So, PRINCE OF PERSIA Is On...
...which is a terrible, terrible movie. Let me mention just a couple of the things that happened in the first half hour of this movie I've never seen that make no fucking sense whatsoever.
- Random people who Gyllenhall's character has never met are recognizing him as a prince, even though photography does not exist and most subjects had no idea what their rulers actually looked like at the time this movie supposedly takes place.
- News of the price that has been put on Gyllenhall's character's head is apparently traveling faster than they are while escaping even though the goddamn telegraph won't be invented for hundreds of years.
There. There are just two things. I won't get into the fact that all the extras are swarthy Middle Easterners while the characters that we're supposed to care about are all as white as Rick Santorum after he Googled his name for the first time. That's just the usual Hollywood racial ignorance on display. Sort of like how the leads all have British accents while the extras are allowed to sound like pseudo-Persians.
Ahh, racism...few do it better than you, Hollywood.
But the ultimate point that I want to make is that this is a terrible movie that doesn't even understand its own faux-historical context.

