I am soooooooooo grateful to you for posting this! I feel exactly the same way about Marge and Norm. I LOVE that first scene where they're having breakfast and Marge has to leave, and while we see her go out the door, we're also seeing Norm doing exactly what you'd expect him to be doing - sitting there finishing his breakfast in the cozy kitchen on a cold winter morning. It's just so true to life - I LOVE it! But that applies to all their scenes; they're such a natural, believable couple. THANKS SO MUCH!!
What I love most is how Norm is so completely unintimidated by her. His wife the police chief with all these guy’s running around answering to her and Norm never tries to steal her limelight; he’s just spending time with her, making sure she’s getting enough to eat with a busy case going on. So rare and beautiful to see
That’s the goal. Take care of your other. Be supportive and helpful and attentive to their wants and needs. If they’re in a rough patch, take the burden. Norm is my idol. I’m not there yet, but I’m getting there.
Real men aren't intimidated by strong women. Some of these so called "alpha" types like Andrew Tate really just reveal how insecure and petty they actually are.
@@logann7942I think the original commenter means the traditional male values where their ego is threatened by being emasculated by their wife. Luckily Norm doesn't suffer with that
I love that she just solved a case and she's praising him on his accomplishment with the 3 cent stamp. They support each other so well and their scenes are so peaceful compared to everything else. Relationship goals all the way.
I don't think they talk about police work on purpose. She needs to get away from that when she gets home. Its probably a rule they have so she can turn it off for a bit at home. Still a great relationship though
@@keshauncash2598 Yes, she told them in the days before and they can recall that their coworker's husband is going fishing that day or that their coworker's husband is working on a painting for a stamp. That's pretty funny. Most people honestly wouldn't care enough to remember or even discuss what Norm is doing with Marge.
I love that their relationship has absolutely no character arc - their relationship is no different at the end as it was at the start - and that is just perfect.
It doesn't need one. They love, trust and cherish one another, and they are safe in each other's company. Isn't that what a loving marriage ought to be?
I love how the closest thing to conflict that they ever have is when they insist on being kind to the other. Norm insisting on making her breakfast even though she says he can keep sleeping, or Marge praising his skill/achievements as a painter when he tries to be modest. Heck, they're doing pretty good!
That's also a Minnesotan thing. You never say yes the first time someone offers you food. You wait for the third and even then you reluntactly agree to it
normally when this type of couple is shown on screen, it's in a condescending way. people depict these type of couples as loveless and dull. but even though their romance is "ordinary", it's still so full of love that they enjoy every 'boring' minute with each other.
Yes, they are happy in each other company even if they don't talk about anything. People don't understand this if they are not living a real life but an other life what they learned from the television. The goal should be to be happy with each other even if you are not talking about anything because sooner or later all of the subject will be talked through and nothing left just each other's company.
I know a couple like that. They're good friends and very kind people-every year, they host an open house at Christmas for anyone who would otherwise be spending it alone. They've got a couple of cute cats, he does what he can for her with her health problems, and they're devoted to each other. A small part of me envies them at times.
I love them. They have a simple modest life yet are so full of love and kindness and happiness, compared to others in the film who are so obsessed with money...
My favorite scene is when the camera shows her going out to the patrol car and coming back while he is eating. It shows the warmth and coziness of home.
Infinite Wisdom Once when my old Trooper needed a jumpstart I riffed off this quote to my husband, and he laughed. I think we’re a lot like Marge and Norm-we live simpler lives than a lot of people nowadays, but we’ve been married almost 20 years and are still just as close as ever. I see a lot of my husband’s actions and attitudes in Norm, and that’s not a bad thing at all.
I agree. Every time I see this movie I can feel how warm that house must be. It reminds me of my house growing up. My mom would make it real warm with the wall heater and her cooking breakfast.
Through most of my childhood my parents didn’t have a great relationship (a lot of fighting, slamming doors, name-calling, bad-mouthing, grudges, etc). It was my only model for how a husband/wife behave. I saw this movie when I was about twelve, and I still remember how much Marge and Norm’s relationship impacted me. “That’s what I want someday” I decided. At 34 I’m happily married and it looks like this: loving, sensual, calm, reliable, cozy… ❤❤❤
Yes! I know what you mean. As a 20-something, I thought they were dull. Now, watching this, I get tears in my eyes at how sweet and supportive they are of each other.
I just love that first scene of them. Marge wanting to let Norm sleep, but Norm insisting that he'll get up and make her eggs, the back and forth of doing the other a kindness is just so heartwarming. "You GOTTA eat a breakfast Margie" meaning he wants both her AND their baby to be well fed and ready for the morning.
