300 - filmography
Well, at least the title is a bit less confusing than Tuesday!
300 is the graphic-novel-based tale of the battle of Thermopylae, at which 300 Spartans held the mighty Persian army at bay. To my delight, a lot of it was nicely grounded historically - the depiction of the agoge, the Ephors (well, Inever imagined them like that, but still), the fighting in the shade of arrows... I mean, when I say historically accurate, it's not to say that the contemporary historians were telling the whole truth anyway ;)
I have two small complaints:
1) Reference to historians - actually, the discipline of 'history' wasn't invented until Herodotus wrote about the Persian Wars, so that's anachronistic.
2) Reference to boy-loving Athenians - it's Sparta that had institutuionalised homosexual relationsips, not Athens! That was a key part of the agoge.
Anyway, apart from that, thanks to Paul Cartledge, I thought it was historically convincing. It was also terribly pretty and dreamlike, and I don't see why the past shouldn't be like that. I didn't fancy anyone in it though, but did spot people I know from other places, including two Devil's Whore refugees (Dominic West and Michael Fassbender).
Yep, I liked it. But I didn't feel fangirlish towards it like I do with Troy.
300 is the graphic-novel-based tale of the battle of Thermopylae, at which 300 Spartans held the mighty Persian army at bay. To my delight, a lot of it was nicely grounded historically - the depiction of the agoge, the Ephors (well, Inever imagined them like that, but still), the fighting in the shade of arrows... I mean, when I say historically accurate, it's not to say that the contemporary historians were telling the whole truth anyway ;)
I have two small complaints:
1) Reference to historians - actually, the discipline of 'history' wasn't invented until Herodotus wrote about the Persian Wars, so that's anachronistic.
2) Reference to boy-loving Athenians - it's Sparta that had institutuionalised homosexual relationsips, not Athens! That was a key part of the agoge.
Anyway, apart from that, thanks to Paul Cartledge, I thought it was historically convincing. It was also terribly pretty and dreamlike, and I don't see why the past shouldn't be like that. I didn't fancy anyone in it though, but did spot people I know from other places, including two Devil's Whore refugees (Dominic West and Michael Fassbender).
Yep, I liked it. But I didn't feel fangirlish towards it like I do with Troy.