Iran is screaming about America trying to re-write history with the new movie "300". I am at a loss to understand why. This is a movie about a true and factual battle between the expanding Persian empire and the Greeks. The movie keeps the entire story of how the battle came to be, how it progressed, how it basically true. Where does the re-write come in?
If you think this is seriously a re-write please explain why and why this should be such a big deal as we talk about a war that happened in 480 BC between the Greeks and the Persian empire.
2007-03-14 03:22:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Elliem I still don't get it....it never says "The Iranians" it calls them "Persians" since they were soilders fighting for the Persian Empire..there were lots of them, Indians, asians, etc it was not a force of one race. It bears NO reflection on Iran or anywhere else whatsoever
2007-03-14 04:33:18 · update #1
Elliem I am not trying to pick apart your answer but I guess I just still don't understand. I saw the movie..it does NOT make Iranians look brutal in any way, shape or form...it makes the SPARTANS look brutal for how they raised their kids.
2007-03-14 04:36:08 · update #2
I think it has to do with their culture's identification with ancestors. As Americans (and Europeans too), we are used to criticizing those of our ancestors who did evil, while admiring those who did good. We are aware, for example, that our ancestors include slave-holders, though we now consider slavery anathema. We also have ancestors who fought to end slavery. We are open about it.
It seems that in some cultures, it is impossible to recognize wrong-doing in the ancestors. There is a big controversy in Turkey right now over recognizing the Turkish genocide against Armenians during WWI. Anybody who talks about it can be prosecuted for "insulting Turkishness." The Turkish Armenian Hrant Dink was recently murdered because he wrote about it. This atrocity happened in 1915! Nobody who perpetrated it is even alive now! And yet it is considered insulting to Turkishness to refer to it. By contrast, Germans are open about the German crimes of WWII, and it is illegal there to deny the holocaust!
I think Iranian sensitivity to a negative portrayal of ancient Persians is part of the same feeling that one is somehow tainted by having criminal ancestors; as if anybody doesn't have criminal ancestors! We have heroic and saintly ancestors too! So what?!
I haven't seen the movie, but I understand that the negative portrayal of the Persians that Iranians object to is the sexual decadance rather than violence. The rigid training of the Spartans may be seen as virtuous, if perhaps excessive.
2007-03-14 05:58:24 · answer #1 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The way the Iranian are shown is really brutal! besides that, I think it comes from the fact that Iran already has a horrible image in the world because of its government and their genius president! The iraninas don't want the image to get worse! Most Iranian population who live in Iran do not agree with the way the government is leading their country. They are upset because they are not savages and barberians.
2007-03-14 11:17:29 · answer #2 · answered by Elliem 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Iran is schizophrenic, they see everything up side down.
2007-03-14 22:44:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please tell me where can I see that movie?.........
2007-03-14 21:40:30 · answer #4 · answered by ILSE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