Wednesday, April 14, 2010

My favorite Fargo scene (ever&ever)

Master Work




The transcript, very useful depending on where you come from:

OUTSIDE
 
        Gary slams his door shut and the other man plants his shovel
        in the snow.
                                MAN
               How ya doin'?
                                GARY
               Mr. Mohra?
                                MAN
               Yah.
                                GARY
               Officer Olson.
                                MAN
               Yah, right-o.
 
        The two men caucus the driveway without shaking hands and
        without standing particularly close.  They stand stiffly,
        arms down at their sides and breath streaming out of their
        parka hoods.  Each has an awkward leaning-away posture, head
        drawn slightly back and chin tucked in, to keep his face
        from protruding into the cold.
                                MAN
               ...  So, I'm tendin' bar there at
               Ecklund && Swedlin's last Tuesday
               and this little guy's drinkin'
               and he says, 'So where can a guy
               find some action - I'm goin' crazy
               down there at the lake.'  And I
               says, 'What kinda action?' and he
               says, 'Woman action, what do I
               look like,'  And I says 'Well,
               what do I look like, I don't
               arrange that kinda thing,' and he
               says, 'I'm goin' crazy out there
               at the lake' and I says, 'Well,
               this ain't that kinda place.'
                                GARY
               Uh-huh.
                                MAN
               So he says, 'So I get it, so you
               think I'm some kinda jerk for
               askin',' only he doesn't use the
               word jerk.
                                GARY
               I unnerstand.
                               MAN
               And then he calls me a jerk and
               says the last guy who thought he
               was a jerk was dead now.  So I
               don't say nothin' and he says, 'What
               do ya think about that?'  So I
               says, 'Well, that don't sound like
               too good a deal for him then.'
                               GARY
               Ya got that right.
                                MAN
               And he says, 'Yah, that guy's dead
               and I don't mean a old age.'  And
               then he says, 'Geez, I'm goin'
               crazy out there at the lake.'
                                GARY
               White Bear Lake?
                                MAN
               Well, Ecklund && Swedlin's, that's
               closer ta Moose Lake, so I made
               that assumption.
                                GARY
               Oh sure.
                                MAN
               So, ya know, he's drinkin', so I
               don't think a whole great deal of
               it, but Mrs. Mohra heard about the
               homicides out here and she thought
               I should call it in, so I called
               it in.  End a story.
                                GARY
               What'd this guy look like anyways?
 
                               MAN
               Oh, he was a little guy, kinda
               funny-lookin'.
                               GARY
               Uh-huh - in what way?
 
                               MAN
               Just a general way.
 
                               GARY
               Okay, well, thanks a bunch, Mr.
               Mohra.  You're right, it's probably
               nothin', but thanks for callin'
               her in.
                                MAN
               Oh sure.  They say she's gonna
               turn cold tomorrow.
                                GARY
               Yah, got a front movin' in.
                                MAN
               Ya got that right.

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