<p>This is old news, but in case you didn't know, there is going to be a movie made about the venerable gaming franchise, "Prince of Persia". Though the titular hero is Persian, Hollywood has decided to yet again exercise "creative license" by whitening the two main characters.</p>
<p>This wouldn't be as egregious an offense if it was standard Hollywood procedure to simply use Middle Easternish-looking white actors to portray Middle Easterners. Jake Gyllenhaal, with some makeup and costuming, could probably pass for a Persian (there is even an SNL song comparing his likeness to Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's). </p>
<p>But hey, remember a little movie called "300"? Yeah, that movie where the Persians were depicted as consisting of pretty much every non-white race on Earth, whereas the Greeks were very pale-skinned Englishmen. </p>
<p>This movie is being produced by that tripemaster Jerry Bruckheimer, so it'll probably fail spectacularly. But people shouldn't tolerate retarded crap like this from Hollywood hacks.</p>