Heart-ache: Ahmadinejad’s art advisor condemns “300″
posted at 5:11 pm on March 12, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Strongly condemns, I should say. Albeit not as strongly as certain hysterical left-wing American film critics.
Iran on Monday strongly condemned the US film company Warner Bros. over the allegedly “anti-Iranian” blockbuster film 300. Javad Shamqadri, art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told Fars news agency that the film was an insult to Persian culture and in line with the American “psychological war” against Iran…
Iran’s has called foul over what it calls “deviation of history” but also because the Persians in the film were shown as “ugly and violent creatures rather than human beings.”…
The news network Khabar organised a special programme in which the film was evaluated from several angles by film critics who argued that the film’s alleged efforts to expose Persians as violent was a US political plot implemented through Hollywood and the Warner Bros. company.
Iranian criticism of American entertainment tends to run pretty narrowly, so by “several angles” I can only assume they mean analyzing the film for Ashkenazi influence versus Sephardic.
Still, I feel their pain. Propaganda kills.
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Apparently there’s no word for “awesome” in Farsi.
ReubenJCogburn on March 12, 2007 at 5:14 PM
I loved this movie. Fact that the islamofascists and left find reasons to hate it makes me love it that much more.
Mig on March 12, 2007 at 5:15 PM
Strange title – is this person also in charge of Ahmi’s attire code?
Entelechy on March 12, 2007 at 5:20 PM
.. if anyone knows anything about depicting other groups as ugly and violent creatures, it’s the Mullah-crew.
… that just makes me giggle.
yo on March 12, 2007 at 5:21 PM
The film is an insult to Persian culture, and to every culture that is incapable of coming up with a film that kicks so much ass.
Even Turkish Star Wars puts Persian culture to shame under those terms.
Cue art film geek who will now post thousands of words on the greatness of 21st century Iranian cinema.
saint kansas on March 12, 2007 at 5:22 PM
I was already going to see it anyway … but the left-wing hysterics only motivated me further, and now this? Gasoline on a raging inferno!!
thirteen28 on March 12, 2007 at 5:24 PM
Yep, it pisses off all the right people. (Funny how the Left and the Islamofascists always seem to be on the same anti-American page. It’s uncanny.) And the tremendous showing that 300 made over the weekend just gives Frank Miller that much more weight to throw around in Hollywood, which can’t be a bad thing. Take that, surrender monkeys!
ReubenJCogburn on March 12, 2007 at 5:29 PM
HA! Tom & Jerry? A Walt Disney Cartoon? Disney a Jew?
Next he’ll be telling us we caused global warming.
fusionaddict on March 12, 2007 at 5:32 PM
This movie rocked. It backhanded just about every politician and appease-o-crat in America today with a force I’ve not seen in a long time. Frank Miller rocks.
PRCalDude on March 12, 2007 at 5:32 PM
Someone needs to tell Mahmoud that Hollywood is on his side.
bloggless on March 12, 2007 at 5:33 PM
Is Amabibblebabble’s art advisor the same guy who won the cartoon contest? Was “Art Advisor” the prize?
JetBoy on March 12, 2007 at 5:39 PM
This guy missed a really strong opportunity. He should have praised it, saying that yes, the Persians were really awful and decadent before they were
conquered bycalled to Islam. Ah well, too late now.Farmer_Joe on March 12, 2007 at 5:54 PM
Tom and Jerry were made by MGM (not Disney) and directed by Hanna and Barbera (Flintstones, Jetsons etc). Furthermore, Barbera was Lebanese!!! HAHAHAHA. This guy on the video is such an idiot. Anyone with a 1st grader’s Googling ability can throw his whole lecture down the toilet.
Also, although entirely untrue, Walt Disney has been labeled time and time again as an anti-semite with scenes like the Jewish Fuller Brush salesman in The Three Little Pigs being cited as an example. I have heard he hated Jews but not that he was one. This is too much.
thomashton on March 12, 2007 at 5:57 PM
IN their hearts they know that an armed force of pissed off grannies could take them out. They are afraid that when we do decide to switch to “300″ style rules of engagement this movie will look like a picnic.
bbz123 on March 12, 2007 at 5:57 PM
That scholar is so totally right! I walked in on my 5 year old nephew who was watching Tom and Jerry and he turned to me and said “Hey Uncle SnakeintheGrass! Tom and Jerry is hilarious! Maybe those Jews aren’t so bad after all! I totally disbelieve Hitler’s propaganda now!”
