1980’s Court-Jesters During Crisis: Airplane, The Blues Brothers and Caddyshack
As Kale Davidoff wrote yesterday of true perspective when looking at movies, I was reminded of the recent success of Argo, this year’s Best Picture, as it brought the paralysis of the Iran-Hostage crisis fully back to our collective frontal lobe. It was the story of a heroic rescue that Jimmy Carter couldn’t use in his re-election bid . Instead, the ill-fated rescue involving the helicopter-crash was also Carter’s.
The real magic of Argo (with its sci-fi movie pitch creating the smokescreen for the rescue) is its absurdity.
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