Argo

Argo is an Oscar-winning political drama film about the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran, Iran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Filming began in September 2011, and was released on October 12, 2012 to both critical and commercial success.
==Premise==
During the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, the governments of the United States and Canada partnered to rescue six U.S. foreign service members who had evaded the hostage-taking at the takeover of the American embassy in Iran. The governments were able to convince Iran that the six hostages were members of a film crew who were scouting the area for a movie titled Argo. The hostages were able to escape the country under their fake identities.http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Movies/2011/09/12/Affleck-starts-shooting-Argo-film-in-LA/UPI-30821315856942/
== Plot ==
The film opens by explaining Iran's history of Shaws (or kings.) In the 1950, Iran elected a Prime Minister named Muhammad Mosadeid who returned Iran's oil to the people but in 1953. the US and Great Britain deposed the Prime Minister who placed Rea Pathradie as the new Shaw, he abused his power by letting the people starve and began an era of torture and fear. In 1979, the Shah was overthrown by the country and and Isahtola Homage came to rule the country which resulted in chaos. On November 4, 1979, Iranian Islamists storm the United States embassy in Tehran in retaliation for President Jimmy Carter giving the Shah asylum in the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution, for cancer treatment. Sixty-six of the embassy staff are taken as hostages, but six avoid capture and are sheltered in the home of Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor.
With the escapees' situation kept secret, the U.S. State Department begins to explore options for exfiltrating them from Iran. Tony Mendez, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency exfiltration specialist, is brought in for a consultation. He criticizes the proposals but is at a loss when asked for an alternative. While on the phone with his son, he is inspired by watching Battle for the Planet of the Apes and begins plans for creating a cover story for the escapees: that they are Canadian filmmakers who are in Iran scouting exotic locations for a science-fiction film.
Mendez contacts John Chambers, a Hollywood make-up artist who had previously worked for the CIA. Chambers puts Mendez in touch with film producer Lester Siegel. Together, they set up a phony film production company, publicize their plans, and successfully establish the pretense of developing Argo, a "science fantasy adventure" in the style of Star Wars, to lend the cover story credibility. Meanwhile, the escapees grow restless. The revolutionaries reassemble embassy photographs shredded before the takeover and realize that some personnel are unaccounted for.
Posing as a producer for Argo, Mendez enters Iran under the alias Kevin Harkins and meets with the six escapees. He provides them with Canadian passports and fake identities. Although afraid to trust Mendez's scheme, they reluctantly go along, knowing that he is risking his own life too. A scouting visit to the bazaar to maintain their cover story takes a bad turn when they are harassed by a hostile shopkeeper, but their Iranian culture contact hustles them away from the hostile crowd.
Mendez is told the operation has been cancelled in favor of planned military rescue of the hostages. He pushes ahead anyway, forcing his boss Jack O'Donnell to hastily re-obtain authorization for the mission and rebook their cancelled tickets on a Swissair flight. Tensions rise at the airport, where the escapees' new ticket reservations are confirmed only at the last minute, and the head guard's call to the fake production company in Hollywood is answered only at the last second. The escapees board the plane and at about the same time, the airport authorities are alerted to the ruse. They try to stop them but the plane is able to take off.
To protect the hostages remaining in Tehran from retaliation, all U.S. involvement in the rescue is suppressed, and full credit is given to the Canadian government and its ambassador (who shuts down the embassy and leaves Iran with his wife as the operation is underway). The ambassador's Iranian housekeeper, who had known about the Americans and lied to the revolutionaries to protect them, escapes to Iraq. Mendez is awarded the Intelligence Star, but due to the mission's classified nature, he receives the medal in secret and has to return it afterward. The award is restored to him in 1997, after the Canadian Caper is declassified. Mendez returns to his wife and son in Virginia and soon it explains what happened after the events in the film; the hostages were freed after 444 days, Mendez and Chambers remained friends until Chambers passed away in 2001, Bill Clinton returned Mendez's star and that he lives with his family in Virginia. As the credits roll, President Jimmy Carter is heard commenting on the operation.
==Cast==
*Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez
*Bryan Cranston as Jack O'Donnell
*Clea DuVall as Cora Lijek
*John Goodman as John Chambers
*Michael Parks as Jack Kirby
*Taylor Schilling as Christine Mendez
*Kyle Chandler as Hamilton Jordan
*Victor Garber as Ken Taylor
*Ashley Wood as Beauty
*Tate Donovan as Bob Anders
*Alan Arkin as Lester Siegel
*Chris Messina as Malinov
*Richard Kind as Max Klein
*Titus Welliver as Jon Bates
*Rory Cochrane as Lee Schatz
*Devansh Mehta as Matt Sanders
*Omid Abtahi as Reza
*Kerry Bishe as Kathy Stafford
==Posters==
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==Videos==
Argo International Trailer 1 (2012) - Ben Affleck Movie HD
==References==
Category:2012 films
Category:Political films
Category:Drama
Category:Historical films
Category:Oscar nominated films
Category:Best Picture nominated films
Category:Golden Globe Nominated films
Category:Best Drama Picture Golden Globe winners
Category:Best Picture Academy Award winners
Category:Films whose editor won the Best Film Editing Academy Award
Category:Films whose writer won the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award
Category:Oscar winning films
Category:Best Sound Editing nominated films
Category:Best Sound Mixing nominated films
Category:BAFTA winners (films)
Category:Rated R