Blockbuster depicting Persian siege called an ‘obvious insult’
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now 300 viewers is this true? havent seen it yet but reading this sounds very convincing.
Politics or Hollywood?
Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Blockbuster depicting Persian siege called an ‘obvious insult’
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now 300 viewers is this true? havent seen it yet but reading this sounds very convincing.
Politics or Hollywood?
Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Outraged? Too bad...
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Not an insult. It is gritty stylisation of Greek folklore which was originally based on fact, but got more than its share of embellishments.
In this time everyone is looking for a reason to be angry at another nation.
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
This was most admirably addressed in the "300 movie thread."
Most notably by:
ANDOriginally Posted by Adrian II
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
There's a typo in the thread title.
Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
I think they have the right to that opinion.
Now, if they were to do something drastic, I would condemn it.
They need to stop reading their fantasy books, and get into some real stuff.
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Have you just been dumped?
I ask because it's usually something like that which causes outbursts like this, needless to say I dissagree completely.
Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Methinks they are projecting.
Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Should they be? No like IA I agree it is merly the holywood version of Thermolyppelee. Saying that it is an insult to america is the equivilent of saying that braveheart insults modern britens
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
I need to see this movie. My first impression is that's it's an awful movie (not worth being insulted over), but good action.
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
I don't see why Iranians' objection to the movie should be taken so lightly. No wonder they hate "the West".
I'm betting that those who make light of their objection would not have the same feeling if they themselves were members of the Iranian race that is besmirched in the movie.
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Yeah no kidding, I'm not hurt enough by being called the Great Satan and considered an infidel by a guy in a Member's Only jacket who denies the existence of the Holocaust.
"There is a true glory and a true honor; the glory in duty done and the honor in the integrity of principle."
"The truth is this; the march of Providence so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often only see the ebb of the advancing wave. It is history which teaches us to hope."
Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
"I fart in your general direction" came to mind when you said that(no offense to anyone). Basically people need to grow up if they are "insulted" by a fantasied caricature of an actual battle that has been mythologized for centuries. It would be like the Russians all of a sudden getting insulted by James Bond, it's stupid.
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Lol to the entire thing.
Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Well, portraing Iranians as zombie hordes wasn't that bright or correct. If you asked Herodotus about the Iranians at Thermopylae he wouldn't have them portrayed as scores of zombie horeds going to crush the uber-mega spartans.
The movie was just gross.
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
You've got to be kidding me.
Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Aren't they always angry, who cares
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No offense, but I lol-ed hard after reading that.
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Right, remember the Brittish outrage right after The Patriot came out ?
Oh wait...
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
I wasn't offended by the Patriot. I thought it was a comedy.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Ditto for Braveheart.I wasn't offended by the Patriot. I thought it was a comedy.
It's like "Haha you Scots/Americans/anti-English are being lead by an anti-Semitic idiot".
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wait, wasn't my sarcams obvious ?
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Wasn't mine?wait, wasn't my sarcams obvious ?
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Yes, but it seemed to assume I wasn't being sarcasticWasn't mine?
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
The search for Satanic Windmills continues...
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
We are talking about people who see Micky Mouse as Jewish propaganda ...( really !
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Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
but!
Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
No. It is about the mouse from cartoon which is Jewish propaganda because:
' mouse is a vermin which usually was used to describe Jews - for this reason making a mouse a cartoon character was designed to diminish the effect of such comparison because a friendly, funny mouse cannot be used to describe Jews any more'. Not completelly accurate, but it was from one of those Iranian conspiracy theories I was reading about recently...
So if Micky Mouse was designed to help Jewish politics '300' Spartans is just another step to humilate Iran.
Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
Someone should remind the Iranians that the Persian Empire in the movie was crushed not once, not twice but three times by various different empires after the films time frame and their current state has virtually nothing in common with modern Iran...
Re: Iranians outraged over hit movie ‘300’
And I'm outraged by crocodile dundee.
Time to get over it, methinks
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That calls for the rofl copterNo. It is about the mouse from cartoon which is Jewish propaganda because:
' mouse is a vermin which usually was used to describe Jews - for this reason making a mouse a cartoon character was designed to diminish the effect of such comparison because a friendly, funny mouse cannot be used to describe Jews any more'. Not completelly accurate, but it was from one of those Iranian conspiracy theories I was reading about recently...
So if Micky Mouse was designed to help Jewish politics '300' Spartans is just another step to humilate Iran.
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