Joe_BlowMar 13th, 2007 - 15:55:00

IDIOT!

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Joe_BlowMar 13th, 2007 - 15:56:13

Oops! I meant 'Persian IDIOT!'

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nach667Mar 13th, 2007 - 16:38:50

He should be more offended by 'Are we done yet'.

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Antique RicedMar 13th, 2007 - 17:25:17

Most people don't even know where Persia was.

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whatwhatMar 13th, 2007 - 18:22:28

He must Turn his back side to thesbians

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A MarineMar 13th, 2007 - 20:14:14

The movie begins with a story teller, and ends with the story teller. Insinuating that the events taking place in between are the 'visualizations' of a story being told. A tool every story teller utilizes is hyperbole (extreme exageration). The accounts of the persians being demons/monsters, Xerces being 8 ft tall, are all a result of the teller's use of hyperbole told from a Greek perspective.

For anyone to take offense over a story told from a specific perspective is being overly sensitive. I'm sure a Persian account of the same battle would paint the Greeks as devils. To take this movie as an insult to a modern day culture is an attempt to search for issues to be overly critical and overly sensitive about; It only illustrates a furthering of personal aggendas to demonize the US or 'west' as being 'out to get you' or 'hating your culture', when in fact the things the US fights for are tolerance and peace. If we hated the people and the culture would there be Iranians living in the west? I doubt it. Has the actions of a few extremists made us wary of an entire group? Undoubtedly, but being wary and persecuting them are two entirely different things. Historical events and Hollywood's 'loose interpretation' of them should not be fuel for current events with real consequences.

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withheldMar 14th, 2007 - 16:23:17

It was an ADVISOR to President Ahmadinejad, and not the president himself. Your article title is misleading.

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Johno; The Pissed Off AmericanMar 15th, 2007 - 01:45:34

Americans(meaning actual Americans and NOT Liberal cowards)have had it with these near east thugs. They rant on and on about how they want to kill us and then they do. So ... we kill them back. They rant some more and kill more of us, SO ... we kill them back some more. It's a simple recipe and surely they can do the math. But, there is a simple solution to ending all this bull-shit. STOP KILLING AMERICANS ... and guess what? WE WILL STOP KILLING THEM BACK. What a revelation!! You want to live a little longer? DO NOT KILL AMERICANS. Now ... is that so hard to understand?

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Very SimpleMar 16th, 2007 - 13:27:46

Plain and simple, it was a movie based on a graphic novel. Graphic novels are nothing more than comic books with a better name. In no way is this movie a historical documentary in any form. It seems Iran has their own Movie Review department. I will be waiting to see if Spiderman 3 gets two Persian thumbs up.

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ChristopherMar 16th, 2007 - 22:32:24

A Monumental Irony

The outrage that 300’s FICTIONAL account of the battle of Thermopylae has generated is an indication of the social, cultural and political polarization that exists and has existed between east and west since the establishment of Israel and the Iranian Revolution.

While it may be true that historical facts of the battle of Thermopylae are not well known to most Americans, it is equally true that very little is taught of western civilization in Muslim countries. Without being presumptuous it could easily be assumed that little is know by most of the population in these countries since it is well established that only a positive, self-righteous view is promoted of their country in the educational systems and certainly in the madrasa.

It would be difficult for any educated person to view 300 and mistake it for historical fact. But what isn’t difficult to misunderstand is Iran’s leader’s declaring that the holocaust was an elaborate hoax and leaders of Muslim countries allowing the perpetuation of this distortion of documented fact. This rhetoric is just as offensive to Westerners and Jews as the cartoon of Mohamed was to Muslims, the difference is our responses to the controversy.

The sad reality is that rather than address real hardships of civil rights, poverty, education, or representative government Muslims would rather look to far distant causes of these issues instead of seeing them as home grown problems. 300 is just another convenient distraction that the leadership of these countries will exploit to distract.

The Iranian’s in western countries should be able to recognize how miss-guided and distracting the issue of 300 is to more important issues. And if they can’t accept that they now live in a free society were one of the main freedoms is free speech then they should return to the oppressive regimes where their simplistic views and rhetoric are heralded as profound.

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