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Re: Some of my favorite review quotes were...

>I didn't really think it was all that homo-erotic but your statement "... but show a little male flesh and it's homoerotic" is - considering the fetishization of the Spartans' maleness and their look and costumes - a bit disingenuous.

How on earth is it disingenuous? i don't see them as "fetishized." Funny I never heard anyone say that about the actual artwork by the Greeks themselves that inspired their look in the film. Why do you suppose that is?

>The idea that the film-makers dressed them like they did

As per frank Miller's designs.

> (and had them get buffed up like they did)


As one would find in just about any comic book.


> without having a sense of that potential is a little silly to me.


One thing we didn't do was worry about every weird interpretation audiences might have. If film makers worry about political correctness to that degree they ultimately put out plain vanilla forgetable films.

>And, intentional or not Xerxes did come across like a big (literally and figuratively) queen. I don't know how anyone involved with the film wouldn't have noticed that immediately.


I guess we just weren't carrying the same baggage us those who saw Xerxes as gay. I mean this is a movie that has been called gay and facist in the same sentence. Go figure.


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