The batlle of the 300 Spartans was NOT fiction. This movie and the comic book both rewrite history and fictionalize it. How would you feel if the D-day landing, for instance, was fictionalized with orges or what ever thrown into the mix? This movie is BS and belittles the actual battle. There is a monument at the site of the battle which honors the Spartans. It was placed there shortly after the battle and still remains there. Fiction my a**.
"Spartans (western warriors) defend themselves
against the hordes of ISLAM (Persia). It's no
wonder elitists condemn it."
That has to be the 'genius' quote of the year.
We seriously need an IQ test to join this freakin place.
Ogres? A more accurate comparison might be the allied troops landing on D-Day accompanied by "Captain America" or "Wonder Woman". Most people understand the comic book characters are often written into historical or historical like events. It is a form of fantasy and other than the critics, no one is going to assume that a comic book depiction impunes the legitimacy of the actual heroes of history.
Considering the idealized portrayal of the Leonidas and the other Spartans in "300," the movie hardly seems like an insult to their sacrifice -- quite the opposite, really. Also, no offense to Herodotus or any other ancient source, but a battle as ancient as Thermopylae is already half-history and half-legend, so giving it a legendary treatment seems fitting.
By the reasoning of your post, wouldn't movies like "Sands of Iwo Jima," featuring John Wayne's fictionalized Sgt. Stryker, or any other cinematic version of a battle featuring idealized composite characters, be equally insulting? Were you outraged by the fictionalized version of D-Day presented in "Saving Private Ryan?" It also featured computer-generated carnage and reduced the D-Day experience to a handful of soldiers with stereotypical characteristics. Did that movie belittle the sacrifice of those who fought and died in the Battle of Normandy?