March 27, 2007

300!

I watched 300 last night!!! and I didnt get angree at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! because it has nothing to say.
I just feel sorry for the director who could go to Iran once and visit percepolice and check the sculptures and find out some clues about the clothing and appearance of ancient persians.
The funny part was Xerxes (Khashaayar shaah) which was shown a very tall man,2.5 m!!! tall, and gay wearing nothing but gold and even gold rings in his nose and chicks!!!!
And I beleive that the movie has some logical problem also.The persian army including immortals were not able to defeat the spartans and they were killed by them easily but suddenlt at the ending part the spartans vanished in 10 min.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyway,
Here I put some comments I got today:

The film's director Zack Snyder states that "The events are 90 percent accurate. It's just in the visualization that it's crazy... I've shown this movie to world-class historians who have said it's amazing. They can't believe it's as accurate as it is." He continues that the film is "an opera, not a documentary". Snyder describes the film's narrator, Dilios, as "a guy who knows how not to wreck a good story with truth."
However, Touraj Daryaee, associate professor of Ancient History at California State University, Fullerton, criticizes the central theme of the movie, that of "free" and "democracy loving" Spartans against "slave" Persians. Daryaee states that the Achaemenid (Persian) empire hired and paid people regardless of their sex or ethnicity, whereas in fifth-century Greece "less than 14%" of the population participated in democratic government, and "nearly 37%" of the population were slaves. He further states that Sparta "was a military monarchy, not a democracy," and adds that Sparta collectively owned an entire enslaved population.
Prior to the release of 300, Warner Brothers expressed concerns about the political aspects of the film's theme. Snyder relates that "There was a huge sensitivity about East versus West with the studio." Media speculation about a possible parallel between the Greco-Persian conflict and current events began in an interview with Snyder that was conducted before the Berlin Film Festival. The interviewer remarked that "everyone is sure to be translating this [film] into contemporary politics." Snyder replied that, while he was aware that people would read the film through the lens of contemporary events, no parallels between the film and the contemporary world were intended.

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