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11-30-2009, 12:01 PM
The depiction of the Persians was simply shameful - I don't need the bad guys to be sympathetic, but could they at least look *human*? I know relations with Iran aren't so great, but I'm pretty sure it's still populated by homo sapiens, and was back then as well. I was particularly amused by Dan Savage's critical line about "Emperor RuPaul" of the Persians. Apparently, in addition to being half-orc, the Persians are also gay. Who knew?

I thought that 300 was stylistically interesting, but from any other perspective, nothing but an appeal to the worst kind of over-testosterone'd revisionism. Much of this is owed to Frank Miller, throwing his own contemporary politics back a couple thousand years. But not all of it - the movie dialed it up, rather than down.

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300 - by --Pete - 11-30-2009, 06:15 AM
RE: 300 - by --Pete - 07-10-2010, 01:26 AM
300 - by LennyLen - 11-30-2009, 06:22 AM
300 - by --Pete - 11-30-2009, 07:30 AM
300 - by Jester - 11-30-2009, 12:01 PM
300 - by Crusader - 11-30-2009, 01:08 PM
300 - by kandrathe - 11-30-2009, 02:13 PM
300 - by Tal - 11-30-2009, 04:20 PM
300 - by --Pete - 11-30-2009, 06:31 PM
300 - by Chesspiece_face - 11-30-2009, 06:51 PM
300 - by --Pete - 11-30-2009, 07:33 PM
300 - by LavCat - 11-30-2009, 08:22 PM
300 - by Jester - 11-30-2009, 09:01 PM
300 - by Tal - 11-30-2009, 09:05 PM
300 - by --Pete - 11-30-2009, 09:17 PM
300 - by vor_lord - 11-30-2009, 11:11 PM
300 - by Jester - 11-30-2009, 11:24 PM
300 - by LavCat - 12-01-2009, 03:19 AM
RE: 300 - by --Pete - 07-18-2010, 07:17 PM
RE: 300 - by LavCat - 07-18-2010, 07:24 PM
RE: 300 - by --Pete - 07-18-2010, 10:53 PM
300 - by DeeBye - 12-01-2009, 04:29 AM
300 - by --Pete - 12-01-2009, 04:58 AM
300 - by --Pete - 12-01-2009, 05:03 AM
300 - by Crusader - 12-01-2009, 10:38 AM
300 - by kandrathe - 12-01-2009, 10:45 AM
300 - by Jester - 12-01-2009, 12:58 PM
300 - by Lissa - 12-01-2009, 02:46 PM
300 - by Lissa - 12-01-2009, 02:49 PM
300 - by kandrathe - 12-01-2009, 02:54 PM
300 - by Ashock - 12-02-2009, 07:13 PM
300 - by Ashock - 12-02-2009, 07:26 PM
300 - by DeeBye - 12-03-2009, 04:57 AM
300 - by --Pete - 12-12-2009, 09:46 PM
300 - by Jim - 12-14-2009, 07:10 PM
300 - by shoju - 12-14-2009, 08:28 PM
300 - by --Pete - 12-14-2009, 09:56 PM
300 - by Frag - 12-14-2009, 10:12 PM
300 - by --Pete - 12-14-2009, 10:34 PM
300 - by kandrathe - 12-15-2009, 01:21 AM
300 - by Vandiablo - 12-15-2009, 02:51 AM
300 - by Vandiablo - 12-15-2009, 03:04 AM
300 - by DeeBye - 12-15-2009, 03:55 AM
300 - by kandrathe - 12-15-2009, 04:31 AM
300 - by Jim - 12-15-2009, 06:46 AM
300 - by --Pete - 12-15-2009, 07:02 AM
300 - by kandrathe - 12-15-2009, 07:26 AM
300 - by Chesspiece_face - 12-15-2009, 07:14 PM
On rising from the dead - by --Pete - 07-09-2010, 01:30 AM
RE: On rising from the dead - by Chesspiece_face - 07-09-2010, 02:23 AM
RE: On rising from the dead - by DeeBye - 07-09-2010, 03:29 AM
300 - by --Pete - 12-15-2009, 08:12 PM
300 - by vor_lord - 12-15-2009, 10:27 PM
300 - by Jim - 12-15-2009, 10:28 PM
300 - by Taem - 12-16-2009, 01:08 AM
300 - by Jim - 12-18-2009, 02:35 AM
300 - by --Pete - 12-28-2009, 06:50 PM
300 - by [wcip]Angel - 01-04-2010, 09:31 AM

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