A question about 300 the movie,the idea and the symbol..read this and answer please.?

Question

Do you think persian kings told their people" we, the greatest superpower in the world, will invade Sparta to control all of the trade in the Mediterranean because we are a greedy bunch and because we can, and because our leader is a mad idiot who wants to continue the mad war of his bloody father"?
Or do you think they said " Our God leader who receives direct divine inspiration from heaven will lead us in a winning and just war against the evil and barbaric Spartans. We are the good, and the Spartans are the bad and if you do not believe that you are an unpatriotic filth"

Do you think a Persian citizen then could ever believe that he actually belongs to the a greedy super power? Do you think he/she would ever consider that maybe the Spartans, their religion, their customs and their values aren't as bad as everybody says? That maybe their stand against a super power despite their weakness makes them some form of heroes?!!
Doesn't the past shed light on the present?

Answer 1

if you mean film. spartans are more idiots. when leonid first time killing persian diplomat he turns and look to his wife and when she answers only then he hits him. really spartans were like fashists they killed any child who wasnt so perfect as they wanted and what about that times. if king is winning everyone will follow him like Alexander.

Answer 2

Sure. If you're trying to use the movie 300 as an analogy for what's going on in Iraq, you can make those similarities, but the differences are more vast, because...

In 300 Persia just wanted Sparta to recognize them as the world leader, where America doesn't care if Iraq thinks of us as a world leader. We just want democracy there, so there will be no more Saddam Husseins to worry about in 20 or 30 years. I don't believe Persia thought of Sparta as a terrorist group, because as depicted in the movie, the Spartans were a seemingly higher society then the Persians.
In the movie, Sparta was eventually wiped out, where in the Iraqi war, we are there FOR the people of Iraq and don't want to extinguish their way of life.

I believe the movie had some serious "current event" connotations to it, but how you interpret them can vary considereably. Depends on your point of view.

Answer 3

Errr, sorry man, but it was a movie based on a comic book interpretation of a historical event. Except for King Leonidas' answer of "Come and get them!" to the Persians demand that they lay down their arms, most of the dialogue in the movie was made up by Frank Miller. So unless you think Frank Miller is a Psychic who can foretell of a war in the middle east with the U.S. smack in the middle of it years after he writes a graphic novel about Spartans, then i say you're taking this movie way too seriously. It's just a graphic novel made into a movie. What phantoms you see is your own not the artist's.