ARGO – Truth or Fake

Roll camera, sound, action!!! These are the common words that a director says while in a shoot, well here we are talking about a person who directs produces and acts in his movie; yes we are talking about the latest movie of Ben Affleck which is released on 10th of October, 2012 – name ARGO.

The brain child of Chris Terrio, this movie somewhat depicts the 1979 – 1980 Canadian caper which took place when several USA diplomats were hold hostage by IRAN militants. After the heroic efforts put forth by the CIA to rescue the diplomats from Tehran, IRAN was heard there came lot of rumors, papers and what we call stories as in WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, HOW?

Mr. Terrio had also his eyes on the stories, but he went a step further, he researched it well and then came in the idea of making a movie, so that the world can understand the facts, the story was placed in front of Ben Affleck. Mr. Affleck – a versatile man of this industry, OH!!! Why did I say versatile? Well, Ben Affleck is a director, producer, actor, writer and is in the industry from 1981 till date, his break-even point – ok in easy words, he came to be known when he acted for films like Dogma, Chasing Army and also got the Golden Globe and Academy Awards. Though, he continued his passion for movies and started producing and directing them as well.

Ben Affleck along with Matt Damon formed a production house with name Live Planet. Ben Affleck is also actively involved in politics and lot of charitable trusts. A bit more about the versatile guy and then we are back in the discussion of the movie. Ben Affleck is also known to have relationship with many celebs but the one with actress Jennifer Lopez which ended in the year 2004 was always in media and in the year 2005 Mr. Affleck married Jennifer Garner, well anyways Jennifer is always with him. Mr. and Mrs. Affleck have 2 daughters and 1 son - Happy Family, right?

Ok, to all my readers who are keen on knowing more about the movie ARGO, let us get back to track and talk about what we started with. Well, first let us talk about the name ARGO, why ARGO? Did it ever came into your mind, the answer to this query is ‘watch the film’, you will see that as the film depicts a real story were in during 1979 – age of Iranian Revolution the Islamic militants had hold 52 hostages in the US Embassy in Tehran of which 6 escaped, who were disguised and named as ARGO or location scouts, so that they can be saved. The whole rescue operation was planned by CIA and Affleck plays the role of a CIA specialist Tony Mendez.

Let me give you more idea on all the characters in the movie

Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez

Bryan Cranston as Jack O'Donnell

Alan Arkin as Lester Siegel

John Goodman as John Chambers

Kyle Chandler as Hamilton Jordan

Victor Garber as Ken Taylor

Tate Donovan as Bob Anders

Clea DuVall as Cora Lijek

Michael Parks as Jack Kirby

Tom Lenk as Rodd

Christopher Stanley as Tom Ahern

Taylor Schilling as Christine Mendez

Ashley Wood as Beauty

Chris Messina as Malinov

Richard Kind as Max Klein

Titus Welliver as Jon Bates

Rory Cochrane as Lee Schatz

Devansh Mehta as Matt Sanders

Omid Abtahi as Reza

Scoot McNairy as Joe Stafford

Kerry Bishé as Kathy Stafford

Christopher Denham as Mark Lijek

Bob Gunton as Cyrus Vance

Philip Baker Hall

Adrienne Barbeau as Nina

Fouad Hajji as Komiteh

Great, now you all are aware of the cast, and have a tumbler full of ideas about the movie, dn’t you think it would be thrilling and exciting to go and watch this movie to get hold of the adventure on how did Tony (Affleck) planned and saved those 6 diplomats, a must watch movie, already released, run and grab your tickets before the house is full, and even then you do not understand on why this movie was made then here is the moral of the story as said by Ben Affleck in a press meeting “The involvement of the CIA complemented efforts of the Canadian embassy to free the six held in Tehran. To this day the story stands as an enduring model of international co-operation between governments.”