Affleck used the Mendez book and of course he wrote himself as the hero - that is the rationale Affleck uses...He said 'thanks to Mendez for letting us tell HIS story"..he emphasized HIS..
When incidents like that in history (and the other Oscar nominated movies have the same 'truth' problems) so many people use them as their understanding of the facts and it becomes their truth. I've even read that the focus back then on the Canadian involvement was all part of the deception-inferring that there really wasn't much they did other than act a part given to them and Ken Taylor continued acting it while receiving accolades after the caper was over.
The sad part is that while those hostages were living in hiding (in a luxurious diplomat's home)they were not suffering the hardships like the other 52 hostages were undergoing at the same time. The couple who housed the six were not even in the movie... While Ambassador Taylor is depicted as taking in all six of the American escapees, it was John Sheardown, another Canadian Consular Official, and his wife, Zena, who took in four of them. Ambassador Taylor housed the other two. Mr. Sheardown died a few weeks ago.
Read more:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/argo-iran-h...#ixzz2LwLATU8v
Maybe Ben will make another movie about them...or maybe Disney will..
lol
Gordon Pinsent was in a 1981 movie about it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082339/
Sheardown:
http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/mobile-vid...from-argo.html
and obit:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle6970897/