Editing Fargo (1996 film) (section)

===Filming===
''Fargo'' was filmed during the winter of 1995, mainly in the [[Minneapolis-St. Paul area]] and around [[Pembina County, North Dakota]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dwyer |first=Michael |date=May 31, 1996 |title=Lepage Leaps Into the Limelight |page=11 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/lepage-leaps-into-the-limelight-1.54276 |url-status=live |access-date=May 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230514004232/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/lepage-leaps-into-the-limelight-1.54276 |archive-date=May 14, 2023}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine |last=Probst |first=Christopher |date=March 1996 |title=Fargo: Cold-Blooded Scheming |url=https://theasc.com/articles/fargo-cold-blooded-scheming |access-date=2023-05-14 |magazine=[[American Cinematographer]] |archive-date=May 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514011251/https://theasc.com/articles/fargo-cold-blooded-scheming |url-status=live }}</ref> Due to unusually low snowfall totals in central and southern Minnesota that winter, scenes requiring snow-covered landscapes had to be shot in northern Minnesota and northeastern North Dakota, though not in or near the actual towns of [[Fargo, North Dakota|Fargo]] and [[Brainerd, Minnesota|Brainerd]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=October 18, 1996 |title='Sleepers' Casts Faith to Wind |page=23 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]}}</ref> Cinematographer [[Roger Deakins]] shot the film on an [[Arriflex 35BL|Arriflex 35 BL-4]] camera.<ref name=":0" />

[[File:Movie Fargo Paul Bunyan.jpg|thumb|Original [[Paul Bunyan]] sculpture created by [[Rick Heinrichs]]]]
Jerry's initial meeting with Carl and Gaear was shot at a pool hall and bar called The King of Clubs in the northeast section of Minneapolis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cgstock.com/894 |title=Stock photo with location |publisher=Cgstock.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014125924/http://www.cgstock.com/894|archive-date=October 14, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> It was demolished in 2003, along with most other buildings on that block of Central Avenue, and replaced by [[low-income housing]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Peterson |first=Susan |date=September 24, 2005 |title=At last, a real home |url=http://www.ccht.org/At_last_a_real_home.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927094703/http://www.ccht.org/At_last_a_real_home.html |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |access-date=February 28, 2010 |website=[[Star Tribune]] |via=Ccht.org}}</ref> Wade's car dealership was actually Wally McCarthy Oldsmobile in [[Richfield, Minnesota]], a southern suburb of Minneapolis. The site is now occupied by [[Best Buy]]'s national corporate headquarters. The 24-foot [[Paul Bunyan]] statue was built for the film (and subsequently dismantled) on Pembina County Highway 1, four miles west of [[Bathgate, North Dakota]], near the Canadian border.<ref name="loc" /> The Blue Ox motel/truckstop was Stockmen's Truck Stop in [[South St. Paul, Minnesota|South St. Paul]], which is still in business. Ember's, the restaurant where Jerry discusses the ransom drop with Gustafson, was located in [[St. Louis Park, Minnesota|St. Louis Park]], the Coens' hometown; the building now houses a medical outpatient treatment center.<ref name="loc" />

The [[strip club]] where Marge interviews the two call girls was two separate locations; its exterior was the Lakeside Club in [[Mahtomedi, Minnesota]], and interior the Loch Ness Lounge in [[Houlton, Wisconsin]]. The kidnappers' Moose Lake hideout actually stood on the shore of [[Square Lake (Washington County, Minnesota)|Square Lake]], near [[May Township, Cass County, Minnesota|May, Minnesota]]. The cabin was relocated to [[Barnes, Wisconsin]], in 2002. The [[Edina, Minnesota|Edina]] police station where the interior police headquarters scenes were filmed is still in operation but has been completely rebuilt. The Carlton Celebrity Room was an actual venue in [[Bloomington, Minnesota]], and [[José Feliciano]] did once appear there, but it had been closed for almost ten years when filming began. The Feliciano scene was shot at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre in [[Chanhassen, Minnesota|Chanhassen]], near Minneapolis.<ref name="loc">{{cite web|url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/f/Fargo.html|title=Fargo|website=movie-locations.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006063408/http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/f/Fargo.html|archive-date=October 6, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> The ransom drop was filmed in two adjacent parking garages on South 8th Street in downtown Minneapolis. Scenes in the Lundegaards' kitchen were shot in a private home on Pillsbury Avenue in Minneapolis,<ref>{{cite web |author=Pinkley |first=J. |date=April 28, 2003 |title=Kitchen of Kemp, Melroe home |url=http://www.startribune.com/1641/story/70938.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014084018/http://www.startribune.com/1641/story/70938.html |archive-date=October 14, 2007 |access-date=February 28, 2011 |newspaper=[[Star Tribune]]}}</ref> and the house where Mr. Mohra describes the "funny looking little guy" to police is in [[Hallock, Minnesota|Hallock]], in northwest Minnesota. The motel "outside of Bismarck", where the police finally catch up with Jerry, is the Hitching Post Motel in [[Forest Lake, Minnesota|Forest Lake]], north of Minneapolis.<ref name="loc"/>

While none of ''Fargo'' was actually filmed in Fargo, the Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau exhibits original script copies and several props used in the film, including the wood chipper prop.<ref name="loc"/>