As for the movie, I thought that it was good for what it was, a movie. It was entertaining, if not a bit (oh ok, really) gross. But I found it to be a lot more historically correct than The 300 Spartans. I mean, 3oo actually got the feel of the fact that life in the Ancient World, especially in Sparta, was cruel and war based. It was always violent and the way to get what you want was to fight for it. It was the race of the fittest. And that is fact.

What I disagree with is the propaganda of the beliefs and imagery that Hollywood chose for the Persians. But you have to realise that they were doing it from the Greek’s perspective, and sometimes, if not all the time, it’s biased. All of our acounts from Themopylae and the Persian Wars are from the Greeks. We only get one side of the story, and most of the time it’s the western point of view. It happens in the World Wars too, only the western, never the eastern. We can’t believe in everything History books tell us.

once we get offended, we seem to forget that hollywood is a money maker… their top priority is to write a script that will MAKE THEM MONEY.

we should not be offended by movies such as 300, instead we should enjoy it… or not.

I actually find it amusing that an Iranian is offended by the portrayel of the Persians. They may be made off to look worse than what they actually were, but seriously… the main reason that Thermopylae was so legendary, was not because of the Persians, but because of the actions of the Spartans.

The movie 300 focused on the Spartans actions… TO MAKE MONEY!!!
if you actually look at it objectivly, you would realise that the Persians are made to look more ‘evil’ then they really were, just as the Spartans were made to look heroic.

this movie is a moralistic view… not a historically correct view… its a story of the underdog… one that we can all recognise with… and the people that bring religious arguements into it, well, religion has nothing to do with this movie…

sure, I am Catholic, not Muslim, so i immediatly look at that particular arguement from a different point of view… but come on people…

As for the Persians not being a coloured race… people… just look at the size of Xerxes empire… half the countries that he had power over were coloured background… Xerxes drew his army from all nations subjective to him… of course some of his army is going to be coloured.

Oh and Terry, the reasons the schools mascots were the Spartans and the Trojans…. is would be becuase unlike the Persians, and Agammemnon, they didnt try to use power and shear size of the army to defeat their opponenets….

As I said before anything along the lines of the Spartans, Trojans, even Egyptians in some aspects… its not told historically, but morally…
and people need to realise that before they jump to the conclusion that everyone is discriminative!