This film makes no attempt at showing why these people were upset. We have no background information, we just see these people take out their anger on Americans. Throughout the rest of the movie, viewers see Iranians portrayed as extremely hateful despite not knowing much about the Americans. In one scene, Mendez must get past Iranian airport security. He is questioned and is looked at as though he is not allowed to be on their land.
This just invokes more ideas of why Americans should not get along with Iranians. The buzzing Iranian streets throughout the movie give off an eerie feeling, as if these people hate their lives. Everyone constantly looks miserable, especially the women. The men are portrayed as extremely power hungry as well. One major aspect this movie ignores is how much credit is owed to Canada.
According to this film, the CIA basically takes control and is able to get these 6 Americans home. Mendez works closely with them as they carefully watch and keep in contact with him as he makes his way to Iran. According to the actual story of this hostage crisis, Canada did much more than hide the 6 hostages. Canada actually came up with the majority of the plan to get the hostages home. History shows that Canada does not get involved in foreign affairs very much, yet this hostage crisis was one that they did and put a lot of effort into as well.
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The Iranian Revolution forms the backbone of this project and in juxtaposition, perfectly explains the Hostage Crisis from November 4, , to January 20, Background: The Pahlavi dynasty came to power in Iran in after the last ruler — Ahmed Shah Qujer — was overthrown in a coup as he was unable to stop British and Soviet infringement on Iranian territory. The first leader of the dynasty was Reza Shah Pahlavi who turned the country into a constitutional monarchy.
He was responsible for officially changing the name of the state from Persia to Iran. Reza Shah Pahlavi had major disagreements with the British during as his reign as he was miffed with the control that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company wielded in his country.
In order to free himself of British bonds, Reza Shah developed close ties with Germany. He enlisted many Germans as advisors to the constitutional monarchy. For this reason, he was thought to have been collaborating with the Germans during the Second World War and was dethroned by Allied forces in By this time, the spirit of Nationalism had been steadily growing in Iran and the British control of the oil reserves was looked at with disapproval.
At around this period of time, Muhammad Mosaddeq had become leader of a movement to expel Britain and nationalize the Iranian oil industry. The result of this was that the reserves were successfully nationalized and he gained a huge amount of public support.
This irked the capitalist powers of the USA which developed a plan to overthrow him and had the Shah returned to power after only one day in an exile that was imposed by his own demonstrating countrymen. He then began the White Revolution — a move to completely Westernize Iran and pave the way for a liberal economic policy. But many sections of the Iranian society, especially the clergy, were appalled at this move and undertook a massive opposition to it. Ayatollah Khomeini became the leader in this movement.
Khomeini publicly denounced the Shah, and accused him of violation of the constitution and the spreading of moral corruption throughout the country. For this reason, he was exiled by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi for more than 14 years. But he remained as active even in exile. He wrote a number of inflammatory books and continued to spearhead the demonstrations against the Shah.
In the late 70s, Khomeini had said that he would not return to Iran until the Shah had left. This proved to be the greatest incentive for the demonstrators in Iran who were joined by millions more by in what is now considered to be one of the most widely-participated revolutions of all time — the Iranian Revolution.
It demanded specifically for an Islamic system of government with the Ayatollah as its head. Also, his relationship with the United States itself had deteriorated as he had begun to assert himself and had refused to reduce the recently increased oil prices as set by the OPEC Oil Producing and Exporting Countries. Thus, the Ayatollah reigned supreme and the Shah was overthrown. In such a situation, President Carter decided late in the same year to admit the former Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, into the United States for life-saving medical treatment.
This proved to be major policies backfire as it: a deteriorated Iran-USA relationships further, and b jeopardized the lives of many American employees in the embassy at Iran. It is in this scenario, that the movie depicted the rescue operations. Synopsis-in-brief: The film opens with thousands of revolutionaries storming the American embassy in Iran as a reaction to the country having provided shelter to the Shah.
Extensive work is completed on the script, screenplay and publicity of the movie before Mendez is dispatched to Iran. Posing as the producer of the movie, called Argo, Mendez tracks the hostages, provides them with Canadian passports and methodical training in developing fake accents and answering questions at immigration.
Mendez is awarded a furtive national honour and the Canadian government is applauded. Analysis: This section focuses on a few key concepts related to the study of International Relations and how they apply to the issues at hand:. The subplot of the absentee father, struggling to maintain a relationship with his son, comes off as especially trite and predictable.
The events of did not emerge fresh from the ether. A quarter century of absolute rule and brutal suppression of all resistance in Iran depended first and foremost on support from Washington.
The brief reference to past and ongoing crimes is included to provide a semblance of balance, but then this history is essentially pushed aside and forgotten. Decades of repression, torture and murder are one thing, but, after all, six American lives are at stake! I think that would be a bad thing.
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