Anybody seen Argo, for which Ben Affleck won the Best Director award at the Golden Globes yesterday? I watched it a few months back, wasn't too impressed because I thought there weren't enough thrills in it, but I do think that for writers it's a good study on how to adapt a real-life event into a dramatic piece of storytelling. `Always felt good movies improve my writing since they help me to learn how to construct a scene. I think a great example is Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds (sorry folks, it's spelt that way). Those of you who've seen it will recall the sinister build up of violence in the opening scene when SS Col. Hans Landa (played by the awesome Christoph Waltz who, also won Best Supporting Actor at the Globes for Tarantino's Django Unchained) visits the French farmer that's hiding a Jewish family under the floorboards of his house. Tarantino takes a simple calm scene in which the farmer's daughter is hanging up the wash and then slowly brings into view the black Gestapo car approaching in the distance. That single image is enough to send shivers down your spine. To top it all, he has Beethoven's Fur Elise playing in the background! Is that awesome or what?
Argo has been spoken about a lot. It's about the attack on the American Embassy in Iran many moons ago and how a small group of officials managed to sneak out and take refuge in the Canadian Ambassador's residence. The US government decides to try and rescue them by sending in a fake director and getting him to smuggle them out as part of his film unit. Ben Affleck plays the CIA operative that goes in undercover as a movie director. Argo is the name of the Science Fiction movie they're supposedly making. The movie's direction is crisp and research, meticulous but, perhaps because this is based on a real story, there aren't too many edge of the seat moments. Still, Ben Affleck succeeds in keeping up the suspense and it's worth a watch.
What do you guys think?
Argo has been spoken about a lot. It's about the attack on the American Embassy in Iran many moons ago and how a small group of officials managed to sneak out and take refuge in the Canadian Ambassador's residence. The US government decides to try and rescue them by sending in a fake director and getting him to smuggle them out as part of his film unit. Ben Affleck plays the CIA operative that goes in undercover as a movie director. Argo is the name of the Science Fiction movie they're supposedly making. The movie's direction is crisp and research, meticulous but, perhaps because this is based on a real story, there aren't too many edge of the seat moments. Still, Ben Affleck succeeds in keeping up the suspense and it's worth a watch.
What do you guys think?
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