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Argo (Patreon)

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Jay Davis

Argo F... uh... fine morning... to watch a reaction. Yeah!

JakeyShakeyBakeyBoy

Down here in Aussieland our state of Northern Territory has a tourism mantra known as “C U in the Northern Territory”…. Which when made into a four letter acronym becomes our seemingly favourite four letter swear. Whoever came up with that definitely mic dropped and walked out home for the workday haha. Dream-wise I feel for you dudes but most of mine are falling dreams… 🤷🏻‍♂️… Anyways, Ben Affleck did a stellar job directing this film 🤙🏻

Jeff K.

Alan Arkin is just playing the same exact character in everything these days and I don't mind it one little bit.

Jeff K.

Yep. Historical inaccuracies aside, it’s an incredibly well made film and super entertaining.

Jeff K.

I don’t recall you guys ever watching The Town, but highly, highly, highly recommend it. Probably Affleck’s strongest directorial effort.

WayneC

The first time I heard of this movie was the video "The Biggest Lies from "Historical" Movies" from Simon Whistler's Sideprojects channel. The other two movies in that video were "Braveheart" and "U571".

JakeyShakeyBakeyBoy

The Town is truly great. Jeremy Renner is electric and has one of my favourite movie lines in response to a “no questions asked” declaration IYKYK haha

Robert Cooper

I'm trying to remember the whole story, but the Hollywood sign was originally advertising for a real estate company from the late 50s. By the 70s it was falling apart and was burned in a fire. A bunch of the rich and famous got together and bought it and paid to have it fixed up. The factoid I remember is that Alice Cooper owns the second O on the sign.

DonkyDave

Is it just me or is there a bit of a sync issue? It seemed perfectly in sync, there there was this weird jump around the time when they arriving at the airport, then after then the movie seemed ahead

JayF

Just throwing it out there again but if you want to see Bryan Cranston in a completely different role please consider watching Trumbo. There's no way it will win a poll so you'll just have to pick it.

Brandon

I haven't seen this since it first came out, but it's such a good movie. Great reaction! Id also recommend 'The Town' and 'Gone Baby Gone' (his first film as a director) for more of Affleck's directorial work. Scoot McNairy and Kerry Bishe play a husband and wife pair, two of the six people hiding with the Canadian Ambassador. They went on to play husband and wife again in the TV series 'Halt and Catch Fire' - a CRIMINALLY underrated series set in 1980's era Silicon Valley.

Jay Davis

Both excellent suggestions, imo.

Jon McWane

I noticed this as well right around the 59:30 mark

Jeff K.

Yep, it was advertising a neighborhood called HOLLYWOODLAND (which, coincidentally, is the name of another Ben Affleck film in which he played George Reeves, who starred as Superman in the 1950s TV show and died under mysterious circumstances). The sign itself has been severely damaged and restored multiple times throughout its history, with the "LAND" removed as the sign became more of an iconic cultural landmark.

Mike Medaugh

Yes George their stay in captivity was extended not to make it an "even" 444 days but to coincide with Reagan's inauguration. The hostages release was agreed to during the last days of Carter's presidency. In a way I like historically inaccurate movies, if they are entertaining enough to have you actually research the actual event. In my mind it helps preserve the actual history. There was an actual military intervention to free the hostages but it failed and caused the loss of 8 or so special op's.

WayneC

The "silver stormtroopers" looked like Cylons from the series "Battlestar Gallactica".

Carlos H

I'm grateful for this movie giving my boyfriend and i a quote to use all the time. We use "Argo fuck yourself" as a cuetsy, less harsh way, to tell eachother to fuck off 😂.

Carlos H

Great movie. My favorite jeremy renner performance!

Namaste Life Coaching

I seem to remember there was a movie set back in the 40s where the sign did read "Hollywoodland" - I can't remember which movie it was, although "Rocketeer" springs to mind.

Carlos H

*Recommending Ben Affleck's, The Town (2010) to boost others recommendation*

Namaste Life Coaching

I did read an article from the actual man that Ben Affleck played here. Rather than this dramatic airport scene at the end, the group turned up at the airport very very early in the morning and faced no real scrutiny at all, and departed the country in a much less dramatic way.

Jeffrey Mitchell

Regarding the 60 hostages from the embassy, while they would have had a rougher time of it, they were safer from the other 6. They were being held publicly and were the leverage the new government had against the US. Killing them wouldn't gain anything for the new government and would make them look bad to the rest of the world. Plus, you don't have to figure out how to extract them, you just have to negotiate.