SnakeintheGrass on March 12, 2007 at 6:09 PM
Yah, but has he seen “The Nativity Story”?
Mojave Mark on March 12, 2007 at 6:17 PM
I must be reading the wrong blogs, I skipped the movie this weekend that Ahmadinejad gave a thumbs down and saw instead the movie that Kim Jong-il gave a thumbs up.
rw on March 12, 2007 at 6:27 PM
Well, this gives me the perfect excuse to see it again.
“Honey, I know I’ve seen it already, but this time, it’s for freedom.”
Slublog on March 12, 2007 at 6:48 PM
I found myself wondering at the end, “What the hell are they writing notes about?” I also wonder how it is that the UC-Berkeley people let this treasure slip past them.
dostrick on March 12, 2007 at 6:54 PM
Tom and Jerry against the Persians would be cool
Ropera on March 12, 2007 at 6:59 PM
Art imitates life.
They should be pleased they’re running ahead of North Korea.
Plus, it’s not like the average moviegoer in the US is capable of distinguishing between Arabs and Persians anyhow, so they’re really more like tied for fourth.
TexasDan on March 12, 2007 at 7:03 PM
Don’t forget that the Persians also contributed to “global warming” when they burned Athens to the ground.
VikingGoneWild on March 12, 2007 at 7:10 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/fusionaddict/300_cats.jpg
fusionaddict on March 12, 2007 at 8:12 PM
I don’t get it either. What were they looking at, Xerxes’ codpiece?
Kid from Brooklyn on March 12, 2007 at 8:17 PM
Miller’s pimp hand has always been strong.
Kid from Brooklyn on March 12, 2007 at 8:19 PM
Bugs Bunny popping up in Tehran would be cool.
“Ehhhh, what’s up Javad?”. How about a big, sloppy Bug’s kiss for Little Hitler? Do they think bunny saliva is a dirty as puppy saliva?
The cartoon could end with those little Martian guys holding back the Persians. “You’ve made me very angry, brace yourself for immediate disintegration!”
Hening on March 12, 2007 at 8:27 PM
Ahmedinefag.
Yeah, I know, I know…rehab…
fusionaddict on March 12, 2007 at 8:35 PM
Are you kidding?
You can’t swing a dead cat in the air without hitting an “anti-American” movie.
What I love about the left and “My Mood, I’m in a Jihad”, is that when you score points that they KNOW strike home and expose their propoganda, lies, and ideolgy, the squeal like stuck pigs!
“Sqeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaallll.. SSSSSSSSSQQQQQQQQEEEEEEEEEAAAAALLLLLLL!”
PinkyBigglesworth on March 12, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Haha! He’s kept it very strong.
PRCalDude on March 12, 2007 at 11:31 PM
Well if Ahmadinejad’s art advisor didn’t like it…. it must be GREAT !!
Maxx on March 12, 2007 at 11:47 PM
But you fail to realize something. Apparently, Iranians are the most egomaniacal people the world has ever known. They don’t think of themselves as the decendants of the Persian Empire, they think they are the Persian Empire.
Basically, all the crap that they are pulling stems from the fact that they think that their status as dirt poor nobodies is only a temporary thing and that soon, very soon, they will recreate the Empire.
Wolfman on March 12, 2007 at 11:52 PM
I’m happy to hear that my HotAir brothers and sisters liked this movie and that the libs and jihadists didn’t. (Yes, Reuben, they ARE always on the same side!) I was kinda skepticle at first, thinkin’ it was gonna be just another bait ‘n switch movie, like that piece of crap “Kingdon of Heaven”. I haven’t seen a real “We’re the good guys and they’re the bad guys” movie since “True Lies” and “The Great Raid”. Lookin’ forward to seeing “300″ … uh, anybody wanna babysit?
Tony737 on March 13, 2007 at 9:20 AM
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