I loved Osama Hajjaj’s take on the movie “300”, it absolutely cracked me up. I think in the Arab World, Spartans would either be hardcore Jordanians or Egyptians.
h/t: amjad
300 In The Arab World
I loved Osama Hajjaj’s take on the movie “300”, it absolutely cracked me up. I think in the Arab World, Spartans would either be hardcore Jordanians or Egyptians.
h/t: amjad
I HATED the movie 3ala fekra 🙂
Real nice cartoon heheheh
😀
good, except that the bodyguards should be shirtless and a bit more good looking.
I always wondered …why all the body guards 3enna are bold?
It is on of the most racist mavies I have ever seen in my life
Pardon my ignorance, but what does the text on the cartoon say?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
The movie was theatrically successful.. i mean i personally loved the effects although it was politically incorrect
alurdunialhurr, racist? you realize most of the world’s population couldn’t tell the difference between somebody who was greek or iranian just by looking at them, don’t you? It’s OK for the historical bad guys to be portrayed as bad guys. That’s not racism. That was the main problem with “Kingdom of Heaven” – no bad guys. Polictical correctness is bullshit. And it’s boring 😀
Graig,,maybe you didn’t realize it,but millions did and Your reply to me does not make it unracist. Show me a movie Hollywood made, that depict and betray Jewish people like we saw in 300.
Craig, “bad guys” is a comic book concept. In real life, there’s no “evil” and no inherently “bad guys”, only persons doing their best with different conceptions of what “best” is.
I think the closes we can come to actual “evil” in real life is selfishness or cynicism, which is what I’d say is displayed by corrupt politicians, etc.
That’s what I liked about “Kingdom of Heaven”, anyway: No bad guys. Because in real life there really are no bad guys, only people wanting something different from what you want.
alurdunialhurr,
Graig,,maybe you didn’t realize it,but millions did and Your reply to me does not make it unracist.
I didn’t see the movie. I make my comments based on the idea that it’s impossible for Hollywood to make a “racist” movie that portrays one group of caucasians in a racist way and another group of caucasians in a positive way. The greeks and the Persians were neighbors. Even to this day I don’t think anybody who isn’t from the region could tell teh difference between an Iranian and a Greek, just by looking at them. It’s absurd. You know that movie about King Arthur that came out a couple years ago? The one with Keira Knightly?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349683/
That movie slammed anglo-saxons and accused them of committing genocide when they invaded the British Islands. It portrayed them as bloodthirsty barbarians. I’m anglo-saxon. I was offended by that movie. Can I call it racist? Celts look quite a bit different than germanic peoples like Anglo-Saxons, so it’s a starker difference.
But it would be some kind of stupid for me to call it racist, wouldn’t it?
Show me a movie Hollywood made, that depict and betray Jewish people like we saw in 300.
Speaking of which, many people claimed “The Passion” was racist, too.
Carsten,
Craig, “bad guys†is a comic book concept. In real life, there’s no “evil†and no inherently “bad guysâ€Â, only persons doing their best with different conceptions of what “best†is.
I’m sorry you have so much trouble differentiating between right and wrong, Carsten. Either you aren’t a very nice type of personality yourself of you’ve been lucky enough to have not run into anybody who meant to do you harm just for the fun of it. There are “bad guys” and not just in the comic books.
Graig,, There is no comparison between Passion of Christ,King Arthur and 300,I have seen both,Persians were compared and depicted as animals and beasts.See it yourself.
Persians Arabs and Muslims are expendable by Hollywood.
Shockingly, since Sept. 11 Hollywood is widening its already hateful stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims to include Arab and Muslim Americans. It is an outrageous and dangerous precedent, writes PNS commentator Jack Shaheen, on major television networks.
SAN FRANCISCO–Our country’s leadership has gone out of its way to distinguish between Islam and terrorism in the aftermath of Sept. 11. Yet, Hollywood has ignored that distinction completely. Major television networks — including NBC, Fox, ABC and CBS — have not only gone to great lengths to vilify Arab Muslims since then, but have introduced a very dangerous new equation: Arab Americans and Muslim Americans equals terrorist.
A few weeks ago CBS televised the movie “The President’s Man: A Line in the Sand,” with Chuck Norris. In it, swarthy-looking Arab Muslims try to set off a nuclear bomb in Texas. Islam is vilified. Assisting the Arab Muslims from overseas are Americans of Arab heritage. Such an outrageous depiction has never before appeared on television.
The movie does have a good-guy Arab-American attorney general who interviews the Arab-Muslim terrorist. His scene lasts three minutes, then he disappears. CBS was effectively saying, “Our movie has one good Arab-American character, so it’s fair.” That is tokenism, a lie, a network’s way of trying to protect its backside.
Also on CBS: In “JAG,” Arab Muslims in the Middle East plot to blow up 30 children in an American school, and beat a female Marine who heroically blows herself up with the villains; in “The District,” Arab fathers are labeled brutish to their children, and a mosque president destroys his mosque (such an incident has never happened, but vandals have destroyed more than a dozen U.S. mosques); in “The Agency,” Arab Muslim terrorists blow up a London department store, killing thousands including children (since Oct. 4, CBS has run this episode three times); on “Family Law,” an attorney defending an Arab American is betrayed when his client skips town on bail (you just can’t trust “those people”).
alurdunialhurr,
I watched every episode of JAG. They went OUT OF THEIR WAY to portray Muslims in a sympathetic light. There were as many “good guy” Muslims as “bad guy” Muslims in every episode they had relating to Afghanistan and/or terrorism. And the “good guy” Muslims always had a bigger and more important part that the bad ones. In one court room scene I recall a Islamic scholar spent about ten minutes elaborating on the peaceful and loving nature of Islam – incorrectly, I might add! it was all politically correct garbage! – and pointed out the common ground Islam has with Christianity. And to top it all off, the shows major star, Catherine Bell, is half Persian herself.
When you point things out like this as examples of “racism” I think it just destroys your credibility. I haven’t seen any of the other programs listed in the article you quoted, but that article is dead wrong on JAG. If anything, JAG was far too kind to Muslims, considering it was a program about the US military and the last 3 years it was on the air were first 3 years after 9/11.
MAN!! all of you stfu already with ur racism/nonracism bs, just comment on the damn picture (WHICH WAS FUNNY), and that’s it..