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Fargo Season 2 Episode 2 'Before the Law' Full TV Reaction!!
🕑 Added 2023-10-09 02:59:55 +0000 UTC
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David Martin
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.
TBR Schmitt
We missed that! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
Mike Milligan?! What are you doing here? -Sam
TBR Schmitt
Yes! So clever! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
LOL!
Jonny Kerr
There’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.
David Martin
Regardless, it portends something, and casts doubt on the lights in the sky were Rye's imagination.
Brad P
Yeah, 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.
David Martin
They 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.
Robert Boyd
The 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.
Brad P
You 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.
Chris Bruneau
The 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.
Brad P
Note 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.
Mike Milligan
idk, i think these Kansas City folks seem like honest fellas
Jeffrey Miller
Gotta love Ed shoving a leg into a grinder. I appreciate those little callbacks.
VivendoBem
Note 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.
David Martin
It'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?