Andrew

Yeah, you can tell when the woman gets shoved in the airport at 1:53:42.

JBK405

When it comes to "historical" movies for me, my reaction to the accuracy depends on how much they emphasize or de-emphasize being "true". Some movies are upfront that it's a loose inspiration based on a very broad idea, while others try to say that they're telling what REALLY happened. If they claim to be one of the "This is how it actually went down" style of adaptations, then I'll judge them for not living up to that. It's entirely in their hands as to whether they try to put that idea forward. The hostage situation with the embassy personnel who were captured was an even more chaotic and constantly evolving affair than we see here. It happened while the entire government and society of Iran was changing during the revolution, so over time they had a lot of different agendas and people 'in charge'. The extradition of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was one of the original demands, but not the only one, and he died in the middle of 1980 while they continued to be held until 1981. The situation really can't be one-paragraph summarized.

Cinebinge

exporting a new version now, should be up in about 30 mins.

Spacedone

It was a windstorm in 1978 which blew down several of the letters, by that point in a bad state, that resulted in the image in this film. The start of The Nice Guys shows the sign in 1977, still standing but with some burned sections.

Jeff K.

Renner gets a lot of shit because he can come off as a bit of a douche, but man, the guy can act his ass off. Plus, the movie features the legendary Pete Postlethwaite in, as usual, a great performance just before he passed away.

Spacedone

There was a lot of terrible Star Wars rip-off (or 'inspired by') movies in the late 70s and early 80s, from some that are fondly remembered or cult classics like Battlestar Galactica, Battle Beyond The Stars, Krull, to the truly awful like Starcrash, and they genuinely mostly looked like the actors taking part in that fake script read-through. I've made it my mission to watch as many of them as I can find. :D I remember watching the animated movie Starchaser: The Legend of Orin when I was a kid and being really impressed by it because the Not Han Solo character swore at one point...

REDR58

McNairy is also in the directorial debut of Garett Edwards’ “Monsters” (2010) and he gives a really good performance there, particularly for a monster movie!

Jeff K.

Monsters is such a terrific, underrated low budget monster movie. Really well done. Also, this is unrelated, but I'm dying for Scoot McNairy and Skeet Ulrich to either form a folk duo named Skeet and Scoot, an animated children's show named Skeet and Scoot, or partner in a law firm but use their first names instead of their last, so it'd be Skeet & Scoot, Attorneys at Law.

MeetMountain

Never seen this before.. but just watched with you. Getting a classified award of the highest honor would be like getting a handjob from Jessica Alba while blackout drunk. Might as well never happened.

Spacedone

I don't mind most stories that are inspired by real events, U-571 for example which is pure adventure fiction but inspired by some real stuff, but movies pretending to tell the actual story of real people and real events but completely rewrites everything to fit the story they want to tell does annoy me. That said, if it wasn't for movies like Ridley Scott's Napoleon we wouldn't have History Buff's video where he nearly has a breakdown describing how much of the story is complete bobbins.

Jeff K.

I'm with you on that (also, shout out on the History Buffs reference; that channel is awesome). As long as the movie isn't saying THIS IS 100% ACCURATE I'm cool with it. And if they're gonna really fudge things, I'm cool with it as long as they say "inspired" by a true story. And the best version is always the movies that have inaccuracies but overall tell the story pretty closely to how they happened, so you arrive at the actual historic conclusion even if you took a little bit of a detour to get there. And I should know, I've written about movies based on a true story that were entirely bullshit multiple times back in the day for Cracked! (This is the weakest flex in the history of flexes and I apologize that you all came along on the ride, though it's funny that one of the movies I wrote about was Pursuit of Happyness, which obviously G&S just watched earlier this week, but definitely fudges some facts to kinda Disney-fy the story, which doesn't detract from the film at all for me.)

Jpsynergy

It's a well made movie filled with inaccuracies particularly in how it depicts Iran and Iranians at the time. But it's Hollywood. Probably shouldn't have won the Oscar. Thanks for the react!

Monica Alarcon

Jack Kirby, co-creator of Captain America, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Thor, the X-Men and many many other Marvel and DC characters did storyboards and designs for the fake Argo movie. He's portrayed in this movie when he delivers his storyboards to the producer...

