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Recently, as a part of my final project's requirement to attend cultural events, I saw the movie Argo.
Argo is a film based on the real life story of how the CIA used the guise of filming a science fiction film to get several U.S. Embassy staff out of Tehran during the Iranian hostage crisis. The movie was very interesting, and had a documentary-film style that told the personal story of the Agent responsible for the plan to extradite the embassy staff, while noting what was going on around this plan in Iran and in the U.S.
In order to get the staff out of Tehran safely, the CIA agent comes up with a plan to fake the making of a movie; saying that they are scouting for locations in Tehran. The movie they are pretending to make is a rip-off of StarWars, and they convince the Iranian authorities that they are going to use the desert landscape as a backdrop to their movie.
Their plan succeeds in the end, though there are several tense moments; including a scene where the Iranian Revolutionary Guard figures out that the "crew" are actually from the embassy while they are about to board a plan to get out of the country.
How it relates to my final project:
Overall, the movie was very interesting. I found the characters compelling, not the least because they have real-life counterparts. The story tied into my project because it was about putting together a movie, complete with posters, press kits, etc.
This look into the film industry was interesting because it made me think about how I had to promote my final project through our capstone presentation presentation; and made me think about how a film gets delivered to a wider audience.
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