In the film there was little attempt to alter the appearances of the six, although it was understood that the revolutionaries had been reassembling shredded documents and might well have relevant photos. One would have thought changing appearances - hair color and style, facial hair, etc - would have been a priority, with passport photos to match. Why not? And in the real world, what happened?
I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken.
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I don't doubt you're right about much of what you say, and I might add that I wasn't greatly impressed by the references to Britain and New Zealand choosing not to help the six - the opposite of the truth and, even granting the premiss of a film designed to highlight American heroism, quite unnecessary. However, I was surprised to read this
hokum about boys assembling shredded pictures never happened- are you sure you are right about that? I seem to remember reading about this many years before Argo was made, and for what it's worth Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis says
Revolutionary teams displayed secret documents purportedly taken from the embassy, sometimes painstakingly reconstructed after shreddingwith a link http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nsa/publications/iran/irdoc.html
the Americans attempted to destroy classified documents with a burn furnace. The furnace malfunctioned and the staff was forced to use cheap paper shredders. Skilled carpet weaver women were later employed to reconstruct the documentsreferencing Bowden, Mark (2006). Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam. Similarly a PBS Frontline page
Most of the documents had been shredded. It took years of hard work to put together the shredded documents, to make sense of them, and to publish them.though this seems to imply that any reconstruction would have been too late to help the Iranians within the Argo timescale (though the Americans, or perhaps more relevantly the Canadians, might not have known that).
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