Ally B – Google

The film Argo, directed by Ben Affleck is based on the true story of the events that took place during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 and 1980. The movie starts with Iranian Islamists storming the United States Embassy in Tehran. The Islamists take 66 of the embassy staff hostage, but six avoid the capture and seek shelter at the Canadian Embassy. The rest of the movie follows the main character Tony Mendez – a CIA agent whose aim is to go and save the 6 embassy staff. He comes up with a plan to create a fake movie and go to Tehran, Iran to ‘film it’ when in reality he’s going there to save the embassy staff. The basic premise of the movie follows the historically accurate events but there are many elements of the movie that have been fictionalised and many of the real events have been neglected. Many historians who have studied this event and people who were involved back in 1979 have stated their concern with the inaccurate portrayal of events and how clear it was that the movie was made for Hollywood. The stakes are heightened, and the climax is shown much more intense than it truly was. The movie glorifies Tony, the CIA and America and ignores other countries such as Canada, Britain and Sweden who were also trying to help the hostages. To conclude, the film Argo displays a partially accurate re-creation of the historical events that took place in Tehran, Iran in 1979 and 1980. The film dramatizes the ending and it can be seen that this was made to portray the events in an action film more than a historical film. The film up plays the roles of the American CIA and downplays the roles of Canada, Britain and other countries. Overall, the film is a good dramatic portrayal of the events but when considering the historical accuracy it does not live up to its ‘based on a true story’ title as well as it should.

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this is a ten amazing work ken !! you are kenough!! anyways back to the review there were too many shirtless men. didn’t know how serious cellulite and standing flat footed is thank you for the warning barbie. the musical sequence confused us so much but he’s just ken, anywhere else he would be a ten. i love horses and the patriarchy and women and singing and playing the guitar and barbie. so i guess i’m ken also??!! so many hot women wowweee. i loved the breaking the fourth wall moment so outta pocket 🍗🍗