Saturday, April 26, 2014

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter Fargo's urban myth made into movie

As TV's Fargo begins its Channel 4 run, a film based on the mysterious story of a Japanese woman who froze to death in Minnesota in pursuit, allegedly of the Coens' original kidnap ransom debuts at Sundance London

"We never wanted it to be a winky homage to Fargo," says David Zellner, "just riffing on it and namechecking it. That wasn't of interest to us. We wanted to be respectful of it, but we had our own story to tell. We wanted it to be a conduit."

The film he's talking about is Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, a deadpan comedy inspired by the Coen brothers' 1996 masterpiece but not by the film itself, which the Coens maintained, for some time, was derived from true events of 1987, or even the new TV show, which explores that film's world further. Instead, David and Nathan Zellner's film is based on a second urban myth that came to replace the Coens' "official" one: the story of a Japanese woman who became convinced the story involving a kidnap ransom and a string of murders was real, flying to Minnesota to claim a briefcase of cash she saw buried in the frozen wastelands there.

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Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/25/kumiko-the-treasure-hunter-film-based-on-urban-myth

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