Graeme McCutcheon

One of my favourites. I love my spy/political movies, and I also love it when movies mess with the studio logo. So when the lights went down in the cinema and the 1970s era Warner Brothers logo appeared, I was locked in. Other Middle Eastern related thrillers for your consideration: Syriana, Green Zone and Zero Dark Thirty. Maybe also The Kingdom and Body Of Lies, but those are probably really 3 star out of 5 movies that I enjoy because I love the genre. Captain Philips geographically occurs a bit further south, but I'm going to crowbar it in to the conversation anyway because it's a strong recommendation. Simone: your final score is 66%. You caught Andrew and the invisible girl, but Engel (the guy Bryan Cranston's character pulls out of a meeting and shouts at to do his fucking job) is played by Keith Szarabajka who plays Holtz in Angel.

Polecat21

Agree there was no need to make it seem the British Embassy turned them away but it does make total sense for pacing to have them go directly to the Canadian Ambassador's home otherwise you have to somehow show how they got there....

photos_by_geoff

One of my favorite movies that I often go back to watch, over 14 times know at least! Thanks for reacting to it! I didnt think it would make it thru the poll! Much appreciated for what it is, a great film! PS- I got to meet Jimmy Carter once, but he didnt have enough time for me to be able to ask him about this real life situation that came to be the main issue that resulted in him being a one term President. I did thank him for having been the President though. No matter what anyone thinks of the job that someone does, it is still the most difficult job in the World most of the time. Or at least the least forgiving job.

Jeff K.

For other spy movies: I would also recommend the Robert Redford/Brad Pitt film Spy Game. Is it a “great” movie? Eh. It’s good, not great. But it’s super entertaining, and that’s the most important part for me.

Jeff K.

I had totally forgotten about that. Jack Kirby was so fucking awesome.

Brian's Dog

Great reaction for Saturday morning. I think most of us know Warren Beatty from the movie Dick Tracy, so that might be the best one to watch. But he was in other top movies I wouldn't mind seeing for the first time.

Thall

Oh man! One of the few times that it is mentioned that the US is basically singlehandedly responsible for the whole situation in the middle east, killing millions (actively and passively), in a movie or other media. Which as someone interested in history, is amazing. And as a human, is horrifying. Funnily enough, the son of Pavhlevi is alive and talking politics, lol. About as shitty a person as the father. Edit: Oooh they even added in the "killing babies" thing, which now that the documents are no longer classified, is known to have been an American propaganda program!

Brandon

I don't know the full details of the real story either. But the sequence where the fake film gets called off at the last minute, but they decide to go through with the exfil anyway definitely feels like a dramatization for the movie. It's the classic introduction of a major complication towards the end of the second act leading into the third act. Yeah, I took a few screenwriting classes when I was in college. The classroom discussions where we picked apart Hollywood movies were the most fun I ever had in school in my life. 😅 I would have totally noticed the needle on the turntable being placed in the wrong spot on the record to play 'When the Levee Breaks' as well. I used to play my Mom's copy of that record all the time when I was a kid.

Dan

Is the timer (for the full copy version) a new thing or just left in this reaction? I like this movie but the British and Canadians were more helpful/involved than it portrays.

Donna Castellano

The "G-man" is short for "government man". It turned into a nickname for FBI agents almost exclusively during the late 1920s/early 30s.

Graeme McCutcheon

Yep! Had suggested Spy Game around the time of Robert Redford's sad passing. Held off repeating here as I didn't want to come off as pestering them. I will, however, wholeheartedly endorse your recommendation!

Todd “Canuck” Schmuck

I actually get more bothered by how Argo changed history compared to most “Based on a True Story” movies. Mainly because with most you just look up the event/person and get the real/accurate details. But Argo shows a glimpse of the real version on the tv near the end. And plays it that the REAL version of events is what the CIA chooses to LET the world believe to keep their involvement secret. It’s not normal for those type of films to basically say “that real version of events that you knew WASN’T the whole story. We just couldn’t tell you the truth…until now”. It actually casts doubt even if you look up the real events by painting the truth as being “outdated information”. So yeah, that one aspect of it does tend to rub me the wrong way. 🤷‍♂️

Sumner Hayes

The Hollywood sign was in total disrepair in 1978, but was restored at the end of that year. Argo takes place in November 1979 (onward into early 1980), so either the movie is wrong or the footage we're seeing is a year old in-movie. The sign originally read "Hollywoodland", which was the name of a housing development built in 1923 in Los Angeles. It was falling apart by the 1940s, and was restored with the stipulation that "land" was removed and it became a monument to the Hollywood region rather than the housing development. By the 1970s it was falling apart again, and a storm in early 1978 knocked over several letters. Private donors raised a lot of the money to restore it, including Alice Cooper (donating in honor of Groucho Marx), Hugh Hefner, Andy Williams, and Gene Autry. The restored sign was unveiled in November 1978. The 1978 restoration included the formation of the Hollywood Sign Trust, who maintain it and have prevented similar disrepair to 1978 and the 1940s from happening again.

