Black Gold and the Islamic Revolution
Ben Affleck not only stars in but also co-produces and directs the historical drama-thriller, Argo, which was adapted from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative Tony Mendez’s book The Master of Disguise and Joshuah Bearman’s 2007 Wired article The Great Escape. The film centers around the real-life CIA rescue mission of six American diplomats during the 1979 seizure of the United States Embassy in Tehran. The diplomat’s 52 fellow employees were taken hostage and held captive for 444 days enduring harsh conditions. The CIA drafted specialist Tony Mendez to sneak the six Americans out of Iran at a time when anti-American fervor was high. Many of the obstacles the film throws at Affleck’s character Tony Mendez, who is impersonating a movie production manager, and the six American embassy escapees posing as the film’s production crew were, in fact, made up. This modern interpretation of the Iranian hostage crisis contains a fair amount of exaggeration in typical Hollywood style. …show more content…
Together they setup of a fake production company called Studio Six Productions, published full-page ads in The Hollywood Reporter and the Daily Variety, printed a movie poster and business cards to help sell their fake movie, which was actually based on Roger Zelazny’s award winning novel titled Lord of Light, and then had the publicity sell it for them. Based on various discussions, CIA exfiltration expert, Tony Mendez knew he had to convince everyone else at the CIA and the Canadians that his crazy film crew idea was their best shot of getting the six American diplomats out of
Ben Affleck not only stars in but also co-produces and directs the historical drama-thriller, Argo, which was adapted from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative Tony Mendez’s book The Master of Disguise and Joshuah Bearman’s 2007 Wired article The Great Escape. The film centers around the real-life CIA rescue mission of six American diplomats during the 1979 seizure of the United States Embassy in Tehran. The diplomat’s 52 fellow employees were taken hostage and held captive for 444 days enduring harsh conditions. The CIA drafted specialist Tony Mendez to sneak the six Americans out of Iran at a time when anti-American fervor was high. Many of the obstacles the film throws at Affleck’s character Tony Mendez, who is impersonating a movie production manager, and the six American embassy escapees posing as the film’s production crew were, in fact, made up. This modern interpretation of the Iranian hostage crisis contains a fair amount of exaggeration in typical Hollywood style. …show more content…
Together they setup of a fake production company called Studio Six Productions, published full-page ads in The Hollywood Reporter and the Daily Variety, printed a movie poster and business cards to help sell their fake movie, which was actually based on Roger Zelazny’s award winning novel titled Lord of Light, and then had the publicity sell it for them. Based on various discussions, CIA exfiltration expert, Tony Mendez knew he had to convince everyone else at the CIA and the Canadians that his crazy film crew idea was their best shot of getting the six American diplomats out of