The two screenwriters of the film successfully adapted the historical facts into a relaxed, orderly, compact and substantial film script, which laid a good foundation for Ben Affleck’s creation. The proficient use makes the film look unique and authentic. In particular, some documentary-style photography techniques give people a sense of "restore history".
The 6 real members of the embassy in
history took photos with President Carter after returning to the United States. However, the movie is not history after all. The historical "escape from Tehran" is more legendary than the movie in a certain sense. Although the two expressed the same theme: Iran detained 66 US embassy staff to claim the asylum of the former King Pahlavi in the US. US CIA agents, with the help of the Canadian Embassy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, brought 6 US embassy staff who "missed the net", disguised as members of the crew of the so-called "ARGO" movie, escaped the censorship of the Iranian authorities and boarded a Swissair plane. Fleeing from Iran.
In real history, the experience of six Americans gathered at the Canadian ambassador’s home is far more complicated than in the movie. They originally split into two groups with others and escaped from the U.S. Embassy. They fled outside the embassy for 6 days before hiding in the Canadian ambassador’s house with the help of friends of Canadian diplomats. The Canadian ambassador to Iran and the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs behind him are the real protagonists.
The stills of "Escape from Tehran" show that the movie has tried to imitate historical facts
In order to save the Americans trapped in Iran without being tainted by the infamy of "supporting US espionage operations," the Canadian government did its best to provide six Americans with six passports, printed with fake Iranian visas, and the Americans were responsible. Fill in the false identities of these people. However, because the Americans made mistakes during their busy schedule, they did not consider Iran's unique calendar, which resulted in the wrong date on the visa. This error was only discovered in the Canadian Embassy. However, all of this was hurriedly covered up by the ambassador's several brief appearances and the sentence "We ask Canada to issue passports to them" in the movie.
As for the brave agents of the CIA, they did not actually encounter any twists and turns, and no one had doubts about them in the chaotic Iran. Iran already has 66 American hostages in hand. They don't care much about the whereabouts of these people, and there is no search against them at all. The escape was smooth sailing, and the hostages passed the airport security check smoothly and boarded the plane to return home. The only setback was that the aircraft encountered a mechanical failure before takeoff and was forced to delay the flight for maintenance. This allowed the seven members of the operation to experience "the longest hour in their lives" in fright.
There were no enemy hunts, no suspicious citizens all over the street, no sudden cancellation of operations and hastily resumed support, and no emergency trucks chasing airplanes. If the CIA rescues people in this way, let alone the best movie, it won't even make a movie.
In order to turn history into a movie, the screenwriters had to add various almost clichéd commercial plots unique to Hollywood: agents incarnate as lone fighters in order to save the people; a small number of brainy middle-level personnel in the national intelligence machine constitute an elite team; hire children to combine The note is only to find the evil villain with photos of the embassy staff; there are also convergent but tense gun chases...Various typical Hollywood bridges that do not exist in history are stuffed into the script with historical facts, in order to show the drama of the CIA agents. Change more and more, so you can understate the Canadian government's actions. After all, "Escape from Tehran" is an American movie. It would be extremely politically incorrect to compete for Oscars if Canadian freshmen who have no sense of international presence robbed the scene.
When the hostages in history returned to their country, the United States played a banner of “Thank you to Canada”.
As for the portrayal of the Khomeini era after the Islamic Revolution, from the screenwriter to the director, they selected what they needed to maximize the tense film atmosphere and rendering. Dangerous environment.
The Iranians appearing in the movie are all excited, angry, full-eyed, and lacking in reason. There are not many scenes seen on the street, but several scenes were left for the Islamic Revolutionary Committee to retaliate against former regime personnel. Including the deliberately added scenes of chasing planes and the fictitious plots of employing children to "patch together" photos of US embassy personnel, they all try to describe a "traditional" Iran, an evil axis country that supports terrorism and believes in extreme religions.
The irony is that in the real history of Iran, children spelled out documents, but found a lot of evidence of US espionage in Iran. Behind the glorious image of American agents are their long-term support for the dictatorship in Iran. In 1953, under the planning and arrangement of the CIA, the United States supported the Iranian King Pahlavi’s military and propaganda media to launch a coup, and through the so-called "Ajax Operation" overthrew the elected Prime Minister Mohammed who declared oil nationalization and rejected Anglo-American oil companies. • The Mosadhai government. Later, out of geopolitical considerations, the United States not only acquiesced in Pahlavi’s domestic dictatorship, but also exported advanced weapons and equipment to him in large quantities.
Pahlavi did not hesitate to suppress mass demonstrations.
With the help of the United States and Israeli secret service organizations, Pahlavi formed the "Iranian National Security and Intelligence Organization", commonly known as "Savak", to bloody suppress dissidents. In the name of "maintaining national security," the media, local dissidents, and even textual prisons have been suppressed with charges of "subversion," "incitement," and "disclosure". All movements demanding national independence were suppressed, and thousands of opposition democrats were brutally killed.
"No one can overthrow me. I have the support of 700,000 troops, all workers, and the vast majority of the people." This is what Pahlavi once said to a reporter from U.S. News and World Report. At the same time, his army shot at protesters in cities such as Tabriz and Qom, killing and wounding thousands of people.
After the Islamic Revolution, Pahlavi, who could no longer continue his dictatorship, went into exile in the United States. The United States rejected the request of the new Iranian government to exchange Pahlavi and provided political asylum for Pahlavi. It is under this circumstance that the U.S. Embassy was besieged and attacked by Iranian students. The 120-minute movie only took 1 minute and 30 seconds to understate at the beginning, and then left it behind.
Really failed rescue: The wreckage of the crashed transport plane and the dead US military corpse in Operation Eagle Talon. The
film only said that the hostages were held for 444 days, and did not mention the rescue operation of the US government afterwards: the US military organization codenamed in April 1980 The special operations of "Operation Eagle Talon" used 8 helicopters and 8 other aircraft to try to forcibly enter Tehran and rescue the hostages. The operation was eventually cancelled due to a flight accident. The US military returned without success after 8 people were killed, all helicopters and the wreckage of a transport plane were dropped. This unprecedented hostage rescue operation in the history of the US military disappeared. No one received a medal, and no producer would put it on the screen.
Compared with the posters of the "Yaguo" movie, in history, the U.S. government was finally forced to unfreeze Iran's US$8 billion overseas assets in exchange for the release of the hostages taken back to China. The release of the hostages happened "coincidentally" a few minutes after President Reagan took office. This kind of drama of "getting five hundred robbed, giving you one thousand and then issuing two thousand yuan invoice" happened in reality, and it is far more important than Hollywood movies.
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