10-12-2006, 12:09 AM
Quote:If critics think that 300 reduces and simplifies the meaning of Thermopylae into freedom versus tyranny, they should reread carefully ancient accounts and then blame Herodotus, Plutarch, and Diodorus — who long ago boasted that Greek freedom was on trial against Persian autocracy, free men in superior fashion dying for their liberty, their enslaved enemies being whipped to enslave others.I have not seen the movie but I read the comics, and what I find very disturbing is that Miller goes beyond Herodotus. Herodotus nowhere says that Ephialtes was deformed. Herodotus nowhere says that the Persians are black. But it is in the comic, which is not just a celebration of freedom, but also a victory of white over black, man over woman, and beautiful men over deformed people.
Besides, if you want to make a movie about the victory of freedom over slavery - why take an existing nation as an enemy? If the enemies would have been Jews, nobody would have dared to make this movie. Just imagine making a movie about a book in which the Jews are portrayed as deformed, effeminate and non-Aryan.
There's no denying that Miller is a great artist; the Sin City movie was great art as well. But why this movie? And why now?
[size=75:2454c4ji][I will not follow up this thread; 300 is a political movie and this subject will inevitably become political too...][/size]
