03-18-2007, 08:21 PM
Greetings Lepidina,
I agree with you, this film is like opera, or as I would characterize it -- like kabuki theatre, and indeed one enjoys such extravaganzas best when they turn off their "inner historian" and just enjoy the spectacle.
However...
That is difficult to do when the director, in an interview on MTV, says the following:
The film's director Zack Snyder claims that "The events are 90 percent accurate. It's just in the visualization that it's crazy. A lot of people are like, 'You're debauching history!' I'm like, 'Have you read it?' I've shown this movie to world-class historians who have said it's amazing. They can't believe it's as accurate as it is" He dismisses arguments of historical inaccuracy by stating that the film is "an opera, not a documentary".[73].
90% accurate...?
Perhaps that is mostly young director hubris more than anything else but it does offer further confirmation, as if any were needed, that Kubrick was right when he responded to questions about his film 2001 (I'm paraphrasing) That if he has to explain his film then he has not done his job as a film maker.
I do realize this interview is but one small part of the media/marketing frenzy that surrounds most Hollywood films today, but perhaps the director would have been better served to have left his comment about 300 being opera and not history at that rather than making claims about accuracy.
:wink:
Narukami
I agree with you, this film is like opera, or as I would characterize it -- like kabuki theatre, and indeed one enjoys such extravaganzas best when they turn off their "inner historian" and just enjoy the spectacle.
However...
That is difficult to do when the director, in an interview on MTV, says the following:
The film's director Zack Snyder claims that "The events are 90 percent accurate. It's just in the visualization that it's crazy. A lot of people are like, 'You're debauching history!' I'm like, 'Have you read it?' I've shown this movie to world-class historians who have said it's amazing. They can't believe it's as accurate as it is" He dismisses arguments of historical inaccuracy by stating that the film is "an opera, not a documentary".[73].
90% accurate...?
Perhaps that is mostly young director hubris more than anything else but it does offer further confirmation, as if any were needed, that Kubrick was right when he responded to questions about his film 2001 (I'm paraphrasing) That if he has to explain his film then he has not done his job as a film maker.
I do realize this interview is but one small part of the media/marketing frenzy that surrounds most Hollywood films today, but perhaps the director would have been better served to have left his comment about 300 being opera and not history at that rather than making claims about accuracy.
:wink:
Narukami
David Reinke
Burbank CA
Burbank CA