Marge and Norm's relationship in Fargo reminds me so much of my own parents. Especially since my mom was pregnant with me and my brother in 1996, the year this film came out. The both of them saying "just two more months" at the very end of the film is pretty much how my parents felt as well.
The Coen brothers were so genius to place a perfect couple in the middle of this mess. Perhaps that's the main message of the movie. One screwed up marriage, full of greed, and driven by money which provoked a real bloodshed; on the other hand you have a simple couple, full of simplicity, hard work, and pure love.
This has equal yet opposite energy to Morticia and Gomez. Both are absolutely devoted couples who cherish each other and content to be cherished, Marge and Norm are just the quiet content types while Morticia and Gomez love to party. I feel like they'd be a fun crossover.
I think this film is really about love and family. We see the destruction of Jerry’s family because he had very little love/care for his. Then, at the end of the film, we see the beginning of Marge’s family because they are filled with love.
The cut scene of them walking to their table to eat together has sentimental value to me. Not sure if it strikes you but it’s a nice thing to see among a happy married couple like that.
"Ya gotta eat a breakfast"- proceeds to make an appetite ruining noise- "I'll fix you some eggs" In all seriousness, I love this, the love between these two....it's what holds this movie together among the grim atmosphere and the violence.
I love the morning scene most. It’s so wholesome and feels real, like a cold Winter morning when I was a kid and my mother would make me breakfast before I went to wait for the bus in the freezing cold, dark morning. Just comforting. Additionally, love Marge and Norm’s relationship!!
What I love about the scenes with Norm and Marge that with all the craziness and violence that goes on the with in the film, Norm and Marge offer a safe haven and warmth.
I think what makes this couple really work on film is that it’s so rare to see a relationship shown once it’s past the drama and passion of new love. There’s drudgery, routine, and even boredom to their life, but they manage to make it meaningful in the little moments of care and investment in one another. That’s the actual groundwork for something lasting, and not everybody gets to see that growing up in real life.
What a lucky couple.I'd love to find a relationship as naturally beautiful as these two have.What a down to Earth loving & caring thing they have.Norm is a great guy & Margie is a lovely woman.They're just so warm & cosy together.Bless 'em!
I was working as a security guard while I was expecting my older daughter, and they didn’t have maternity uniforms in those days, so I used to tell people that I looked like Margie in “Fargo” during my pregnancy. They FINALLY came out with maternity uniform shirts when I was expecting my younger daughter (I’d already hung up the gun belt after our older daughter was born) and my immediate reaction was, “Where the hell were those when I needed them five years ago?!?!”
Last scene has me fucking sobbing at the way she reassured him. Easily the most pure and honest expression of love I’ve ever seen; I won’t lie it physically hurt, but in a good way
EASYSTATE Yeah, having the tones go off for a fire call in the middle of the night followed by the house siren! I’ve been on the department for almost 20 years now and that sound combination still makes me jump!
The house telephone & my pager going off together - years and years of taking hospital night call after already working all day - gack. (I am doing shift-work a few days a week now in my semi-retirement. Much less exhausting, even with 12-hour shifts.)
I think the opening music has a traditional Norwegian folk music sound to it. Very fitting. Despite my screen name I have Norwegian blood and the music brought tears to my eyes.
I saw this movie with my Dad... such a great memory... I remember him busting out with a laugh when Marge plants that large scoop of food onto her plate at the buffet...
Actually it's an old Norwegian folk song called Den Bortkomne Sauen , The Lost Lamb in English. It's traditionally played on the violin or piano. My grandmother used to play it.
Love the genius single camera angle of the breakfast table & door. The photography and editing in this film is master-level. Newer generation of attention-deficit editors would have spliced 100 split-second images of the breakfast food, closeup of the mouth eating, switching from face to face, shoveling food into mouth, which will make anyone dizzy from watching. I really hate the MTV video type of film editing.
What I love about this film is that they didn't try to shy away from the fact that Marge might be a little uncertain if this is how she wants to spend her life. It's clear that she has a crush on Mike yanagita and you can see her fussing over her hair and dressing nicely when going to meet him. I don't think she'd ever cheat on Norm, but I think a part of her in that moment was interested in seeing what she could have had. When she learns the truth about him, it solidifies that she made the right decision.
I actually think the quiet tenderness of Norm and Marge's relationship glimpsed throughout the film serves a great deal in reinforcing the film's existentialist themes of 'good's inability to comprehend evil'. In marge's quiet, loving home life with her sweet husband, it's easy to forget just how selfish, manipulative and corrupt human beings can be, and it's only her bizarre interaction with Mike Yamagita that reminds her of this and allows her to solve the kidnapping. After coming face to face with self-serving human depravity at it's worst during the climax of the film, she's none the less able to return peacefully to her quiet life with her husband and his stamp painting and embrace it for what it is: a beautiful island of meaningful love and peace within an otherwise cold and selfish universe, and that's what ultimatley makes her a good person, and the Hero of the story.
