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How many people die in the movie "Fargo"?

Question #101703. Asked by star_gazer.

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Let's see if I got it all:

THREE -- After the trooper rebuffs Showalter's attempt at a bribe, Grimsrud pulls a pistol out of the glove compartment and kills the trooper. Two witnesses happen to drive by the crime scene and Grimsrud pursues and kills them as well.

PLUS TWO -- At the meeting at the garage, Wade refuses to hand over the money until his daughter is returned. Showalter shoots Wade and moves to pick up the satchel. Wade, bleeding on the ground, shoots Showalter in the face. Showalter recovers and kills Wade. Leaving the parking garage, Showalter also shoots and kills the lot attendant when the attendant does not open the gate.

PLUS TWO -- Grimsrud has murdered Jerry's wife for simply annoying him. In a dispute over who gets the car, Grimsrud kills Showalter with an axe.

EQUALS SEVEN.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(film)

Lundegaard's incompetence is such that SEVEN people will die, and he himself will go to jail.

link http://www.thesatirist.com/films/Fargo.html

Dec 15 2008, 9:35 AM
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Numerous sources explain that "Fargo" was definitely not
a true story, but was very loosely based on two unrelated events from 1962 and 1972.

"Fargo opens with a title card proclaiming: "This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987." Earnest journalists who went in search of the "real" woodchipper murders were outraged when, after months of wild goose chases and increasingly deadpan obfuscation by the film-makers, they finally admitted that the title card was actually an elaborate hoax - their way of "poking a hole in the true story balloon", according to William H Macy.

So Fargo was not, in fact, based on a true story. None of it really happened. There is no real "Jerry Lundegaard" out there."

link http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2003/jun/06/artsfeatures1

"Fargo is a comedy-thriller about a wacky kidnapping scheme that goes incredibly wrong. The brothers originally said it was based on a true story, but a New York Post "investigation" got the brothers to admit the story actually popped out of their heads...If there's still any doubt, follow the credits through to the very end. You'll find the standard tiny-print disclaimer about "no resemblance to any persons living or dead . . ."

link http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/fargo.asp

link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/trivia

Dec 15 2008, 8:40 PM
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Well I guess my friend was wrong...this is how urban legends are made and travel.

Dec 15 2008, 10:55 PM
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