Recreating an international crisis of historical proportions is not as easy as you think.<\/p>\n
For Ben Affleck, the director and star of \u201cArgo,\u201d opening Friday, it may have been the biggest challenge of his career: fomenting the chaos necessary to simulate the 1979 storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran that launched the hostage crisis.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had several thousand extras on some days,\u201d the 40-year-old actor-director told The News of filming in Istanbul, which doubled for Tehran. \u201cIt was not quite \u2018Lawrence of Arabia,\u2019 but it felt pretty big to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to hire real people, but that meant we had to dress them and we had to teach them Persian chants,\u201d he adds. \u201cWe had to bus them in from all over the place; some of these people had to leave their homes at one in the morning. All of a sudden, it turned freezing and raining on the days we were going to shoot. So there were a ton of logistical challenges. Chief among them, they could just go home. They could just decide it wasn\u2019t worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The result, though, has been well worth it for Affleck.<\/p>\n
Based on a real incident only declassified during the Clinton administration, \u201cArgo\u201d tells the story of a clandestine CIA operation that freed six American diplomats. They narrowly escaped capture after their embassy was breached and 52 of their peers were taken hostage.<\/p>\n
Secretly holed up for weeks in the home of the Canadian ambassador (played by Victor Garber), they realize it\u2019s just a matter of time before they\u2019re discovered. So Langley assigns a top \u201cexfiltration\u201d expert, Tony Mendez (Affleck), to sneak into the midst of the chaos of the Revolution and whisk the diplomats home\u2026<\/p>\n
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