300
Movie review
The Crazed American is a nut for movies (less of a nut now, ever since I stopped working for a video store chain that rhymes with Mocktuster)
300 is excellent, escapist fantasy, grounded in reality. Well acted. Gerard Butler and Lena Hadley were excellent. The relationship between King Leonidas and Queen Gorgo was the foundation of the film.
I’m sure historians with no sense of wonder will bitch and moan about the accuracy of the film.
As others have said, and I will reiterate –
THIS FILM IS BASED ON A GRAPHIC NOVEL (really long comic book) BASED ON A 1962 MOVIE, THE 300 SPARTANS.
The film took liberty with history, true – but in the end, the heroic and savage Spartans were just as dead as they were at the end of the battle of the Hot Gates. The Persians were just as “victorious”, and the Greek states had time to raise an effective ground army and Navy to drive the Persians out of Greece.
Attention snooty historians: You couldn’t get your students to remember a place called Thermopylae. Now people understand what (for the most part – minus the naval wizardry of the Athenian Thmistocles) happened on the ground there. “Few stood against many.”
I dug the flick greatly. Kudos to the cast and crew.
This is not a movie for children. 15-16 year olds that are thinking about a military career – yes. They should see it.
Younger than that – parents who take kids that young should be slapped in the head.
Overall, politically, I think it says interesting things about the American Public.
I have drawn interesting conclusions. I think Americans still like to win, and still like to see nobility in the face of adversity. So there…
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