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Gunner 0313
12-14-08, 09:13 AM
Hollywood film The Wrestler 'insults Iran'

Iran has again accused Hollywood of "anti-Iranian" sentiment, this time due to scenes in The Wrestler, a Golden Globe-nominated drama starring Mickey Rourke.



Last Updated: 12:35PM GMT 13 Dec 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01205/the-wrestler_1205319c.jpg Acctor Mickey Rourke, left, and director Darren Aronofsky at a screening of 'The Wrestler' Photo: AP



The country's media has reportedly condemned the film in part because of a fight sequence in which Rourke's character, Randy 'the Ram' Robinson, battles an opponent dubbed the Ayatollah.

During the fight, the Ayatollah, played by actor and former professional wrestler Ernest "the Cat" Miller, waves an Iranian flag before ramming the pole under his opponent's neck. Rourke's character then grabs the flag and snaps the pole over his knee before tossing it into the crowd.

Newspapers and websites in Iran say the Darren Aronofsky-directed film is just the latest manifestation of Western prejudice towards Iran in Hollywood films.

Last year, the Iranian government blasted Warner Bros over its "anti-Iranian" blockbuster 300, a graphic novel-based retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greeks triumph over the Persians.

It accused the Hollywood studio of participating in a campaign of "psychological warfare", "plundering Iran's historic past and insulting its civilization", and depicting Persians as "ugly and violent creatures rather than human beings".

Some Iranians also took offence at the sympathetic portrayal of Alexander the Great conquering the Persian empire in Oliver Stone's Alexander.

In The Wrestler, Rourke plays a retired professional wrestler who returns for a final match against his old enemy, the Ayatollah. The film, which won the golden lion award at this year's Venice film festival, is released in the
US next week.

:flag: Anti-Iranian sentiment hum, I wonder why ? LMFAO

mjhpgh
12-14-08, 09:54 AM
Sounds like Sgt Slaughter and the Iron Sheik

That is amazing they feel that was,as they are NEVER anti American . Right? Why would we expect anything else from Iran.

mcvet57103
12-14-08, 11:04 AM
Could care less what Iran thinks. The charactor should have been named Allah Bin Ayatollah Laden. That would of been funny.

Integrity57
12-14-08, 05:30 PM
They ***** about a scene in a movie yet they little those lil' terrorist bastards set up their IED factorys in their country and do nothing about it. Don't think I ever heard of a scene in a movie killing or dismembering an Iranian, in real life, so what are they *****ing about?

SlingerDun
12-14-08, 06:19 PM
Irans' got a pretty good freestyle program but most of that countrys grapplers favor oil wrestling at the boys club

Preacher
12-15-08, 03:05 PM
F&&k Iran.

SF, Jay

jetdoc
12-15-08, 03:26 PM
The Iron Sheik is funny as he comes on Stern often..