Um... as much as I love other civilizations and the like, that movie could NOT have been pro Persia. The history, the setting and the nature of story-telling are all opposed to that. If they make a movie about the American Revolution then they cast the Brits as the bad guys. Likewise if you're making a movie about the Napoleonic Wars from the perspective of the Brits, then the French are bad. The main things that were derogatory toward Persia in this movie were the Spartans insulting them (which they would have done since they are sixth century Greeks). We saw very little of the Persians, and most of what we did see was just them being extremely exotic and different from our own culture (something that would be true for the Greeks seeing them for the first time too). The only thing that I didn't really think was necessary or made much in the way of sense, was how many mutilated or deformed people their were. Of course there were both Greek and Persian deformaties, so yeah.
My basic response to that: You can't be PC if you're going to do accurate historical entertainment.
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Date: 2007-03-21 02:38 pm (UTC)From:My basic response to that: You can't be PC if you're going to do accurate historical entertainment.