300 - What did everyone think?

[Narukami]

The Iranians did not like Stone's Alexander either....

Stone's deliberate description of Alexander as a liberator of the East who brings Western values of freedom and liberty to the oppressed masses of the Orient, and who understands the needs and wants of Eastern nations better than they do themselves, may either be an attempt at political correctness reflective of our neo-colonial times, or an innocent revelation of Stone's ignorance. Either way, it makes an already lousy movie even worse.

http://www.iranian.com/Parsi/2004/Novem ... index.html


I can not say that I agree with the wirter's sentiments, but they are an interesting take on that film, and given that, makes the Iranian negative reation to 300 not surprising at all.

Narukami