The first movie which does not rage to Iranian in Hollywood after some years!

Rating: 9/10 (2 January 2011)

First I must tell that I completely shocked when I heard that Hollywood decided to produce a movie about Iran and its old culture with positive view and without changing the real history! As you may guess, I am an Iranian and I am really proud of it. I enjoyed watching the movie but I need to remind few points. The clothes, swords, castles and the air of the movie is not absolutely similar to ancient Persia however I feel these mistakes are not movie producer's ones and in fact it comes from the source of these stories in Persian language. So let me explain something as a defense of the producers. There is a well-known book about these legends in Persian called "Hezar o yek shab" (means: one thousand and one nights) which is the source of all of the stories like this in Iran. This book is a Persian book but after some years it was translated to Arabic and it is called "Alfa leilatan va leila" which is the exact translation of the name of the original book. Finally when Persian was survived after Arabians attack to Iran, this book was translated from Arabian to Persian. This process caused that someone wrongfully think that this book is Arabian. The Arabian space of the stories in many of the movies come from this book is the result of this process. However this mistakes must be finished one day! With whole respect to Arabians, Persian culture is completely independent and is older and deeper than Arabian culture.