Glengarry Glen Ross [50 New-Old Movies for the 51st Year #42]

Mid-last year, I turned 50 years old!  And to add to all the real life goals and challenges that that brings, I’ve created at least one as it relates to movies and this blog–watch a film I’ve never seen before which came out in each year of my life (thus the “Old-New” terminology), and then write a bit about it.  This is Post #42.  Spoilers ahead.  

Argo – “Based on a True Story”

When I teach on scriptwriting, I’ll often get my students to take a real story that has happened to them and use it a framework to develop some new, original, and basically fictional.