Chapter 645: Movies with Bright Political Colors
Iran established an Islamic country in 1979. In 1980, the United States and Iran broke off diplomatic relations. Iran refused to surrender to the Western countries led by the United States. Therefore, Iran became an evil and hostile country in the U.S. government and media. The American public has never had a good impression of this country. The chapter is updated the fastest
Although there are many smearing places, the Iranians were able to imprison a country's embassy staff as hostages, which also gave the American media a full reason to discredit them.
In recent years, the Iranian nuclear issue has been the core issue of US-Iran relations and has become a potential fuse for the US-Iran war and an excuse for the US to take war against Iran.
In short, in the propaganda of mainstream American society, Iran is a completely evil country.
The perspective of "Argo" seems fair at first glance, but in fact, the US position of the script written by Ryan is much clearer than in his previous life. It is completely looking down on Iran from the perspective of a CIA staff member. Through multiple side plots, it is a crazy, unreasonable and terrifying country.
If you dig into the inner spiritual value of the movie, Ryan and George Clooney both intend to favor one and the other, thus creating an illusion of movie fans watching movies - the terrorism of Iran, a terrorist country, and only by escaping Tehran can you get peace.
This is a standard American main theme movie, even more main theme than "Captain America". It is in line with the views and political correctness of the American public. It is the most basic premise.
Since American society has determined that Iran is an evil country, whether for public opinion or for box office, this movie with a distinct political color will make Iran a big villain.
Speaking of which, political films are not original in Hollywood. They were first popular in the European film industry and had a distinct political view. However, when political films entered Hollywood, they were soon wrapped in a commercial outfit. Hollywood has always had the tradition of shooting political films, and political films with different themes and styles have always been very popular with audiences.
As a movie with a strong political color, the themes and views reflected in "Argo" will definitely be welcomed by mainstream society, and a large number of mainstream media will inevitably applaud it.
"In terms of genre, "Argo" naturally belongs to a political thriller, but judging from the feedback from the premiere, the success of the film lies in the successful combination of life and death drama and witty comedy. The seriousness of the film is inevitable. Because this involves many hot topics such as Americans' sensitive Iran, hostages, and counter-terrorism. This can be called the most bizarre action in the history of the CIA!"
"The documentary style presented by the film, combined with the interspersed historical scenes, makes people feel like they are back on the scene; coupled with the progressive plot and the appropriate soundtrack, the atmosphere is just right, Cia's agents return to their real careers, no longer act cool and handsome, and have superb skills, but also bear the various confusing ordinary people in life; the film does not explode the speed car or fly across the board, but always touches the nerves of people. Even the final stage of escape can easily make people's heart beat faster!"
——The Los Angeles Times
The media's praise for this movie is absolutely mainstream.
The Hollywood Reporter commented, "Argo is a wonderful political thriller, the narrative technique of the film is full of wisdom, and has rich details of the era. What is even more surprising is that in such a serious film about the Iranian hostage crisis, there are also many funny elements that make people laugh."
"Argo is not the typical movie for entertainment, but its main shock is that it captures some ominous omens in our current world."
Although Disney did not invite professional film critics to participate in the preview, the group was dissatisfied. After the movie was released, they still bought tickets and entered the theater. The reason is very simple. This is the latest masterpiece of a person with a terrifying influence in North America and even the world. If they don’t even comment on such mainstream movies, their status will only be more marginalized.
Moreover, they are looking forward to the idea of having big problems in the movie and then attacking them.
However, after watching the movie, these people who have been accustomed to pointing fingers at the movie and audience in the past find that they cannot act according to their own wishes, because the political stance of this movie is so clear and the themes and values it transmits are so correct...
"Argo is a successful work. It has tension, sincerity, mystery, artistic responsibility, entertainment value and expertise, tells a true historical event with minimal fiction and maximum impact. It is a great historical footnote, one of the best films of 2004, and is definitely a strong contender for the awards of next year's Oscar Night."
Rex Reed, a critic from "New York Observer", directly gave the film a full score of 10. Another colleague in New York, Lu Ramnik, a critic from the New York Post, also gave the film a 100 rating and wrote in the column.
