Posted on 03/14/2007 10:04:11 AM PDT by meg88
"Iran givs '300' a thumbs down." cries one headline. "Iranians outraged over hit movie", cries another.
What are they outraged over? The muscle bound Spartans in loin clothes? The fact that Leonides wife wasn't wearing a chador?
No, it is because they see it as a criticism of their regieme, because it portrays the murderous tyrant Xerxes as an effeminite murderous tyrant.
Well, the umbrella carrying tyrant wasn't exactly an Idaho suvivalist, and his love of the easy life was one of the reasons he was assasinated
The Mullahs try to keep their land pure, free of such dangerous anti Persian films. But a country with four million heroin addicts might just be open to that dangerous idea.
They already have a thriving blogosphere that is not always Mullah Friendly, despite arrests of bloggers, and now this film
The Mullahs, of course, have forbidden the film to be shown in Iran, but MSNBC notes: bootleg DVDs were already available.
Yup. You can buy it in Tehran¨or in rural Luzon the week after it opens in Pittsburgh. The bootleg DVD business is efficient, to say the least.
So the next time you hear of lawsuits against YouTube or against college students for downloading illegal mp3's or movies, just remember that there is a huge movie bootleg business out there that gets away with it.
They not only infuriate the bigshots who overprice their films and songs, but they sneak around government censorship.
Indeed, with China increasing their firewall to stop internet freedom, one wonders if similar subversive DVD's and CD's are being passed there. No way of knowing from here, of course. But just wondering.
Nancy Reyes is a retired physician living in the rural Philippines
Hey you Mullahs! it isn't "your land". Yopu stole it remember? You slaughtered the Persians, stole their land, and forced your (Ayatollah Komieni approved) camel and goat humping, baby raping Islamic cult onto them.
If anything, the film would remind any "Persians" of true blood remaining,(which isn't many considering that Arabs tried to breed it out of them) that they were once a free civilization now held in bondage and forced to worship a moon god (Allah) and his daughters Al-Uza, Al-Lat instead of the Sun god (Sin) that their Zorastrian culture once did.
So this film is goign to cause the Persian Iranians to take a look at how the world views them, that is good news, and by world I mean entertainment world and viewing public.
It would seem to me that rather than being upset over a mere film, the real cause of the upset is currently sitting in the ruling council of Mullah's and their bastardization of classical Persian culture.
How can a mere film rile people defend their culture when a theocracy is doing all it can to ruin that culture?
Priorities people.
This is Sparta!
Iran hates it? Well then I demand a sequel!!
Indeed it is.
The Matrix Revolutions opened in Australia on the evening of Wednesday Nov 5 2003.
I bought a copy that Saturday morning at the Manga Dua shopping mall in Jakarta for $4 or $5, and it already had subtitles in Indonesian, Malay, Thai, and English. It was a shot-from-theatre-screen jobbie, but the soundtrack was surprisingly decent.
A funny aside, the police had closed the two bootleg DVD stores in the mall a few days earlier (that's all they sold, bootlegs), so the owners opened a smallish stand on the sidewalk selling the exact same stuff. The bootleg software store nearby - which also sold nothing but bootleg software at $4 per CD - was open for business and crowded.
The Battle of Salamis would be perfect!
Okay, we'll do "Divine Salamis" as the sequel. We'll use 100,000 Greek extras and 500,000 Persians. The budget will be $100,000. How can we do it?
Real swords.
Then there's always the Battle of Lepanto (Gulf of Patras)!
I wonder what the Iranian students would think.
They might just see things from the Spartans point of view.
I think THAT is why the Iranian regime is worried about it.
Good point, the ruling mullahs are probably more worried about their own "students" becoming "Spartans" in the next revolution.
And then maybe the Battle of Tours and the Vienna sieges just to name a few. Sigh -- movies that will never be made by modern Hollywood. Of course that's probably a good thing as I an sure theirs would be a portrayal of those "Awful Christians refusing the civilizing influence of the Muslim world."
Sold, I'd even put money in it.
Better yet, how about the Battle of Arsuf and Richard the Lionheart's whole campaign in the Third Crusade. That should getting the juices flowing in the ME, especially if the massacre of Acre is portrayed as the result of Saladin not living up to Richard's terms for sparing the city's citizens. Imagine the howls then. ^_^
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