I think Mike Yanagita isn't so much self-serving or depraved as he is just completely delusional. What hits Marge when she learns that his story was completely fabricated is that people aren't necessarily who they present themselves as being, and their weird interaction pushes her to take a closer look at Jerry Lundegaard.
I was just thinking today Marge and Norm may be my fave cinematic couple ever....their last scene is probably the most warm and human thing the Coen's have ever shot...kudos to you Pezrohi!!!
Their relationship is so important for this movie. Not just because it's sweet and we see that there's genuinely a good force at work, but also as a contrast to how shitty the other characters are, especially Jerry.
My husband is a paramedic and where I live in the Scottish highlands they work from home rather than a station. It’s not a volunteer service or anything, it’s just that the Scottish Ambulance Servicd haven’t built a station. Anyway, after 22 years of being woken up by the phone in the night, the first scene made me laugh……no way I had to make breakfast for my husband when he was on a 999 call!
In the last scene when Marge climbs into bed wearing a sweater over her nightgown, I thought for sure that's the upper Middle West on a cold winter's night.
That was delightful to watch. A real homey, sweet, domesticated bliss. Under that smooth clock of domesticity ticking away punctually, is a deep respect for each other and warmth of affection. Very lovely to see that. It's so real.
The two of them just being stubborn and refusing to be anything but supportive, even at each other's protests is so wholesome. The throat clearing thing was kinda gross but realistic. And it shows love really is bigger than all the glitz and glam stuff. And the way he's always feeding her stuff and she pushes him to pursue his passion, despite his confidence issues. Just...really sweet. Their love languages are on full display and it's both really obvious they love each other, but also mundane and understated. Like, this is just a healthy marriage. Not even dramatic at all. Bc it doesn't need to be, to be meaningful. It's the lack of drama that makes it so special. She has a tough job, and there's a sense of danger and chaos. But, she always comes home to her Norm. And he's so unbothered and even proud of her getting all this recognition, he even sidelines his own achievements. But, then she won't let it go unnoticed because she is equally proud of him. 🥺💖 Edit: the one thing i found problematic was the whole mike thing. Like, she got all dressed up, like she was going on a date. And never told Norm. I'm glad she shut the guy down, when he tried seducing her, essentially. But, still...
She was too nice to shut down Mike completely, and set clear boundaries in their encounter. Subtle twist that when she found out the next day that Mike was full of crap, and she decided to revisit Lundeguard to see if the story he was telling was on the level. "He's fleeing the interview," Lol.
When she met Mike, Marge dressed nice, but it wasn't sexy or revealing by any stretch. She didn't tell Norm, but it seems that there's a lot of stuff she doesn't tell him about her work, so it's hard to tell if it's dubious or just how she generally handles things. She must have told Mike she was married to Norm, though, because Mike brought it up when they met. Plus, she's wearing a wedding ring and is obviously seven months pregnant, so she must have thought that was enough to make it clear that their encounter was just platonic.
I always wondered if Norm used to be a cop and that's how he met Marge, maybe he had an injury or quit after a traumatic event and decided to become an artist.
Dude. There is an interview where Frances says exactly that, her and Norm created an "actors story". He was on the force. She rose through the ranks, he left and took up his art full time. Nice catch fam. I think it is this one ua-cam.com/video/FW0NG-CGGRM/v-deo.html
More than the love story, what is so beautiful about this film is the total respect all of her male subordinates show her. She is the boss. They never condescend, never second guess her.
I've also noticed that this Movie has a Sopranos Vibe to it since so many memorable scenes involved Food. There's The Breakfast, Arby's and then The Buffet Restaurant. I love Buffet Restaurant Scene. I also had no idea that Minneapolis had such an Artistic Legacy. Charles M. Schultz was born there who created Charlie Brown. In the 1980's there were so many Musical Icons from Prince, The Time, Jesse Johnson, Ta Mara & The Seen. Then alot of folks of Norwegian and Scandanavian background live there and Norway is the Location For The Nobel Peace Prize Ceremonies and Anni-Fryd Lyngstad aka "Frida" from Abba is also Norwegian as was A-Ha (Take On Me).
I am soooooooooo grateful to you for posting this! I feel exactly the same way about Marge and Norm. I LOVE that first scene where they're having breakfast and Marge has to leave, and while we see her go out the door, we're also seeing Norm doing exactly what you'd expect him to be doing - sitting there finishing his breakfast in the cozy kitchen on a cold winter morning. It's just so true to life - I LOVE it! But that applies to all their scenes; they're such a natural, believable couple. THANKS SO MUCH!!
+mawsjumbler yes. agree with all of that. so happy you liked it.
