basketcase said:
I appologize now that I have seen the movie. I realize that there are huge historical inaccuracies. First, the weaponry was overly stylized and would have been easily broken, second, the movie Spartans were without armor, and third, too much of the fighting took place as individuals, not within the phalanx that the Spartans were famous for. I I was Athenian, I would also be ticked that they ignored the role of the Athenian navy protecting the flanks (but of course, if I was an Athenian, I would have been dead for a couple thousand years)....?
Wow. You noticed a lot, how about the fact that the director cast a bunch of Scotts, and Britt’s as the Spartans. So they were rather white folks. Where as the Greeks are more olive in skin tone. Or the fact that most of the Persians consisted of demon faced monkeys and troll with black skin characters.
Persians of the time were white guys ….they were the origin of the word CAUCASIAN. The word comes from the Caucasus Mountains…Mountainous region in between Black sea and Caspian Seas, an area that was once all Persia. For today’s reference, Iran is also bordered by the Caspian Sea, and most all Iranians consider themselves to be Persian.
The reason that they were called Caucasian is that they were not Arabs….lighter skin color, yada yada. Hence, by the standards of that era, they were “white boys”.
If you ever go to Iran, you would see… a grand mix, but for the most part, skin tones are lighter than our own home-grown Hispanic populations, and certainly a much different “look” than what you’d find in the Sahara and sub-Sahara area regions.
In fact, the Romans considered Persians as WHITE (or that’s how they wrote about them).
While most “Persians” have a lighter skin tone they were not portrayed that way in the movie. Which is the strength of my complain in terms of movie being utterly ignorant of history in every way possible not to mention that all you see at the end is white guys killing Muslims, white guys killing blacks, waxed n’ oiled white guys with ripped abs killing non over groomed white guys.
It was like watching a nudist Chuck Norris movie in some ways a typical white American mentality that white is good, black is bad, yada yada yada….so much provocation, utterly disgusting!
