Fargo (1996) - Opening Scene - Fargo, North Dakota - Carter Burwell - 720p HD
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Directed By Joel Coen
Written By Ethan Coen / Joel Coen
Produced By Ethan Coen
Music By Carter Burwell
Copyright © 1995 PolyGram Film Producctions BV
All Rights Reserved
Licensed By Metro Goldwyn Mayer
It takes amazing talent and imagination to turn something as simple and mundane as a car towing a roll-up trailer down a snowy road into a frightening and ominous specter. The opening scene and music are pure genius.
IMHO, best opening scene, ever!
*****
got to to agree..so understated opening you dont see whats coming next.
totalmente de acuerdo la pelicula es muy buena pero el comienzo me a enganchao totalmente
in the world of cinema, we call it DIRECTING
*****
tu opinion es igual ke la mia no me canso de verlo
I often watched only the beginning of this movie because of the music.....
+kingrichard210 Then we are two...
Three's a company
+kingrichard210 I guess 4 is a crowd?
+kingrichard210 i love lamp
+kingrichard210 That music is so fuckin' great! Sets the tone of the whole mood and story. This film should've won Best Picture and everything else in 1996, including Macy for Supporting Actor. Fuck Cuba Gooding, Jr. winning for a sports film.
I live 50 miles from Fargo. Have lived in ND or MN my whole life. This song runs thru my head every time I'm freezing my ass off shovelling, going to work when it's -60. It's the state anthem.
Apart from Blade Runner, I think this is my favourite opening scene ever. Its a total work of art - the photography, sound and editing is outstanding.
I'd cry...but it appears my tears would freeze in Fargo.
why is this the most beautiful opening scene i've ever seen
You dont watch a lot of movies?
Jay Jimenez how do you know? Plus... this is a beautiful opening scene.
it is a truly beautiful intro
The show is amazing! Don't worry, it's not remake. It's set in the same "universe" as the film, and carries the same tone. But it's new characters and a new story line. If you love the film, I guarantee you'll love the show even more!
I agree with you, the first episode was really really good, and anyone who has any doubts about the show should know it's not just a five part Fargo movie plot. I was really impressed with how the writing and directing and acting(especially Martin Freeman who captured the accent perfectly) managed to capture the dark comedy and the dark violence blend that made the film do good. If I didn't know any better id say that the Coen brothers made the show themselves. One thing I wished they had done though is used the same theme music as in this clip, It's one of my favorite movie themes, but I suppose different Fargo, different theme music
TheDoctorwho747 I was shocked (although I shouldn't have been; Martin Freeman is an incredible actor) at how much I liked the pilot episode. When I heard about it originally, I was hesitant, but it's pretty freaking good, oh yeah. That scene in the basement and his character is doing something truly horrifying and he's just repeating "aw jeez" over and over had me in stitches.
darockk
I know that. I wasn't talking about the movie.
@@TheDoctorwho747 they use the movie theme once a season. I feel it makes it much more memorable that way
YES!!!! Remarkable! And sound track AWESOME!
One of the absolute greatest films ever made! And one of the best I’ve ever seen! Huge props to Frances McDormand are her stellar Academy Award-winning performance!
i remember going to see this, having seen two movies of theirs, Blood Simple and Raising Arizona. And I saw this intro, and going in, i figured i was going to be either (a) amused, (b) disturbed, or (c) something totally unexpected.
As it turns out.... Yes, All three of those things.
I left feeling a lot lighter, knowing that there are Margies around.
One of the best intros to any movie, period. Short, sweet, simple, yet impactful.
Genuinely the best film score I've ever heard. An adaptation of an amazing Norwegian fiddle tune--den bortkomne sauen--but turned brilliantly to the purpose of the film. Reshaped my experience of being Minnesotan, after having already been born and lived there for 20 years.
I'd love to move to Minnesota I live in east tn right. I love the cold weather. Is it hard to find work there
I cant even imagine how many "movie" stories like this have happened in real life and we dont even know, life is stranger than fiction.
Actually it is not true story, Coen brothers made it up and people show more intrest when someone says based on a true story.
My DVD copy of this has the "This is a True Story" card cut out. Thanks for posting this to ensure I wasn't crazy thinking this was in there. One of the most interesting things about the film, snipped out for some reason. GROSS.
Maybe it's because it wasn't based on a true story? They just said it was. That's the Coen Brothers!
The intro of Fargo gave me chills literally.
This song and the opening scene go so well together. Really sets the tone of the movie.
For ages this has always been one of my favorite scenes. Coen Brothers are awesome.
I'm originally from Fargo but now live in the Twin Cities area. The King of Clubs bar shown at the end of this clip was actually located in Minneapolis. I used to drive by there frequently.
One of my favorite movies. The music in this scene is lovely, reminds me of scandinavian folk music in parts with the fiddle.
