Analysis Of The Movie Argo

Argo Film Critique Ben Affleck, director, does an excellent job with the movie Argo. Being able to find the fear and suspension in every scene is difficult to do, yet Affleck does so seamlessly. Based off a true historical event that happened in 1979, Affleck choses to pick the Iranian Hostage Crisis. He starts out the movie with some background information, so that viewers are able to have some understanding of what has happened and why this is happening. He then merges into a heartbreaking scene, where a mob of Iranians have bombarded their way into the American Embassy. Screaming and shouting at the top of their lungs, the actions happening outside are horrific. Showing the fear in every American’s eyes in the building pulls at every heart

He, being able to speak Farsi, is able to get through the men who are questioning them. After trying to convincing every one of their story, the Iranian guard must make a phone call to their producer’s room back in the United States. Chambers and Lester just make to the room when the phone rings. After numerous rings, the guard nearly puts down the phone before someone picks up. This was a sigh of relief for the lucky six and the audience. Once on the plane, you can still see the anxiety that fills the room. Tense legs, staring eyes, and short shallow breaths. “After all, Iranian revolutionaries really did call for the death of all Americans. And yet, by placing the image of murderous Middle Easterners front and center in his film, there 's little doubt that the effect is to reawaken memories… to stir up similar feelings at exactly the moment when doing so would be most dangerous”, Andrew Schenker wrote this for Slant Magazine back when Argo first came to theaters. Schenker really did explain this well. If the lucky six would have stuttered in the slightest or said the wrong word, the Iranian guards would have known something was up and would have them