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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 3391142" data-attributes="member: 924">I dunno, though.  I mean, we've had a spate of historical epics over the last 4-5 years - Kingdom of Heaven, Troy, Alexander, King Arthur, Gladiator, the Last Samurai, etc. And before that, things like Braveheart.  None of them were particularly accurate historically.I just think that a supposed "realistic" style is in vogue these days (almost Sergio Leonesque, everything is dirty and grimy and ugly and sweaty) for historical movies, not to mention, in some cases modern day political messages get thrown in as well.  This on the other hand, is in its own style (other than perhaps Sin City), as well as being completely apolitical (while some have tried to insert all sorts of political stuff into it, that wasn't the intention - according to the makers, it's just being told from the point of view of the Spartans, which is somewhat alien to today's thinking).Plus, really, while it was a historical battle, it's just on the edge of where myth becomes history, sort of a mirror image of the Trojan War (which would be on the myth side).  The movie Troy sucked out all the mythological aspects of the Illiad, this pretty just does the opposite. And even then, it still seems like it sticks to the basic story pretty well.  Sure, they missed out on the other Greeks there, most notably the Thespians who also stayed and fought and died just as bravely, and it added some stuff like rhinos and giants, but other than that, it's pretty close (including how the story was told by a survivor - there actually was one who was ordered to leave due to an injury), and indeed, like stuff a Spartan version of Homer might come up with. Indeed, that's sort of what Herodotus was doing when he wrote his Histories (on which this is based), sort of doing to the conflict between the Greeks and Persians what Homer did between the conflict between the Trojans and Achaeans. A little more historical, but that's probably because Homer didn't write it down, while Herodotus did.</blockquote>

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