Last night, members of the Political Association of Iran in the West Midlands (PAIRWM) held a protest against the film "300" from 18:30 till 20:00 in front of Cineworld cinema on Broad Street in Birmingham. They gave out leaflets and tried to give cinema goers information about the film's misrepresentations of Persian history.
A charlatanism called “300”
From the start this is a failed idea; people are not so stupid as to be influenced by the obvious embarrassing lies wrapped in a Hollywood charlatanism called “300”.
“300” certainly cannot fool people to believe what it preaches in the 21st century while there are oceans of expert references to reveal the truth.
This is a poorly biased attempt to humiliate a nation by misinterpreting history, it is a failed attempt. The Persian history has already been written long time ago, the great Cyrus Cylinder is only one example of an ancient admirable civilisation.
300 cannot indeed mislead open-minded people by such misjudgement
on Persian history.(the following reference provides more information)
300 is a clear acknowledgement of the certitude that the Great Persian civilisation is not only conquered by fundamentalist Mullahs but also
by such organizations claiming to represent the most democratic culture.
We call upon sympathisers to lobby UNESCO or other such organisations against this misrepresentation of the Truth about the Persian Civilisation and not accept this clearly Hollywood interpretation of events.
Political Association of Iranian in the West midland
pairwm@Gmail.com
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News-Uncovering Iran
“Iranian history boasts the first charter of human rights- the Cyrus Cylinder, a 2500 year old cuneiform cylinder with the revered words of the ancient King of Iran, Cyrus the Great.
9 Oct 2006”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/iran/iran_revolutionary_state.shtml
“Radio 4 Uncovering Iran- Iran: a Revolutionary State
Programme 11.30pm Sunday 17 Sep 2006(rpt Fri 11.00am) in the
British Museum there is the Cyrus Cylinder, hailed as the first charter of
Human Rights.”
From the start this is a failed idea; people are not so stupid as to be influenced by the obvious embarrassing lies wrapped in a Hollywood charlatanism called “300”.
“300” certainly cannot fool people to believe what it preaches in the 21st century while there are oceans of expert references to reveal the truth.
This is a poorly biased attempt to humiliate a nation by misinterpreting history, it is a failed attempt. The Persian history has already been written long time ago, the great Cyrus Cylinder is only one example of an ancient admirable civilisation.
300 cannot indeed mislead open-minded people by such misjudgement
on Persian history.(the following reference provides more information)
300 is a clear acknowledgement of the certitude that the Great Persian civilisation is not only conquered by fundamentalist Mullahs but also
by such organizations claiming to represent the most democratic culture.
We call upon sympathisers to lobby UNESCO or other such organisations against this misrepresentation of the Truth about the Persian Civilisation and not accept this clearly Hollywood interpretation of events.
Political Association of Iranian in the West midland
pairwm@Gmail.com ……………………………………………………………………………..
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Human+right+cylinder&scope=all&tab=all&recipe=all&x=32&y=14 News-Uncovering Iran
“Iranian history boasts the first charter of human rights- the Cyrus Cylinder, a 2500 year old cuneiform cylinder with the revered words of the ancient King of Iran, Cyrus the Great.
9 Oct 2006”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/iran/iran_revolutionary_state.shtml “Radio 4 Uncovering Iran- Iran: a Revolutionary State
Programme 11.30pm Sunday 17 Sep 2006(rpt Fri 11.00am) in the
British Museum there is the Cyrus Cylinder, hailed as the first charter of
Human Rights.”
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Historical correctness ?
08.04.2007 20:48
Bollywood is seen as more historically accurate than Hollywood. Of course it is inaccurate, and of course it is propaganda, but complaining about such a silly movie surely only draws attention to it. Did you know that 'the 300 Spartans' was an anti-soviet Hollywood propaganda film of 1962 ? It's odd the US should want to portray itself as the slave-owning, child-fucking, baby-killing, proto-fascist Spartans while still alluding to Pax Romana.
Still, if you want to refight the Battle of Thermopylae then I understand, it has been misreported for propaganda reasons since it was fought. a few obvious facts pop out. First, even the Greek historians - who were notably absent - can't agree on the number of Greeks there. Herodotus claimed 7000 men, Pausanias 11200. '11200' isn't quite as good a movie title though. Even if there were only 300 Spartans, it shows how uncommitted they were to the battle which was really to defend their rival Athens. A blood sacrifice of a samll contingent can boost your states mythologising no amout I guess, much like Blairs 'blood sacrifice' in Iraq. 11200 highly trained, highly armoured, well-fed and rested men holding a pass so narrow 'only one chariot could pass through' - and for only three days - is hardly unbelievable, even against the 60000-300000 recently disembarked Persians.
I guess the only reason the battle is remembered is the modern west so enamoured with 'your greek philosophers'. Democracy back then was a dirty word much like anarchy is now. But for the select few who enjoyed it, it was at least participatory. I wouldn't watch the film myself but I doubt even Hollywood changed the ending - remember the Persians won.
orca
Propaganda???
08.04.2007 21:11
Dasiy
wtf?
09.04.2007 13:34
cj
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