Thursday, January 9, 2014

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 Some challenges a filmmaker would have making the book into a movie would be to find the right destination and all of the Iranian- speaking actors. One thing that would have to be changed making Argo into a movie would be to not make it so detailed. In the movie, when the Americans escape the American embassy it never shows one large group breaking off into two, and the press conference and script-reading comes in the middle movie.I feel that the movie has a better flow to it than the book.

One scene that must be kept in Argo is the beginning scene where the Iranians attack the American embassy. This is how the movie starts, and I think it is very vital that this is the movie, because if the embassy was never attacked, then there would be no reason for the Americans to be saved, and there will be no Argo.Also it would need to keep the scene where the two groups of Americans escape and look for help. In this movie, this scene is kept, but it is altered. In the movie there is only one group that you see escape the embassy, and they never split up.One last scene that should be put in the movie is when the two groups break off and one of the groups get caught by the Iranian militia. I think it would be very interesting to see another group of Americans try to escape the embassy but get caught by the Iranians. This would show the big risk of trying to slip past the Iranians.

 One part that should be kept out of the movie is in the beginning when Mendez is painting in his house. This scene has hardly any importance in the book, so I don't think that it would have any more importance in the movie.Also another part that should be kept out of the movie out is When the CIA tries to convince Mendez to join the CIA. I think that it wouldn't be a bad idea to bring this up in the movie, but I don't think that this should be it's own scene in the movie.

2 comments:

  1. I agree with you that Tony painting at his house shouldn't be a part of the movie. But I think that they should do a short scene about Tony getting into the CIA to show that the rescue plot would have never been because the CIA almost didn't get him to join.

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  2. I agree with you Steve that Tony painting isn't a very important part of the book, but I also think that they shouldn't include one of the side operations in the story as well. I think that it would be fine to have one of the operations, but not both.

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