Conservatist propaganda movie?  | |  On a forum I belong to someone made a comment about how 300 was a conservative propaganda movie. They said that the spartans represented our troops in Iraq, that it depicted the army of xerxes as a "black army of heathens" and drew several other parallels between modern life in a similar way. The comment was political and was deleted by a mod, but I think they made an interesting point. I myself didn't see what they were saying as true I think that it would make an interesting discussion....
So discuss!
Dan
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| | | | | | | | 1.  egdcltd (420) | 3 months ago |  I think they were reading too much into it. 300 was based on an actual event. Okay, it wasn't totally true to the accepted event, probably because it went through a graphic novel first.
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| irdsm1 (220) | 3 months ago | Yeah, I agree with you. They were definitely taking it a little too far. However while it was an actual event the way the movie depicted it could draw some interesting parallels with an IRL propaganda movie.
At any rate I thought it sounded like an interesting discussion;p Thanks for the response.
Dan | |
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 thelastwolf113 (1072) | 3 months ago |  Yep, it was based on actual events, so unless the Spartans had a prophetic vision complete with a war with Xerxes just so it could parallel US/Iraq at this moment, I'd laugh it off.
History repeats. That's just the way of it, you could draw the same parallels with almost every war in history.
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| thelastwolf113 (1072) | 3 months ago | PS: People have a habit of seeing what they WANT to see. | |
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