ALEXANDER, where should I start with the

Cyrus, help me out man....
Should I begin with that all Macedonians were blonde-haired northern European looking folks or should I comment on more fundamental mistakes like a quote in the latter part of the movie when Alexander says that everyon was a slave undeer Persian rule, or should I stick to practical mistakes like making "Babylon" look like Susa and Persepolis at times? Can someone add more?

 

The next Iran related historical movie coming out seems to be this one. Lets hope it has a little less prejudice

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430431/

 

 

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Her ti*s weren't so bad!

assyrians??  do they still exist?

 

Well Roxanne was from the Eastern Persian Empire, and last time I checked they have either black or brown hair.

I think the movie did not capture the "Macedonian" atmosphere.

It's hard to describe. I kinda feel some sort of relation to the style of ancient Macedonian culture. As I was watching Alexander the Great on the History Channel (3 hours long), I could almost picture how Alexander looked and acted, like that time he was seriously injured. I could imagine myself right there when the rest of the troops were rushing to back him up too quickly, breaking the ladders. And then his death. And later his statues to establish his presence at the table.

I haven't even seen the Alexander movie yet but I can conclude that it does not capture the Macedonian atmosphere just by looking at the TV ads. It's too goldy. And that's not even Alexander. My supernatural abilities tell me he was not blonde. And is that Angelina Jolie?

Since opening Wednesday to get a jump-start on the Thanksgiving holiday, the film has earned $21.6 million. The independently financed film, a dream project of Stone's for 15 years, reportedly cost more than $150 million to make. ...

Response to Catt:
There are 400,000 Assyrians in the U.S, with large concentrations in Chicago (85,000), Detroit (100,000), the Bay Area (40,000), Los Angeles and San Diego (50,000), Phoenix (8,000), New York (15,000) and Boston (5,000). In Iraq there are 1.5 million Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs). Nearly 90% of Iraq's refugees in America are Assyrian. About 5 million worldwide.
But some Chaldeans and Syriacs don't call themselves Assyrian. Maybe the Chaldeans are ethnically Chaldeans and maybe the Syriacs are ethnically Syriacs/Aramaeans. And if I say the term Assyrian is also a nation, things can either make more or less sense depending on the way you think of it.

Originally posted by dark_one  They are an ethnicity in Iraq, much like the Persians which are not the Arabs living in Iran but certain Souther Kyrgyzy tribes.

 

WHAT!?!?  Iranians are NOT Arabs!  We have a different language, different language family, different race, different culture...Arabs are semites, Iranians are Indo-Europeans.

There are very, very few Arabs living in Iran other than temporary Iraqi war refugees (yes, Mesopotamians have almost all become Arabs) as unfortunately nobody likes Arabs in Iran.

There are a fair share of Arabicized Iranians, though.

Assyrio-Chaldeans are in Iran as well as Iraq.

The movie did suck. I'm glad I didn't pay for it.

It was somewhat amusing at times, though. their justification for invasion (leading to Babylon) and war speeches, etc, reminded me of the same loose proofs/justification used to invade Iraq (leading to Baghdad)

Though one thing I did like overall, it didn't try to make it politically correct, it showed how some people really thinked, etc.   Would be nice if it had been a good movie as well..


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