The Americans were housed by two Canadians: the Ambassador Ken Taylor, and a Canadian embassy employee, John Sheardown. (They may also have wanted to maintain the plausibility of a similar ruse in future.) Argo corrects that version of events-or, rather, overcorrects it, downplaying the actual extent of Canadian involvement, which was considerable. was worried about possible repercussions if CIA involvement was publicized.
30 years ago, Canada received complete credit for the rescue, because the U.S. The most disputed aspect of the movie’s version of events has to do with Canada’s role in the escape. (The script also draws on a memoir by Antonio Mendez, the man that Affleck plays in the film.) As Bearman explained in a chat with Gawker readers yesterday, the person who first told him about the story was an independent movie producer named David Klawans, who hoped that Bearman would report it out and write up a “nice yarn” that “might help kickstart a movie.” “Shockingly,” Bearman said, “it worked.” (Klawans is an executive producer of Argo.) The movie is largely based on a terrific article by Joshuah Bearman published five years ago in Wired, which you should read.
But you should also know that a lot of the most interesting details below aren’t in the movie at all-because, it turns out, much of the stuff Argo leaves out is even better than what made it in.Īrgo’s central, nutty storyline-in which the CIA establishes a fake movie production, complete with a full script and ads in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, in order to rescue six Americans stranded in post-revolutionary Iran-is 100 percent true, and pretty incredible.
While it seems odd to offer a spoiler alert for a movie based on historical events, be warned that the rest of this post will discuss the movie in some detail. So just how accurate is Argo? And what are the white lies and dramatic whoppers the movie indulges in? We’ve tried to break it all down below.
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