Posted on 03/13/2007 1:52:00 PM PDT by jmc1969
TEHRAN, Iran - The hit American movie "300" has angered Iranians who say the Greeks-vs-Persians action flick insults their ancient culture and provokes animosity against Iran.
"Hollywood declares war on Iranians," blared a headline in Tuesday's edition of the independent Ayende-No newspaper.
Even some American reviewers noted the political overtones of the West-against-Iran story line - and the way Persians are depicted as decadent, sexually flamboyant and evil in contrast to the noble Greeks.
In Iran, the movie hasn't opened and probably never will, given the government's restrictions on Western films, though one paper said bootleg DVDs were already available.
Still, it touched a sensitive nerve. Javad Shamghadri, cultural adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said the United States tries to "humiliate" Iran in order to reverse historical reality and "compensate for its wrongdoings in order to provoke American soldiers and warmongers" against 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 Tuesday.
"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.
Iran's biggest circulation newspaper, Hamshahri, said "300" is "serving the policy of the U.S. leadership" and predicted it will "prompt a wave of protest in the world. ... Iranians living in the U.S. and Europe will not be indifferent about this obvious insult."
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testy little buggers.
Islamic Rage Boy?
Saw it. Cool movie.
Religion of Perpetual Outrage is outraged. Who'd a thunk it?
Ummm isn't that exactly what mooslimbs to and want to do to Israel?
They shouldn't be SO SENSITIVE!
"F" 'em.
It is also what a lot of Iranians seem to accuse Israelis of.
boo-freakin-hoo
As a poster on another thread noted: it shouldn't be news anymore when one of these Middle Eastern groups becomes enraged about something.
If we can find something -- anything -- that they are NOT enraged about... well, now THAT would be news!
So the movie depicted Persians as people who reflexively hate the West while bootlegging their DVD's?
>>provokes animosity against Iran<<
Ahmadinnerjacket is doing a fine job of that already.
Next we'll see suicide bombers trying to break the gates at the Hollywood studios.
They got a good look in the mirror and got upset.
Many lefties were insulted by this movie, as well...
well the persians were not mooslimb at the time, and as I recall they ultimately did sack athens and do considerable damage to the greeks.
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