>>Hello out there, >> >>I am working on a largish project on docudrama. FARGO is one of the films >>that I am thinking about. Pardon me if I am asking something which was >>thoroughly discussed earlier, but I would like to know about the details >>of the "real" events upon which Fargo is supposedly based. Some of the >>reviewers on the internet movie database claim that the film is in fact >>based on something real -- but what? The film itself, in a very >>interesting way -- and in a manner not dissimilar from THE POSITIVELY TRUE >>ADVENTURES OF THE ALLEGED TEXAS CHEERLEADER-MURDERING MOM -- tends to >>throw doubt upon the "reality" of the events with its style. This is >>likely part of both films' parody of the docudrama form itself (much like >>the parody of documentary in CANE TOADS.) I am interested in how much >>faith the audience is asked to place in "based on." >> >>I have a fairly large bibliography on docudrama which I would be willing >>to share with anyone who is interested. >> >>thanks >>Jeannette Sloniowski I can't remember where and when, but somewhere and sometime I read an interview with the Coen bros., where they admitted that the claim that Fargo were based on a true story was nothing but a joke. Ulf Ulf Dalquist Phone: +46 46 2229572 Dept. of Sociology Fax: +46 46 2224794 Box 114 221 00 Lund SWEDEN E-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.soc.lu.se/~socuda/ "Plato was a bore." - Friedrich Nietzsche ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]