300 against the glorious history of IRAN
“Movie '300' called an insult to ancient Persia”; Associated Press
"Hollywood declares war on Iranians," blared a headline in Tuesday's edition of the independent Ayende-No newspaper.
I wonder if you hadn’t heard about the movie 300 yet; the movie which I can certainly call the most brawls provoking one from the Hollywood.
Having read about the source of this movie I found out that this movie is exactly based on Frank Miller's fictional comic novel. A 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.
According to what I read in www.payvand.com this movie is “a faithful rework of the novel”.
So in my opinion, the real blame is on the novel which is written very “shallow” and “heavily fictionalized”.
But on the other hand, the language of a film is always more accurate and the virtual images and scenes of a movie is definitely more obvious than the imaginary images which a novel may shape in one’s mind.
“Aside from politics, the film was seen as an attack on Persian history, a source of pride for Iranians across the political spectrum.”
Xerxes- Perspolis-Palace wallAccording to the news, 300 is not only including some political reasons in different perspectives but also is an obvious insult which is directly aimed at the glorious and great history of our dear Iran.
"The film depicts Iranians as demons, without culture, feeling or humanity, who think of nothing except attacking other nations and killing people," Ayande-No said in its article Tuesday.
It is really painful when our honorable and respectful ancients are portrayed so cruel, savage and unacceptable in this movie.
“Persians are depicted as decadent, sexually flamboyant and evil in contrast to the noble Greeks.”
Anyway, whether this movie is picturing this dishonest face of Iran intentionally or not, this is a twist in its history. Especially, because Iran and Greek, both are considered as the first ancient civilizations, it is not acceptable that we ruin their face and victimize them in order to attract the audience for gaining fame and fortune.
I hope that the officials prepare a statement in order to declare their reasons and philosophies behind this project, as soon as possible.
Bythe way, due to the insult and humiliation that this movie has made, a group of patriots decided to name the New Year for the Great Cyrus, who was the leader of democracy in the world! and represents the rich culture of Iran and its civilized society even in the ancient times.
We respect our ancient noble blood and rich culture and will never allow it to be ruined by any means, as far as this blood is current in our veins of Persianality an Iranism!
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4 comments:
Hi Mitra,
It is really disappoiting...
I've heard about it too and I was shocked that how they could think like that about "the history of Iran".
I hope the "History" of Iran survives, although the government should be concerned about it as well as Iranian people!!
Thanks for sharing, although this is so unsatisfying and ofcourse unacceptable for us...
Bests!
Get over it. Its called creative license.
1. The book 300 is a modern version of Homer's storytelling, where something that was a real event was exaggerated to make a story more interesting.
2. There was no intention to make Iranians look bad and uncivilized.
3. Oversensitivity to race, religon, ethnicity etc... is a way to censor peoples' freedom of expression. It's all about enterainment,and expression. Taking offense is just irrational
while some excellent documentaries have been released following 300, showing the power and might of the persian army... don't forget that the narrator in 300 is a member of the spartan 300.
is it any wonder that the 'enemy' are shown in a less than favourable light?
the spartan who shows the 'secret way' around the back of the hot gates is shown as a deformed hunchback when told of by the greek narrator - was this really the case? or is it a matter of license in the same way that shakespeare showed king richard III when writing during the elizabethan era and the way the monarchy of the dayt hated him?
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