Argo
Posted by Itheliving 12 years, 9 months ago to Movies
Argo / Rated R for language, smoking and violence
With the Oscar folks getting ready for their annual TV show awarding each other for their efforts it’s time to take a look at the main Oscar contenders for Best Film and determine whether or not you should make an effort to see their slate of nominees. I can help.
Argo presented a problem for it’s filmmakers. Any time you make a film based on known historic events there is a big challenge. Many people seeing your film may not be familiar with what has occurred while others remember the event well. When the film depends on suspense for it’s entertainment value you have to come up with a story telling effort that will make the film suspenseful even for those who know the ultimate and unchangeable outcome.
Director and star Ben Affleck has done exactly what he needed to do. This film is amazingly well done. He has added top talent including Alan Arkin and John Goodman who are not at the location where the main part of the story takes place but provide plenty of humor and fun to a story that needs both of these attributes.
Argo is about the 1979 seizure of the American embassy in Iran by the revolutionaries and the ensuing events to free the US representatives from their captors. This story centers on 6 of the embassy workers who escape by a back door and end up hiding in the Canadian embassy hoping for a way out.
The way out is designed by the CIA and aided by the Canadian participation in attempting to help them to reach home. The plot to get them out is a wild plan to fake the production of a science fiction film and sneak them out as Hollywood film makers. The plot seems so improbable that it just might work. Then again the hostages may all end up shot in the head just outside the coach class lounge of the Teheran Airport.
Fun to watch and suspenseful at the same time is a tribute to the screenplay and the able direction of Ben A. Up until Ben’s film The Town in 2010 Ben seemed to be a minor actor and given no credit as a director. After I saw and reported on The Town you know I felt that we may have been making a big mistake about Ben’s directing and writing abilities. Argo proves I was right. Assuming there are no more Jersey Girl (2004) in his near future.
Rated 3.5 out of 4.0 reasons I still do not believe they could possibly get away with it. But then Ben did get away with Jersey Girl.
With the Oscar folks getting ready for their annual TV show awarding each other for their efforts it’s time to take a look at the main Oscar contenders for Best Film and determine whether or not you should make an effort to see their slate of nominees. I can help.
Argo presented a problem for it’s filmmakers. Any time you make a film based on known historic events there is a big challenge. Many people seeing your film may not be familiar with what has occurred while others remember the event well. When the film depends on suspense for it’s entertainment value you have to come up with a story telling effort that will make the film suspenseful even for those who know the ultimate and unchangeable outcome.
Director and star Ben Affleck has done exactly what he needed to do. This film is amazingly well done. He has added top talent including Alan Arkin and John Goodman who are not at the location where the main part of the story takes place but provide plenty of humor and fun to a story that needs both of these attributes.
Argo is about the 1979 seizure of the American embassy in Iran by the revolutionaries and the ensuing events to free the US representatives from their captors. This story centers on 6 of the embassy workers who escape by a back door and end up hiding in the Canadian embassy hoping for a way out.
The way out is designed by the CIA and aided by the Canadian participation in attempting to help them to reach home. The plot to get them out is a wild plan to fake the production of a science fiction film and sneak them out as Hollywood film makers. The plot seems so improbable that it just might work. Then again the hostages may all end up shot in the head just outside the coach class lounge of the Teheran Airport.
Fun to watch and suspenseful at the same time is a tribute to the screenplay and the able direction of Ben A. Up until Ben’s film The Town in 2010 Ben seemed to be a minor actor and given no credit as a director. After I saw and reported on The Town you know I felt that we may have been making a big mistake about Ben’s directing and writing abilities. Argo proves I was right. Assuming there are no more Jersey Girl (2004) in his near future.
Rated 3.5 out of 4.0 reasons I still do not believe they could possibly get away with it. But then Ben did get away with Jersey Girl.
