Chapter 645: A movie with a bright political color

In 1979, Iran established the Islamic State. In 1980, the United States and Iran broke off diplomatic relations. Iran refused to give in to Western countries headed by the United States. Iran became an evil country and a hostile country in the eyes of the U.S. government and the media. The U.S. public has never had a good view of this country. .

Although there are many slanders, the Iranians are able to imprison a country's embassy personnel as hostages, and this gives the US media a sufficient 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 United States to take war actions against Iran.

In short, in the propaganda of mainstream American society, Iran is a completely evil country.

The perspective of "Argo" may seem fair at first. In fact, Ryan wrote a script that the US position is far clearer than in the previous life. It is completely overlooking Iran from the perspective of the US CIA staff, and it is depicted through multiple side plots. Crazy, lost wolves, a terrifying country.

If you look into the inner spiritual value of the movie, Ryan and George Clooney both deliberately favor each other, thus creating an illusion for fans to watch the movie-Iran is a terrorist country, and only by fleeing Tehran can there be peace. Possible.

This is a standard American-style movie with the main theme, even better than "Captain America". It is in line with the public opinion and political correctness is the most basic premise.

Now that the American society has identified Iran as an evil country, whether it is for public opinion or for the box office, this politically-colored movie will portray Iran as a big villain and villain.

Speaking of which, political films are not original Hollywood, they were first popular in European film circles, with clear political views. But when political films entered Hollywood. Soon it was wrapped in a commercial coat. Hollywood has always had a tradition of shooting political films, and political films with different themes and styles have always been popular with audiences.

As a film with a strong political color, the themes and views reflected in "Argo" will definitely be welcomed by the mainstream society, and a large number of mainstream media will inevitably applaud it.

"In terms of genre, "Argo" is naturally classified as a political thriller, but judging from the feedback from the premiere, the film's success lies in its successful combination of life-and-death drama and witty comedy. The seriousness of the film is inevitable. After all, it involves American sensitive Iran, hostages, anti-terrorism and many other hot spots. This can be called the most bizarre action in the history of the CIA!"

"The documentary style presented in the film, combined with the interspersed historical pictures, makes people feel like they are back on the scene; coupled with the progressive plot and appropriate soundtrack, the atmosphere is just right, and the agents return to their professions in reality and no longer play. Cool, handsome and skilled, but an ordinary person who is also burdened with all the puzzles in life; the film has no blasting speed car, no bullets flying, but it always affects people's nerves. Even the final stage of escape can easily make people heartbeat. accelerate!"

-"Los Angeles Times"

The media's favorable comments on this film occupies the absolute mainstream.

"The Hollywood Reporter" commented, ""Argo" is a wonderful political thriller. The film’s narration is full of wisdom. It also has rich chronological details. What’s even more surprising is that in such a film it tells about Iran. In serious movies of hostage crisis, there are even a lot of humorous elements that make people smile."

"Entertainment Weekly" commented that. "Argo" is not a typical entertainment movie, but its main shock is that it captures some ominous signs of our current world."

Although Disney did not invite professional film critics to participate in the screening, it caused dissatisfaction with the group. But after the movie was released, they still bought tickets and entered the theater. The reason is simple. This is the latest masterpiece of someone who has a terrifying influence in North America and the world. If they don’t even comment on this mainstream movie, the status It can only be more marginalized.

Moreover, they did not expect to have a big problem in the movie, and then the idea of ​​attacking them in groups.

However, after watching the movie, these people who were used to pointing fingers at the movie and the audience found that they were unable to act according to their wishes, because the political stance of this movie is so clear, and the themes and values ​​that it reflects are so. Correct...

"Argo" is a successful work. It has tension, sincere emotion, mystery, artistic responsibility, entertainment value and professional skills. It tells a real historical event with the least frills and the greatest impact. It is a A great historical footnote. It is one of the best films of 2004 and is definitely a strong contender for the major awards of Oscar night next year."

The film critic Rex Reid from the "New York Observer" directly gave the film a perfect score of 10. His other colleague in New York, the film critic Lu Ramnick of the "New York Post" also gave the film a very good score. And wrote in the column.

