Steve Buscemi Stars as John Kasich in Film Based on His Hatred of 'Fargo'

This might be better than the movie.

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If there's one thing politicians are passionate about, it is having sometimes questionable opinions. In fact, presidential hopeful and Cruz/Trump alternative John Kasich is so commited to this that in his 2006 book Stand For Something, Kasich dedicated several pages to talking about his experience of renting Fargo from an ancient brick and mortar movie rental chain called Blockbuster, and subsequently hating it.  

Steve Buscemi, who starred in Fargo and whose character was notoriously put into a wood chopper after his former accomplice murdered him, was a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night and topics turned to the fatwa John Kasich issued against Fargo.

Buscemi read a small excerpt from the book that goes into a lot of unnecessary detail about the rental process. "I was in my local video store looking for a video to watch with my wife, Karen, during one of our few quiet evenings together at home. Walked right over to that shelf where they have their general titles, grabbed a copy and took it home." To which Colbert remarked, "That's a really exciting amount of detail about that whole process... he really paints a picture."

The real problem came "when Karen and I got to the part where they chop up a guy in a grinder, we looked at each other and thought, 'What the heck are we watching here?' It was graphic and brutal and completely unnecessary, and it rubbed us in so many wrong ways, we had to shut the thing off right there in the middle."

All of which led to a one man campaign to get Blockbuster to drop Fargo. Buscemi decided to make things right with Kasich and star opposite Colbert in a hilarious film about said quest to rid Blockbuster's shelves of Fargo.

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