Argo: Movie Analysis

Erick Mejia
M.A. Suzanne Abad
ENC 3310
30 June 2013
ARGO
Argument
Argo is based on a true story happened in 1979, when a group of Iranians stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, kidnapping some embassy employees and fleeing six diplomats at the Embassy of Canada. Becoming it in the shelter where they would be extracted by an agent of the CIA and taken back to their country. This crisis brought diplomatic headlines of the international press who followed this stress daily enntre the administration of President Jimmy Carter and the regime of Ayatollah Kohemeni.
Characters
Ben Affleck: Tony Mendez, CIA agent, exfiltration specialist.
Alan Arkin: Lester Siegel, producer.
Bryan Cranston: Jack O 'Donnell, boss of Tony Mendez
John Goodman:
Sheila Vand: Sahar, homekeeper in Canada Embassy.
Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) is the CIA agent specialized in exfiltration of people in critical situations. Presents to his boss, Jack O 'Donnell, the release plan members of the diplomatic corps refugees in Canada Embassy in Tehran as if they were actors in a movie in the Middle East entitled "ARGO", a name taken from Greek mythology . This at the same time must have the approval of the Secretary of State, Hamilton Jordan, who is incredulous that Tony Mendez plan is to be successful and is in favor of a military operation, but is convinced and gives the green light to the project.
Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) is convinced by Mendez to form part of the project to save the diplomats in Tehran. At first it is skeptical that this would work, but gives way to a remote chance of success, and gives in to this possibility using the phrase "Argo, f ** k yourself".
John Chambers (John Goodman) is famous Hollywood make-up artist can transform the actors to represent the most diverse roles, Tony Mendez is convinced by the idea of the fictional movie and go after Lester Siegel, movie producer, who is reluctant, because he sees the failure of the implementation of this fiction but before an image of the TV about demonstrations in Tehran, relents and becomes a entuiasta Mendez the idea for the release of the six "refugees" in the Embassy of Canada in
The camera will zoom in and out of the cartoons for us to understand how reality can be also a fiction, and since then, the truth is stranger than fiction, especially when inside the embassy feel suffocating pressure the Iranians income to the same embassy, in which characters show us all his existential anguish against an unexpected fact, and this makes the camera in very close shots. Another tense moment is when diplomats out of the embassy of Canada to the Tehran Bazaar and feel the pressure of the anti-American manifestasiones persecuted and sought them knowing while ignored by the crowd that does not know who are those who are within the van, and mass hits the truck to pass and their distress