The Movie Analysis Of Edward Said's Argo
escape and then they were successful to go to the Canadian embassy. This movie make an attempt to depict the story of freed these hostages from Iran.
Argo was more Iranophobic rather than Islamophobic. It was the story of American Hostages in Iran who were saved by Ben Affleck- the Star and also the director of the movie. Scenes of the Iranians, as the presenter of a Muslim society with women wearing Hijab, rush into the American Embassy, they insult their women and hit them Americans. Also, we see the other scene of aggression when the hostages are flying to America. The guards at the airport run after them and talk to them angrily and in an insulting tone. Undoubtedly, watching Argo is enjoyable for a non-Iranian, because the film had this ability to convince and maintain its audience until the last minutes of the story. But maybe it is not true about the Iranian audience, because, firstly, most of Iranians are aware of the original event(s) which happened in that time, and secondly, they feel and sense a big paradox between what they actually knew and what they watch in the film. The most part of …show more content…
Said is best recognized for his prominent book “Orientalism” 1979, which holds that it is impossible for Westerns to write appropriate accounts of Middle Eastern affairs for the reason that beliefs are infected by cultural biases and superiority. In The Weekly Standard, Stanley Kurtz (2001) explains: (Kurtz, 2012)
“The founding text of postcolonial studies, Orientalism effectively de-legitimated all previous scholarship on the Middle East by branding it as racist. Said drew no distinction between the most ignorant and bigoted remarks of nineteenth-century colonialists and the most accomplished pronouncements of contemporary Western scholars: All Western knowledge of the East was intrinsically tainted with
Argo was more Iranophobic rather than Islamophobic. It was the story of American Hostages in Iran who were saved by Ben Affleck- the Star and also the director of the movie. Scenes of the Iranians, as the presenter of a Muslim society with women wearing Hijab, rush into the American Embassy, they insult their women and hit them Americans. Also, we see the other scene of aggression when the hostages are flying to America. The guards at the airport run after them and talk to them angrily and in an insulting tone. Undoubtedly, watching Argo is enjoyable for a non-Iranian, because the film had this ability to convince and maintain its audience until the last minutes of the story. But maybe it is not true about the Iranian audience, because, firstly, most of Iranians are aware of the original event(s) which happened in that time, and secondly, they feel and sense a big paradox between what they actually knew and what they watch in the film. The most part of …show more content…
Said is best recognized for his prominent book “Orientalism” 1979, which holds that it is impossible for Westerns to write appropriate accounts of Middle Eastern affairs for the reason that beliefs are infected by cultural biases and superiority. In The Weekly Standard, Stanley Kurtz (2001) explains: (Kurtz, 2012)
“The founding text of postcolonial studies, Orientalism effectively de-legitimated all previous scholarship on the Middle East by branding it as racist. Said drew no distinction between the most ignorant and bigoted remarks of nineteenth-century colonialists and the most accomplished pronouncements of contemporary Western scholars: All Western knowledge of the East was intrinsically tainted with