The following spoilers involve many details of the film, please be careful. Due to the English version, some translations will be different from the official ones, please understand.
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In 1979, a revolution broke out in Iran, and the reigning King Pahlavi (Shah Pahlavi, Shah means king in Iranian language, this is also mentioned in the video ) was overthrown and fled to the United States to seek political asylum. The revolutionaries demanded that the U.S. government repatriate the king to seek political trial. The U.S. government refused to release people, so the revolutionaries began to storm the U.S. consulate in Iran, and the film begins here.
There are 58 staff members at the Japanese and US consulates, and 6 of them are in charge of visa work at the front desk. When the incident occurred, the personnel inside the consulate began to destroy materials in shredders and incinerators to avoid revealing state secrets. Afterwards, all 52 people in the consulate were arrested and taken hostage. The six people at the front desk slipped out of the back door and hid in the Canadian embassy.
Our protagonist, infiltration expert Tony (Note: the protagonist and director, see the cover of the poster) was called by the CIA to perform a secret infiltration into Iran to rescue the 6 American diplomats under siege. At the group meeting, CIA proposed many rescue plans, such as disguising as an international English teacher or NGO staff, all of which were rejected one by one. Inspired by his son, Tony imagined that he could dress up as a Canadian film producer, disguise the hostages as a film crew, and smuggle the hostages from the airport.
Even if it is to make a fake movie, it is bound to have a perfect disguise, the producer, the director, the script, the advertisement, the poster, the script, etc., are indispensable. In order to make the fake show real, Tony came to Hollywood, the movie kingdom, and contacted his long-term friend, the filmmaker John, and the well-known filmmaker Lester to work together to complete this plan.
For the country under the special background of Iran, they discussed various possible scripts, and finally decided to make a science fiction film called "Argo". Robots, aliens, and heroines are all important elements of this film. In order to make the fake show real, they made complete props, company business cards, movie posters, magazine advertisements, and even held a press conference.
In great danger, Tony forged six Canadian passports and stepped on a plane to Iran as a Canadian assistant producer.
At this time, the six Americans who were confined to the Canadian consulate had lost their patience. They knew that once they stepped out of the consulate and were recognized, they would be smashed to pieces by the thugs.
Tony's sudden appearance offers them a glimmer of hope. The six were given brand new names and fictitious personal experiences in order to perform well in the play.
Tony disguised the six people as the director, script, camera and other crew identities, stuffed them into a yellow van, and started a desperate journey.
The streets of Iran are full of crazy mobs, interspersed with burned cars, hanged people, madmen holding signs and shouting slogans, and horrifying street scenes. After finally passing a group of protesting mob, Tony found a local shooting partner and pretended to go to a local market to shoot.
As a result, a diplomat, a woman, did not get permission to take a photo of a shop, and the film crew and the local people had an argument. The faces of three of them were photographed by Iranian revolutionaries.
A group of people returned to their residence, their tensed hearts relaxed a little. The wine was poured and the music played. Amid the joyous sound, a phone call made Tony's heart sink to the bottom. It turned out that the CIA believed that the plan to smuggle hostages by forging Canadian documents, once exposed, would not only strain the relationship between the United States and Canada, but also bring shame to the U.S. government, so it decided to cancel the plan and let Tony return to the United States ahead of schedule.
Slumped down on the bed, Tony fell into conflict and contemplation. A little hope that has been ignited is like being dashed by a shower. After thinking for a long time, he hung up the phone with the person in charge of the CIA, "No matter what you do, I will insist on being responsible for these six people."
Tony concealed this episode from his companions.
The next day, Tony told everyone that if you want to smuggle out of Iran from the airport, you must pass three checkpoints.
Level 1: Aviation counter. When you check in for your boarding pass at the airport, your passport will be checked, because the ground staff of Swiss Airlines is responsible for the check-in, so there is little risk.
Level 2: Customs. Exit check identity, here will focus on verifying each person's identity and visa information. Because there is no white entry on the visas of these six people, they are bound to encounter trouble.
Level 3: The boarding gate. Because of the special period of confrontation between the United States and Iran, for flights to foreign countries, Iraq dispatched special personnel to identify Americans at the boarding gate. This group of people has a high level of education, so the risk of being detected is extremely high.
Just as the seven people were planning, the Iranian revolutionaries had already learned of the six people who ran away. They found the fragments from the paper shredder in the consulate and almost made up the photos of the six people.
Level 1: In
the end, Tony took the six people to the airport, but at the check-in counter, he unexpectedly found that their tickets were not recorded in the system. It turned out that the CIA had cancelled their return ticket.
Just when Tony fell into despair, he asked the staff to confirm the ticket again, and a miracle happened, and the boarding pass jumped out. It turned out that with the efforts of his CIA friends, the US government compromised and restored the ticket.
Checkpoint 2:
With the suspicious eyes of the customs officers, the group handed over their Canadian passports. Due to the lack of white slips when entering the country, the staff stopped the group. At this time, the crew handed over a letter of cooperation from the local film company, and it was released easily.
Level 3:
Finally came to the registration gate, but met the Iranian censors with guns. A group of people were taken to the interrogation room aside because the language problem was very suspicious. Just when this fake drama was about to cross the gang, the director of the crew suddenly jumped out and told the script and storyboard of the film in Iranian language vividly, and concentratedly said that the film would be shot in Iranian language to promote the film. Iranian tradition, showing local culture, blabla. . . The interrogators still refused to give in. They called Hollywood according to their business cards to confirm the identity of the crew. The phone from Hollywood rang, "Oh, you ask Director XX, he has gone abroad to film."
A second before the boarding gate closed, the group was finally released.
At this time, the revolutionaries had already learned the true identity of the pedestrian, and they quickly turned on the airport console to try to prevent the plane from taking off. A group of thugs smashed the windows of the boarding gate and chased the plane in a police car.
The plane slowly accelerated from the runway, took off, rose, and disappeared into the chaotic sky.
two months later. . . .
On the territory of the United States, the six people who were rescued were warmly welcomed by the people.
Tony was awarded the U.S. Department of Defense's special Medal of Honor, the Intelligence Star, but, without a public ceremony, his hostage rescues will be left in the dust.
In January 1981, 444 days after the incident, all 52 members of the US consulate were released. During the period of various mental torture, suicide attempts continued.
In 1997, the "Iranian hostage incident" was lifted by the US government.
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When the movie was about to be released, I hurried to the theater to make it up. After two hours, my nerves were completely tense and my palms were sweating. , there is no cold field. I rarely watch sneak peeks, and this experience deserves a five-star rating.
The film is based on real historical events, and it is predicted that the Oscar will be awarded (you can see why "The Eighteen Hairpins of Jinling" has been badly criticized in the United States. Don't tell the film critics, the story is good, but fiction is not counted)
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