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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The ragheads would be wise to close their traps, for as John Paul Jones once said, "I have not yet begun to fight." When one voice from American people does begin to fight, the ragheads and their vile cult will be history in a matter of hours. These ragheads again would be wise to shut their traps, for Americans will only take so much.
It's about TIME Holly Weird pissed off somebody besides conservative America.......!!!
It's pathetic...Iranians get offended for a potential 'insult' to their country, yet American liberals deliberately make films to insult their country (Fahrenheit 9/11, An Inconvenient Truth)
I'm not saying 300 is an insult to Iran, I actuallly think it's rather accurate: invading another country without a justified cause and trying to exterminate everyone in their path...sounds like radical Islam to me.
My mom just calls him "Imanutjob"
They didn't invent the zero, they stole it from the Hindus.
how about ashouda-bin-ablowjob
??? Xerxes was played by a Brazilian actor, who was obviously of mixed-race, neither of the two "emissary" important speaking roles at the site of the battle were played by actors who were obviously of sub-Saharan African descent either. The only one who was obviously of "Black" origin was the nasty-mouthed messenger who went down the cistern. Thaty's only 25%, not all...
the infowarrior
"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.
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Uh, didn't he just describe President Ah-ma-nutjob?
"Spartans - Prepare for glory!"
This was a splendid movie, I plan to see it for the second time.
all of those phaggots in hollywood will come crying for protection once the sand monkeys issue another phatwa-this one directed at them instead of rushdie.
Hirohito outraged by American newsreels.
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