Even MORE real as Norm is finishing Marge’s breakfast lol :)
What I love most is how Norm is so completely unintimidated by her. His wife the police chief with all these guy’s running around answering to her and Norm never tries to steal her limelight; he’s just spending time with her, making sure she’s getting enough to eat with a busy case going on. So rare and beautiful to see
He has no reason to be intimidated. She’s so smart and supportive and wonderful and caring. He should be the happiest man in the world.
That’s the goal. Take care of your other. Be supportive and helpful and attentive to their wants and needs. If they’re in a rough patch, take the burden. Norm is my idol. I’m not there yet, but I’m getting there.
Real men aren't intimidated by strong women. Some of these so called "alpha" types like Andrew Tate really just reveal how insecure and petty they actually are.
Well said
@@logann7942I think the original commenter means the traditional male values where their ego is threatened by being emasculated by their wife.
Luckily Norm doesn't suffer with that
I always thought that this was the best representation of a loving marriage ever put to screen.
Joel Coen is married to Francis since 84
Same
Agreed.
Absolutely
I know I loved it too😊
I love that she just solved a case and she's praising him on his accomplishment with the 3 cent stamp. They support each other so well and their scenes are so peaceful compared to everything else. Relationship goals all the way.
True love, last scene shows how they are in love with each other also shows their relationship is so warm, tremendous scene
Just shared this to my girlfriend 👌
As per real life. As an audience, the case is the story, but in the plot universe it's just another day at work.
I don't think they talk about police work on purpose. She needs to get away from that when she gets home. Its probably a rule they have so she can turn it off for a bit at home. Still a great relationship though
Two good people, therefore protected from evil in the Cohen script. ❤️
Their child must have been so lucky to have them as parents. Such lovely characters
Yah!
Yah! But it's only a film, Paulina.
Ooooh, you betcha! But seriously, yes. They were both very charming characters.
Proper Parental guidance is so rare these days . Need to watch movies to find it.......
It’s only a film but “the lie is a condition of life”. We have art to take us out of the darkness of life.
It's funny how every cop knows exactly what Norm is up to that day.
Not the biggest town, folks tend to get to know one another.👍
Or she told them
@@keshauncash2598 Yes, she told them in the days before and they can recall that their coworker's husband is going fishing that day or that their coworker's husband is working on a painting for a stamp. That's pretty funny. Most people honestly wouldn't care enough to remember or even discuss what Norm is doing with Marge.
I love that their relationship has absolutely no character arc - their relationship is no different at the end as it was at the start - and that is just perfect.
It doesn't need one. They love, trust and cherish one another, and they are safe in each other's company. Isn't that what a loving marriage ought to be?
I always tear up when she says "Heck Norm, ya know we're doing pretty good."
I teared up just now at that same line.
If you look closely at his left eye, Norm even tears up a little at the end. Great little detail
You can’t be from Fargo if u don’t say ya or heck or 😂
I love how the closest thing to conflict that they ever have is when they insist on being kind to the other. Norm insisting on making her breakfast even though she says he can keep sleeping, or Marge praising his skill/achievements as a painter when he tries to be modest. Heck, they're doing pretty good!
All that Chaos and Murder ,, 2 Good People in a Perfect Marriage ...
You're darn tootin'!
That's also a Minnesotan thing. You never say yes the first time someone offers you food. You wait for the third and even then you reluntactly agree to it
@@gus6777 This is not a Minnesotan thing, you americans like to own things what is everybody's.
normally when this type of couple is shown on screen, it's in a condescending way. people depict these type of couples as loveless and dull. but even though their romance is "ordinary", it's still so full of love that they enjoy every 'boring' minute with each other.
Yes, they are happy in each other company even if they don't talk about anything. People don't understand this if they are not living a real life but an other life what they learned from the television.
The goal should be to be happy with each other even if you are not talking about anything because sooner or later all of the subject will be talked through and nothing left just each other's company.
I know a couple like that. They're good friends and very kind people-every year, they host an open house at Christmas for anyone who would otherwise be spending it alone. They've got a couple of cute cats, he does what he can for her with her health problems, and they're devoted to each other. A small part of me envies them at times.
I love them. They have a simple modest life yet are so full of love and kindness and happiness, compared to others in the film who are so obsessed with money...
entire point of the movie. such a loving couple.
This is actually sweeter, more genuine and more moving than all the passionate-kissing scenes I've ever seen.
Those scenes are just hard-hitting but empty lust. This is what actual love is like.
@@Muskrat123 Yep, true and patient love.... can't believe this is the same man who plays mr. jingles on ahs.... love him
Ross Mallov It’s always a matter of taste I find, but in stories such as this less is more.
