The main theme movie, Warner took another big advantage.

Casimer 2022-04-21 09:01:07

In the past few years, the Celestial Dynasty ushered in the big day of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the founding of the Party, and it coincided with the booming film industry. Therefore, film works named as gift films emerged one after another, including "The Great Cause of Founding a People's Republic of China" that will definitely go down in film history. and "The Great Work of the Party", almost all actors, famous, anonymous, big and small, are scrambling to show their faces in the film, even those who have no lines at all, so in these two films There is a situation where the star's face is worthless like a revolving lantern. Movies with a theme like this have not only been fun to film on major anniversaries of this dynasty, but Hollywood has also made many films over the years, and it has also won a lot of Oscars.

Before this year's Academy Awards, for the final award - the Best Picture Award, the most popular ones were none other than "Escape from Tehran", "Pi" and "Lincoln". With Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing going to Tehran, I knew that Lincoln was doomed that night, but it was fine, and Best Actor was somewhat of a consolation. It also belongs to the main theme movie. "Lincoln" and "Tehran" only differ in the focus of the story. Compared with "Tehran", the whole rescue story is created with tension and excitement, while "Lincoln" makes a big fuss about the actors' performances and strives to create A legendary movie of a legendary character. But it is a pity that "Lincoln" failed to replicate the magic of "Gandhi", and it failed to be as easy as "Forrest Gump". In the end, "Warner Bros." had the last laugh, and Spielberg and his "DreamWorks" were still slightly Due to the lack of heat, Ang Lee and another old slick "20th Century Fox" took advantage of the profit, and won the best director by relying on special effects and the story of the sword. It is worth mentioning that although Ang Lee has won twice The best director, but usually the best film that the best director can win, he failed to win the championship twice. I have to say that this is a bit regrettable. It is also a balance of the judges of the American Film Institute. Several major systems The studios are desperately trying to win the award, and it coincides with the fact that several films this year are good, and there is no precedent for making a "double yolk egg", so we can only balance it, everyone gets their own.

But in general, "Tehran" has become the biggest winner. The money that "Warner Bros." spent for public relations is not known whether the film's box office rebound will be recovered after winning the award.

The film was directed and starred by handsome Ben Affleck, but unfortunately he failed again in the best director. The film tells the story of 1979, because the United States interfered in Iran's internal affairs, the US embassy in Iran was smashed by the Iranian people who had just won the Islamic Revolution. , 66 US diplomats and civilians were held hostage for 444 days. During the period, a CIA agent proficient in disguise, Tony Mendez, planned a rescue plan and successfully took six American diplomats trapped in the Canadian embassy in Iran away from Iran. During the rescue, Mendez disguised himself as a filmmaker, and the six diplomats falsely claimed to be crew members with Mendez, and the fake film they filmed was called "Argo." This film narrates such a rescue story. The many difficulties and thrills from preparation to implementation are fully displayed in it. The whole story is still good to watch, but how credible it is Coupled with the fact that it was filmed by an American, how much real history is restored by this one-sided statement?

After watching this movie, there is nothing else, but I admire the courage and creativity of Mendez, and I regret that those soldiers in Iran do not have mobile phones!

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Argo quotes

  • Lester Siegel: [Tony finds the "Argo" screenplay] It's a turnaround. It's dog shit.

    Tony Mendez: It's a space movie in the Middle East. Does it matter?

  • [shooting down ideas to exfiltrate the house guests]

    Tony Mendez: Sir, if these people can read or add, pretty soon they're gonna figure out they're six short of a full deck. It's winter. You can't afford to wait around till spring so it's nice enough to take a bike ride. The only way out of that city is the airport. We build new cover identities for them, you send in a Moses, he takes them out on a commercial flight.