A Few Words on the Unethical Movie '300' Produced by Warner Brothers USA

Payvand Iran News ^ | 3/13/07 | Abolfazl Moghadam

[meg88]

3/13/07 A few words on the unethical movie 300 produced by Warner Brothers Company of USA By Abolfazl Moghadam

One more time the world is witnessing the true face of hypocrisy and disrespect towards other cultures by a few who would put their profits before any kinds of rules of decency. One more time the world is witnessing the distortion of facts, unethical behavior of directors such as Zack Snyder.

It would not take much time for a reasonable man and woman after watching this movie 300 to well qualify Mr. Snyder and his irresponsible film studio, namely Warner Brothers, as the most successful candidates to win the top prize of insulting, disrespecting the Iranian (Persian) culture and the Iranians all over the world.

Have these people forgotten the civilization that Persia brought to the world? Probably not. They know the facts well. Their attempt in making such movie is nothing but assassination of characters. Even if they wanted to read the history, the most they would chose to go for a reference, would be no one but the Herodotus who fictitiously claimed and distorted the history and reported that the 300 Spartans stopped the Persian Army for 3 days! No one of course would be so much surprised as Herodotus was a Greek himself, and apparently Herodotus was not ready to reflect both sides of the coins, in a fair and equitable manner.

The fact is that the world's intellectuals whether be the Persians, or non Persians, those whose hearts are filled with the love of Persia, Persian poetry and civilization, those who appreciate the great contributions of Persians towards the world's culture and science, would understand that the movie 300 is nothing but a distortion fact machine. The irony is that in the movie the Persian King which supposed to be King Xerxes has been portrayed as someone with an African complex! The movie scenario is gravely equipped with tons of ill information and ignorance which is once again the manifestation of Mr. Snyder's and Warner Brothers' ignorance on the true history.

They could have done a better job, had they set aside their feelings of hatred towards the Persian culture and civilization. They could have better written the manuscript for the movie, had they known that, or cared to read about the first Charter of Human Rights by Cyrus The Great (550 B.C), and the impact it had on the human behaviors of many countries of the time, including Greece.

I have no doubt in my mind that the world would make its own judgment at the end of the day; that the movie 300 is an absolute manifestation of ignorance towards the Persian civilization, a complete facts distortion mission, a total disregard towards the human dignity, a complete disrespect and insult towards another culture and civilization, and finally a miserable move by the producer and people alike, in trying to save their troubled life by constantly manufacturing and portraying false events, so to make up for their own inability to move forward, and have positive progress.

Although the damage has been done, but Warner Brothers and Mr. Snyder must be courageous enough to withdraw the movie from the market impromptu, rectify the malicious misinformation and misrepresentation that have constituted the very inches of the movie, and apologize to the Iranian communities all over the world.

[hgro]

Persians (Iranians) are losers and don't like to have it publicized.

[EternalHope]

Although the damage has been done, but Warner Brothers and Mr. Snyder must be courageous enough to withdraw the movie from the market impromptu, rectify the malicious misinformation and misrepresentation that have constituted the very inches of the movie, and apologize to the Iranian communities all over the world.

This comment seems to have been censored. The omitted portion is most likely:
Or peaceful Muslims will blow up your studios and cut off Mr. Snyder's head.

[dynachrome]

You can send an email to the author of this piece of crap at the link. I did.

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING freedom-loving, FReeper comments BUMP!

[nikos1121]

I grant you that the OLD Persia and its people contributed greatly to the world. The Shah continued that legacy and up until his death Iran was among the richest and most powerful nations. That all changed with your religious zealots coming to power.

Presently, however, your country of Iran, Persia whatever you wish to call it...is disgraceful in what it stands for and what it has done for its people.

I think the movie is great...and should be shown in your country...

[The_Reader_David]

Well, they sacked Jerusalem and stole the True Cross. Of course Emperor Heraclitus then organized an expedition into the heart of their empire, thrashed them, and recoved the Cross.

Maybe if the Mullahs were reminded of the fact that the 'prophet' spoke in approving terms of the Christian Emperor's victory over the Persians, they wouldn't be so touchy about over-the-top depictions of fights between two packs of pagans just because one lot happened to hail from the same parts as they do.

[padre35]

I am afraid that posting these articles is going to do nothing but inflame an already passionate forum.

This is Sparta!

oops..that slipped out....:)

[stockpirate]

All you goats belonging to us.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

"Come to think of it, the Persians must have been real wussies on the battlefield. Did they ever have any notable wins against the west?"

Yup--they conquered Babylon, which was west of them.

The also conquered part of India, Lydia, and Egypt.

They took over Asia Minor on their way to Greece.

That's all I remember.

[meg88]

Wasnt there an Alexander the Great movie out a couple of years ago?

[Spiff]

King Leonidas would have kicked Abolfazl Moghadam into the Spartan well with the rest of Xerxes emissaries. "This is Sparta!!!"...Boot....Aaaaaaaggggghhhhhhh!!!

See this.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Those people don't need much to get mad. Watch them use this as an excuse for violence, just like the riots and murder over the Pope's words and some stupid cartoons.
Also watch for the US leftist media to condemn this movie.

[layman]

It seems ironic that Iranians can be absolutely certain of a battle which took place 2,300 years ago, but are confused about the holocaust which took place 65 years ago.

[magslinger]

I haven't seen it yet, but the word on FR is that it is good. Check it out here.

I got my new tagline from the clip.

[CannotStanDEM]

I know. They haven't been "Persian" since sometime around 632 A.D.

[jbwbubba]

Now I must see the movie.

[meg88]

'It seems ironic that Iranians can be absolutely certain of a battle which took place 2,300 years ago, but are confused about the holocaust which took place 65 years ago.

lmao

[redstates4ever]

Abolfazl Moghadam - "Waaah! Waaaah!"

[Richard Axtell]

Oh, it was "Herodotus who fictitiously claimed and distorted the history and reported that the 300 Spartans stopped the Persian Army for 3 days!" So, the author has historical bones to pick with even the 1962 20th Century Fox production of "Te 300 Spartans". He wants us to doubt that 300 fiercely motivated professional soldiers could hold off a Persian army of hundreds of thousands for more than 3 days. Would he also have us believe that those three days did not give the Athenians the time to assemble a fleet and deploy it, and subsequently defeat Xerxes navy at Salamis? And would he have us doubt the final and decisive victory by the Spartan led Greeks over the remaining Persians under Mardonius at Plataea? Distortion of facts indeed!

[Ramius]

As the Persians were not Muslims at this period of time. And Muslims consider anybody that is not a Muslim to be an infidel, I find their outrage a little confusing?

Quite so. It was Islam that finally dealt the death blow to Persian culture. It's true that the Persians created a magnificent civilization, a thousand years before the infection by Islam. But then again, most of the world was better off before Islam, and not just Persia.

Persia was doomed. Had the Greeks and others not done it, the Muslims would have anyway. For Muslims to decry the loss of Persian culture is just plain funny.