HOLLYWOOD’S 300 CAUSING A GLOBAL STIR
The News Dissector Blog ,written by Danny Schechter has reviewed the 300 Movie.
See it here.
And read my personal view about 300 there too.
The movie, which is based on a comic-book fantasy version of the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., is believed to be a shame and an untrue picture of Iranian historically and demographically.
The movie, in which a force of 300 Spartans held off a massive Persian army, is totally false. Iranian culture and costumes have never been like that and everyone who knows a little a bout history, for sure most know this.
The way Persians are depicted in this film has caused a lot of controversy in Iran. Iranian people in contrast to Americans- who don’t know even the history of their country well- read history a lot and they all perfectly are familiar to Hakhamaneshi’s dynasty and Iranian’s glory in those epochs.
So the dishonest 300 Movie has caused a very growing anger and rage toward Hollywood and Warner Brothers Co. among all Iranians throughout the world. Shortly the movie is seen as an attack on Persian history, a source of pride for Iranians across the globe.
See more here
posted by M. Reza Noroozpour @ 2:34 PM
2 Comments:
i watched this movie, but i cannot believe why persian like that, it's so cruel, then i ask my friend from iran, he said it is wrong, that movie was lie.nice to meet u.
The movie was outrageious in its depiction of the Persians. The western perspective of world history has always been skewed. For majority of Western historians,as well as average Westerners the eastern cultures were largely barbaric. They choose to be ignorant of the fact that the oldest and most advanced of ancient civilizations arose around the Tigris, Euphrates, Indus, Hwang Ho and Yangtze rivers. The time period in which this movie is set, the Greeks consisted of small city states such as Athens and Sparta, while Darius commanded the Achaeminid Empire which extended from Macedonia in the west and North India in the east. One does not have to be too intelligent realise that one cannot commmand such a vast empire with mere brute force. The genius of Darius lay in creating a workable structure for his empire. Even the Greek historian Herodotus marveled at this system.
One expects a little less distortion and more knowledge of history from the makers of Hollywood movies.
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