Ashkaun

As an Iranian-American the only scene that bothered me was when they were being harassed in the bazaar. That never happened and was not likely to happen because Iranian people like Americans and westerners. It’s the GOVERNMENT that hates the U.S.

Ned Warbone

Nice. This finally got me around to watching this, and it's a lovely little thriller. Looks like they shortened the initial escape and dramatised the airport events, but otherwise fairly true... except, Mendez's wife was also in the CIA. A CIA chief in fact. Here she is watching movies, including ARGO, and giving her opinion of the spy activities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUqeBMP8nEg

RogueRN

Great reaction as always - but I'm disappointed George didn't explain his joke re: the Hollywood sign/Hugh Heffner/the Y to Simone. Great opportunity for a classic "look at camera" or "Eww! George!" Simone reaction :-)

Ari Ramirez

Every time I have to take a flight it feels like the airport scene in this movie

John

I would add Den of Thieves as well

Cartoons ReAct

Well...now we need Malcolm in the Middle so we can get more Bryan Cranston

WhiteHawk

Another one with a timer over the movie? Why is this happening?

djKENTO

The Hollywood sign was in severe disrepair through the 70s. This is actually a REALLY good marker for time in th film because this was the same year they decided to rebuild it.

WhiteHawk

They were. I haven’t watched much of it personally but recognised those outfits straight away.

dys

I'd recommend "Charlie Wilson's War" for another based-on-a-true-story about how American misadventure in the Middle East around this time got us to where we are today. I think it lost in a poll recently but it's a great film, Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman in probably his most *fun* role. I think the one guy adding the "eh?" was just the movie making a dumb joke about Canadian accents, in reality you're probably right that nobody in Iran would know the difference anyway. Heck as someone from the northeast US I wouldn't notice enough difference between George or Simone's accent from mine to tell whether they're American or Canadian if I didn't already know.

Reed James

Weird they had Ben Afleck's character estranged from his wife. He is still married to Jonna Mendez who is also a CIA officer who worked in the same department as him. She does youtube videos talking about CIA stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDBWjfUgaR8

BellaBlue

to your comment at the beginning...it doesn't bother me whether or not someone has told you that something is closer or further from the actual story...but...the only reason I wish people would not say anything before you watch a film is because...sometimes those people expressing those opinions are closer or further from the truth of how close or far the truth of the film is..ha.. let's face it..a lot of peeps here tend to be quite hyperbolic and I'd prefer as much of a blind reaction as possible..(which is sometimes difficult I will acknowledge)

BellaBlue

big co-sign on The Town...excellent film

Reed James

CIA will tell your family if you die. They'll add a star to their memorial in the lobby of CIA headquarters, but if you're on a classified mission or something, your family won't be given details. And, yes, your spouse will know you're CIA. Maybe not young kids, but close family, yes.

Cory Garron

Hey it's Todd “Canuck” Schmuck, a name I recognize from The Normies. Glad to see you here, brother!

Brandon

Not a big fan of the timer, very distracting with numbers always moving. Could you guys keep it up for first 5 minutes then put it on periodically?

AVATAR-X

I'll recommend Spies Like Us (1985) - for a more comedic take of cold war era spies John Carter (2012) - one of the biggest "flops" in cinema history, but I still find it an entertaining sci-fi adventure

James W.

The concept art for for the real thing was done by Jack Kirby, so that art he kept is worth 10s if not 100s of thousands of dollars I bet. Jack Kirby co-created pretty much every Marvel super hero and a bunch of the DC heroes too.

FranciscoGios

Simone I need a sentence that has the words Snot & Cunt, you can use emojis if you want to send that right now, thanks in advance. Just to clarify Hollywood is not a city it is part of the city of West Hollywood which it’s next to its neighbor sister Beverly Hills.

REDR58

Yes straight from the 1978 series (I assume they are recreations of those costumes, but who know): https://youtu.be/SGibEb4IH6k?si=UlP64XAiTh2X40QO Edit and of course those are the Cylons’ “Centurian” military droids. Cylons in the 1978 “Battlestar Galactica” are a race of biological beings that employ “Centurions.”