Every scene with them is cute asf every man or womans dream this couple
@@LaineyM or Arthur Leigh Allen in Zodiac.
Fargo, a grizzly tale of murder, kidnapping… and the sweetest couple in film history.
He was the same actor who portrayed the mania killer in Zodiac!
@@christinepersak1801 Actor being the operative word.
@@Melly3112-ox3ey - He has amazing range. Great actor!
“There’s more to life than just money”
Norm and Marge are evidence of that
True, but sadly without money you can't have life anymore in the western world.
@@Zodroo_Tint then leave if you believe that
My favorite scene is when the camera shows her going out to the patrol car and coming back while he is eating. It shows the warmth and coziness of home.
yes love it
I liked how they did it in one continuous take.
Infinite Wisdom yeah. And its probably 14 below with the battery dead. Gotta jump it.
Infinite Wisdom Once when my old Trooper needed a jumpstart I riffed off this quote to my husband, and he laughed.
I think we’re a lot like Marge and Norm-we live simpler lives than a lot of people nowadays, but we’ve been married almost 20 years and are still just as close as ever. I see a lot of my husband’s actions and attitudes in Norm, and that’s not a bad thing at all.
I agree. Every time I see this movie I can feel how warm that house must be. It reminds me of my house growing up. My mom would make it real warm with the wall heater and her cooking breakfast.
Through most of my childhood my parents didn’t have a great relationship (a lot of fighting, slamming doors, name-calling, bad-mouthing, grudges, etc). It was my only model for how a husband/wife behave. I saw this movie when I was about twelve, and I still remember how much Marge and Norm’s relationship impacted me. “That’s what I want someday” I decided. At 34 I’m happily married and it looks like this: loving, sensual, calm, reliable, cozy… ❤❤❤
Me too, and I'm 52. We're lucky
Frances McDormand was just so damn cute in this film. Darn tootin' she was.
Very versatile actress
Marge Gunderson is the Coen brothers equivalent of a superhero.
She's so pretty you want to go out in the cold and count tan Cieras for her!
@@nobodyreally6345 rite??
I already thought it was touching enough when Norm woke up to make sure Marge had breakfast. When I realized Marge was pregnant, I’m even more touched
As a younger man I laughed at these two as a older man I envy them
Crazy, had the same thought
That's because modern society is wrong.
I’m 20 and I envy them.
Yes! I know what you mean. As a 20-something, I thought they were dull. Now, watching this, I get tears in my eyes at how sweet and supportive they are of each other.
I’m Eighteen. I want what they have.
I just love that first scene of them. Marge wanting to let Norm sleep, but Norm insisting that he'll get up and make her eggs, the back and forth of doing the other a kindness is just so heartwarming.
"You GOTTA eat a breakfast Margie" meaning he wants both her AND their baby to be well fed and ready for the morning.
I'm only 24 and just watched this movie for the 1st time the other day, and I hope someday I get to marry a lady like her. Such a wholesome couple!
Love how he knew she wasn't gonna eat the eggs and he'd get to eat them haha. THIS is what relationships are all about lol. The gesture.
She really appreciated the eggs, though. She brags on them later on when talking to Lou.
Yeah I always loved that! And I wonder if she intentionally left some on her plate for him :) Love Norm and Marge
'Oh yah, looks pretty good!' shot of squirming earthworms.
Marge and Norm's relationship in Fargo reminds me so much of my own parents. Especially since my mom was pregnant with me and my brother in 1996, the year this film came out. The both of them saying "just two more months" at the very end of the film is pretty much how my parents felt as well.
+peter hawley this is like the most sincere youtube comment i've ever read. awesome.
My parents too. They're both 88 and STILL married after 66 years .
The Coen brothers were so genius to place a perfect couple in the middle of this mess. Perhaps that's the main message of the movie.
One screwed up marriage, full of greed, and driven by money which provoked a real bloodshed; on the other hand you have a simple couple, full of simplicity, hard work, and pure love.
They do everything together. Notice how they even walk side by side to the table in the buffet restaurant.
And Marge immediately forbids Mike Yanagita from sitting next to her. You don't want to be sitting in Norm Son of a Gunderson's spot
her face when he kisses her cheek.
Is this the one truly happy couple in a Coen Brothers movie?
Like not even a hint of problems.
It's a great contrast between the other relationship in the film, that's for sure...
Ed and H.I. weren't perfect but they were happy
Didn't get that 29 cent, though....
Llewelyn and Cara Jean woulda been great , if it wasn’t for Anton
@@ghettoeasterbasket5638 at least Ed Tom Bell seemed to have a good thing going with his wife.
It's a joy to even watch this lovely lady consume loads of food throughout the movie, ya?
Yah,for sure eh
You could tell that this was a time before actors were afraid to eat because they made all of the food look so good.
