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And I enjoyed it very much.
Concerning the stuff I said before...
The shaved chests are a bit weird. And part way through the "all boys together" thing does come out... and I'm not talking about Xerses!!!
At the start the Persians arrive with that voice over and I can't see how it isn't construed as being about Islam (or even "black") overrunning the motherland... BUT... after we have been to the mountain top and seen the rulers of Sparta, I would change the BIG symbolism to how the purity of the army protects America (Please it was my symbol!!)... OK, democracy despite the ugliness and corruption of the government.
Well that's how I see it anyway.
I loved the way it cut back and forth from the more treated scenes to more realistic with that effect that makes it look like a graphic novel (maybe someone can say briefly how its done) to a very natural look.
The Persian navy during the storm looked just like a print... it reminded me of Durer for no particular reason.
The Spartan women... OK, the Queen was very natural and not bosomly pumped up and all the better for it!
The women at Xerses'... harem(?) were looking pumped up and all the better for it! Who was the black woman with the big 'fro and the nipple chains and where can I get her phone number????
Xerses himself was wonderfully... hey who said no one thought of the homo-erotic thing during this film??!!??
He was a great creation. As were the Persian (OK I know they come... supposedly... from all over Asia)warriors, even the "ninjas".
The Rhino, again, reminded me of Durer's woodcut.
Great use of the grotesques too.
All in all I really enjoyed it.
Good work on this, Scott, but I'll stand by my comments at the top of this!
Follow Ups:
They removed body hair via tweezers, pumice stone, or razors, so the hairless chest is actually an accurate depiction.
how wide a net your casting, over how much of history?
You must have some documentation?
... pile of sweeping...
That clears that one up!
But did they only clear the chests?
I noticed a distinctly hairy hand or two!
nt
I understand that especially in Sparta, where women enjoyed more rights than in most countries/kingdoms, men and women performed athletics naked.
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"(Please it was my symbol!!)..." If I am reading this right you are owning your interpretation rather than projecting it on the film makers. I have no problem with that. people are free to read what they want into things. But know this, the things you are interpreting as symbolic of today's politics really did happen. I don't think the real Leonidas, Xerxes, Spartans or Persians ever thought their battle would be symbolic of anything 2500 years in their future. The Spartans were in spirit portrayed with brutal accuracy. The movie was about that event and the film makers never intended it to be symbolic of anything else other than the universal truth of the nature of self sacrifice."Xerses himself was wonderfully... hey who said no one thought of the homo-erotic thing during this film??!!??"
I siad no one I know of thought of Xerxes being gay while shooting this film. We always meant to portray him as an androginous/omni-sexual narcissist. As for the eroticism we were thinking that it was, in this case, far more equaly distributed between male eye candy and female eye candy. So other than the kissing concubines and a few transvestites in Xerxes tent the eroticism was mostly heterosexual. Of course lesbians were free to be aroused by Lena Heady or the Oracle or the Persian concubines and gay men were free to be impressed by the Spartans. But I would say it was far more an equal opportunity erotic movie than a homo-erotic movie.
Glad you enjoyed it.
were a warrior culture wherein soldiers were expected sexually to bond with their mates. It was thought a soldier would fight more fiercely to protect his lover than just a comrade.
Xerxes' costume was extraordinary.
He must have thought himself a god to appear in that get up in front of an army whom I might have suspected would fall about laughing!
But when it comes down to it this is a movie not a historical dissertation.
And as such it was a lot of fun.
I actually think I would like to see it again in a little while to catch the bits I missed first time round.
I did really love the graphical presentation.
You might know, was the rhino based on the Durer woodcut?
…cheap Tuesday at the flics in Brisbane :-) Guess where I was too.I have to admit that my visual expectations were based on Sin City which I thought was very fine and this did not grab me visually to the same extent for some reason. Despite the limited colour palette, at least the film was more colourful and less black and white than the polemical narration.
Enjoyable but not great in my view.
David Aiken
I don't know about cheap, I have a pass that gets me $8.50 tickets for all shows at the Myer (where I was at the 11.30AM) and the Regent.
Dave,Tuesday is the cheap day at Sunnybank AMC. I think it was $7.50 a ticket all day to any movie. I went to the 12.10 pm sitting.
David
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