Iranians Say '300' Insults Their Ancient Culture

Iranians Say '300' Insults Their Ancient Culture
Leader's Aide Says U.S. Trying To Humiliate Iran With Film

POSTE😱 11:38 am EDT March 14, 2007
UPDATE😱 11:55 am EDT March 14, 2007

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.

Iran Calls '300' War Propaganda

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 "humiliate" Iran in order to reverse historical reality and "compensate 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.

"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 protes

oh he did? oops

Lmao solitas?

Perhaps you should follow the history of the whiny ADL and how they milk every nation worldwide with their holocaust for more than 60 years.

Would you say the same when JEWS were against (passion of the Christ?)?

Hollybullshit is a major contributor of the propaganda against the nations of the earth?

Americans without any CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS has no place in the history let alone FAKE and TWIST the realities of the HISTORY of the nations that has been around for more than 3000 years.

Funny that this crap movie popped in just in time of the US preparations with (war on Iranians).

?300? facts in simple mind of millions of Americans (the same ones who think nascar is a sport ) will picture persian people like this.

.lol

Xerxes was 9 ft tall, he had ogres in his army, his elite forces were lizard people, and he used Elephants.

People like you will always ignore the fact that very first and (documented human rights and freedom) were created and initiated by that fetish loving Iranians err Persians? also they never mentioned Xerxes wife (queen Esther) was in fact a Jew? you mean Jews love the fetish loving/looking male..??

Gosh.. I am gonna make a movie of this someday..!

Dehumanization of the enemy (using favourite tools like Hollycrap) is one key to starting and gaining support for a war with other nations. It happened with the Japanese, the Germans, the Soviets, the Koreans, and the Chinese the Vietnamese, the Iraqis, and now the Iranians.

Umm.. ohh?

Come again? who owns the ?Warner Brothers?..??

There you go..

wow, you're taking this rather hard. are you going to be okay?

Not hard.. but serious?!

There is always a reason behind anything even as stupid as ?300? (historically was 7000).

Two basic elements?

You either watch a movie to be informed or to be entertained.

This crap movie called ?300? is historically wrong. Then how you can justify yourself to be entertained by blood/gores/and immense violence..??

Do you get pleasure of violence and blood..??

Again?why the hell this movie popped in exactly when stupid US admin are preparing to attack Iranians..??

Suck it..

To the Zionist owned WB wouldn't cost anything to add 20 sec TEXT in the beginning of this stupid movie to inform that it is a fiction based on stupid and deluded frank miller bullshits.

But hell?

It is cool to insult an ancient culture?

As usual?

Fucking Americans..

lol i take it that you're not american. yes, sadly, the world is entertained by blood, guts and gore. even in ancient times if you look at the romans with their gladiators and triumphs... sad but true.

no one is thinking badly about the iranians. what they are doing now as far as politics, it's what it is, but everyone knows that ancient persians were a great set of people and they werent monsters as they are made out to be in movies.

every culture is made out to be boogie men in movies. germans, japanese, africans, indians, chinese, koreans, arabs... you name me one culture that hasnt been insulted by someone at some point in time in movies and then you will have a valid argument. it's a sensitive subject with the movie right now because of iran's political problems with the US but im quite sure that that isnt the basis of the movie. it's an exagerrated plot designed at selling movie tickets, that's all. dont take it so hard. it's not personal.

fuck u qboney........get over it....its a movie set in 480 b.c.....noone gives a crap except u and the iranians.

u know qbone.... not all americans are as smart as u are giving them credit for. the average redneck nascar fan probably wouldnt connect persia with modern iran unless they read the article on how upset the iranians are by the movie.

well yeah, he is taking it rather personally... i mean, nothing against the iranians or anything but, who the hell has time to sit and think about it while watching the movie that the iranians are going to be upset at how the ancient persians are portrayed. perhaps they shouldnt watch american movies. you dont see us watching iranian movies do you?

the only movies i see coming out of that region ....someone has a bag over thier head and they are being held hostage or is about to have thier head cut off.

i dont read qbones stuff much but when i do all he does is hate on americans. no culture?.....u need to pull your head out of your ass and realize that we have culture from all around the world. everybody here is part something else.....

"Iranians Say '300' Insults Their Ancient Culture"

So? Just about every movie insults/offends aomeone SOMEHOW. The best (& brightest)thing to do is get over it🙂. There's a good amount of movies/jokes/skits I've seen that specifically targets certain people, but do you hear them bitching?