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Embassy of Iran Protests at Screening of '300' Film
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- At the threshold of the screening of the film '300' in France, the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Paris released a statement and protested at the screening of this film which is the fabricated story of a historical event.
The Iranian embassy in Paris has termed the film an insult to the rich Iranian culture and civilization and shameless fabrication of history.
The statement further reads, "This is surprising that Hollywood cinema, in a hostile manner and in pursuit of unhealthy objectives and with a commercial look in compliance with the militarist policies of some ill famed and domineering powers, has initiated to propagate hatred and terrorism in the world instead of attempting to diagnose the real problems gripping the present world.
It has in fact painted a wrong and fabricated picture of the culture of the great Iranian nation."
The statement released by the Iranian embassy in Paris further adds that all throughout history, the Iranian culture has proved to be the culture of friendship, peace seeking and avoiding war, a culture the symbols of which have been printed on the UN walls.
The statement further adds that the film '300' lacks credit not only because of hostile fabrication of the Iranian culture and display of a tough and violent picture of the peaceful Iranians, but also because of having employed an outdated and old fashion method in fabricating the cultures of other nations and because of propagating the culture of hatred.
The director of the film '300', Zack Snyder is 40 years old with no significant professional record.
http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8601020055
The statement further reads, "This is surprising that Hollywood cinema, in a hostile manner and in pursuit of unhealthy objectives and with a commercial look in compliance with the militarist policies of some ill famed and domineering powers, has initiated to propagate hatred and terrorism in the world instead of attempting to diagnose the real problems gripping the present world.
It has in fact painted a wrong and fabricated picture of the culture of the great Iranian nation."
The statement released by the Iranian embassy in Paris further adds that all throughout history, the Iranian culture has proved to be the culture of friendship, peace seeking and avoiding war, a culture the symbols of which have been printed on the UN walls.
The statement further adds that the film '300' lacks credit not only because of hostile fabrication of the Iranian culture and display of a tough and violent picture of the peaceful Iranians, but also because of having employed an outdated and old fashion method in fabricating the cultures of other nations and because of propagating the culture of hatred.
The director of the film '300', Zack Snyder is 40 years old with no significant professional record.
http://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=8601020055
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Briefly, the movie portrays the famous battle of Thermopylae between the Persians and the Greeks that occurred in 480 B.C. During that battle, the Persian Imperial army had to cross a narrow gorge in order to reach the Greek mainland. The gorge was held by almost 300 Spartans backed by 4000-7000 Greek soldiers, and they managed to hold Persian army for few days.
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By GARY LEUPP
I always take in the Hollywood period dramas set in ancient Greece or Rome. My film-buff son is into this too, so we went last week to see 300, the Warner Brothers' blockbuster produced by Zack Snyder and based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller about the epic battle of Thermopylae between the Greeks and Persians. It had by that time grossed over 100 million dollars and no doubt influenced a lot of minds.
The film tells a familiar historical tale. (Rather, it ought to be familiar, but history instruction in our public schools is not necessarily comprehensive.) In 480 BCE, Greece was threatened by an invasion by the Persian army, the greatest war machine of its day. The empire of King Xerxes extended from the Indus River to Egypt, and drew its troops from the ends of the realm. The king personally led them in battle against the Greeks.
Or rather, some of the Greeks. Greece at the time was a collection of city-states, politically disunited, divided as much as unified by dialect and culture. Some city-states, including Argos and Thebes, actually aligned themselves with Xerxes. Herodotus, the "Father of History" and perhaps the world's first professional historian, paints a picture of a "free" Greece united against an oppressive "Asia." But that is a chauvinistic simplification. The fact is, Persia and the Greek city-states were all slave-based societies whose notions of "freedom" had little in common with our modern conception.
According to Herodotus (our sole source), 300 Spartan warriors alongside 700 Thespian volunteers defended the pass of Thermopylae against the invaders, inflicting heavy losses on Xerxes' forces. Led by Spartan King Leonidas, they went down in defeat but gave rival Athens time to prepare the fleet that decisively defeated the Persians at Salamis a few months later.
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