after the fantastic ‘Hello Hello hello’ and pride ‘The city. City of Thieves’, still his best behind-the-scenes film today, ‘Argo’ had just confirmed what for many was already something close to sensational evidence: Ben Affleck is much better as a director than as an actor.
Curiosities of ‘Argo’
1 exclusive access
To make ‘Argo’, Ben Affleck had the access to the CIA headquarters, for both indoor and outdoor shooting, it was an unprecedented opportunity. Extreme reliability.
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Two First Tony
During the process of writing the screenplay for “Argo”, Oscar-winning screenwriter Chris Terrio had an actor in mind to play Tony Mendez. Ben Affleck? No, all the way George Clooney, a star who curiously would end up being one of the film’s producers.
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3 Involve the cast
And we continue to talk about the search for fidelity in ‘Argo’. To make them feel fully immersed in the years in which the story unfolds, Ben Affleck asked the group of interpreters that he sneaked into the skin of the embassy refugees. live together for a week in a house decorated to the millimeter as if it were 1979. In this way, this part of the cast had the opportunity both to get to know each other better and to feel fully involved in that historical phase.
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4 critics
One of the harshest criticisms Ben Affleck received following “Argo” was for choosing himself to play Tony Mendez and do not opt for a Latino or Hispanic actor. In any case, Mendez himself stated that there were no problems in this and that, in fact, he really liked the actor’s performance in the film.
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5 Goodman limps
Throughout the film, John Goodman limps from knee surgery he had to undergo prior to filming. However, after the premiere of “Argo”, one of the friends of John Chambers, the character the actor plays in the film, approached him and congratulated him on playing him, with particular attention to the achievement of lameness. And, although Goodman had no idea, Chambers limped in real life as well.
6 Blacklist
Incredible as it may seem, the script for “Argo” It was on the so-called “black list” since 2020 Hollywood, which is the most popular set of scripts that have not (had) been produced yet.
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7 Oscar with History
‘Argo’ has become the first tape in seven years, from the astonishing triumph of ‘Crash (Collision)’, earning the coveted Oscar for Best Picture without its director even winning the statuette. Besides, it was too the first film in twenty-three yearsalmost nothing, taking the final victory without its director even being named, thus succeeding the remarkable 1989 ‘Driving Miss Daisy’.
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8 Screenplay without Affleck
“Argo” was the first film directed by Ben Affleck he did not count on his participation in the development of the script. Of course, he worked as an actor, director and producer. Not bad.
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9 in search of realism
To give shape to the spectacular prologue of ‘Argo’, the director of photography of the film, Rodrigo Prieto, distributed 8mm cameras to several people in the crowd so that the scene took the form as close as possible to that of the actual footage of the riots.
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10 family cameos
In the scene where the protagonists get on the bus that should take them to the plane, one of the great moments of ‘Argo’, Several members of Tony Mendez’s real family attended as extras.
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And, attention, we are not talking about a bad performer, far from it, but the talent of the protagonist of ‘Gone Girl’ when it comes to telling stories is special, much more classic than expected and marked by a truly remarkable narrative precision. In this case, Affleck uses one of those true stories capable of overcoming any kind of fiction to construct an exemplary thriller in content and form, as entertaining as it is vibrant, as elegant as it is moving, as inspired as it is intriguing.
All elements of the film are perfectly measured to capture the viewer from its splendid beginning to one of those final, breathtaking highlights. Decidedly, a proposal that worked enviably when it came to achieving its goals and who had the full support of audiences, critics and an Academy that, while not nominating Affleck in the Best Director category, ended up awarding him the coveted Oscar for Best Picture.
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