A movie about Minnesota named after a town inside the border of North Dakota, Fargo (1996) opens by panning back from a nonexistent statue of Paul Bunyan at the gateway to the town of Brainerd.
This scene comes just after the title card falsely declares the film to be a work of nonfiction.
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