Summary Of The Movie Argo

“Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.” In the movie Argo (2012), there is a major problem between Iran and America. In 1979, the American embassy in Tehran was attacked by Iranians and they captured several Americans were taken hostage. However, six managed to escape to the Canadian Ambassador’s home and the CIA was to come up with a plan to retrieve the Americans out of the country. So they put Tony Mendez, a CIA specialist, in charge of the rescue. He comes up with a plan that requires creating a fake movie that will be shot in Iran and capture the Americans as their production crew. Tony Mendez gets some help from some Hollywood friends in order to proceed with this plan. Argo focuses on the staff members escape, the CIA’s plan, and finally the getaway.
Within this film, there are several themes that develop around one key central aspect. The film begins with a quick background narration covering events leading up to the Iranian Revolution. Next, there is a huge group of Iranians surrounding the US Embassy. They eventually attack and overrun the
Because Tony Mendez was assigned to try to rescue the six US staff members at the Canadian’s government office, he gathered some fellow workers he knew to help him come up with a crazy plan: to dress up the six US Americans, who have escaped the embassy’s attack, as Hollywood film production workers who have gone to Iran for some location exploration in association with their Sci-Fi film, that they called Argo. The whole thing is a scam to fool the Iranian people in charge at the airport, so they could get through security check with no problem. The reason why Mendez believed the plan could work is because everyone expects Hollywood type people to be strange and fake. So making these six US escapees look like Hollywood space-type producers was a case of hiding in plain