300: Rise Of An Empire
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 5:52 pm
i thnk the whole movie is in slow motion
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Slo-mo bloodletting and I'm thereSpartan wrote:Fuck yeah!
thanks for the reminder of this show.Tommy Bunz wrote:
took me forever to find this scene but internets did not fail
Comedy Quaddafi wrote:So there's good tits in the movie and it's bad/not bad.
How the hell did the movie contain parallels to the war in Iraq?Comedy Quaddafi wrote:So there's good tits in the movie and it's bad/not bad.
Does this one also contain manipulative parallels to the war in Iraq which Icesickle warned us about upon the release of the original?
Looking at larger publications, there's a world famous women's magazine called The Guardian where you can read about Frank Miller's Crypto Fascism: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011 ... od-fascism300: RACIST WAR PROPAGANDA WITH SEPTIC TIMING
The film 300, directed by Zack Snyder, based on a Frank Miller graphic novel of the same name, is just what you would expect from the heavily freighted right-wing filmic propaganda of the post-9/11 period: the Greeks, from which our own putative democracies are descended, must fight to the death against a vast but incompetent army of Persians (those hordes of the Middle East), who are considered here unworthy of characterisation – in fact, every character in the film is unworthy of characterisation – and the noble Spartans (the Greeks in question) achieve heroism despite their glorious deaths on the field at Thermopylae, by virtue of the moral superiority of their belief system and their unmatched courage. Ruthless enemy! From the Middle East! Heroic, rugged individualists! A big, sentimental score! Lots and lots of blue-screen! Endless amounts of body parts spewing theatrical blood!
It's a barely watchable film, but what from Hollywood these days is not similarly unwatchable, when so many high-profile releases are based on a medium, the comic book, made expressly to engage the attentions of pre- and just post-pubescent boys. At least comic books themselves are so politically dim-witted, so pie-in-the-sky idealistic as to be hard to take seriously. But in the films of this era, the Marvel and DC era of Hollywood, even when the work is not self-evidently shilling for large corporations (with product placement) or militating for a libertarian and oligarchical political status quo (which makes a fine environment for large, multinational corporations), the work is doing nothing at all to oppose these things.
They compare this to the Iraq war and say the Greeks are like the US army or something, yet it was the Persians who invaded a foreign country with a huge army of 100000s soldiers, while the vastly outnumbered Greeks were simply defending their homeland.Comedy Quaddafi wrote:If you google you'll find a bunch of blogs and magazines who wrote about that.
http://artthreat.net/2007/10/300-racist-war-propaganda/
Looking at larger publications, there's a world famous women's magazine called The Guardian where you can read about Frank Miller's Crypto Fascism: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011 ... od-fascism300: RACIST WAR PROPAGANDA WITH SEPTIC TIMING
The film 300, directed by Zack Snyder, based on a Frank Miller graphic novel of the same name, is just what you would expect from the heavily freighted right-wing filmic propaganda of the post-9/11 period: the Greeks, from which our own putative democracies are descended, must fight to the death against a vast but incompetent army of Persians (those hordes of the Middle East), who are considered here unworthy of characterisation – in fact, every character in the film is unworthy of characterisation – and the noble Spartans (the Greeks in question) achieve heroism despite their glorious deaths on the field at Thermopylae, by virtue of the moral superiority of their belief system and their unmatched courage. Ruthless enemy! From the Middle East! Heroic, rugged individualists! A big, sentimental score! Lots and lots of blue-screen! Endless amounts of body parts spewing theatrical blood!
It's a barely watchable film, but what from Hollywood these days is not similarly unwatchable, when so many high-profile releases are based on a medium, the comic book, made expressly to engage the attentions of pre- and just post-pubescent boys. At least comic books themselves are so politically dim-witted, so pie-in-the-sky idealistic as to be hard to take seriously. But in the films of this era, the Marvel and DC era of Hollywood, even when the work is not self-evidently shilling for large corporations (with product placement) or militating for a libertarian and oligarchical political status quo (which makes a fine environment for large, multinational corporations), the work is doing nothing at all to oppose these things.
Or what about the expensive and aesthetically pretentious Gladiator (2000), which I still contend is an allegory about George W Bush's candidacy for president