I didn't know there was even such a movie but I watched some youtube clips about the American playing pro basketball in Iran. He had his Persian translator and she explained how he loved the fact that everyone was so nice to him. I bet he gets treated better in Iran than back home. If it was not for sanctions and if Iran had a better league, more Americans and Europeans would be playing basketball in Iran but Iran's doesn't pay you that much money. I really want to check that movie out I"m really interested.
That's not the part of the story that interested me . For me I was interested to see for the first time on film how a African-American athlete managed to live in Iran . I've read about American basketball players in Iran but I had never seen it on film so as a iranian that part of the story interested me . The rest of the story about females not being able to become president ect... was for the foreign audience .
That is the aspect that interested me the most as well and he was treated very well in Iran. In fact Iranians don't think like us Americans they probably called him the American basketball player they didn't say African American player, only us Caucasian American born Americans (I'm assuming you fall in this category because your English is good and you have an NFL team as your Avatar) think like that man and I"ll admit it's a bad way to think and actually the only true Americans are the native Americans. Back to basketball it was interesting how he befriended the Persian lady who was his translator. Hopefully one day, when Iran has a good govt and the economy is better, they can pay more money and more foreigners will play pro ball in Iran be it soccer or basketball. That would be really cool to one day see Iran's league as like the new Lebanon of Asia(I hear they have a pretty dope league).
Plus you get an experience of a lifetime you get to go to a foreign country, learn about a new culture, eat new and "strange" food and socialize with the people get a feel for things. Not too many Americans get that opportunity.
Plus you get an experience of a lifetime you get to go to a foreign country, learn about a new culture, eat new and "strange" food and socialize with the people get a feel for things. Not too many Americans get that opportunity.
well for a foreigner amateur movie maker that probably knew nothing about Iran not bad technically speaking.
the point guard himself was kind of a person with shisheh khoordeh.
the girls are what we call in Iran Avizoon.
no something bad for an American to watch to know people in Iran play high school level basketball.
but overall a little too childish.
the point guard himself was kind of a person with shisheh khoordeh.
the girls are what we call in Iran Avizoon.
no something bad for an American to watch to know people in Iran play high school level basketball.
but overall a little too childish.
I think a lot of us would have made a better film. I would call it "The Journey" and make it more like making films of him and his teammates practicing, showing the games, viewing all of them socializing. I think that would have been more interesting if they made it like that and then you could have a portion where he just talks to ordinary people. The Big 10 has a segment for football and basketball players and that is the model they use and it is a very popular show on their network.
