We all know that there is nothing that crazy Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad likes more than doing film criticism. In March, we told you about how much he hated 300. Now he isn’t so happy with Oliver Stone, either. I guess on this one he’s not alone. He’s probably seen Alexander or The Doors.
Stone was hoping to make a documentary about the hard liner, but Ahmadinejad said he’d rather have fire ants glued to his privates. Actually that would have shown some creativity, instead his lackey unpacked the old Iranian warhorse slur. Mehdi Kalhor, media advisor extrodiannaire, said about Stone, “it is right that this person is considered part of the opposition in the U.S., but opposition in the U.S. is a part of the Great Satan.”
I’m not a big fan of Stone, but I think he could have at least advised Ahmadinejad on some better ways to insult the United States. “The Great Satan” seems to be a little tired. In fact, Stone’s response was better than his last three movies. “I have been called a lot of things, but never a great Satan. I wish the Iranian people well and only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours.” Something tells me this riff won’t be healed anytime soon.