REDR58

And I’m still waiting for the Keith David and David Keith movie!

John Miller

Here's the thing about people saying that this was fake and that it was all a Canadian plan. You need to remember, if this was in fact a CIA plan, that's exactly what they would want everyone to think. So the reality is, we'll never know what really happened. People also need to remember, the entire cover story is that this was entirely a Canadian plan. And the US had nothing to do with it. So, is it any wonder that, after the movie came out, that's exactly what everyone was saying?

Robinson vs. Parkinson's

I knew Rory Cochrane looked familiar but I was not prepared to find out that he was the stoner (yeah,yeah, "which one?", lol) , make that the most stoned stoner in Dazed & Confused.

REDR58

First time watch for me. Very entertaining. The red and white and black Warner Brothers logo is a recreation of the logo used by WB between 1972 and 1984 (https://musicbehindthescreen.blogspot.com/2011/05/warner-bros-logo.html), except that here it says “A Time Warner Company” under the stylized “W” and in the then-current logo of 1972-1984 it read, “A Warner Communications Company” as seen in the opening of “Enter the Dragon”: https://youtu.be/wqZ-blEGnr0?si=gG4Mgl_66DdMb5t1 You guys should definitely watch the original “Planet of the Apes” movie from 1968. Warren Beatty’s most recent well-known movie is “Bulworth” from 1998 and you guys should check it out. Some of his best movies are probably “Splendor in the Grass” (1961) “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) and Reds (1981), along with "Bulworth." Who remembers the “Ghetto Superstar” video by Pras featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard & Mýa that came out with the “Bulworth” movie? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-HrJpTywks You saw the Hagia Sofia (in Istanbul, Turkey) in another movie before, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia) in “From Russia with Love” (1963): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDfB_wV8fns The large structure in Tehran you asked about is the Azadi Tower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne8xNcM6XRc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azadi_Tower You guys didn’t seem to notice Bob Gunton from “The Shawshank Redemption” as as Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Also, Kyle Chandler as Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. You’ve seen Željko Ivanek (Robert Pender) in “Hannibal,” “Black Hawk Down,” “Live Free or Die Hard,” “In Bruges” and “X-Men: Apocalypse.” That was Taylor Schilling best known from “Orange is the New Black” as Christine Mendez the wife of Tony Mendez (Affleck) who showed up at the very end of the movie.

REDR58

Sadly, he died in 2023. He is very good in "Catch-22" (1970).

Jacob King

The episode where Hal becomes ruler of the bodybuilders should be preserved in the library of congress. I’m not sure how much the whole series holds up but when it was good it was pretty close to perfect.

Brandon

People are gonna think we're the same person. 😆

Jeff K.

I kept waiting to see if G&S would recognize him, since I remember in their Dazed reaction they loved his performance and wondered why they hadn't seen him in more things.

Data Cable

"The Iran Hostage Crisis ended on January 20, 1981, when all remaining hostages were released." For reference, that was the day Reagan was inaugurated.

Old School Drew

The Hollywood sign was in disrepair in the late '70s and early '80s and originally read Hollywoodland and it wasn't until the early 80s when they decided to fix it to just say Hollywood. The term G-Man is just short hand for government man.

Angela D. Mitchell

This movie has a pretty big footnote in "Oscar snub" history because Ben Affleck wasn't nominated at all for Best Director for Argo at the 2013 Oscars despite winning Best Director at the Golden Globes, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America (DGA). Given that the DGA even felt he was the best director of the year, it's insane that he wasn't nominated and pretty obvious that it was a deliberate snub. The leading theory is that Spielberg was involved in it behind the scenes, as he held a grudge from a time when one of his kids pushed Affleck into a pool while he was fully clothed. Affleck (rightfully) got mad and threw the kid into the pool when he got out. Spielberg was furious and vowed never to work with him (and held a grudge). Meanwhile, I love this movie, and it's so much fun. Simone, I know you're an Alias fan -- I always love when Spy Daddy shows up! And I love that scene between Victor Garber and Ben Affleck about him not looking like a "G-Man," considering that Victor married Ben and Jennifer Garner when they married. The cast of this movie is so incredibly stacked. I love seeing so many fantastic actors and it's especially nice to see Clea DuVall, Tate Donovan, Scoot McNary, Victor Garber, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston, Kyle Chandler, and the wonderful Alan Arkin, who steals every single scene he's in. Little bit of trivia -- Kerry Bishe and Scoot McNary who play a married couple here, also played a married couple on the absolutely superb show "Halt and Catch Fire," which I know will never be a reaction here, but you guys should absolutely watch it. A beautiful show. I second those recommending Gone Baby Gone and The Town as far as Affleck's directorial work.

