"300" Movie Review (Advanced Screening Focus Group)(Some Spoilers)

[cignus_pfaccari]

Sure, the Spartans had checks against the excercise of power by their government, but those checks only applied to those in the ruling elite, and not to those downrange.

Which weren't even present on the Persian emperor.

Not that the Spartans, or, heck, the Athenians or Thebans were paragons of Modern Virtue, either.

Brad

 

[Storm Raven]

Dude, it's a movie based on a comic based on MYTHOLOGY, not history texts . . . and there is obviously various viewpoints on the actual history anyway (since none of us were actually there at the time) . . .

Actually, the history related to the battle and the surrouding political dynamics is remarkably consistent.

Didn't the spoiler bits above regarding goat-headed men and dudes with swords for arms kinda clue you in?

Elements that made the movie look even dumber to boot.

I predict a debacle on the scale of Troy or Alexander.

 

[Storm Raven]

Which weren't even present on the Persian emperor.

Not formal ones. But his power was as constrained in reality as the power of the elders of the Spartan nation.

Not that the Spartans, or, heck, the Athenians or Thebans were paragons of Modern Virtue, either.

The Athenians were closest, and actually had something that might be considered recognizable as an actual democracy (limited though it was).

 

[Meloncov]

Actually, the history related to the battle and the surrouding political dynamics is remarkably consistent.

Huh? Even the supposed number of troops a widely considered inaccurate.

 

[reapersaurus]

Thanks for the info, Mistwell.
It's a tightrope walk, to give some info, and not too much.....

I'm guessing this'll be a great genre movie, even if it isn't completely historically accurate or follow every single panel of Frank Miller's work.

 

[Eosin the Red]

I'll take one to go... now, please. Dang does it sound good.

 

[David Howery]

Actually, the history related to the battle and the surrouding political dynamics is remarkably consistent.

eh... the only historical source about the battle that I know of is the Histories by Herodotus... are there others? If not, the history should be consistent...

 

[Someone]

i can´t speak for the movie, but the comic is hardly an attempt to recreate history; you just have to look at what way are each character drawn. Greeks, specially spartans, dress a loincloth, if at all. Their weapons and armor are very simple, without any decoration. The persians, on the other hand, wear extremiely elaborate clothes, a couple pounds of piercings, and the arrow tips are so elaborate that they can´t be functional at all. Ephialtes isn´t just deformed: he´s hideous, barely recognizable as human; the oracles that forbid Leonidas to fight are horrible too, skinny monsters covered in blisters. Miller didn´t care for historical accuracy: he wanted to set a brutal contrast between spartans and persians as living metaphors for freedom and opression.