@@carmenadams575 Well, as good as you can make Scandinavian food look :)
Ooh you betcha, yaaaaah
She was carrying around a heavy load!
"Whenever they raise the postage, people need the little stamps."
"Yeah?"
"When they're stuck with a bunch of the old ones!"
"Yeah."
Pure romance. :)
This has equal yet opposite energy to Morticia and Gomez. Both are absolutely devoted couples who cherish each other and content to be cherished, Marge and Norm are just the quiet content types while Morticia and Gomez love to party. I feel like they'd be a fun crossover.
i love this
Knowing how quiet people are, I bet they'd be the most fun couple there
I'm off today but my hun has to go to work. Fixed her some eggs and I thought of this clip. Thanks for posting.
+mhz23 awesome
Did your wife need help with the prowler 😁🤣
❤
You’re a good husband :-)
I do the exact same thing, along with making sure the coffee is ready, and creamer ready to go!
Loved the portrayal of this couple's marriage in this movie, one of the best ever.
agreed
Little did margie know she was married to the zodiac killer.
I saw this film a bit late and that's all I could think of....
The Guy was really creepy in that zodiac movie
Tommy Two-shoes He's also one hell of a barber.
Norm spied for the Russians in the Americans.
Or twisty
I think this film is really about love and family. We see the destruction of Jerry’s family because he had very little love/care for his. Then, at the end of the film, we see the beginning of Marge’s family because they are filled with love.
The cut scene of them walking to their table to eat together has sentimental value to me. Not sure if it strikes you but it’s a nice thing to see among a happy married couple like that.
"Ya gotta eat a breakfast"- proceeds to make an appetite ruining noise- "I'll fix you some eggs"
In all seriousness, I love this, the love between these two....it's what holds this movie together among the grim atmosphere and the violence.
totally. same.
Pezrohi the fact that he's an illustrator is particularly awesome for me as that's one of my goals/interests
It's ironic too (in typical Coen fashion) because fixing her some eggs is literally what he did to get her pregnant
Then Norm eats the rest of Marge's breakfast. What a parasite.
Roger Wilco Why not eat it? She was done, and he wasn’t going to let good food go to waste.
The scenes between Marge and Norm are so relaxing and comforting. The ultimate relationship goal.
I love the morning scene most. It’s so wholesome and feels real, like a cold Winter morning when I was a kid and my mother would make me breakfast before I went to wait for the bus in the freezing cold, dark morning. Just comforting. Additionally, love Marge and Norm’s relationship!!
There will never be anything as romantic as “ahh you’re getting Arby’s all over me” and I’m not even kidding.
so real
Absolutely
What I love about the scenes with Norm and Marge that with all the craziness and violence that goes on the with in the film, Norm and Marge offer a safe haven and warmth.
When someone asks me what I'm looking for in a relationship, I show them this.
Norm rules.
I think what makes this couple really work on film is that it’s so rare to see a relationship shown once it’s past the drama and passion of new love. There’s drudgery, routine, and even boredom to their life, but they manage to make it meaningful in the little moments of care and investment in one another. That’s the actual groundwork for something lasting, and not everybody gets to see that growing up in real life.
The small details such as the honey bear on the table shows how far they went to be "very Minnesotan".
Marriage goals for real ❤❤. Definitely one of my favorite movie couples.
What a lucky couple.I'd love to find a relationship as naturally beautiful as these two have.What a down to Earth loving & caring thing they have.Norm is a great guy & Margie is a lovely woman.They're just so warm & cosy together.Bless 'em!
Jamie Shutler I couldn't agree more! They have such a mundane, but wonderful life together. So calm.....
C Sheets, no, it looks depressing. Like roommates. No fire, no passion. Just best friends. Forget about it!
@@joskeyo4877 how do you think she winded up pregnant without any passion? Duh
Dolly schoenewald, simple, kid isn’t his 😁. After all, it’s Fargo!
@@joskeyo4877 you’re not mature enough to understand
I was working as a security guard while I was expecting my older daughter, and they didn’t have maternity uniforms in those days, so I used to tell people that I looked like Margie in “Fargo” during my pregnancy. They FINALLY came out with maternity uniform shirts when I was expecting my younger daughter (I’d already hung up the gun belt after our older daughter was born) and my immediate reaction was, “Where the hell were those when I needed them five years ago?!?!”
To me, this was the real story. They’re simple and decent and that’s what separates them from the miserable criminals.
same
1:54 I love the little smile she gives him after their little back-and-forth. She's just thinking "Ah, Norm, ya love me too much."
Love when she says “Awww Norm “
Last scene has me fucking sobbing at the way she reassured him. Easily the most pure and honest expression of love I’ve ever seen; I won’t lie it physically hurt, but in a good way
I just watched this movie for the first time a week ago and enjoyed the simplicity of their relationship.
