# Another Prince? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 13, 1999, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-prince/1020 "1999-06-13T18:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 1999, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-prince/1020/1 "1999-06-13T18:24:00Z")
Watching the credits for Fargo, I noticed that the name of the guy who played “Victim in Field” was an odd symbol that looked like a plus sign next to a fat letter P. + **P** Something like that. Why is this? Is this movie credit maker code for something? * * * “I guess it is possible for one person to make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 1999, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-prince/1020/2 "1999-06-13T18:58:00Z")
According to the Internet Movie Database ([us.imdb.com](http://us.imdb.com)), “victim in field” was played by one of the film crew. See [us.imdb.com/crazycredits?0116282](http://us.imdb.com/crazycredits?0116282). I’m guessing he used the symbol as a joking reference to The Artist, since the movie was set in Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 1999, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-prince/1020/3 "1999-06-14T01:32:00Z")
As an aside, in case you are unaware of this: Even though the movie says that it’s based on actual events, noone has been able to find anything even remotely like what is depicted in Fargo, according to Snopes. Not in North Dakota, Minnesota, or anywhere else. Chalk one up to _artistic license_ (which is apparently movie jargon meaning “producers who lie out of their asses”). * * * “I had a feeling that in Hell there would be mushrooms.” -The Secret of Monkey Island ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 1999, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-prince/1020/4 "1999-06-16T04:08:00Z")
Some of the events occurred in different murders, none of which were in Fargo. The wood-chipper scene was actually a guys disposing of the frozen body of his wife. He had killed her days earlier and kept her body in the deep freeze until he rented the chipper (using his credit card). The case was the subject of a Discovery Channel _New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science_episode. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 1999, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-prince/1020/5 "1999-06-16T16:10:00Z")
There’s also a book on that case called, what else, “The Woodchipper Murder”. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 1999, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-prince/1020/6 "1999-06-16T16:16:00Z")
Oh, _yah_? Geeze. I’ll have to get dat one. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 1999, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-prince/1020/7 "1999-06-17T05:51:00Z")
Re: the previous statements about “The Woodchipper Murders” and “some of the events occurred in different murders” the Coen brothers 'fessed up to the fact that they made the story up in interviews with _Entertainment_ _Weekly_ and _Rolling_ _Stone_. Which is why at the end of the film you’ll also see the obligatory small print “any resemblance to persons living or dead…”. The Coens are comic geniouses and heirs to the throne of the late Stanley Kubrick, IMHO and play dandy little jokes like the pseudo-Artist-Formerly-Known-As (Jesus-Isn’t-Prince-A-Prententious-Enough-Name-As-It-Is?!) symbol.