I agree with some of what you have said about the use of the wrong people such as Rosario Dawson to represent Iranians in Hollywood films. She is not unattrative but I doubt the real Roxane looked anything like her. No one can say for sure whether or not the real Roxane was blond but I doubt Alexander The Great was blond.
I am very much interested in how Iranians are portrayed in Hollywood films because I am, as yet, an unknown Iranian (Mazandaran and Oskou Azerbaijani-Iranian) filmmaker. On both sides of my family there are people with fair or ruddy skin, brownish hair and light eyes. My mother who is Iranian-Azerbaijani was gorgeous when she was young. She resembles Sophia Loren. She had jet black hair when she was young but that doesn't mean anything because I have seen Anglo-Saxons/Anglo-Irish (Elizabeth Taylor) persons and Germans (Maximillian Schell) with jet black hair. I was born with jet black hair that turned reddish-brown by the time I turned two. My sister was a dark blonde with a ruddy complexion when she was born. I had blonde eyebrows when I was a toddler. I have hazel brown eyes and a Roman nose. My nose isn't small but it is not hook shaped or aquiline, not that there is anything wrong with aquiline noses.
Freddy Mercury (a Parsi), Bruce Willis (of German descent), Christopher Reeve (an American) are three examples of men with aquiline noses.
I have to say all of this talk about Azeris vs. Iranians has to stop. You are wrong. You haven't done your research properly. Iranians consisted of the indigenous people of Iran, namely the Elamites, Persians, Medes, Parthians and the Scythians by the time the Achaeminid kings came to rule. One of our tribes included the Germanii. We had Turks, Arabs, Mongols and the Greeks invade Iran at different times but that's not to say that the people of Azerbaijan are Turkic just because they speak a dialect of Turkish. The Caucasus, Armenia and Azerbaijan were all part of the Persian Empire at one point. The Armenians are of Iranian stock and most of them don't even know it! Kurds are of the same race as the Iranians and are not all dark-skinned as someone pointed out. There are a lot of blonds and fair-skinned people amongst them. Croats, Serbs and Bosnians are of Iranian descent. They fled from Iran because they were followers of Manichaeanism. Iranians can be dark-skinned, light-skinned, blonde, brunnette and even black-haired with a range of eye colors. We were and still continue to be a "true" melting pot.
Please do not attempt to segregate Azeris from Iranians. They are one in the same. My father resembles my mother's father, who was from Oskou. My father's family date back to the nobles of the Sassinid dynasty so I consider myself to be a "true Persian" in every sense of the word. His family lived in the Ukraine for a few hundred years but returned to their homeland because they were proud of their heritage. By the way, Iranians do not have Dravadian ancestory. The Indians do. As I pointed out earlier, the indigenous/aboriginal people of Iran, prior to the "Aryan invasion", were the Elamites of Susa. The aryans are said to have come from the steppes of Russia, central Asia or, quite possibly, south-eastern Europe. Persians were not Mediterranean as someone pointed out even though, quite arguably, there is a strong resemblance between Iranians and Mediterraneans. I would like to close by saying that Persians are found about 900 B.C. in the region of Lake Urmia (Azerbaijan). Lastly, the great prophet Zarathustra/Zoroaster is said to have been born in the region of Lake Urmia. Does that make him a Turk? I think not.
Oslonor: Actually Iranian in daily usage refers to AzeriTurks. Persians do not identify themselves as Iranian anymore. They call themselves as Persians.
I am very much interested in how Iranians are portrayed in Hollywood films because I am, as yet, an unknown Iranian (Mazandaran and Oskou Azerbaijani-Iranian) filmmaker. On both sides of my family there are people with fair or ruddy skin, brownish hair and light eyes. My mother who is Iranian-Azerbaijani was gorgeous when she was young. She resembles Sophia Loren. She had jet black hair when she was young but that doesn't mean anything because I have seen Anglo-Saxons/Anglo-Irish (Elizabeth Taylor) persons and Germans (Maximillian Schell) with jet black hair. I was born with jet black hair that turned reddish-brown by the time I turned two. My sister was a dark blonde with a ruddy complexion when she was born. I had blonde eyebrows when I was a toddler. I have hazel brown eyes and a Roman nose. My nose isn't small but it is not hook shaped or aquiline, not that there is anything wrong with aquiline noses.
Freddy Mercury (a Parsi), Bruce Willis (of German descent), Christopher Reeve (an American) are three examples of men with aquiline noses.
I have to say all of this talk about Azeris vs. Iranians has to stop. You are wrong. You haven't done your research properly. Iranians consisted of the indigenous people of Iran, namely the Elamites, Persians, Medes, Parthians and the Scythians by the time the Achaeminid kings came to rule. One of our tribes included the Germanii. We had Turks, Arabs, Mongols and the Greeks invade Iran at different times but that's not to say that the people of Azerbaijan are Turkic just because they speak a dialect of Turkish. The Caucasus, Armenia and Azerbaijan were all part of the Persian Empire at one point. The Armenians are of Iranian stock and most of them don't even know it! Kurds are of the same race as the Iranians and are not all dark-skinned as someone pointed out. There are a lot of blonds and fair-skinned people amongst them. Croats, Serbs and Bosnians are of Iranian descent. They fled from Iran because they were followers of Manichaeanism. Iranians can be dark-skinned, light-skinned, blonde, brunnette and even black-haired with a range of eye colors. We were and still continue to be a "true" melting pot.
Please do not attempt to segregate Azeris from Iranians. They are one in the same. My father resembles my mother's father, who was from Oskou. My father's family date back to the nobles of the Sassinid dynasty so I consider myself to be a "true Persian" in every sense of the word. His family lived in the Ukraine for a few hundred years but returned to their homeland because they were proud of their heritage. By the way, Iranians do not have Dravadian ancestory. The Indians do. As I pointed out earlier, the indigenous/aboriginal people of Iran, prior to the "Aryan invasion", were the Elamites of Susa. The aryans are said to have come from the steppes of Russia, central Asia or, quite possibly, south-eastern Europe. Persians were not Mediterranean as someone pointed out even though, quite arguably, there is a strong resemblance between Iranians and Mediterraneans. I would like to close by saying that Persians are found about 900 B.C. in the region of Lake Urmia (Azerbaijan). Lastly, the great prophet Zarathustra/Zoroaster is said to have been born in the region of Lake Urmia. Does that make him a Turk? I think not.
Oslonor: Actually Iranian in daily usage refers to AzeriTurks. Persians do not identify themselves as Iranian anymore. They call themselves as Persians.
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