02-09-2012, 07:49 PM
How about the heroes being on the side of the Persians?
The film starts with Xerxes deciding to attack Greece, the awe inspiring collection of his armament, accusations against the Greeks regarding the reasons advertised as pretext for the campaign... The crossing of the Hellespont, the march through Thrace and Macedonia, the rumors of the Greeks holding the passes to Thessaly. The subjugation of the medizing Greeks and then Thermopylae...
The battle scenes should be filmed from the Persian perspective as unit after unit attacks the positions of the Lacedaemonians... as their feeling of superiority abates, in comes fear... Then the encircling force sets out round the pass, the Persian camp is attacked, dawn comes and the Greeks are encircled and finally eliminated. They cannot but admire the Greeks' self-sacrifice, they might not approve of the King's treatment of the body of the Greek general, yet they won and they again take heart. They might also wonder at the fanatism of the Thebans who the initially feared as potential betrayers, maybe even welcome some helot deserters, Greek slaves, and comment on how Greeks enslave Greeks and then talk of freedom. Somewhere in between, one of our heroes might take part in the naval action and as Athens is burning and the fleet is preparing to face the Greeks at Salaminae, our heroes have to return to Asia Minor for some reason...
Now, this would be something different I'd like to see...
The film starts with Xerxes deciding to attack Greece, the awe inspiring collection of his armament, accusations against the Greeks regarding the reasons advertised as pretext for the campaign... The crossing of the Hellespont, the march through Thrace and Macedonia, the rumors of the Greeks holding the passes to Thessaly. The subjugation of the medizing Greeks and then Thermopylae...
The battle scenes should be filmed from the Persian perspective as unit after unit attacks the positions of the Lacedaemonians... as their feeling of superiority abates, in comes fear... Then the encircling force sets out round the pass, the Persian camp is attacked, dawn comes and the Greeks are encircled and finally eliminated. They cannot but admire the Greeks' self-sacrifice, they might not approve of the King's treatment of the body of the Greek general, yet they won and they again take heart. They might also wonder at the fanatism of the Thebans who the initially feared as potential betrayers, maybe even welcome some helot deserters, Greek slaves, and comment on how Greeks enslave Greeks and then talk of freedom. Somewhere in between, one of our heroes might take part in the naval action and as Athens is burning and the fleet is preparing to face the Greeks at Salaminae, our heroes have to return to Asia Minor for some reason...
Now, this would be something different I'd like to see...
