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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
Personally, I didn't like the movie but Xerxes was more homo-erotic than monster and the rank and file of the regforce Persians were not black.
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There were about 5 or 6 "Persians" in 300 that had any kind of dialogue. Xerxes was one of them and he looked like a gay Egyptian Pharaoh rather than a Persian King. Thats one down. A further three "Persians" (not) who spoke were played by Black people. There was only one guy in the whole film that looked Persian. The army was made up of deformed looking people, animals, monsters and a few token Oriental people.
The entire movie made a gross misrepresentation of the Persian army and of Xerxes. I wont go as far to say that 300 was 'psychological' warefare on Iran but their portrayal of Persians was in bad taste.