Director: The Cohen Brothers
Year: 1996
Genre: thriller, comedy
Fargo is a film set in north Dakota where a man called Jerry organises for his wife to be kidnapped so that he can claim the Ransom money from her father.
Jerry is the main character in this film and before we are even properly introduced to him we can tell a lot about his character by how he presents himself. he is very nervous looking, timid, he portrays no confidence in how he acts and is therefore a bit of a pushover. people do not take him seriously and we can tell that It is because of the way he conveys to other people by the fact that he is even ill treated by people who have never met him before, for example when trying to sell a car he is ignored and talked down to by a potential customer.
however when he is alone he has a series of small violent outbursts which indicated that he suppresses the abuse he gets from others or bottles it up until he is alone with no one to see. we see more evidence of this when he is arrested at the end of the film and starts screaming and resisting arrest and acting completely irrationally, this is probably because he has had such a passive and suppressive life so far among all of the events that escalated and got out of hand that he just snapped upon arrest.
3 comments:
A good assessment of his character. Can you say how mise-en-scene has helped to support your views? What does he wear, his body movements, what objects are placed next to him etc?
Good on character, acting and costume but say more about landscapes. Also, what else is put in the shot e.g. objects? Try to cover all aspects of mise-en-scene.
I like the way that you have mentioned and described Jerrys character, how did you get the point that he was timid and stuff though?
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