Perguntas frequentes

No. The "this is a true story" opening is not true, but was included by Joel and Ethan Coen to set a tone for the story. After all, at the end of the credits, one can see the standard "This movie is fictional..." legal clause. However, there were two separate cases, one in the 1960s and one in the 1970s, in Minnesota that bore many similarities to the storyline of Fargo. They are discussed in the trivia section, and as the Coen brothers are native Minnesotans they would have been aware of the cases, two of the most famous in Minnesota criminal history. Maybe there is something to those cases mentioned above, but the Coen brothers were mainly influenced by the 1986 murder of Helle Crafts, in Connecticut. Her husband murdered her, froze the body, dismembered the corpse with a chainsaw, put the pieces through a woodchipper, then scattered the remains that came out of the woodchipper. This same case also had an influence on a late 1980s horror movie called Woodchipper Massacre.

There are 18 "yeah" and 181 "yah" said throughout the movie. Total of 199.