Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’

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Iranians outraged over hit movie ˜300™


TEHRAN, Iran - The hit American movie œ300 has angered Iranians who say the Greeks-vs-Persians action flick insults their ancient culture and provokes animosity against Iran.

œHollywood declares war on Iranians, blared a headline in Tuesday™s edition of the independent Ayende-No newspaper.

The movie, which raked in $70 million in its opening weekend, is based on a comic-book fantasy version of the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., in which a force of 300 Spartans held off a massive Persian army at a mountain pass in Greece for three days.

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 œhumiliate Iran in order to reverse historical reality and œcompensate for its wrongdoings in order to provoke American soldiers and warmongers against Iran.

The movie comes at a time of increased tensions between the United States and Iran over the Persian nation™s nuclear program and the Iraq war.

But aside from politics, the film was seen as an attack on Persian history, a source of pride for Iranians across the political spectrum, including critics of the current Islamic regime.

State-run television has run several commentaries the past two days calling the film insulting and has brought on Iranian film directors to point out its historical inaccuracies.

œThe 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.

œIt 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 œ300 is œserving the policy of the U.S. leadership and predicted it will œprompt 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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[AYHJA]

Wait so...They DIDN'T try to conquer the Greeks, and that shit never happened..? My, aren't we just bad folks...

[Bot]

Seems to me it's always Iran stirring the pot... lol

[AYHJA]

They mad, like the entire account was fabricated...And on top of that, I don't recall seeing no shit before the film came on that said, "This is definitely a true fucking story, cock sucking moron Iranians," less I was taking a piss when it came up...

[Buffmaster]

Iran is a very peaceful country /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> , they would never try to provoke a war with anybody.LOL

[pusha]

bunch of attention whores if you ask me

[Highlander65]

In actuality, 1000 other Greeks joined the 300 Spartans to defend the pass. Also, the Persians tried to sail around to the south and were defeated by a much smaller Greek Navy, several times. In the end, Persia broke through the pass but could not feed their army and had to pull out. The campaign was a huge failure because of bad planning. Lots to be proud of there!

I guess by their logic, every WWII movie ever made was actually a political statement insulting Germany and Japan.