Hollywood's Depiction of Persians or Iranians
Since the 1980s and especially since the 1990s, Hollywood's depiction of Iranians has vilified Iranians as in television programs like 24, John Doe, On Wings of Eagles (1986) and Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper (1981) (based on a true story).
According to Kaveh Afrasiabi,
- "Hollywood's tall walls of exclusion and discrimination have yet to crumble when it comes to the movie industry's persistent misrepresentation of Iranians and their collective identity immersed in a long thread of history."
Some of Hollywood's "stereotypical" and anti-Iranian movies include The Peacemaker (in which a character, says about the main antagonist's car to be "Five miles from fuckin' Iran!"), The Hitman (in which several mobs join together to demolish an Iranian mob operating in Canada), MadHouse (partially centering upon a wealthy Iranian who is in the process of divorcing his American wife. In one scene, the wife, speaking to her Iranian husband, utters "you goddamn towel heads, sand rats"),
Read more about this topic: Anti-Iranian Sentiments, In The United States
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