Argo - Movie Review

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Zora Flatley
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This movie is based on a true story told by agent Tony Mendez on American spies. It’s such an unbelievable story, you will be on your toes most of the time. But Ben Affleck, the director, and star of the film made sure to highlight the humor in the story.

The film starts with the CIA deciding to create a rather fake “Canadian” film and shoot it in Tehran to rescue six Americans from there. It was a highly undercover operation and they used Cinema because you can be easily fooled with the glamour of filmmaking and not assume that this is a simple rescue mission.

When Tehran was penetrated by pro-Ayatollah, they held all employees at the American Embassy in Tehran hostage, but six of those American employees succeeded in running away.

With nowhere to go, they had to hide at the Canadian ambassador’s house, but they couldn’t stay there for long, so Mendez (played by Ben Affleck) came up with an idea that would let them into Tehran and near the Canadian Embassy without raising any suspicions or go anywhere near political negotiations and the rising issues between the two countries. Mendez was known for these kinds of missions, but this one was unique.

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The film stars with Mendez trying really hard to convince his bosses and everyone around him that this idea will work. They will actually make a film, have all the details, all the planning, the decision making, the pre-production, and production phases will all be complete.

Except for locations, that will be the reason for them to go to Iran, to scout different locations for the film to be shot. In order to convince another country that a film is real, you need to actually work a little bit on it and start marketing for it a bit and that is what happened.

That was the most interesting part of the story. The fact that they had the film written, hiring people to work on it, and had Variety Magazine talking about it. They even made a poster for the film and semi-final decisions for the cast.

Mendez tries his best to take care of all the details. The plan was that they needed 7 fake Canadian passports and a name and place for a fake production company.

They did their best to make the mission flawless; they would enter Tehran and scout, with their members of the crew and some Iranian officials, and they would get to meet the Canadian ambassador and have the six terrified hidden Americans wonder around Tehran with them, then fly back on a Swissair flight.

The film is funny, exciting, and very thrilling; watching it will be an absolute joy even though I wished the tension between them and the Iranian officers who spoke English wasn’t that intense.

However, the plan succeeded smoothly, which is kind of unbelievable, but knowing that most of that story is actually true makes this film even more enjoyable.