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the REAL reason why this movie flopped.


- Even before it came out everyone kept talking about stupid *beep* like the characters ACCENTS?? so *beep* stupid. "Since when do Persians have British accents?" litrilly THE stupidest thing I have ever heard.. SINCE WHEN DO ANCIENT PERSIANS SPEAK *beep* ENGLISH??? retards.. its a *beep* movie. Do you understand how STUPID it would sound if they where speaking with a Persian accent??

- Everyone, APART from PERSIANS complaining about why Persians are being portrayed by "white actors".. this one pisses me of the most because when the movie 300 came out it was properly ALL You idiots that actually went and watched it, but then DIDN'T complain ONE BIT, by how racist the movie was!! NOTHING. Even now everyone is like "it wasn't a documentary" etc.. it really gets on my nerves, if your really worried about racism then where the *beep* where you when 300 came out?


Some stupid Americans and Europeans telling US what we look like. Go *beep* your selfs okay? honestly.. you don't know *beep* You haven't ever been to Iran, so stop talking about something you don't have a clue about. Im not saying ALL Persians are white. Im saying in Iran we have Persians with different skin tones..

My best friend is English, im *beep* MORE WHITE than him. His ENGLISH!! In Iran, we have people who are WHITE, TANNED, BROWN and even BLACK!!! And the fact is.. this is a Hollywood blockbuster, I dont think we actually have a Persian actor who is capable of being in a movie as big as this..



Everyone is to busy thinking about stupid stuff, your not really letting your self enjoy the movie? that is the REAL reason this flopped everyone went into the movie with a negative view, you only saw the bad stuff about it, its not a perfect movie, but it deserves a much higher rating than 6.7

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I agree with most of your points, but I wouldn't say that 300 was racist. They just made the Persians to be the bad guys.

An ethnicity made to look bad happens in Hollywood films; Tristan + Isolde did it with Irish people, The Patriot with English people, Braveheart again with the English...

The only thing wrong with 300 was the Persians being portrayed as African-looking. The only people who look 'black' in the Middle East are those of the Gulf (some of those from there descend from Africa).

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