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Originally Posted by JCC
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Originally Posted by (heartofflames)
4. What are your favorite films?
Pan's Labyrinth, Constantine, Silence of the Lambs, some Saw, Hayao Miyazaki films, and 300 only because I'm a classics kid.
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I think gothicusmaximus just killed himself.
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Originally Posted by (heartofflames)
Wait why would I prompt him to kill himself?
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Because the 2007 film "300" is a work of romanticized fiction, created by Frank Miller from his 1998 comic miniseries "300" which in turn he based in part on the 1962 film "The 300 Spartans." While a popular film, "300" has been widely criticized for being historically inaccurate. It would pain many to hear it called a classic.
I was never much interested in the comic, but read up on this before seeing the film and read a couple of decent essays on it. This time I went to Wikipedia for the quick source.
If you seek the classic, more accurate rendering of the Greek-Persian wars, read "The Histories of Herodotus", written between 450 and 420 BC. If you want a modern historical accounting of the Battle at Thermopylae (and opinions vary, so others here might have a better recommendation), I hear good things about "Thermopylae 480 BC: Last stand of the 300" by Nic Fields. But almost anything is going to be more historically accurate than the popular but cartoonish "300".
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