant black comedies in years

[@thehurrytheharm]

@Brandon C. 7 people

[@darj617]

"Norm made some eyggs!" So funny how she delivers that line.

[@devanhinskey9001]

1:21 "Yah."

[@sepijortikka]

JAA

[@vegetasolo1221]

Oscar worthy performance 👈

[@zippymiester6429]

It's an Oscar earned performance! She deserved it!

[@AlexLopez-kx7bc]

Emily watson was even better

[@Sup_Mate]

She always reminds me of my mother, probably because she was also a detective and on the job while pregnant with me.

[@starquant]

I also carried my son whilst pregnant as a cop. Went back to the force after he was born too ☺

[@alanscott4846]

When people talk about strong women in the movies they always talk about Sigourney Weaver or someone like that I always mention Margie, shes smart, kind but still tough when she has to be and just really likeable and a darn good police officer as well.

[@MyoclonicJerkCough]

Did Norm fix her some eggs?

[@geom404]

Oh yah!

[@dragondancer1814]

Drew I’m a volunteer firefighter/EMT, and I started my EMT training and got pregnant with my older daughter more or less simultaneously. I was six months pregnant with her when we hit the ride-along part of our training, and it’s a family joke how she was running calls in utero and also how getting to the hospital involved an ambulance ride from the same squad! Surprisingly enough, now she’s not interested in volunteering with the department-she can’t stand the sight of blood.

[@newjeffersonian6456]

Very impressive all that Marge was able to deduce about what had happened right there on the spot. You have to know she is going to find them and arrest them (or at least one of them) eventually.

[@jkta97]

You could say she helped arrest two and a half of them lol.

[@Skoringo]

She deserved her Oscar. Both this time and for Three Billboards

[@remiko-lucce1299]

I moved to Minnesota and yes the natives here really sound like this. It's like Groundhog Day with Fargo playing over and over again.

[@Logan_93]

Everyone tells me that. I moved to the south. I always thought the accents in Fargo were a bit over the top, but apparently nobody else thinks so lol.

[@pistolpete8231]

they speak like prairie Canadians, even the mannerisms

[@mplsridah]

Prairie Canadians? This is exeggerated Minnesotan accent Nobody talks like this now

[@Wolfsbane909]

yeaaa?

[@evanmiller2591]

mplsridah lots of people actually do

[@hammurds]

Evan Miller no they don’t. This is so exaggerated

[@tylerkriesel8590]

@@hammurds im from Minnesota and yes they do. Your not gonna find it in the twin cities though.

[@BlaneNostalgia]

Shes so adorable but so sharp. Watching her track those psychos down made me nervous. Classic movie.

[@meangreen8873]

Watch your step Margie..

[@thenewadventuresofhenry6998]

Only Frances McDormand could play this role.

[@QualeQualeson]

Honestly, one of the best performances I've ever seen. Talk about delightful interpretation. Instant classic. I can't think of many characters I rooted for more than Marge. The fact that I'm Norwegian might have something to do with it, but I'd like to think that my assessment is objective :p

[@chrispeterson5932]

As a Minnesotan I gotta say they sound like my neighbors lol.

[@bridgecross]

When Marge leans down to barf, and it's revealed she's not reacting to the dead bodies and the head blown open. No, she's got morning sickness. She's so matter-of-fact about everything else. That hooked me on this character. I would have followed her through whatever plot they spun.

[@cpost1558]

Who else could make such a grizzly scene so light and fun? The Coen Bros. are the best!

[@williamwassmann9349]

Came for the accents. There, I admitted it

[@LouisJasper]

Minnesota, come for the accent, stay because your car won't start.

[@animaljustice7774]

Such a brilliant movie!

[@GuadalupeGuacamole]

I’m convinced this scene alone won her the Academy Award...from the moment and the way she says “triple HOMiiicide” I’m done 😂😂😂🙌🙌🙌

[@marty8442]

That little touch of sharing Norm made same eggs is kind of relatable when you live in a small town. They know each other so you naturally share this kind of information.

[@johnsimon8457]

And the award for most low key bravery goes to....

[@jcs1025]

This movie is awesome.

[@fritzfalkson2035]

It's always bothered me that in near whiteout conditions, nobody has their emergency equipment turned on.

[@alexaponce758]

The baby would be 32 years old now!

[@ianmangham4570]

Damn

[@p0ppyfarr95]

34 if he/she were to reappear in final season of Fargo that acts as direct continuation of the 1996 film. I would love to see that season of Fargo if it were to happen. That will tie in with everything we've seen in the Fargoverse (both film and TV series). And Frances McDormand better make a surprise return as retired police chief Marge Gunderson along with good ol John Carroll Lynch as Norm - the parents of the 34-year-old protagonist in Fargo's final season. He/she is a fake animal sculpter/artist and a private investigator (inherited Marge and Norm's traits) caught in a conspiracy that involves overthrowing the Minnesota government. Along the way he/she bumps into familiar faces from the past (in the audiences' perspective!): Scott Lundegaard, his criminal dad Jerry (who is in jail for life) and so on.

[@Wolfsbane909]

yarrrrr waking up to a triple homicide.....hmm... i laughed when she looked at the rigor mortis corpse and says "defensive wounds" lol

[@toplaycool21]

The 10 dislikes should of gotten barfed by Marge.

[@CaptainTrips560]

This is the most cheerful conversation about a triple homicide ever

[@MrMan2356]

일반 생활된 관점에 대단한 느낌을 주는 위대한 영화는 파고

[@AlexisRanae]

I haven’t seen this movie yet but I must. My grandmother calls me Margie because I’m a security officer and pregnant and still one of the best I’m the company lol, I am definitely gonna watch the movie when I can now because Margie seems cool af

[@liamaltork2551]

1:21 I'm sorry, what did you say? 1:21 Yep, that's what I thought you said

[@iamricreid]

Wowers. This happened yesterday, in real life.

