Do you think there is a political connotation to "300" or is it simply a depiction of a battle in 480 BC?

Question

Criticisms and objections have arisen regarding this movie. Certain parties allege that it is "cultural and psychological warfare." That it doesn't depict certain individuals and groups of people in a good light.

Can't there be any movies that just tell a story as it is: plain and simple? Or will people always interpret them as derogatory or negative toward certain individuals?

Answer 1

Well as you say, it's just a movie.

The entire film is completely inaccurate, the only truth is that the Spartans did hold off the Persian army at Thermopylae in 480 BC, everything else is just fiction.

Oh, to be sure, the names are right, but not much else.

The Persians weren't Muslim, so why Iran cares, God only knows.

Most of the Spartan army was in fact Homosexual, but the American public would not be able to handle that truth.

The Spartans were not alone, they had approx. 2000 other Greek soldiers with them (the film did touch on this but just briefly)

There were no Rhinos or Elephants, no disfigured immortals or hunchbacks.

Finally, Xerxes was anything but an emasculated male with a gay sensibility.

All in all the film is simply meant to entertain, personally, as a gay man, I actually enjoyed it......for what it was, a movie.....not a history lesson.

Everyone should just calm down.