Flash!
Iranian lawmaker still ticked that Xerxes I got his butt kicked as a result of the Greek stand at Thermopylae! No, really. He is seriously miffed.
An Iranian official on Sunday lashed out at the Hollywood movie "300" for insulting the Persian civilization, local Fars News Agency reported.
Javad Shamqadri, an art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, accused the new movie of being "part of a comprehensive U.S. psychological war aimed at Iranian culture", said the report.
Shamqadri was quoted as saying "following the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Hollywood and cultural authorities in the U.S. initiated studies to figure out how to attack Iranian culture," adding "certainly, the recent movie is a product of such studies."
The movie's effort wound be fruitless, because "values in Iranian culture and the Islamic Revolution are too strongly seated to be damaged by such plans", said the Iranin official.
Shamqadri, who is also a filmmaker, said that production of more domestic and artistic films which portray Iranian achievements is a proper response to movies like "300".
Ah, yes. A long list of official Iranian government achievements since the revolution would include, death, destruction, hate, rhetoric and the export of terrorism, wholesale. Lots to brag about there, Javad. Thermopylae (where Xerxes got his butt kicked) was over close to 2,500 years ago. Let it go. (Xerxes did, however, get his butt handed to him as a result of that stand by the 300 – and quite a lot more volunteers who don't get equal billing).
History, Media, World news | Gaius March 12, 2007
By iaintbacchus, March 13, 2007 @ 4:15 pm
By all means, Shamqadri. Make movies that show Iraqi achievements in a better light. It’ll be good for your country. But don’t forget that hollywood has also made movies featuring Caligula, Torquemada, George III and a host of other historical villains.
And “The 300″ can’t really be seen as an attack on the Islamic Revolution. Islam would not be invented until over 2000 years later.
But since this man has no sense of either humor or history, maybe someone should really piss him off and explain that the 300 Spartans were in fact 150 mated pairs of homosexual lovers.