[@MajSolo]

Oh geez , marge, oh geez, they might be dealer licence plates ... oh geez

[@JBiscuitesq]

6 people forgot to buy 'night crawlers' after reviewing a triple homicide scene.

[@NewGuy2534]

My girlfriend had to watch the “Oh I think I’m gonna barf” scene nearly a hundred times just to get the accent right.

[@yemanyaaa]

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@matchpanda1302]

Watcha got there??

[@PinkPantera12918R]

Goofs of the world. Bless them.

[@karpovgambit9190]

snow... who invented snow anyways?

[@louiewatson9389]

And people make fun of southerners because of how we talk. 😂

[@kevinshaughnessy2528]

Oh Yeah, you betcha!

[@PrincessOfFriendship]

Look for My Little Pony episode called "Princess Spike" the character in the episode called "Whinnyapolis Delegate" a reference to this woman in the movie

[@davidhoekstra8671]

Love Margie.

[@tonyreilley2842]

The genius of Fargo is the excessive use of "Minnesota Nice" dialect and lingo as a device to lead the audience along its macabre exhibition of criminal ineptitude. It gets laughs, sure, but it also gives us a light and steady footing on what is otherwise a dark, demoralizing film noire. Note that Marge is eager to point out that the perps are like fish out of water ("not from Brainerd"), which is a primary theme in the movie, and the cold Minnesota bleakness is a great foil. (The film makers had to scout for it way up north, because Minnesota didn't get much snow that year). Some critics found it insulting and overplayed, but some critics are allergic to fun and are unable to accept cinema as impressionist art.

[@HaywardEntertainment]

Detective Clavel is on the Case

[@cowgang7395]

2mil subs .. with only 600 views

[@newgame897]

Yah.

[@yemanyaaa]

+Patrick Bateman ya

[@Mumfin]

Oh ya?

[@newgame897]

Mumfin You betcha yah.

[@soviethammer645]

Minnesota looks brutal.

[@Tom_Het]

Yah

[@LouisJasper]

It is a frozen, hostile wasteland, where we must fight to survive. Just last week I lost my good friend Sven in a tragic moose riding accident.

[@remiko-lucce1299]

Minnesota is a brutal wasteland. If it wasn't for Culver's and Erbert & Gerbert's we'd all die of starvation.

[@Logan_93]

Her accent is a little over the top honestly. Needs to be a tad more subtle to sound authentic.

[@portishead15]

she is beautiful

[@stepmomof2]

1:30

[@paulphilpott8616]

was the police shooting legal? she shot a guy in the back

[@sashaking1115]

Marge is a darling!

[@EphemeralProductions]

Is this really how Minnesotan and North Dakotans talk and act? Not that i think It’s bad. I’m just curious because I’ve enter Been to those places plus, i Want to know if the portrayal is accurate. :)

[@ladyhonor822]

Oh yeah YEAH ABSOLUTELY CORRECT 💯 Philadelphia USA 🇺🇲 AMEN ☦️🙏😇❤️💋🩰

[@fiversrevenge]

Fake accents! I'm from South Dakota and I've met people young and old from Duluth to Rochester and never once have I heard any Minnesotan have that accent. The only real accents are Carl and Grimsrud's! (Well I guess Shep too.) Question: Why does Marge say "Here's the second one!" at 2:38? Never understood that.

[@charlesbower8387]

fiversrevenge second body

[@TeamMemberNumberEight]

Yeah it's super exaggerated for comedy, though accents are usually much thicker in rural areas

[@kmatthews1867]

You can’t hear it because you’re from South Dakota

[@craigbrowning9448]

My Stepfather (a Norwegian-Sweed Farmer fron Minnesota) saw Fargo about 10 times on the initial release. Surprisingly, nobody in Fargo said "Uff-Da.

[@iycrm4583]

I don't think Lou went to go look in the car.

[@ahceda09]

Why they keep say yah like that?

[@ianmangham4570]

Oh for sure eh,YAH

[@tylerkriesel8590]

Cuz they gotta make fun of Minnesotans some how

[@darj617]

You should ask the Coens next time you see 'em.

[@karstenschoenberg9736]

Well they are really putting emphasis on the American North accent

[@Allahu_Akbar_the_one]

😂😂😂I can’t believe this how the rest of America thinks this is how we Minnesotans speak!

[@nossenkanter]

It's not. Even people who love the movie know it's a horribly fake accent.

[@rickjones3340]

In 2005 I was asked to do a quick job at a small business in Brainerd. The receptionist spoke EXACTLY like this. Most of them did.

[@kokolee1846]

:

[@fenwaypark1725]

Funny, I know how she felt. And I’m a guy.😳

[@heathen838]

Really irresponsible going to work in her condition.

[@heathen838]

@L H Why am I trolling?

[@stefs7141]

These just sound like Canadians to me

[@Swoop187OG187]

IF you're an LEO in what universe would you deal with a situation like that??? .. If my goal was to find the killers that offed that boy...... You can bet "ice fishing" (and I'm a fishermen) ... Flipping seriously ......

[@heinzkrupps5028]

She's the best. What's the desk with the nihher fargo "shoooooow?" That's odd enough. A real shame. Is there affirmative action on fargo? 🤔

[@mulletover3832]

The only thing wrong with this scene is that it looks to be well above freezing and they're trying to sell it as being cold weather. Anyone from that part of the country would be out in a t-shirt.

[@samwenske]

1:21

[@liamaltork2551]

Yah

[@lindemann3095]

1:21