That’s because it is a norwegian folk song.
Why we're listening and watching this over and over?Bc, it touches us. We fly up and down like that bird throughout our life to find our way. The life, the uncertain life, like a foggy and snowy day that the bird never finds its way. And the music is the cry of our pain.
Frances McDormand played her role perfectly! So well deserved Oscar.
I've lived in Minnesota nearly all my life and I always love driving in conditions just like this, it looks so cool!
I was on my way back home to Chicago from Reno and the in flight movie was After Earth but luckily I had Fargo in my laptop and watch it instead.
+Jimmy Feliciano I'm surprised nobody jumped out of the plane when they saw that was the film.
The headlights coming over the hill as the music rises. Blows me away every god damn time.
There may be a lot of good things in this world, like puppies and morning coffee or whatever, but there's nothing as great as that fucking bird.
The greatest film opening I've ever seen. No questions asked.
I attended college at Concordia and Moorhead State, right across the Red River from Fargo. This scene captures the Red River Valley well. Extremely flat and barren, except for fields. Very inhospitable in the Winter.
excellent movie and fine music.
One of the best opening credit sequences and one of the best films ever. Superb. And how much did they pay that bird? Serendipity, or what!
I really LOVE the opening credits' music.
Like many others have already said. One of, if not the best, imo, opening scenes in film history! Excellent score by Carter Burwell, and captures Minnesota winters perfectly, as well as the tone of the film itself. Could not expect anything less from the Coen Bros. (Minnesota boys). Bravo.
The single most depressing opening shot to any film, loving it!
Reminds me of TKAM
+Rockstone Network Was just thinking that right before I saw your comment. Margie reminds me of Scout in the way that she has a simplistic point of view of life. When she catches Peter Stormare's character at the end Margie talks about what a beautiful day it is. Despite witnessing a grizzly
wood chipper murder she always manages to see the good in life. Same with Scout when she realises Boo was innocent all along and that good will always exist despite the prevalence of Racism. Both move in with their life always seeing the silver lining of every situation.
I don't think it is depressing. It is showing the cold winter landscape.
The World: A perfect film doesn't exist.
Fargo: Hold my wood chipper.
3 people don't have a brand new '87 burnt-umber Ciera.
I'm not gonna debate you Jerry! I'm not gonna sit here and debate you!
coens are absolute genius
This shot was actually filmed on Central Ave NE in Minneapolis. I used to pass the King of Clubs everyday on the bus when I lived in North East. Sadly, the King of Clubs is no more.
Masterpiece
+Mister Lombreeze True. Best film of the year and one of the best of the 90's. And they have a new film out now that is getting great reviews.
This scene is one of the most beautiful opening I ever seen, besides its simplicity. And the music... THIS MUSIC!!
One of the greatest opening scenes in movie history.
Amazing openins scene. One of my favorite
Perfect movie.
The year I was born
The year my most favourite film released
Perfect. Just perfect. I am shivering already!
That music.. Love it. :-D
It's from a Norwegian folk hymn called 'Den bortkomne sauen', or directly translated 'The lost sheep'. You can find good versions of it on Spotify.
and none of it was actually filmed in Fargo North Dakota. Still awesome.
I'M MAD AT MYSELF BECAUSE WHATEVER COMPLIMENT I POST WILL NOT DO THIS MOVIE JUSTICE! AAAAHHHH!
It's minimalism to the umteenth degree set to a bittersweet and chilling score. The main charactor is willing to throw away everything for money. Great film.
Love the movie and the show
Soooo evocative of the lone horse and carriage pulling into a ghost town... love it
自分の中で、最高傑作のひとつに入ります。
コーエン監督地味だけど味のある作品が多いです。
I accidentally left my speakers at full volume...
Opened the video and rolled down to read the comments while waiting for the calm title music.
Then, from nowhere, came the lion....
And this is how you start a film...
Beautiful
Best Coen's piece
Poche parole per descrivere Fargo: bellissimo, stupendo, capolavoro!!!!!!!
That makes sense... Hollywood isn't known for its adherence to total realism.
I first saw Fargo in a New York theater, and I couldn't fully appreciate the film then because half the audience was irritating me by constantly giggling over the accents. "Yes, they sound different than we do here, now get over it & just watch the movie."
I've seen it several times since, & now I think it's a masterpiece.
one of the best opening scene in the movie history: the combination of this beautiful sad and epic melody with the unexpected appearance of a car in this desolate white landscape is always stunning.
Can I just say I got goosebumps.
It resembles the opening of Taxi driver, the car passing through the smoke and the music. Tonally and rhythmically it's very identical.
Superb movie and music...
Great post/upload... thanks and greetings from Sweden
A Masterpiece!!
Majestic.
