Oh, I knew this was coming...

[callistotoni]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6455969.stm

Xerxes and Darius are national heros among Iranians. It's all well and good to say "Oh, it's just a fantasy" right up until someone skewers your personal hero.

Sigh. I have no good answers.

Comments

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

It's funny how we can't draw a cartoon or make a movie without causing offence. How else are Americans supposed to learn about them? heheh

I wonder if this movie is playing in Iran?

[semy-of-pearls.livejournal.com]

nah, the real question is: Is it playing in Greece, which is mostly Turkish these days anyway. :)

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I have a good answer: a blow to the head and a "Get over yourself".
It's a solution I find all too applicable these days.

[semy-of-pearls.livejournal.com]

Oh good grief....

It's a bloody film! Get over it, people! The Germans aren't mad at the Indiana Jones films and the Brits aren't mad that all the villians in Star Wars have their accents, not to mention countless other mistakes Hollywood has made over the years.

Puh-leaze.

[vitrarius.livejournal.com]

Not that the movie the 300 has anything to do with history, but every countries heroes are another countries villains.