"A absolutely reliable Oscar winner and an active and exciting film. "Escape from Tehran" created by Ryan and George Clooney shows us many exciting plots that are far beyond the cruel background of the Iran hostage crisis, as well as many interesting scenes."
As one of the few film critics that Disney still supports secretly, Claudia Pug, who has only risen in recent years, showed a lot of excitement for the film without hesitation. "A super-production and interesting dark reality political thriller, the ending is shocking. The return of the self-reliance spirit that the film transmits is urgently needed in the United States today. Ryan's performance in it is perfect. George Clooney did a good job. He filmed an excellent, blood-blooded thriller, leaving the audience endless cheers."
Although the industry of film critics is becoming increasingly declining, they are not fools and know how to treat movies with this kind of theme.
"The film shows a rare choreography technique. It is easy to produce a thriller with car chases and gunfights. It is difficult to grasp the rhythm and convince the audience of the successful implementation of this extremely easily exposed scam. After all, who is not sick in his head will believe someone will run to the hostage crisis, which is about to break out. What a nonsense thing about filming a space opera in Iran? It turns out that basically everyone believes it. Hollywood does it so beautifully!"
In recent years, Roger Albert, who has been disliked by Ryan's movies, not only made praise comments, but also gave a very full mark, but also rarely showed two thumbs.
Even though several critics criticized the film for its "too many fictional elements to dialogue and add", it did not affect the reputation of the film.
The video scored 86 points on metascore, 13 of the 21 mainstream media gave full marks, and only 2 gave a mid-rated review. The positive review rate on Rotten Tomatoes was as high as 91%...
In particular, Ryan's script does not have any inappropriate remarks about the UK and New Zealand. At the end of the video, it also ends with large subtitles - the process of rescuing the six stranded people in Tehran was fully helped by the Canadian ambassador. To date, this story has become an immortal example of international cross-government rescue - thanks remarks, and have not caused any controversy among the five gay friends in the English-speaking area.
Abc TV reporter also interviewed some viewers in some mainstream cinemas across the United States.
Diego Noah from Chicago said, "This is a good movie, exciting, and the real performance revealed by its shooting deeply introduces people into the storyline. This is a story that records history, and every past is worth remembering!"
He was about forty years old and should still have some memories of the events that year.
Compared with these older audiences, teenagers have other opinions.
"A movie with a pretty good pace. Although it is not the subject I like, the suspense is very attractive. Ryan created a hero image very successfully. In a terrifying country like Iran, it is exciting and dangerous to play a fake Hollywood science fiction blockbuster. The escape in the second half of the film is simply thrilling, and I almost focused on seeing the end from the beginning."
Daniel Yabof of New York is still in college. He basically knows nothing about the incident that year. He only walked into the theater because of Ryan in the movie.
His girlfriend Amanda also accepted an interview, "It's a rare theme, the plot is compact and orderly, and the second half is so nervous. It's a very meaningful film to understand history!"
"There is no intense action scene, but it is really exciting and fully reflects the role of Ryan's good script."
As a veteran Los Angeles fan, Aiden Yasenberg wrote on ImDB, "Although I already know the ending, the tension at the end is still surprisingly high. I can only say that Ryan has a good script and good acting skills, and George Clooney's directorial work is also very good!"
After entering the 21st century, the reputation of professional media has long been no longer a decisive factor in the box office of movies. Although "Argo" has a good reputation among ordinary audiences, its theme and type limitations cannot be compared with those super-large productions in commercial terms. Otherwise, Ryan would not avoid the fiercely competitive Thanksgiving Christmas and advance the release time to October, where the competitive pressure is relatively small.
The biggest competitor of "Argo" is expected to be "Alexander the Great", and the box office performance of this movie after its release is no longer considered a competitor.
"Alexander the Great" only won $1.47 million in North America's box office in three days this weekend, and the theaters screened directly dropped to 600. This is not the performance of a commercial masterpiece with a total investment of more than $200 million. Instead, it is more like many shoddy B-level films in Hollywood. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!