With an unhealthy dose of eugenics to boot. Watch it free here, then read this review, then go see it in a theater if you like; but I'm not giving these bastards a penny.
yehhhhh... sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, joe. it's only neoconservative propaganda if you want it to be. You could just as easily say that Dubya is more like Xerxes and that the Spartans are the Islamic Freedom Fighters.
Leave politics outside the theater... it's a pretty good flick.
According to the film’s director, Zack Snyder, after advance screenings, he was taken aside by a reporter representing the international press, who insisted that Xerxes had to be symbolizing George W. Bush. The reporter’s theory was based upon the fact that “300” depicts a great leader taking a large, powerful army into a foreign country and confronting a small local guerrilla force to finish a war he believed his father had left unfinished. Xerxes was the grandson of Cyrus and the son of Darius and like them was king of the Persian Empire.
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it's only neoconservative propaganda if you want it to be. You could just as easily say that Dubya is more like Xerxes and that the Spartans are the Islamic Freedom Fighters.
Leave politics outside the theater... it's a pretty good flick.
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http://ancient-military-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/300
According to the film’s director, Zack Snyder, after advance screenings, he was taken aside by a reporter representing the international press, who insisted that Xerxes had to be symbolizing George W. Bush. The reporter’s theory was based upon the fact that “300” depicts a great leader taking a large, powerful army into a foreign country and confronting a small local guerrilla force to finish a war he believed his father had left unfinished. Xerxes was the grandson of Cyrus and the son of Darius and like them was king of the Persian Empire.
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I saw it, and I had an absolute fucking BLAST. Gorgeous piece of visual artistry.
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