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In Reply to: Re: Analog Scott posted by Analog Scott on January 9, 2007 at 18:20:19:
Actually I have no problem with the "comic book" genre per se. And I actually like some of the stylized look of "300" though I think its overdone. Its Miller's transforming an important historical event into a vehicle for fantasy, e.g., war rhinos, monsters, etc. that I object to. What if in "Pvt. Ryan", Tom Hanks had done double back-flips over German war rhinos ridden by leather-clad blue orges? Geez, we're drowning in fantasy movies.Fantasy is a valid genre, but I strongly believe the boundary between it and reality, and that includes history must be plain and well-defined. Certainly license to make dull things more interesting is OK, but not to the point where it puts the factual story into question. If the Persian rhinos are fantasy, maybe that Greek tenacity is hype too.
Thermopylae may have happened almost 2600 years ago, but it was fully as important to Western history as D-Day (if not more so) and deserves to be preserved from being "Conanized" and cheapened. The story of the Greeks at Thermopylae is diminished by the "Warcraft" stuff.
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