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| Thursday, 05 March 2009 03:08 | |||||
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{mosimage} Objection of advisor to President Ahmadinejad March 2009 An advisor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today demanded an apology from an entourage of actors and representatives of the Hollywood film industry due to film "insulting" to the country as' The Wrestler 'and'300'.
'It would be a mistake to have an official meeting with someone who insults us,' said Javad Shamaqdari, adviser to the arts of the Iranian statesman, refusing to meet with the delegation, which includes the actress Annette Bening and president of the Academy of Arts and Sciences Cinematográficas , Sid Ganis, before an official request for excuses.
'The Wrestler' movie exhibition in Canada in which Mickey Rourke was appointed to the Oscar for Best Actor, dislike to Tehran due to a scene where the protagonist faces a fighter called 'Ayatollah' and it tries to suffocate him with a flag Iran, which ends up being thrown to the public. In'300 ', feature film that recreates the 2007 battle of Thermopiles, between Spartans and Persians, the Iranians are irate with how the warriors and the Persian leaders appear as decadent and evil. Like 'The Wrestler','300 'could not enter in Iran
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