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10 Movies that should have won an Oscar but didn't!
By siliconindia
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Friday, 29 July 2011, 23:48 IST |
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Fargo (1996)
A self-proclaimed "homespun murder story" set in the white-washed, frost backwoods of the ice-covered and dreary Upper Midwest. An irregularity of classification, the modern work of genius is a film noir (with stark white vistas and backdrops), an ironic comedy, a thrilling felony drama, and a violent ambiguity thriller. The Coen Brothers' film is an innovative blend of black mirth and murder that delights and disturbs the spectator.
The dark comedy's local color is provided by the flat-accented, dead-pan voices, provincial dialect, and overstated, down-home mannerisms of the Midwestern characters. And a number of out-of-place dialogue sequences and superfluous minor characters materialize without any real reason except to provide an enthralling journey along the way.
The off-beat, morality tale from the producing/writing/directing collaborative team of Joel and Ethan Coen, with a clear-cut, practical narrative devoid of their usually quirky and bizarre sequences lost to the sob-sister story, The English Patient by Anthony Minghella.
