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300 Adds Up to "Disgust" for Iranians
Speaking to the Ayandeh-No daily, in a story bearing the headline "Hollywood Declares War on Iranians," an adviser to the Iranian president has taken aim at the American box-office record buster 300, attacking it as "part of a comprehensive U.S. psychological warfare aimed at Iranian culture." While the pic is unlikely to get a theatrical run in Iran, "The [bootleg] DVD is already very available," a Tehran-based producer says, "and people are quite angry," saying the comic-book stylized feature presents a distorted view of real-life events. Per Variety, an online petition formalizing Iranians' "disgust at such a heresy" has thus far tallied 35,000 signatures.
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Mar 14, 2007 9:27 AM
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Unbelievable. I guess Hollywood has unwittingly played right into Dubya's hands, huh?
What a pity if WWIII is started over this.
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Mar 14, 2007 12:37 PM
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What do you know - hate speech on TV Guide.com - how lovely.
Matt, are you going to let this one slide too?
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Mar 14, 2007 3:10 PM
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Nolan, dear, it's more a pattern of behavior that you seem determined, day in and day out, on propagating. Your blast of hate speech was just icing on the cake, actionable behavior which, once repeated, will find you far, far away from here, left to annoy any other site of your choosing.
Oh, and:
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Mar 14, 2007 3:22 PM
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I saw 300 the day it opened and I can assuredly say that I didn't hear the word "Iran" anywhere in the movie, nor did I leave the theater thinking of the word "Iran."
It's an escapist movie, obviously fictionalized. People need to not take things so seriously. There's real wars going on in the world.
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Mar 14, 2007 4:09 PM
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Matt, I'm going to set aside for the moment that you seem to be suggesting I propagated the above comment against Iranians...I'm still in shock that you would look the other way in the face of such blatantly hostile and hateful comments. I honestly don't get it.
I truly resent your accusations of any prior hate speech committed by me. Yes, I said something negative about Ellen Pompeo, just like so many others have said negative things about other actors on this site. I certainly never resorted to name calling, which is what someone did just yesterday in calling Krista Allen a b**ch. I made an off-color, innocent remark about Isaiah Washington, which was not even any kind of negative remark towards him. Meanwhile multiple bigoted comments have been made regarding gays here on these threads.
Now, someone makes an outright hostile comment about killing all Iranians.
And yet, somehow I'm the only one who gets flagged, and you look the other way towards all the rest.
Please tell me what is going on here. I like you Matt, but this is just wrong.
The only thing I can think of is that you have something personal against me - now whether it's because I often point out errors in your reporting, or because I occasionally engage in spirited debates, or simply because I don't always agree with your point of view, I don't know. But to be characterized as someone who's just here to antagonize and annoy is simply libelous, spiteful and untrue.
All I ask is that if you're going to hold one person to a certain standard, you hold everyone to that same standard as well. I only want to be treated fairly, and while I understand the first amendment has its limitations here, the same limitations should apply to everyone. Please, for the good of TV Guide, do not let such hateful speech from others go unanswered simply out of spite. Do the right thing. Let's put all this behind us and continue having fun here.
Oh, and thanks - for calling me dear.
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Mar 14, 2007 4:33 PM
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Matt,
I don't know what the history has been between you and Nolan, so I won't comment on that. But in this comments area today the only "hate speech", as I understand the term, came from briancr59. And it was pretty strong and offensive, to boot. If anyone deserves to be flagged on the basis of today, it's briancr59.
As to my originally intended comment, I find the protests of the Iranians regarding inaccurate representations of history and historical revisionism pretty dammed funny coming from a people whose President insists the Holocaust never happened and the death camps are just a mean and exaggerated rumor. I think I would add the adjectives 'delusional' and 'hypocritical' in there, too, and remind them that what goes around tends to come around ten-fold.
Two other brief points: Marcus Dixon had a very good point about the Iranians complaint, given that the "villains" of the piece were the ancient PERSIANS, of whom the Iranians are just a small, poor remnant.
Also, briancr59 needs to pay better attention to the movie, or history, or be more accurate in his hateful spoutings because the Spartans did not "kill them all". They killed an impressive number, no doubt, but the Spartans were eventually wiped out and the still-enormous numbers of Persians remaining did go on to destroy Sparta and burn Athens.
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Mar 14, 2007 6:01 PM
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Cool, thanks Matt. I guess the main thing that had me confused is why briancr59 didn't get a warning from you personally for such a hateful and offensive comment. But if you say he's been flagged, I guess I'll trust that some action will be taken in the near future.
I appreciate you giving me the benefit of the doubt with regards to past posts - in turn I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and that you didn't actually mean to suggest I had anything to do with propagating briancr59's above comment.
So, looking forward to moving on. I do recognize of course that antagonizing gets in the way of people's fun - all I ask is that you please have the wisdom to see the difference between antagonism and difference of opinion.
(I know it can be a fine line!)
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Mar 14, 2007 8:12 PM
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