Lots of stereotypes in the movie
Couldn't help but notice a lot of stereotypes from American perspective in this film. Not saying it's racism, I just think the non-Americans in this movie could have more depth.
1. Nice/polite docile Canadians
2. Middle-Easterners screaming and yelling
3. Diminutive female Middle-Easterner (the housekeeper)
4. Americans comes and save the day
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Loldude741
1) Maybe he did do more but it's only a two-hour long movie
2) So what if they were screaming and shouting? I don't see how that is a stereotypical trait of Middle Easterners
3) What are you babbling on about?
4) This movie isn't fictional at all. It was a CIA operation aided by Canadian cooperation.
Almost all of these aren't stereotypes. You don't know what that word means.
TheNumberOneCookie
1. The ambassador did much more than the movie depicted. The movie made him look like a nanny for those 6 Americans in his own house when in fact, he did much more.
2. Not just the mob, the fictional bazaar event, even normal people got into a shouting match, with government officials no less. The guards at the airport were screaming too.
3. Direct byproduct of Muslim gender inequality.
4. This is a fictional film loosely based on true events. Canadians did most of the work, CIA was a junior partner in the operation. Movie implied Americans let the Canadians take the credit out of fear of repercussions for the hostages.
Argo
Released: October 11, 2012
Synopsis:
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.