Jennifer Jason Leigh
I’m not buying her in the role. She’s using that affected “Continental” voice she’s used in other movies. No one talks like that.
shareHer character is certainly villainous enough without it.
Given that this season(5) seems to have more direct references to the movie Fargo than other seasons(re-stagings of a kidnapping from the original, dialogue, the THEME MUSIC from the original), I suppose there are references to OTHER Coen movies as well.
And JJL used somewhat the same "snobby snob" accent in the Coens 'The Hudsucker Proxy."
But then Juno Temple is replicating Frances McDormand's accent from the original Fargo.
Meanwhile, Jon Hamm is using all his great and original "Jon Hamm-ness" to give us a true movie star performance -- his deep manly voice, his handsomeness -- and the menace lurking behind them -- Don Draper gone worse.
But then Juno Temple is replicating Frances McDormand's accent from the original Fargo.
You think so? I actually think she's duplicating Kirsten Dunst's character from S02. I hear a definate Peggy Blumquist more than Marge. share
I'll take that analysis...though I suppose both Dunst and Temple have McDormand as the original template.
Something about my age, maybe, but I have watched all seasons of Fargo thus far and can barely remember the previous seasons. I even have real trouble matching up cast members to cast members, like: were Dunst and now-hubby Jesse Plemons in the season with Billy Bob Thornton?(I don't think they were, but I can't be sure.)
I DO recall liking the Billy Bob season best.
This Season(5) seems to be the heaviest in direct references to "Fargo the 1996 movie." Episode 7, for instance, had a direct re-staging of Peter Stormare's rush from behind at Steve Buscemi with an axe to the head -- and tied in Ole Munch as a successor to Storemare's "type" as Gaear Grimsrud in the original(as had the early kidnapping remake in Season 5.)
were Dunst and now-hubby Jesse Plemons in the season with Billy Bob Thornton?
BBT was in S01. Dunst & Plemons were in S02.
Also, Winstead & McGregor from S03 eventually married as well.
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were Dunst and now-hubby Jesse Plemons in the season with Billy Bob Thornton?
BBT was in S01. Dunst & Plemons were in S02.
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Aha...its coming back to me now. And Season Two had the "gang war" with Jean Smart leading one gang...and Patrick Wilson as a sheriff? (I can look it up.)
Season 3 I remember with some clarity because I really enjoy the specific beauty of Mary Elizabeth Winstead and she was given a good role to display herself in some depth.
The plots? Can't remember 'em. I know I liked Billy Bob's best, so I will enjoy watching it all over again.
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Also, Winstead & McGregor from S03 eventually married as well.
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Sounds like a great show for romance. The grand old director Alfred Hitchcock said that often on his movies, the leading man and the leading woman had a real romance. Reviewing his "movie couples," its hard to believe about THEM (though Grace Kelly and Ray Milland on Dial M for Murder seems to have been confirmed by the players) but...Fargo would suggest...yeah, maybe so.