Posted: 11/19/2004 3:59:49 PM EDT
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This movie was based on a true story, but does anyone know about the actual real life case or where I could go to read about it? How accurate was the portrayal of the characters? I'm from Minnesota and have been to many of the areas mentioned in the movie. V |
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The wood-chipper angle has been done. Saw it in a documentary on the Discovery Channel years ago. can't remember the name of the show right now. Husband kills wife by beating her in the head w/a Maglite, Puts her in the garage freezer, sends the kids off to grandma's or somewhere for the weekend, rents a wood-chipper, buys a chainsaw (with a credit card), goes out on a bridge on a very snowy night and feeds his wife's body parts through it. He got caught, though. The police found skull fragments on the shore of the river, the mail that was in her bathrobe pocket (it somehow survived going through the chipper), found the saw in the river (serial # scratched off, but they used some trick to bring it up out of the metal), and the blood stains were found in the bedroom (used the 'ol chemical & UV light trick) There's some real monsters out there. Scott |
+1 Not a true story at all. They just put that at the beginning of the movie to reel you in. A Japanese woman sold all her stuff to search for the money and ended up freezing to death after being dropped off in the middle of nowhere by a cab. Well, I read that. 
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Excellent film, and Minnesota really does look like that in the winter. Some of the accents were off, though. The actor who played the husband who arranged the kidnapping was right on--he could have been half the men in my neighborhood where I grew up in Minnesota. GunLvr |
The heck you mean?!? |
They grew up in a suburb of the Twin Cities watching the Mel Jazz (sp?) afternoon movies. Every day in the afternoon there was an old movie broadcast (along with a million obnoxious commericals, many of them done by Mel Jazz). I remember seeing "The Dambusters" on his show but there were hundreds (thousands?) of other old movies shown on Channel 9 in the 1970s. GunLvr |
| Here in Fargo, ND we like the fame that we received from the movie "Fargo". But we can't stand the sterotypes that we received from this movie. We don't talk like that. As you get closer to the Canadian border you will hear accents like that, also in Western North Dakota. We have almost zero crime here, we like guns, it's cheap to live here. It's a great place to live if you can stand the cold and are a good winter driver (get a 4x4!). I don't like hot weather so I like it here. |
YUP...I saw that show too. Amazing what some will do to get rid of someone-Sheesh, never heard of a DIVORCE! |
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I don't know about you guys, but I thought Marge Gunderson was kinda hot. I would've gotten Arby's all over her... Hooker No. 1: Well, the little guy was kinda funny-lookin'. Marge Gunderson: In what way? Hooker No. 1: I dunno, just funny-lookin'. Marge Gunderson: Can you be any more specific? Hooker No. 1: I couldn't really say. He wasn't circumcised. Marge Gunderson: Was he funny lookin' apart from that? Hooker No. 1: Yah... Marge Gunderson: So, you were havin' sex with the little fellow then. Hooker No. 1: Uh huh... Go Bears.. 
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You mean her?? imdb.com/name/nm0000531/ |
