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ariellowen · Joined: 19 Apr 2006

300 seemed to me to be a refreshing portrail of Persia. Though perhaps the kathoey Xerxes is lacking in historical accuracy (see coins and ba-relief), it is none the less a nice change from the Arab-ized characters in Alexander --after all, it would be another thousand yeads before Arabian Islam would reach Persia. 300 really does portray well the idea of "the exotic Orient" which should not be an unfamiliar idea to Hellenophiles, and the Indian style of costume and characters, as opposed to Arabian, would really be little less accurate than an Islamic Xerxes. (In fairness, Alexander does very well capture the exotic Apocalypse Now-esque strangeness of distant (barbarian) lands once Alexander goes beyond Babylon.) Other well captured Greek qualities found in 300 have to include: Greek racism, which runs deeply through Classicism (for example: "the hordes of Asia" line in 300), and eugenic mercilessness (deformed Ephialtes); both facts of Greekness which have often been obfuscated by idealization.

Leslie Cheswyck · Joined: 31 May 2003 Location: University of Western Chile

Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

Leslie Cheswyck · Joined: 31 May 2003 Location: University of Western Chile

Ah, who cares. Details schmetails; it's all Greek to me.

I'd rather there be a real movie about it, but I'll go watch 300 anyway. Would rather see the Steven Pressfield book, Gates Of Fire on the big screen.

Seems there was one in the making, but it got shelved.

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

Hey puppy shit, didn't you learn not to answer a question with a question?

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

Fresh Prince · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: The glorious nation of Korea

How are jewish people portrayed in Iranian films? How are Americans?

gypsyfish · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

I liked the movie, but it required a lot of suspension of belief. I didn't look at it as history and anyone who accepts it as history deserves to be ignorant.

I was put off by the black and whited-ness of the film. Spartans handsome, Persians ugly. And what about the Immortal Guard being Japanese?

I read an editorial yesterday that pointed out that many Americans wouldn't recognize Persians as Iranians, anyway, so the Iranian government was beating its chest for nothing. Sad to say, he's probably right.