guys like michael mann will always punch you in the gut.nt your own wife kidnapped? >> yeah. >> i think "fargo" is a perfect movie in every way. the screenplay is perfect. the execution of it is perfect. the performances are absolutely perfect. [ phone ringing ] >> it was written for me. i got very excited. they said -- joel, you know, came home from work and said we started working on something, there's a part for you. >> we got a shooting. these folks drive by. there's a high-speed pursuit. ends here. and then it's execution type deal. >> joel and ethan's scripts are publishable works of literature. for example, the scene in "fargo" where marge is interrogating the two strippers. >> hey, they said they were going to the twin cities. >> oh, yeah? >> yeah. yeah. is that useful to you? >> oh, you betcha, yeah. >> yeah. >> it was punctuated and written in the rhythm that we played it. and it's beautiful. >> and the oscar goes to ethan and joel coen for "fargo." >> the oscar goes to frances mcdor mand, "fargo." >> "fargo" is the coen brothers