Ben Affleck had every reason to look sheepish and expect the audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival (where 'Argo' debuted) to hate him for what he did. Not sure why they applauded. Basically, Affleck co-opted history to create a fiction that Americans saved the hostages in Iran in 1979. NOT TRUE: It was the Canadian Embassador to Iran, Kenneth Taylor, at great peril to himself and his colleagues and family. No other country would help them. If you want to see what really happened, watch the Canadian 1981 television film, "Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper" which dramatizes the cover story for the operation.