{"id":933,"date":"2013-03-14T10:05:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2017-02-18T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T00:46:01","slug":"discussion-thursday-film-argo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/discussion-thursday-film-argo\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Thursday: Film – Argo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discussion Thursday – It’s Back!!!<\/h3>\n

*shifty eyes* What? Yeah I know it’s been a while!<\/h3>\n

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Title:<\/strong> Argo<\/p>\n

Director:<\/strong> Ben Affleck<\/p>\n

Premise:<\/strong>\u00a0A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran. \u00a0The mission was declassified back in 1997 as 1 of the 50 missions to showcase for the 50th Anniversary of the CIA. \u00a0The book was written, highlighting Tony Mendez,\u00a0Lester Siegel, and John Chambers and their roles in the rescue.\u00a0 \u00a0And in typical Hollywood fashion a movie had to be made about the fake movie ….<\/p>\n

I was first introduced to this film because Rory\u00a0Cochrane\u00a0was attached to it.<\/p>\n

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Considering I was 5 years old when this even took place, I have very little memories of the actually Iran Hostage Controversy. \u00a0I knew probably just enough to get myself into trouble. \u00a0So I went into this movie with open eyes and hoping to learn something.<\/p>\n

I give Ben Affleck credit for laying out the history of why the situation happened. \u00a0He didn’t pull punches, or sugarcoat the situation. \u00a0The mix of real footage with film footage put the audience in the moment.<\/p>\n

The key to really enjoying the film is this: The story isn’t about the hostage situations. It’s not about the six that hid out at the Canadian Embassy. \u00a0The story is about Tony Mendez working with Hollywood to build a fake movie to rescue the six Americans.<\/p>\n

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There is no doubt in my mind why this film won so many awards. \u00a0Everything about it is good. \u00a0Affleck is finally coming into his own as a Director. \u00a0The cast was superb from Snarky comments from Alan Arkin ‘IF I’m going to make a fake film it will be a fake hit’ or John Goodman’s ‘so you want to come into hollywood and act a big shot but not doing anything? You’ll fit right in’.<\/p>\n

The emotions shown from the six Americans had the audience on the edge of the seat, especially as they moved through the airport. \u00a0Logically your brain knew they got out. \u00a0It’s historical fact, but you were still gripping the edge of the seat mentally urging them onward.<\/p>\n

The one scene that sits with me the most is when ‘Hollywood’ is doing a reading of the Argo script to hype it enough to make everyone believe this was a real movie not a CIA mission. \u00a0It’s mixed in with the very real press releases from Iran declaring the hostages as spies and seeing the hostages dragged into the basement to be shot. \u00a0The fake glitz of\u00a0Hollywood\u00a0mixed in with the harsh reality – was beautifully shot.<\/p>\n

Controversy:<\/strong> Cause every film has to have some.<\/p>\n

The two controversies that came out of this film – Besides the snubbing at the Oscars for Best Director – cause dude really? Moving On….<\/p>\n

The Canadian Ambassador has complained loudly that there isn’t enough mention of what the Canadians did. \u00a0Okay – until 1997 the history books praised the Canadians for saving the six Americans. \u00a0And you know they deserve all the praise and glory. \u00a0They were the ones who took the six in, when the UK and Australia Embassies turned them away. \u00a0They put their life in\u00a0jeopardy\u00a0to hide them, and are\u00a0heroes\u00a0for doing so. \u00a0BUT… The movie isn’t about that. \u00a0It’s not about the six Americans. \u00a0It’s about ‘Argo’ the best bad idea of bad ideas to get these guys out. \u00a0It’s about how a CIA operative manipulated Hollywood into thinking they were making a film.<\/p>\n

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Iran is pissed as fucking hell over this movie. \u00a0Yeah I can see why, I mean the fact that the CIA snuck in and walked six\u00a0Americans\u00a0through the airport and out of the country under their noses – yeah that’s\u00a0embarrassing\u00a0 \u00a0Earlier I had stated that this film didn’t hold back. \u00a0They showed the history that lead to the hostage situation, they didn’t sugarcoat the fact the US\/UK were manipulating events. \u00a0They also didn’t sugarcoat that Iran was pissed and the fuse was lit. \u00a0So they didn’t like how they were portrayed and now want to sue the filmakers. \u00a0The thing here is – there are still 52 Americans that were taken hostage and never saw justice for that moment… So they are upset that the movie makes them look bad – yet do not acknowledge the fact they raided an Embassy which is equivalent of attacking the country and took hostages – tried and convicted them as Spies. \u00a0So dudes you don’t get to sue over a movie when you’re not acknowledging why the movie was made in the first place.<\/p>\n

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Discussion:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyone see it? \u00a0Did you even know Rory was in the film or was he well disguised behind that mustache?! What did you think of the film? Like, Hate, or Not really your thing? Let’s discuss!<\/p>\n

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Discussion Thursday – It’s Back!!! *shifty eyes* What? Yeah I know it’s been a while!   Title: Argo Director: Ben Affleck Premise:\u00a0A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran. \u00a0The mission was declassified back in 1997 as 1 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[484],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sylum-articles","tag-sylum-essay-series"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Da1M-f3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4197,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-10th-anniversary-qa-13\/","url_meta":{"origin":933,"position":0},"title":"Sylum 10th Anniversary: Q&A","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"June 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 \u00a0 Q:\u00a0 As you can see most of my question relate to how in my imagination more characters could exist in sylum universe.\u00a0 Could the Hunger Games characters like President Snow or Coin possibly exist? 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