The petition will bring controversy, controversy will cause bad publicity for the movie, bad publicity will make the moviegoers think twice before taking this movie at face value, and hopefully will encourage those who have seen the movie to read more about Xerxes etc. I do realize that there are many intelligent people who already know their history and will just regard this as an action flick, but most people don't know much, if anything, about Xerxes, Achaemenids etc, and impressionable people will buy this utter nonsense as true historical depiction of Xerxes and Achaemenids.
Checked out the reviews earlier, if anything the critics seem to think the film is all show and lacks in dialogue, development, and substance. Nothing ground breaking there. I'm not anticipating this film taking the Academy Awards by storm in 2008, nor are most people. Few if any 'historical inaccuracy' comments.
Okay... For those that want to judge 300 for yourself... about 10-15 minutes are snipped together here to give you a sample (a bit more than a trailer actually)...
And yet your country refused the same great Kiarostami a visa to attend the New York Film Festival in 2002.
Any publicity is good publicity for the movie, I know that. BUT, our primary aim is to discredit the movie and expose it for the lie that it is, even if that means indirectly promoting it.
I'm just glad they got the ending right. *Spoiler below* When Jesus rides in and kicks everybody's ass.
Prince of Persia is a fictional character, the characters is this movie are based on actual historical figures. That's what make this movie disturbing, there is a huge difference between Prince of Persia and 300. One is fiction, the other is fiction presented as history.
http://www.miserablelie.com/turturro/pictures/lebowski/Image27.jpg Remember, no one fecks with the Jesus!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/300/here you can find plenty of positive reviews as well, Mani just chose the negative ones.
So the problem here is the portrayal of Persians during the so called stand-off with Iran and US. However, I bet half of the people who will see this movie don't know that Persia is a modern day Iran and that some Iranians are Persians. This is really a plain action flick without any politcal motivation, unlike some out there. The amount of action compared to amount of dialog can't be that disturbing as a political motivator. Iranians have every right to be concerned, but unlike Passion, whose history have caused proabaly hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Jews throughout history to be killed for "killing of Jesus", this 300 the movie can't be compared at all.
The Iranian bloggers are organizing a "Google bomb" against this movie, as they had previously done against "Arabian Gulf". In a matter of days, anyone searching for 300 the movie will be redirected to an Iranian website dedicated to the movie. http://www.300themovie.info/ http://legofish.com/weblog/004572.html
Apparently they and you don't know that big companies pay Google and Yahoo, etc. to have their sites come up first for searches. Warner Bros. is the studio behind this and the first thing that will come up on these search sites when someone types in "300" or "300 the Movie" is their official site. That won't be changing.
I know. It was a shameful and dissapointing act, and the reason I can openly and forcefully criticize it is becaue I don't have an inferiority complex about my country.
You honestly believe that's what he looked like. That a stone relief is an accurate description of him. I bet his face looked a bit different.
Yup. Didn't matter to me in the slightest. Big whoop. I find it ironic that in arguing for more historical accuracy you use historically incorrect facts. I'm not aware of a single holey (sic) Persian in the Torah. (Mostly because there are none.)
Isn't it funny how some get so upset over a movie? How many of you that are so upset over this movie, get this upset over Iran denying the holocaust? Oh wait that was free speech. So what is this movie then? Hypocrites
"Arabian Gulf" is still the top result for Arabian Gulf on all search engines 4 years after the "Google bomb". There is a quarter million Iranian blogs, if the bloggers manage to bring up 300themovie.info to one of the top search results, that's still a success.