Iranian official lashes out at Hollywood movie "300" for insulting Persian civilization
12/3/2007 16:00
An Iranian official yesterday lashed out at the Hollywood movie "300" for
insulting the Persian civilization, local Fars News Agency reported.
Javad
Shamqadri, an art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, accused the new
movie of being "part of a comprehensive US psychological war aimed at Iranian
culture", said the report.
Shamqadri was quoted as saying "following the
Islamic Revolution in Iran, Hollywood and cultural authorities in the US
initiated studies to figure out how to attack Iranian culture," adding
"certainly, the recent movie is a product of such studies."
The movie's
effort wound be fruitless, because "values in Iranian culture and the Islamic
Revolution are too strongly seated to be damaged by such plans", said the Iranin
official.
Shamqadri, who is also a filmmaker, said that production of more
domestic and artistic films which portray Iranian achievements is a proper
response to movies like "300".
"300," an ancient epic about the famous Battle
of Thermopylae in Greek history, set a new record at the box office in North
America this weekend.
The Warner Bros. adaptation of the 480 B.C. battle took
an estimated US$70 million in its debut weekend, according to figures released
yesterday by Los Angeles-based box office track firm Media by Numbers.
The
R-rated film, based on comic book writer Frank Miller's graphic novel, tells the
story that an army of 300 Spartan warriors led by their king Leonidas fought to
the death to delay a massive Persian army's invasion, so that the Greeks could
reorganize a counterattack.
Xinhua
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