83052, Just because greeks are meditarranean doesn't mean they are the same Posted by TheMindFrame, Fri Mar-09-07 07:36 PM
as the Syrians, Lebanese or Palestinian. I won't even get into the fact that what we now know as Syria, Lebanon and Palestine did not exist in the time the movie takes place.
Just because they are all "mediterranean" (your definition) doesn't make them the same ethnic group. Is a dougla from Trinidad the same ethnic group and or phenotype as a Haitian? Is one more "Caribbean" than the other?
>in posts above i've said the same thing. i don't understand >why the 300 shows a different picture. > >1) greeks being white white (aren't they just as mediterranean >as say...syrian, lebanese, or palestinian? = "brown") and
How about this, how about I watch the movie tonight (got my IMAX tickets already) and I give you my full opinion. Let me reiterate, the point I am trying to make is that it's not a historical fallacy to portray the Persian forces as generally darker and more ethnically diverse than the Spartan forces.
>2) no representation of the caucasian, aryan(iran = aryan in >farsi), dynamic army you mention? not arguing that the >persian army didn't have black people in it....arguing that it >had other people too that are absent in the film, because non >white others easier to vilify.
NOW we are getting somewhere, and again, I will reserve full judgment until I see the movie later on tonight. It struck me as funny watching the trailer and seeing Leonidas talking about "an age of freedom" The reason why Sparta was able to train such an exceptional fighting force is that it relied on slave labor (mostly made up of other greeks) and second-class citizens to keep their city-state running.
>this is all an aside to the characterization of persian >aggression (homosexual, 'mystic', tyranical) with no similar >analysis of greek homoerotic, oracle/many gods, violence. > >
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