"An absolutely reliable Oscar contender, but also an active and exciting movie. The "Escape from Tehran" jointly created by Ryan and George Clooney shows us a lot more than what you have in Iran. Under the cruel background of the hostage crisis, those nerve-racking and exciting plots and many interesting scenes can be imagined."

And as one of Disney’s rare film critics who still secretly support, Claudia Pugle, who has only risen in recent years, did not hesitate to highlight the film. "An extraordinary production and interesting darkness Real political thrillers, the ending part is shocking, the return of the self-improvement spirit that the film transmits is what the United States urgently needs today, and Ryan's performance in it is perfect. George Clooney did a good job. He Filmed an excellent, blood-spraying thriller, leaving the audience with endless cheers."

Although the industry of film critics is getting more and more declining, they are not fools and know how to deal with movies of this subject matter.

"The film demonstrates rare choreography skills. It is easy to produce a thriller with car chase and gunfight, but it is even more difficult to control the rhythm and convince the audience of the successful implementation of this easily debunked scam. After all, which head People who are not ill will believe that someone will go to Iran, where the hostage crisis is on the verge of making a space opera, such a nonsense thing? It turns out that basically everyone believes it. Hollywood has done so beautifully!"

In recent years, Roger Albert, who has always been displeased with Ryan's movies, not only posted compliments and gave a perfect score of 10, but also rarely showed two thumbs.

Even if a few film critics criticized the film for ‘the dialogue and the addition of too many fictional elements’, it would not affect the film’s reputation.

The film got a high score of 86 points on the film, 13 of the 21 mainstream media gave full marks, only 2 gave a middle review, and the praise rate on Rotten Tomatoes was as high as 91%...

In particular, Ryan’s script did not contain inappropriate remarks about the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and the film was finished with large subtitles at the end. The process of rescuing the six stranded people in Tehran was helped by the Canadian ambassador. So far this story has The remarks of gratitude that became an immortal model of cross-government international rescue did not cause any controversy among the five friends in the English-speaking area.

TV reporters also interviewed some audiences in some mainstream theaters across the United States.

Diego Noah from Chicago said, “This is a good movie, and it’s exciting. The real performance revealed by its shooting deeply introduces people into the storyline. This is a story that records history. Worth remembering!"

He is about forty years old, and he should still have memories of the events of that year.

Compared with these older audiences, teenagers have different opinions.

"A movie with a pretty good rhythm. Although it is not my favorite theme, the suspense in it is very attractive. The heroic image created by Ryan is very successful. In a terrifying country like Iran, acting in a fake Hollywood science fiction blockbuster is very The excitement is very dangerous. The escape in the second half of the film is simply thrilling. I almost concentrate on seeing the end from the beginning."

Daniel Yaboff of New York is still in college. He basically didn't know anything about the events of the year. He walked into the theater only because of Ryan in the movie.

And his girlfriend Amanda also accepted an interview, "a rare subject, the plot is compact and orderly, the second half is so nervous, it is a very meaningful film to understand the history!"

"There is no intense action scene but it is really exciting and fully reflects the role of Ryan's good script."

As a senior film fan in Los Angeles, Aiden Asenberg wrote on imdb, "Obviously we already know the ending, but the tension at the end is still surprisingly high. I can only say that Ryan's script and acting skills are good, George ? Clooney's director work is also very good!"

After entering the 21st century, the reputation of professional media has long been not a decisive factor in the box office of movies. Although "Argo" has a good reputation among ordinary audiences, its subject matter and genre limitations cannot be compared with those super big in business. Compared with the production, otherwise Ryan would not avoid the highly competitive Thanksgiving Christmas file, and advance the release time to October, when the competition pressure is relatively small.

The biggest competitor of "Argo" is expected to be "Alexander the Great", and the box office performance of this film after its release is no longer a competitor.

"Alexander the Great" only won the North American box office of US$1.47 million in three days this weekend, and the number of theaters screened directly fell to 600. This is not the performance of a commercial masterpiece with a total investment of more than US$200 million. On the contrary, it is more like Hollywood's many shoddy b-rated films. (To be continued...) ()