Is there any sound more jarring and unnerving than an old fashioned phone ringing in the middle of the night?
EASYSTATE Yeah, having the tones go off for a fire call in the middle of the night followed by the house siren! I’ve been on the department for almost 20 years now and that sound combination still makes me jump!
Oh geez.
The house telephone & my pager going off together - years and years of taking hospital night call after already working all day - gack. (I am doing shift-work a few days a week now in my semi-retirement. Much less exhausting, even with 12-hour shifts.)
Norm's 'Yeah after lunch' line at 6:55 must be one of the best delivered lines in cinema history X'D
Norm is a real man. Totally secure in himself. Totally trustworthy. I love the scenes of these two.
Who wouldn’t be secure with a wife like Marge? Dude won in life!
These two aren't exactly loaded, but they have a good home and a loving relationship. All the other main characters are miserable and greedy.
I guess you could say... There's more to life than a little bit of money ya know
This is one of my favorite movie marriages ever depicted. Ya, you betcha
So simple & ineffable square -- yet so endearing!
Luv it!
It's so hard getting up in a cold climate, I haven't been in one for almost 5 years I wake up no problem and rock and roll all day.
One of the great films. A masterpiece.
I think the opening music has a traditional Norwegian folk music sound to it. Very fitting. Despite my screen name I have Norwegian blood and the music brought tears to my eyes.
I saw this movie with my Dad... such a great memory... I remember him busting out with a laugh when Marge plants that large scoop of food onto her plate at the buffet...
got so hungry watching this
I love how these enjoy their quality time together especially during her lunch time
How can you not love these two?
One of the sweetest onscreen couples ever.
I love the love between she and her husband. It's adorable.
So comfortable in their Fargo world; they talk about open case investigations at the local buffet.
also wonderful in this movie is the music. it's an old irish song adapted to string instruments. beautiful
what song?
Actually it's an old Norwegian folk song called Den Bortkomne Sauen , The Lost Lamb in English. It's traditionally played on the violin or piano. My grandmother used to play it.
Thanks. I've read comments elsewhere that it was a Viking funeral song. LOL!
@@danieltownley7133 Whoa! Daniel comes through with the trivia! 10 points Gryffindor!
Love the genius single camera angle of the breakfast table & door. The photography and editing in this film is master-level.
Newer generation of attention-deficit editors would have spliced 100 split-second images of the breakfast food, closeup of the mouth eating, switching from face to face, shoveling food into mouth, which will make anyone dizzy from watching. I really hate the MTV video type of film editing.
What I love about this film is that they didn't try to shy away from the fact that Marge might be a little uncertain if this is how she wants to spend her life. It's clear that she has a crush on Mike yanagita and you can see her fussing over her hair and dressing nicely when going to meet him. I don't think she'd ever cheat on Norm, but I think a part of her in that moment was interested in seeing what she could have had. When she learns the truth about him, it solidifies that she made the right decision.
As an artist I always liked how he stayed home and painted and she went out and investigated crimes. Whatta flick
I actually think the quiet tenderness of Norm and Marge's relationship glimpsed throughout the film serves a great deal in reinforcing the film's existentialist themes of 'good's inability to comprehend evil'. In marge's quiet, loving home life with her sweet husband, it's easy to forget just how selfish, manipulative and corrupt human beings can be, and it's only her bizarre interaction with Mike Yamagita that reminds her of this and allows her to solve the kidnapping. After coming face to face with self-serving human depravity at it's worst during the climax of the film, she's none the less able to return peacefully to her quiet life with her husband and his stamp painting and embrace it for what it is: a beautiful island of meaningful love and peace within an otherwise cold and selfish universe, and that's what ultimatley makes her a good person, and the Hero of the story.
I think Mike Yanagita isn't so much self-serving or depraved as he is just completely delusional. What hits Marge when she learns that his story was completely fabricated is that people aren't necessarily who they present themselves as being, and their weird interaction pushes her to take a closer look at Jerry Lundegaard.
counterpoint - Mike was telling the truth and that lady on the phone was just a gossip and actually the psycho
I was just thinking today Marge and Norm may be my fave cinematic couple ever....their last scene is probably the most warm and human thing the Coen's have ever shot...kudos to you Pezrohi!!!
Those pleated lamp shades are so in style again!
Mika Yanagitahh? Well.. Jaa.!! Cours I remember you!
JAAA!
Their relationship is so important for this movie. Not just because it's sweet and we see that there's genuinely a good force at work, but also as a contrast to how shitty the other characters are, especially Jerry.
