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Argo Movie Analysis

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Argo the movie

Argo is a movie about how CIA’s covert operation that had been designed to return 6 American citizens safely from Iran. This occurrence takes place in the crisis of 1979 which was a hostage crisis, where the CIA agents disguise themselves as film production members Hollywood. The movie starts with a juxtaposition of the characters in the film, showing real-life expectations and inspiration photos. Over the last decade, this art has been adopted as a de rigeur in historical dramas that target mainstream audiences.
These attempts have been viewed as a way to prevent one from getting entangled over another as they are on their way out of the multiplex they try to call Wikipedia using their smartphones. However, Argo’s plot and …show more content…

Unlike other Hollywood movies

that are used to change small facts into long tales, Argo concentrates more on the factual events that took place. The touch of comic tone has also been included in the movie.
Plot

The time is 1979, revolutionaries from Iran attack the American embassy in Iran, in the process they take hostage several Americans who serve as leverage. However, six of the hostages escape, and they seek refuge to the nearby residence of a Canadian Ambassador. Orders to the CIA are given to whisk them out of that country. A few options are available to the CIA, and they decide to hire the expertise of exfiltration expert Tony Mendez, who devices a very daring plan. He suggests that they create a Canadian film project that aims to shoot in Iran and the process smuggle the Americans out in disguise as their crew. With assistance from some established Hollywood contacts, Mendez creates the ruse and then proceeds to Iran bearing the tag of the Associate producer. However, in Iran, time was running out with the security forces as they attempted to unravel the truth. The crew together with the White House has huge doubts about the …show more content…

The screenplay is lighted by the elements of Hollywood of the charade, because of the comical performances that are from Alan Arkin. He acts as a movie mogul that is a veteran and John Goodman, who plays the role of the makeup artist. The movie is also characterized by a large number of one-liners, only the movie The Avengers defats it in making every character look smart and clever. However, all this comic is upset on the realization of what is at stake. From the point where the embassy is stormed, the grappling events are recreated and pretty much set the tone for the rest of the movie. Everything about the movie is learned within a briefing that takes two minutes, but they help us understand the intensity of the matter deriving from their paranoid tendencies and expressions that show

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