Fargo Season 2 Episode 2 'Before the Law' Full TV Reaction!!
Added 2023-10-09 02:59:55 +0000 UTC
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It was also used in "Woodstock" and "The Boston Strangler". I think "The Boston Strangler" was first. Also used in "The Thomas Crown Affair" (the original with Steve McQueen. Maybe others have more information about the early usage.
David Martin
2023-10-23 06:24:11 +0000 UTCWe missed that! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2023-10-12 04:21:08 +0000 UTCMike Milligan?! What are you doing here? -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2023-10-12 03:00:16 +0000 UTCYes! So clever! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2023-10-12 02:59:53 +0000 UTCLOL!
TBR Schmitt
2023-10-12 02:59:39 +0000 UTCThere’s a huge Easter egg with all of this in the Fargo Fan threads. Not a spoiler guy but it has something to do with the diner clock when Hanzi ventures out there eventually. Keep an eye out. Interesting stuff. Hanzi atleast knows what to do. Maybe from his experiences as a boy and his heritage. Love this show and how deep it goes.
Jonny Kerr
2023-10-11 22:35:41 +0000 UTCRegardless, it portends something, and casts doubt on the lights in the sky were Rye's imagination.
David Martin
2023-10-10 06:42:04 +0000 UTCYeah, it comes from a rock musical album of The War of the Worlds that Jeff Wayne did (with a few famous collaborators) in 1978. The adaptation makes a few changes from the novel. I double-checked on Hulu and the version currently streaming does not include it.
Brad P
2023-10-10 05:54:32 +0000 UTCThey start out matching the the book text: "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that", then it begins to divert., essentially being paraphrased after that.
David Martin
2023-10-10 05:16:25 +0000 UTCThe split screen could be an homage to Brian De Palma, who used the technique in many of his films. Most notably he used it in Carrie, which was released in the 70s, and also there is a fantastic scene that uses the split screen effect in Casualties of War, a film set during the Vietnam war.
Robert Boyd
2023-10-10 04:16:16 +0000 UTCYou know, I think that the version they're watching on Hulu replaces Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds song and Richard Burton's narration with the show's main theme due to a rights issue. The original WotW version is intact on my bluray copy.
Brad P
2023-10-10 03:39:21 +0000 UTCThe war / boat reference is to the Vietnam War, the navy patrol craft were called Swift boats, see the movie Apocalypse Now for whole film about that little part of that awful war.
Chris Bruneau
2023-10-09 15:48:54 +0000 UTCNote that, in the final shot of the episode, something reflecting a bright greenish light into the windows of the butcher shop building appears to be rising into the sky.
Brad P
2023-10-09 06:55:06 +0000 UTCidk, i think these Kansas City folks seem like honest fellas
Mike Milligan
2023-10-09 05:28:33 +0000 UTCGotta love Ed shoving a leg into a grinder. I appreciate those little callbacks.
Jeffrey Miller
2023-10-09 05:13:35 +0000 UTCNote to self: when in Newark, NJ avoid the chops at Satriale's Pork Store, and in Luverne, MN stay away from the ground beef at Bud's Meats.
VivendoBem
2023-10-09 04:32:28 +0000 UTCIt's really weird that the narrator reads the lines from War of the Worlds at the end. Wonder what that has to do with anything?
David Martin
2023-10-09 04:04:11 +0000 UTC
