I was born November 15, 1979, eleven days after the US Embassy in Iran was captured and hostages were taken. My mom wrote this down in my baby book in the “current events” section. It’s kind of neat to put period pieces like Argo into context like that.
Argo is a really intense and really exciting movie. I highly recommend it. I can’t speak to how historically accurate the story is but I suspect we will see this movie played in high school social studies classes and the students won’t even be bored. It’s a really interesting and exciting way to tell a story. My only complaint was that during the end credits they showed pictures actors in the movie next to pictures of the actual people the actors represented, as if to say, “see? See? We even made them look the same! Give us an Oscar nomination for costumes and make-up!” The costumes, makeup, and hair were really good, by the way. Everyone looked like they smelled of B.O. and cigarettes, which is how I assume everyone smelled in 1979/1980.