Jay Johnson

From what I heard, the hostages could have been released earlier, but Reagan (and/or his people) arranged for it to be delayed until he took office.

Farbod

This movie is such blatant propaganda… I like Affleck and I think he’s a talented director. But this film is pretty blatant about what it’s trying to portray. Making the CIA out as “good guys” is laughable.

Lana Gorgeous

Not getting political, but I'm in my 60's and all my life the US and Canada were so cool and friendly. I only hope we can be that friendly again as we were until 2025. Love Canada and Canadians <3

Darren Harrison

The real events are exciting enough, I don’t know why they didn’t tell the real events instead of this made-up Hollywood-ized version which is so far from the truth that if belongs in the fiction catalog. Gone are the real drama of being shuffled from embassy to embassy (they first hid in the U.K. embassy until it appeared they might be discovered) and added is garbage like the drama at the airport (nobody chased the plane). Fun movie. I just wish they had given us what actually happened

FromDarknessComesLight

Watched the full reaction on cinebingers (the one where you don't need your own copy) and the movie seemed a bit ahead of both S&G's reactions. I noticed it closer to the end, not sure if it was there the whole time or if the recordings slowly drifted out of sync. It honestly didn't bother me that much, but I figured I'd mention it since others are talking about it.

zona999

I actually got a bit teary at the end with how thankful we were for Canada's help. From that close relationship to the disaster it is today. It's so depressing.

gfixler

I can never tell if George is sending secret signals to me, wondering what it would be like if your country became a different one overnight, thinking how upsetting it would be to realize your military leaders were a bunch of incompetent buffoons... 😭

Adam Vialpando

I can forgive most of the inaccuracies. But what bothers me is the attempt to downplay Canada's part in this. According to people involved the Canadian's were practically the driving force of the plan.

Ryan Towell

With this film they took some creative liberties which films tend to do to help move it along and to where it doesn't confuse the audience too much. For example in this film they all hid in the same house in reality it was split between multiple houses. The level of their fear wasn't as bad in reality as most of their time wasn't spent in constant fear it was more boredom. And them chasing after the plane didn't happen they got out of there without any military presence figuring out the scheme. And a few smaller roles that were fictitious just to help w/ the story telling. I like the cast in this. I really like that Ben brought in Rory Cochrane who played Lee Schatz (the odd ball of the group). He played Slater (stoner w/ long hair) in Dazed and confused. He's always great in everything he does. As for the Hollywood sign. It was never kept up or taken care of and had deteriorated and was falling apart. In the late 70s the chamber of commerce started a "save the sign" campaign and raised money to rebuild, I thought it was cool to do that since it was during the time of all this. Details..

gfixler

The houseguest lady with the glasses (one of the people being extracted) was Chuck's doctor at the hospital in Better Call Saul (Clea DuVall, who played Dr. Lara Cruz in BCS). I've seen *everyone* in this film before. This is one of those ones where literally everyone who appears, I go "I know him!", "I know her!" The guide who took them to the shoot location I've seen in a bunch of things like random TV shows (FBI, The Mandalorian, Fear the Walking Dead, The Blacklist, Castle, Fringe, etc.). He's been in like every big show over the last 20 years, for an episode or two. Also a voice in a lot of animated shows and video games.

Lex Kuzma

If you want to know who Warren Beatty is, watch Bulworth. It's a really interesting move that he directed, starred in, and helped write.

Philipp Roensch

Really like this one, I belive first saw it with a school class. The internationally of the effort could have been better, but I get the focus on just the "crew", and what their situation felt like. The extended cut even is a bit kinder to Tony Mendez who up to the mission, regularly calls his kid^^. Bit of a Thematic crossover: Persepolis, just reminded me of that timeline. More with Brian Cranston: Your Honor is as good and short TV series, but Trumbo is a fun movie you would love.

Rhiannon

Before I continue the movie and forget - and not sure if someone else in the comments already recommended it - but when Simone was saying she thought for a moment that the movie was an animated movie and this would be an interesting story to tell in that way it reminded me of a graphic novel from about 20 years ago, called Persepolis. Definitely check it out!!