The Pilot Of Fargo And Lorne Malvo

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The pilot of Fargo is quite simple, yet extremely effective. It opens with the introduction of our main antagonist Lorne Malvo. He crashes his car trying to swerve out of the way of a deer. The man he is toting in the trunk escapes, and Malvo is hurt.

We change focus to Lester Nygaard, a weak willed, mild mannered man. He is in conversation with Malvo at the emergency room after a confrontation a bully, Sam Hess. Lester talks of Hess, Malvo mistakes this as an assassination request and murders Hess. Unaware of the murder Lester goes home. His wife belittles him further, just as Hess did. Suddenly Lester can take it no longer and thumps his wife with a hammer, she dies. Lester is now not only associated with a killer, but is a killer himself. …show more content…

They have been running investigations on the car crash, the murder of Sam Hess, and have now caught a murder in progress at Lester’s house. Lester’s wife lay dead in the basement, and Lester has called Malvo with plans to kill him and frame him for the murder. Chief Thurman has come with questions regarding Sam Hess and Lorne Malvo. Malvo arrives, shooting Thurman in the back with Lesters shotgun, and then disappears. Lester is a person of interest in two murder cases.
This draft of the Fargo pilot, as it is a shooting draft, is naturally tight and difficult to comment on and criticise as it has already been through a rigorous assessment process. That being said, the strengths of this script lie in the interplay and contrast of all the characters, especially between Lester and Malvo. We see that Lester is a snivelling, weak willed, by the book kind of man while Malvo is the exact contrasting opposite to this. In one scene he blatenly says that Lester should throw out the rule book and live like an …show more content…

She enters the house and sees her colleague and friend on the ground dead, but is seemingly unaffected by it in terms of her actions. The performance of the actor chosen to play the role may be able to bring a more complex set of emotions to the screen, but on the page there is a lot of telling and not much showing in this instance. “We can tell Molly is afraid, out of her league, but she keeps her wit.” I would like to see how she is afraid, and out of her league. Does she drop her gun? Or stumble over Vern’s body? Is there a movement that she prematurely shoot at? Some comedy here could bring her timidness onto the screen. Currently, as per the evidence of the actions of the character, she is a sturdy professional, nothing is telling me that she is scared and nervous. Further investigation into the character of Molly in subsequent episodes will bring a fuller experience to the audience, she is currently too on top of everything, too on the

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