This is genius.
el comienzo de esta pelicula, la fuerza que tiene! LA MUSICA MAS LAS IMAGENES HACE UNO DE LOS COMIENZOS MAS SIMPLES Y FUERTES DEL 7MO ARTE!!!
My favorite movie
This opening track always reminds me of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and vice versa, great soundtracks both. Oh Brother?.....forget about it
Interesting comparison actually.Both themes have that very haunting,austere quality when first introduced,thanks in part to both being played quietly by atypical instruments(the Hardangar fiddle here and the musical saw along with native American percussion for Cuckoo's Nest).But when both themes are then taken up by the full orchestra(both here and in the last scene in Cuckoo's Nest when the Chief escapes),they become almost polar opposites,with this theme being minor key/bleak and severe and Cuckoo's Nest being major key/uplifting.
Fordham1969 cheers
Den Bortkomne Sauen (The Lost Sheep) It´s a folk-song from Telemark, Norway, with a religious twist at the end.
Every time a tree chipper drives by your house and you think you’re next to be put in the chipper for a solid TEN years. It don’t make you chipper. It pisses you off.
Best movie EVER
Pure genius
I really, really fucking love this movie!!
This reminds me of the opening of Final Fantasy 6 for some reason.
Perhaps they were somewhat accurate...although Hollywood tends to exaggerate things. I do remember when I lived in the Eastern and Southern U. S., people there told me I had a Minnesota accent.
I hope one day on Geoguessr I come across North Dakota...
Poor Tony B - always getting the short end of the stick
THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
The events depicted took place in Minnesota, Los Angeles and Kansas City, MO in the years 1950-1951, 1979, 1987, 2006 and 2010-2016.
At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed.
Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.
F A R G O
Whenever I put something pathetic on FB ... it happend around app. bilion times ... than I quickly switch to Fargo ... just to make it certain how pathetic am I.
SO Impressive THEME ....., pity not even nominated for an Award........
It was nominated though, for a bunch of Oscars, even got a couple I reckon. Too bad it lost the best movie to English Patient
+chd wwk Frances Mcdormand won the Oscar for best actress and the Coen brothers won the Oscar for best screenplay.
+Digital West Macy should've won for Supporting Actor too. He gave a great performance. I felt sorry for this man. He made Al Bundy look like a winner.
MARCVS AVRELIVS It wasn't an original theme. The film used an old Scandinavian (I think or it could be Swedish) folk song and modified it a bit. That's why it wasn't nominated.
It is a traditional Norwegian melody from fylke Telemark (the district in the south-west from Oslo), called "Den Bortkomne Sauen" ("The Lost Lamb"/"The Lost Sheep"). Check out Annbjorg Lien playing it (it is on UA-cam too) - her version sounds similar to Burwell's arrangement. I am not sure exactly (because there is practically no information about this question), but this composition might have appeared in 18th or 19th century - in those times rather many songs and melodies were composed by different Norwegian musicians, like Knut Heddi or Torleiv Bjørgum, for instance. Later, such melodies have become a part of the Norwegian folk music sphere - such beautiful compositions as "Bestelanden", "Fangjen", "Filleværen" etc.
Word!!!!
Fargo🌸
>"THIS IS A TRUE STORY"
>"The film is not actually "Based on a true story"."
What the fuck.
genios genios ke comienzo enganchao
there is nothing more to life than a bit of money
I'm sorry, but I have to ask... how accurate are the accents in the film compared to the real Fargo? (Or how accurate WERE they, as I'm asking about the Fargo of the mid-90's.)
Mr. Lundegaard.. yer a liar..... a....fucking liar! :D Kills me everytime.
every story starts with a blank page
Not only was Carl incredibly inept in this movie, but Jerry was as well. Why hire thugs to kidnap your wife, and then provide them a car from your dealership? I guess he had to use the car as collateral as he was broke but still...
Can someone enlighten one with a bad ear for instruments. What is the instrument making the lovely sounds at the beginning?
watching the opening scene one has the impression that this movie might be a bit depressing
Just an old fashioned film
I just realized that if you play James Newton Howard's main theme for 'The Happening' at the 0:20 mark of this clip, the music and the visuals sync together quite seamlessly.
I think that bird was taken out in a later release.
starting from 1:51 I well up all the fucking time. That's music.
What a music, who composed this great work?
The music is based on a Norwegian folk song called "Den bortkomne sauen," ("The Lost Sheep"). Carter Burwell adapted it for the movie.
Jeff Lichtman Thank you.
anyone know what font the title text is in? x
hey does anyone know what font they used here?
Its Interstate
The lion🌸
The English Patient over this Masterpiece for Best Picture - Boooooooooooooooooooooo!
if you find your money in a hole, stop digging
i know frances mcdermond won the oscar but it should have went to buscemi or peter stormare surely..the injustice🙄