03-16-2007, 08:41 PM
Greetings,
At the risk of upsetting everyone, or someone, but not intending to do so, here is an interesting article on The 300 from the questionably authoritative Wikipedia.
Link to original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(film )
Here is one of several interesting observations:
[size=150:3egq28sl]Historical accuracy[/size]
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].
Ephraim Lytle, assistant professor of Hellenistic History at the University of Toronto argues that "the ways in which 300 selectively idealizes Spartan society are problematic, even disturbing.... the Persians are turned into monsters... the non-Spartan Greeks are simply [portrayed as weak]... [the film's] moral universe would have appeared as bizarre to ancient Greeks as it does to modern historians".[74]
Touraj Daryaee, associate professor of Ancient History at California State University, Fullerton dismisses 300 as historically uninformative, inaccurate and cartoonish. Dismantling the central theme of the movie, that of "free" and "democracy loving" Spartans and "slave" Persians, he states that "such jargon relating to “freedomâ€
At the risk of upsetting everyone, or someone, but not intending to do so, here is an interesting article on The 300 from the questionably authoritative Wikipedia.
Link to original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(film )
Here is one of several interesting observations:
[size=150:3egq28sl]Historical accuracy[/size]
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].
Ephraim Lytle, assistant professor of Hellenistic History at the University of Toronto argues that "the ways in which 300 selectively idealizes Spartan society are problematic, even disturbing.... the Persians are turned into monsters... the non-Spartan Greeks are simply [portrayed as weak]... [the film's] moral universe would have appeared as bizarre to ancient Greeks as it does to modern historians".[74]
Touraj Daryaee, associate professor of Ancient History at California State University, Fullerton dismisses 300 as historically uninformative, inaccurate and cartoonish. Dismantling the central theme of the movie, that of "free" and "democracy loving" Spartans and "slave" Persians, he states that "such jargon relating to “freedomâ€
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