Argo

Pedro Peniche
3/4/14
1A
Argo The Movie

Argo did not win the Oscar for the best movie just because people liked it. Argo is a movie directed and produced by Ben Affleck, in the movie Ben Affleck also plays the role of a main character along with Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, and John Goodman. The movie plays during the time Iran’s Revolution. The movie based itself on 6 Americans that work in the US embassy in Tehran and when the Iranian protesters break into it they manage to escape and take shelter in the Canadian ambassadors house. The CIA decides to collaborate with Hollywood and created a fake movie called Argo and the plan they had consisted in giving the 6 Americans fake passports, visas and take them out of the country like if they where crew from the movie. I really enjoyed Argo but the things I like the more will be the acting, the set design and the movie plot.

In my opinion the best thing about Argo will definitely be the story plot. The movie attracts many people because based on a true story movies make people want to see it because you can actually see what happened with the people that lived thru those moments. It shows how one thing led to another, and the exact details, for example when the main actor (Ben Affleck) comes up with the idea while he talks with his son on the phone and they both watch a movie about space invaders. The set design in Argo makes the movie even more fascinating. All the scenes in the movie where supposed to be filmed in Tehran where actually in the US and I bet most people really thought they where filmed on Tehran, it can even be passed as a documentary filmed by someone at the moment.

The actors where also perfect in the movie, starting by Ben Affleck, he played the role of Tony Mendez from the CIA and he is the one who extracts the Americans from Iran. He’s character made a really good part because he made Tony Mendez look like a passionate man, passionate for his work, his family, but also he was really smart and seemed to be professional at making strategies in situations like the ones in Iran. Goodman and Arkin play the role of the producer and the director of the fake movie. Many laughs come from them, they give the movie a comedy part even though the movie has nothing to do with comedy, both actors give an example of Hollywood people, mean but comedy mean and they have enemies and of course both of them are rich people.

Even though Argo won the Oscar for the best picture and for many people it was with out doubt the best movie, there will still be people that disagree with this decision and of course the movie has its flaws because for what I know no movie has ever been perfect. The “based on a true story” from this movie has caused chaos, There exist a problem, Argo makes the situation look like if the extraction of the 6 Americans was all thanks to Tony Mendez and the CIA, when on the true story people like the Canadian ambassador had more to loose than its reputation. In defense to Argo the movie can certainly be bias, and since Americans made the movie and they save Americans they want to make the US the protagonist of the movie, but that does not mean they say that Canada and other places had nothing to do with the extraction. I have also heard people say that they find offensive the fact that Goodman and Arkin laugh about the situation when they are next to the pool in their Beverly Hills mansion, and not in a live or die situation. Again in Argo’s defense those parts only give the characters characteristics and gives us a taste of a Hollywood life.

Argo definitely deserved the Oscar for best picture; even though it had flaws it still makes a fabulous movie. The movie faboulosity comes from its set design, acting and plot. But lets also give credit to the amazing actor and director the movie had, Ben Affleck. So liked or not the movie people can’t deny “argo fuck yourself” caused tremendous laughs in people.