If Persians/Iranians are offended by the movie 300?!
Question: Then shouldn't Greece be all pissed off at the movie "Alexander" since it shows how he invaded and conquered Persia and parts of India?
Answers: Then shouldn't Greece be all pissed off at the movie "Alexander" since it shows how he invaded and conquered Persia and parts of India?
Theoretically. Obviously they are not so people need to grow a backbone and shut the hell up. No one change history from sveral millenia ago so there is no reason to be offended over something so trivial. Anyone who uses past events (especially from that long ago, and lifestyles were a bit different then, not completely though) to compare to modern events as if they are even remotely similar has way too much time on their hands.
The Persian/Iranians will use any excuse to blow people up. (I'm kidding of course...)
Why would they be offended? It's just a movie about what happened at the Battle of Thermopoylae. So they tried to invade Greece and were getting the backside whooped, It's happened all over the world (Vietnam vs US, Afghanistan vs USSR)
most probably were in some way. The problem with the 300 as a 'historical movie' is that film is in the most part completely inaccurate (as most hollywood historic movies are - I know some that think the roman empire collapsed because a gladiator killed the emperor and that brave heart is a wholely true story ffs!!).
Difference between the 300 and alexander is that the invading persian empire were portrayed as these super freaks comletely deformed and hell bent on turning the whole world into what seemed like some hedonistic gangbanging session. Whilst I'm sure the persian army weren't the most pleasent bunch of chaps you could meet, the entire empire certainly wasn't but this was given a wide bearth so we could plainly see them as the bad guys, which works in the movie brilliantly but could nt be more wrong in a historical sense.
Besides which other Greek did anything to make the greeks seem like a mightly empire to be compared to Rome in its pomp than Alexander? I'm sure whilst some greeks grumbled about the historical inaccuracies they were secretly chuffed that a leader from their past actually managed the things he did for the glory of their small little empire and that Hollywood deemed his story worth telling, if only in exaggeration for box office glory