March 10, 2013

• The Hollywood Option

  I watched Argo today. For those of you that might not have seen it, you might want to stop reading, go and watch then come back and finish reading because I’m probably going to give away much of the moving, including the ending. Did you know Ben Affleck beats the shit out of an old lady at the end of the movie?

  Okay there, so now now we have gotten rid of all the people who didn’t want to read this post which is most of you. The movie is the true story about how the CIA created a fake movie studio and pretended to be making a movie to rescue six Americans from Iran during the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979-1980. Anyway, as we all know by now the movie won best picture at the Oscars just a couple of weeks ago. There is no surprise as to why it won best pic, after all Hollywood LOVES to pat itself on the back and brag about how great they are and this movie does showcase just how WONDERFUL Hollywood can be at times. Although that sounds like I’m being cynical and jaded (and I am), I did actually love the movie. It was very tense and quite the story.

  I was blown away by the whole plot and thought of the movie. Honestly, it just sounds made up and like a totally dumb fucking idea. But yet, not only was it true but it also happened to work. And the amazing part is that the whole rescue was kept classified and top secret for 16 years! And while the whole Iranian hostage situation was an amazing and interesting story, I think this might have been more of an interesting story than the story of the 50 others that were held hostage.

  The Iranian hostage crisis was the first story I ever remember hearing about when I was a kid. The situation started when I was only four years old and lasted until I was five. It was the earliest memory I have of seeing a news story on t.v. so I guess in a way, it is the start of my formation of understanding current events, even though I did not understand it in the least at the time. I just remember the news reports. It was kind of cool to watch the movie and see some actual archival news footage of that time and be able to fully understand now what happened. And it was even more amazing to know that there was this whole other aspect of the situation that nobody knew about.

  As for the movie itself, check it out, you probably won’t be disappointed. Unless you are.

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