:laughs:

Iran incensed about 300's depiction of Persians

The historical war epic 300 has been criticized as an attack on Iranian culture by government authorities in Tehran.

The movie, which raked in $70 million US after opening this weekend, is based on a comic-book fantasy version of the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, in which a force of 300 Spartans held off a massive Persian army at a mountain pass in Greece.

(Warner Bros./Associated Press) "Hollywood declares war on Iranians," said a headline in Tuesday's edition of the independent Ayende-No newspaper.

The Persians, who are slaughtered wholesale in the film, are depicted as decadent, sexually flamboyant and evil in contrast to the noble Spartans.

Javad Shamqadri, a cultural adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called the film "psychological warfare" against Iran and its people.

"American cultural officials thought they could get mental satisfaction by plundering Iran's historic past and insulting this civilization," he said.

Shamqadri said the film seeks to attack Persian history and culture, which Iranians hold dear.

Even some American reviewers noted the political overtones of the West-against-Iran storyline and noted that it comes at a time of increased tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

"The film depicts Iranians as demons, without culture, feeling or humanity, who think of nothing except attacking other nations and killing people," Ayende-No said in its article.

"It is a new effort to slander the Iranian people and civilization before world public opinion at a time of increasing American threats against Iran," it said.

The film is not likely to be released in Iran, which has strict censorship laws, but is circulating on bootleg DVDs.

Commentators in Greece have also objected to 300, because of its historical inaccuracies.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2007/03/13/iran-300.html

let them complain to someone who cares:bshake:

i wonder what Ahmadinejad thought of shindler's list, since according to him, the hollocost neer happened :hs:

its almost time to bomb them back to the stone age....

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/ravenob1/J-dam.jpg

out with the troops...... in with the nukes!!!!!!!!!!


thats a joke btw.. :hihi:

Who cares what the nut has to say, he's an ass hole!

Who cares what the nut has to say, he's an ass hole!

lol. he's also possibly losing the support of his countrymen, who for the most part strike me as not-evil people.

i can understand why national pride is important to Iran - it's important to every country.

rattling the nuclear saber doesn't get you very far in that regard.

ahmadineschmuck is clueless.

if iran was smart they'd get a leader who'd embracing free market approaches that don't exclude the western world ... economic growth leads to rising global stature (remember it's the economy stupid). UN economic sanctions tend to get in the way of that progress.

and as we've seen in the far east, when economic fermentation happens, socio-political fermentation is not too far behind.

"The film depicts Iranians as demons, without culture, feeling or humanity, who think of nothing except attacking other nations and killing people," Ayende-No said in its article.

They are giving AMericans too much credit 99% of the people who see that movie will have no clue that Persia is in part, now modern day Iran.

my grandfather worked for the shaw of iran for a year building a seaport back in the 50's. he died a few years ago, but he always told me that most of the Iranians he met were the most generous and thoughtful people he has ever met. Our media and thier media are totally warping eachothers views of eachother's cultures.