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Re:The Best Books I Read in 2013 by Tyrannosaurs on Friday December 13, 2013 @09:41AM (#6900677)
There's a page or two on Wikipedia about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(2012_film)

The basic idea (making a sci-fi film as a cover for getting people out of Iran) is true, after that it's fairly heavily dramatised and pro-Americanised.

Worth saying that Affleck has always been relatively upfront about the dramatisation when asked about it in interviews, though I've not seen him asked about his depiction of the actions of the Canadian, British and New Zealand governments.

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Re:The Best Books I Read in 2013 by evacuationdrill on Friday December 13, 2013 @03:59PM (#6902881)
Crap, I was thinking of Zero Dark Thirty actually. I haven't seen Argo.

Thanks for the info, though. I have read about it before, and it's definitely an example of truth being stranger than fiction.

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