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mimesere ([personal profile] mimesere) wrote2010-04-09 02:57 am
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prince of persia

...are there ANY persian people in that movie?

like. at all?

>:(
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[identity profile] buddleia.livejournal.com 2010-04-09 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
Don't be daft! Anyway, the fantasy land PoP was set in was a fantasy land called Persia, which IS IN NO WAY CONNECTED to the country called Iran, okay? And in Fantasy Persia (TM), everyone is white unless they need a Greasy Arab Guy (TM), in which case they might call on Omid Djalili one more time for a comedy turn.

Maybe I shouldn't read interviews in SFX :(

(Annoyingly, I love Omid Djalili)

[identity profile] kattahj.livejournal.com 2010-04-09 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Carpets totally count as people, don't they?

(I haven't seen the film, so I don't know if there are any carpets in it.)

*checks imdb* Dude, the Persian empire was big, but I don't remember it covering Iceland.

[identity profile] 3jane.livejournal.com 2010-04-09 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Wot? And ruin the illusion that only white people can be heroic? Don be riddiculous!

(I've been face-palming that one since it was announced. Not that I don't like Jake Gyllenhall, but last I checked he wasn't Persian.)

[identity profile] missmollyetc.livejournal.com 2010-04-09 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, thank God, someone else noticed this! I just saw the trailer. WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THE PERSIAN PEOPLE?
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[identity profile] wemblee.livejournal.com 2010-04-09 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
FUCK YOU, HOLLYWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

[identity profile] annaalamode.livejournal.com 2010-04-09 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Casting Persian people means that the terrorists win. DUH.

[identity profile] latxcvi.livejournal.com 2010-04-10 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Of course not! You know Hollywood can't let non-white people have nice things!
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[identity profile] katemonkey.livejournal.com 2010-04-10 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man, I had to explain the sheer fail of that movie to my husband last night, because we saw a poster. And I got ranty. Especially about Gemma Atherton, who I rather liked in Clash of the Titans but then went "aw hell no".



I take small comfort in the fact that Sir Ben Kingsley is a douche and probably made the set hell.

And that it'll probably bomb.
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