watcing the movie,Persians were dressing just like Arabs & they did look like them.But history says sth else.?

Question

I am curious to know why???

Answer 1

Why can I already guess that this is 300?

I'm not sure what happened to the Europeans, who are direct descendents through the Scythian ethnic line to the Persians, but at some point, when Islam was annexing in the 8th century, and Europe's ruling power was Roman Catholicism, Europeans were collectively conditioned to see all Persians, Arab, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, or otherwise as primative barbarians who were animal like and uncivilised. That conditioning followed the European renniassance, even though the scientific advances of Europe were borrowed from the Moors and the Moorish Jews whose influence was even more Persian than Europe itself at the time.

This is partly because history has censored the contributions of Persian culture to the advancement of European culture, and anyone, like Frank Miller, who writes creatively is writing with this conditioning in mind...

It's also partly to help propagate the propaganda that allows the public to be more supportive of warfare, anhiliation, and total genicide of a people who, if we were more knowledgable about collectively, we would oppose such measures, because we'd realise we share a common ancestry.

Answer 2

What movie? 300? That was all style and no substance. The Immortals in 300 looked like two sworded ninjas because not only did it allow the crew to use the same 5 stunt guys over and over again, it just looked cool.

What an immortal looked like:
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/achaemenids/images/immortal_warrior.jpg

Persia's empire started in what is now called Iran so that is why they would look like Arabs.

Answer 3

Cos the producers thought they could make more money pandering to current anti arab prejudices rather than make an equally tragic and dramatic AUTHENTIC version.

I'm still shuddering at Xerxes as some kind of bondage figure!

Ignore the movie and read Herodotus!

Answer 4

well ,Persian empire fell apart in 4.centuryb.c,but their culture proceeded on some grounds,where actually later became Arabian kingdom.