Posted on 03/16/2007 6:50:33 PM PDT by Muentzer2005
I do not know whose bright idea it was to use real names in a historical fantasy instead of just calling it fiction. But is there any difference between the makers of this movie and Ahmadinejad? They are both blind to the truth. Brainwashing is wrong whether done by communists, Islamo-Fascists, or Warner Brothers. The intentions may be different, but the results are the same. Obscuring history and slandering a great civilization is an undeniable sin, and an intolerable offense by any standard.
By many historical accounts contrary to his depiction in “300”, Xerxes was a wise man, a tolerant king, and the founder of “Systematic Management”. Not a bald and clean-shaven robotic monstrosity with the synthesized voice of a machine. And certainly not the barbaric, talentless, stupid giant that the makers of “300” have portrayed him as. 1
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300 was excellent and it wasnt Warner bros. It was based off the frank miller graphic novel which is a work of comic book fiction.
Interesting commentary.
I don't think the film makers meant for the flick to be taken all that seriously. But if it inspires any viewers to read the actual history it will have been worth it's salt.
I know I would much rather have been a Persian that a Spartan.
I'm a bit factory-irregular. I would have been thrown on the trash heap at birth.
Gotta go, I'm need to do some more situps........
I agree 100%. Good thing they didn't choose a great civilization to slander. 
If the king Xerxes was so great, why did he conquer other countries and rule over them? If Iran is so great, why is this writer not there?
Now, as to whether the caricatures presented in the movie do justice to the historical characters, let's not be silly. Have they ever?
Bump
Thrown to the wolves?
Just real late term abortion.
This "outrage" should be milked for all it is worth. The real story here is about how enraged the knuckle-draggers (and their hate-America allies in the US and all over the world) get over FICTION, a movie based on a comic book, which was in turn an obvious bastardization of history.
"slandering a great civilization"
NOT TRUE.
They were portraying the barbarism of an ancient empire that most assurdly occured.
Has anyone else noticed the keyword "300" doesn't work?
The effect this one is having I find absolutely fascinating. It's almost as if the critics are insisting that there is no such thing as martial virtue when it comes to the West, only for those it has nominally oppressed. That's nothing more than a Marxist fairy tale that needs to have a stake driven through its heart.
Hey, I have one in my garage. If I could just get a refurbished flux-capacitor......
Well, let's see.
Anybody who thought, after seeing 300 - that the Persians actually had in their employ superb warrior mutants, a ten foot tall king who sounded like Darth Vader, a trained rhinoceros (or several), war-trained elephants, and lest we forget a giant mutant lobster-man with a bladed claw-hand for the express purpose of beheading the king's enemies - is an idiot.
As, for that matter, is anybody who thinks this film is intended to be historically accurate. It never was, and it never made that claim. It's a movie based on a graphic novel, itself loosely based on Thermopylae. If I remember correctly, Thermopylae never came up, and neither did Platea. I'll say again you have to be pretty stupid to think it's historically accurate or even remotely intended to be historically accurate.
I just saw it.
Great movie! It's not intended to be a documentary, so I don't understand all the point of all the anal historical nitpicking, but as an inspirational rally cry, it's great. It might even stimulate some backbone growth in some circles. Who knows?
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