You ever been to Minneapolis?Grimsrud: No.Carl: Would it kill you to say something?Grimsrud: I did.Carl: 'No.' That's the first thing you've said in the last four hours.That's a, that's a fountain of conversation, man.That's a geyser.I mean, whoa, daddy, stand back, man.Shit, I'm sittin' here drivin', doin' all the drivin', man, the whole f--kin' way from Brainerd, drivin', just tryin' to chat, you know, keep our spirits up, fight he boredom of the road, and you can't say one f--king thing just in the way of conversation? (Grimsrud fails to respond and looks straight ahead.The evocative, much-loved film was formulated as a stylish rom-com drama (known as 'dramedy'), with liberal and verbose doses of neurotic ("nebbish"), self-defeating, and self-ironic humor.She feels threatened by the circumstances:Spade: How bad a spot are you actually in?Brigid: As bad as could be.Jean: Napoleon and Josephine!As the Colonel shuffles the cards (forgetting himself for a moment and showing his real card-shuffling skill), Jean warns: "Every man for himself.