[El Sordo]

While I too look forward to this film, I am not sure if I can agree with: "I hope the movie lays of the whole homo erotic themes."

Errr... What?

[mhx]

An appropriately timed movie about a war with Persia.

[tlb]

History should be honest. You do understand don't you the Spartan army was built around the homosexual relationship? Full citizens such as the 300 were the "homoioi". Wives were just an unpleasant duty necessary to breed new soldiers.

Western civilization owes the 300 a great debt for buying the time needed to stop the Persian conquest of Greece. Take them for what they were.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Lest anyone think Miller is a total lefty, check this out.

[Rembrandt_fan]

You wrote, "I hope the movie lays of the whole homo erotic themes."

Little hope of that, given Hollywood's 'Brokeback Mountain' sympathies, and history doesn't help. Sparta was a barracks society, and its culture extolled the virtues of homosexual bonding, considering it an extension of comradeship, for lack of a better term. Spartan brides, for example, had their hair shorn on their wedding night to give them a more boyish appearance and, er, make the groom feel more at home.

[Rocko]

I'd heard he was planning to film Eisner's The Spirit. Is that still a go?

[Havisham]

I just saw the film. It is very politically incorrect. I took it to be a direct rebuke of the West's modern "unmannedness".