My husband is a paramedic and where I live in the Scottish highlands they work from home rather than a station. It’s not a volunteer service or anything, it’s just that the Scottish Ambulance Servicd haven’t built a station. Anyway, after 22 years of being woken up by the phone in the night, the first scene made me laugh……no way I had to make breakfast for my husband when he was on a 999 call!
It feels so real. The final scene is touching. They are not young, but they will be good parents.
just watched this for the first time and i’m obsessed with them
In the last scene when Marge climbs into bed wearing a sweater over her nightgown, I thought for sure that's the upper Middle West on a cold winter's night.
The order of the clips in this video makes it look like the breakfast scene transitions to her immediately having lunch at the station @2:45 haha.
That was delightful to watch. A real homey, sweet, domesticated bliss. Under that smooth clock of domesticity ticking away punctually, is a deep respect for each other and warmth of affection. Very lovely to see that. It's so real.
that Arby's looks good, Norm. Cut to closeup of worms. Savage.
Oh yah,for sure eh
The two of them just being stubborn and refusing to be anything but supportive, even at each other's protests is so wholesome. The throat clearing thing was kinda gross but realistic. And it shows love really is bigger than all the glitz and glam stuff. And the way he's always feeding her stuff and she pushes him to pursue his passion, despite his confidence issues. Just...really sweet. Their love languages are on full display and it's both really obvious they love each other, but also mundane and understated. Like, this is just a healthy marriage. Not even dramatic at all. Bc it doesn't need to be, to be meaningful. It's the lack of drama that makes it so special. She has a tough job, and there's a sense of danger and chaos. But, she always comes home to her Norm. And he's so unbothered and even proud of her getting all this recognition, he even sidelines his own achievements. But, then she won't let it go unnoticed because she is equally proud of him. 🥺💖
Edit: the one thing i found problematic was the whole mike thing. Like, she got all dressed up, like she was going on a date. And never told Norm. I'm glad she shut the guy down, when he tried seducing her, essentially. But, still...
She was too nice to shut down Mike completely, and set clear boundaries in their encounter. Subtle twist that when she found out the next day that Mike was full of crap, and she decided to revisit Lundeguard to see if the story he was telling was on the level.
"He's fleeing the interview," Lol.
When she met Mike, Marge dressed nice, but it wasn't sexy or revealing by any stretch. She didn't tell Norm, but it seems that there's a lot of stuff she doesn't tell him about her work, so it's hard to tell if it's dubious or just how she generally handles things. She must have told Mike she was married to Norm, though, because Mike brought it up when they met. Plus, she's wearing a wedding ring and is obviously seven months pregnant, so she must have thought that was enough to make it clear that their encounter was just platonic.
@@MichaelSTaylor Right. That scene serves a purpose.
Also I think it pushes the theory of “Minnesota Nice”
I always wondered if Norm used to be a cop and that's how he met Marge, maybe he had an injury or quit after a traumatic event and decided to become an artist.
Dude. There is an interview where Frances says exactly that, her and Norm created an "actors story". He was on the force. She rose through the ranks, he left and took up his art full time. Nice catch fam. I think it is this one ua-cam.com/video/FW0NG-CGGRM/v-deo.html
I absolutely love them
Marriage goals right here. They're supportive and loving to each other without being sappy. 💗
Aw shit this is adorable. I wish i could find a Margie
Marge and Norm were an excellent contrast to all of the hostility we’ve seen throughout the movie
agreed
That man is going to be a kick ass Dad.
More than the love story, what is so beautiful about this film is the total respect all of her male subordinates show her. She is the boss. They never condescend, never second guess her.
I love the Fargo theme. It's so pretty.
I've also noticed that this Movie has a Sopranos Vibe to it since so many memorable scenes involved Food. There's The Breakfast, Arby's and then The Buffet Restaurant. I love Buffet Restaurant Scene. I also had no idea that Minneapolis had such an Artistic Legacy. Charles M. Schultz was born there who created Charlie Brown. In the 1980's there were so many Musical Icons from Prince, The Time, Jesse Johnson, Ta Mara & The Seen. Then alot of folks of Norwegian and Scandanavian background live there and Norway is the Location For The Nobel Peace Prize Ceremonies and Anni-Fryd Lyngstad aka "Frida" from Abba is also Norwegian as was A-Ha (Take On Me).
Simple & complex. That’s the theme of the movie.
I love these two. "The Dream"
Everyone in this movie went through some shit exept Norm, all he did was was eat with Margie!
The life of a normie is good.
i keep comign back to this, hope God puts in my path to have this.
hope so too 🙏
1:50 isn't that the ideal husband; insisting on making his wife breakfast just because she "gotta eat a breakfast"
The exemplar of a married couple
LOL, that buffet. Nothing like lily-white Anglo-Saxon slop. However, I must say, you German/Scandinavian people are truly wonderful, caring and warm.