In the movie, Tony Ben Affleck and the six are left with no choice but to meet with two men associated with the Iranian film office. He yells at her and states that his son had been killed by a gun supplied by America. The true story behind the Argo movie reveals that this never actually happened, nor did they ever venture into town to scout a location.
Sheila Vand left as Sahar in the movie and the real maid named Lolita right. The housekeeper in the movie named Sahar Sheila Vand is based largely on John Sheardown's housekeeper, a Filipino woman named Lolita, who did not expose the secret about John and his wife's new houseguests, despite knowing the truth.
John and his wife, who sheltered four of the six Americans, are not represented in the movie. Pat told their servants that the couple were tourists visiting Iran for a short time and that they were friends of her husband. When interviewed about the real story, John Sheardown's wife Zena recalls a helicopter hovering over their home for quite a bit of time, which caused significant concern, believing that the Iranians had found out and were looking for their home.
Unlike what is shown in the movie or in this case not shown in the movie , they later discovered that the police were looking for an Iranian gunman who assassinated a religious leader in that area. To reiterate, John and his wife are not represented in the movie, despite hiding four of the six Americans. Pat Taylor, the wife of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor, received a strange phone call during which the caller, who would not identify himself, asked to speak with Joe Stafford, who had been hiding with his wife Kathy at the Taylor home.
Pat told the caller that she had never heard of Joe Stafford and told the person to call her husband. Ken Taylor never received a call. Yes, but in researching the Argo true story, we discovered that unlike what is shown in the film, Tony Mendez did not act as the interrogator.
Instead, a man named Roger Lucy, who was house-sitting with the four Americans staying at the Sheardown's home, volunteered to be the interrogator. He spoke Farsi fluently, the language of the area. He conducted the mock interrogations dressed in military fatigues, complete with a hat, jack boots, sunglasses and a swagger stick.
Tony and his partner, who he calls "Julio", arrived in Mehrabad, Iran at 5 a. Tony departed Iran with the six Americans three days later on Monday morning, January The six Americans were in hiding in Iran for nearly 3 months, from November 4, until their escape on the morning of January 28, After eventually ending up in the large home of the Canadian Deputy Chief of Mission, John Sheardown not represented in the movie , they spent their time perfecting their culinary skills and playing lots of scrabble.
By comparison, the 52 hostages that remained in the American Embassy building for the entire duration of the Iran hostage crisis were not released until January 20, , almost a full year after Tony Mendez got the six Americans dubbed the "Canadian Six" out. They spent a total of days as captives. The mission had never been called off at the last minute, forcing Tony Mendez to make a passionate call to his boss to tell him he was going through with it anyway.
In reality, the mission had always been a go ever since American President Jimmy Carter gave his approval prior to Tony taking his flight into Tehran, Iran. The real Tony Mendez woke up forty-five minutes late the morning he was to meet up with the six Americans at the airport.
He had slept through his watch alarm and was woken up when his ride to the airport had arrived and called his hotel room.
He rushed to get ready and made it downstairs 15 minutes later. The suspenseful Argo movie scene that requires Ben Affleck's character to ask the woman at the airport ticket counter to recheck for the tickets never actually happened in real life.
The reservations had always been in place and there weren't any problems at the counter or the checkpoints. Tony had arrived ahead of them to make sure that he cleared customs and could check in at the airline counter without any trouble. When the problem was resolved they took the airport bus out to where they boarded the plane and it lifted off for Zurich, Switzerland.
They were not chased down the runway by the officers and Revolutionary Guard at the airport. However, they did in fact breathe a collective sigh of relief once they cleared Iranian airspace. The takeover of the U. Embassy in Tehran is dramatically recreated at the beginning of Argo. Instead of using the actual embassy which still stands today , the Argo crew filmed the sequence at the Veterans Affairs Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center.
Located in the North Hills area of the San Fernando Valley, the mostly-vacant facility is currently undergoing restoration and is used often as a film location. It was a huge stroke of luck. The historic and affluent neighborhood of Hancock Park is located in the eastern portion of the original Rancho La Brea area, north of Wilshire Boulevard and south of Melrose Avenue. Hancock Park's palatial, two-story residences were designed in various Period Revival styles for the elite of Los Angeles society, and are frequently used as film locations.
The building was designed by Gordon B. Kaufmann, the architect best known for his work on the Hoover Dam. The foot high murals in the Globe Lobby were painted by Hugo Ballin, who also painted the Griffith Observatory rotunda.
After Mendez comes up with a daring plan to rescue the six Americans, he flies out to Los Angeles to meet with famed Hollywood makeup artist John Chambers, played by John Goodman. Chambers received a special Academy Award for his work on the Planet of the Apes movies. At the Smoke House Restaurant in Burbank, Chambers advises Mendez on how to produce the fake movie that serves as cover for the rescue operation. Thanks to its proximity to world famous Warner Bros. Studios , the Smoke House Restaurant has been a favorite hangout for the entertainment industry since it was established in In the s, it was perfectly normal for costumed extras from a Warner Bros.
Western to fill the restaurant during lunch. The legendary steakhouse continues to attract new generations of fans who enjoy the old school service and charm, as well as the famous garlic bread, generous portions and live entertainment. Argo producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov named their production company after the restaurant. Skip to navigation Skip to content. Discover Membership. Editions Quartz.
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