What do you think?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/08/leonardo-dicaprio-as-persian-poet-rumi-gladiator-screenwriter-fa/
>>70638312
no one complained about Jake in Prince of Persia
>>70638312
Wow looks JUST like him.
>>70638312
nice
Would probably be a more interesting movie if it was an actual Iranian and spoken in Arabic
>>70638512
>Iranian
>Arabic
>Rumi
good job, you're as culturally aware as leo and the casting crew for this movie
>italians
>white
>>70638512
>Iranian
>Arabic
Average /tv/ poster, ladies and gents
>>70638512
>persians
>arabs
Are you retarded?
That's like thinking Italians speak german
>>70638312
Is he going to go full method actor and convert into Islam for the sake of realism?
>>70638312
more disgusting whitewashing
>>70638360
ya they did
>>70638312
>meme actor cast as meme poet
fits like pottery
>>70638312
Hey that's cultural appropriation
>>70638312
I wouldn't be surprised with a Dastan's cameo and a few quips about time.
>>70638312
STOP WHITEWASHING
they're finally making a film about based "Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī Balkhī جلالالدین محمد بلخى"?
man, i waited all my life for this epic kino experience!
>>70638312
fuck off.
he will be doing that serial killer movie based on Devil in the city or something.
>>70638512
The pure stupidity of /tv/ is displayed right here.
>>70638643
>>70638656
Well actually almost half of words in modern Iranian came from arabic.
>>70638512
"They should just get ken watanabe to play Bruce Lee, and have the entire movie in Vietnamese!"
>RumiWasntWhite
It's still stupid to cast Leo
>>70639155
Rumi is the best-selling poet in the US and a cultural treasure throughout the Iranian world, senpai
You know who was really good at portraying Middle Eastern-ers? Anthony Quinn. I wish someone like him could portray any future Middle Eastern roles.
>>70638927
>ya they did
Didn't Reza Aslan say that ancient Persians were whiter than present day Iranians? Jake is half Jew anyways.
>>70638656
It's worse, Italian and German are at least both Indo-European. Persian's Indo-European, Arabic's Semitic; totally unrelated.
Isnt Rumi lived in Turkey(anatolia)?
why would he speak arabic
thats faggotic.
>>70638512
yes, that's it
it shouldn't be only realistic actors playing the roles, the dialogue should always be in the language it's supposed to be and not in english
>>70639258
Lend words dont chage the family of the lenguage
what if
rooney plays rumi
>>70639511
Castizos can look incredibly persian or semitic for some reason
