If you want applause, be a clown.

Mae 2022-03-22 09:01:06

Written on March 3, 2013

When this decision was made, I knew that I was able to stick to a certain interest and I was going to go on a path of no return. I watched all the best films of all previous Oscars, and looked back from the one this year, of course. , Is not only a kind of improvement, but also a kind of endurance training, so these videos are likely to make you want to fall asleep.

"Escape from Tehran" won the 85th Oscar for Best Picture, Best Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay in 2013. The film is about an international political event. In 1979, the U.S. Embassy in Iran was surrounded by the Iranian People’s Group that had just won the Islamic Revolution. 66 U.S. diplomats and civilians were detained as hostages for 444 days, of which 6 escaped. After he came out, he could only hide in the Canadian Embassy in Iran, and was temporarily blessed to live a life of fear. Until a CIA agent (the actor and director) planned a rescue plan, relying on a fake movie to take the 6 "filmmakers" out of Tehran and rescued back to their own country. Is this the best rescue plan? I don't know. It looks complicated and it is easy to hit the guns of those Iranian soldiers.

Politics, rights, and the relationship between the United States and the world are indeed unimportant to me. I rarely pay attention to it, and I can’t understand it. But I believe that the Iranians will not welcome the film, and they are even more dissatisfied with the announcement of the winners by Mrs. Obama. History is unclear, and the relationship is unknown. Although it is not easy to be alone, it can at least be respected.

At the end of the film, there is a sentence that gave me a deep experience, "If you want to get applause, then go to be a clown." Indeed, many honors can only be known by yourself and cannot be shared. This is the most meaningful sentence from watching this film. Words, to me.

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Extended Reading
  • Augusta 2022-03-24 09:01:07

    Made by Hollywood standards, skilled in techniques lack surprises.

  • Mina 2021-10-20 18:59:14

    The perfect marriage of political themes and Hollywood entertainment. The filming and screenwriting are all accurate, and the director's balance between humor and seriousness seems to have taken the director's prize. As for the deliberate last-minute rescue, personal heroism and the weakening of political issues, this film has done its best under the current Hollywood system.

Argo quotes

  • [last lines]

    Tony Mendez: [to his wife, on the doorstep of his home after his return from Iran] Can I come in?

  • Tony Mendez: "The Minister of Culture and Guidance has approved your location scout. He will send his representative to meet you and your crew at the Khayyam entrance to the Grand Bazaar tomorrow at 3 p.m."

    Jack O'Donnell: They called your bluff.

    Tony Mendez: Maybe they're cooperating.

    Jack O'Donnell: Absolutely not. Seven Americans walking the bazaar is asking for a riot. It's the hive.

    Tony Mendez: Seven Canadians, Jack.

    Jack O'Donnell: Never give them multiple shots at a cover. Are they even ready?

    Tony Mendez: They're getting there.

    Jack O'Donnell: There's no prize for most improved.

    Tony Mendez: I don't have a choice. We say no, they show up at the residence and drag everyone out at gunpoint. How well do you think their covers are gonna hold up while they're getting their fingernails pulled out?