Re: Frank Miller's 300
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Re: Frank Miller's 300
On "Ebert And Roeper" both Roeper and the guest critic gave it thumbs up.Comment
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Re: Frank Miller's 300
Just the saw the movie today and what an incredible movie.
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Saw it this weekend and it made me wish I was a spartan. Oh well. One of my favorite movies of all time.
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When Leonidas says. "THIS IS SPARTA!" and kicks the dude down the hole, that gave me goosebumps.YNWAComment
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lol it looks like they wont be selling many tickets in Iran (not that they show western movies there anyway)
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.
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 protest in the world. ... Iranians living in the U.S. and Europe will not be indifferent about this obvious insult.”Last edited by ZB9; 03-13-2007, 08:41 PM.Comment
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ugh... read into things a little much?http://flotn.blogspot.com
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Re: Frank Miller's 300
You don't want to read the imdb 300 forum.
Nothing but "This movie is racist", "this movie is sexist", "this movie is misogynistic", "this movie is homophobic".
Some people actually believe that the part where he kicks the Persian down the well is because the Persian is black. If anyone saw the movie, he did it because he brought the heads of conquered kings to Sparta. Which you simply don't do.
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Hell he would have kicked that Persian down well if he was green.... This is Sparta!!!!! Great Movie really enjoyed it and was well worth the wait and price of admission.You don't want to read the imdb 300 forum.
Nothing but "This movie is racist", "this movie is sexist", "this movie is misogynistic", "this movie is homophobic".
Some people actually believe that the part where he kicks the Persian down the well is because the Persian is black. If anyone saw the movie, he did it because he brought the heads of conquered kings to Sparta. Which you simply don't do.Last edited by BigTigLSU; 03-14-2007, 07:48 AM.Comment
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