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FARGO. Maybe the funniest black comedy ever made. It's hard to like the main bad guy in this movie, but he is never boring. The violence does indeed make you wince when it happens, but you'll find yourself laughing thirty seconds later --- sometimes at the very thing that just made you wince. ..
The Marlboro man?
The Fargo TV series is similar. Each season is a dark comedy with compelling characters and excellent crime drama. Season 2 draws from the villain above with the silent killer twins, at one time identified as "Thing one and Thing two".
I can pity the guy. But it's impossible to like him.
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The Fargo TV series is similar. Each season is a dark comedy with compelling characters and excellent crime drama. Season 2 draws from the villain above with the silent killer twins, at one time identified as "Thing one and Thing two".
I love the TV series. Every season is different, and some are better than others. All good, but Seasons 1 and 5 are some of the best TV shows of all time.
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Pretty much all of Quentin Tarantino's films have this quality, as he really gets into the head of his protagonists (and antagonists, for that matter). I think that in order to justify the violence that is inherent in his films he wants you to know the path that brought his characters to that place.
Pretty much all of Quentin Tarantino's films have this quality, as he really gets into the head of his protagonists (and antagonists, for that matter). I think that in order to justify the violence that is inherent in his films he wants you to know the path that brought his characters to that place.
Fargo was the Coen brothers but same idea, over the top violence when you least expect it.
It's not so much the films, which tone things down to a certain degree, but on a Harry Potter re-read, I was kind of bewildered by how upsetting and frightening a lot of the conflict and violence was, that I had almost completely forgotten about. By the end, it definitely wasn't the story I thought I remembered. There's a kind of twisted, Gilliamesque quality in the books that I loved.
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