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83063, haha - yeah it's racist, xenophobic & homophobic as hell
Posted by 40thStreetBlack, Sat Mar-10-07 03:02 PM
shit was still dope though.

>PLEASE do not fall for this okeydoke.
>this has all the trimmings and trappings of typical
>bamboozlement.
>
>just as Griffith was lauded in 1917 for making a technical
>masterpiece with "birth of a nation", the seminal race
>film....
>
>snyder has served up a delicious slice of 'white is right',
>buried under the latest technical wizardry.

Lord of the Rings was almost as bad.


>how could you not laugh out loud at xerxes...played by the
>same latin actor who acts as Paolo on LOST...but painted in
>BROWNFACE

I was laughing too hard at his painted eyebrows & eyeliner.


>the persian army had bajillions of white slaves,

they did?


>and you ain't
>seeing nary a damn white person in that army.

the Persian archers looked kinda white.


>only black people who fade into the shadows with only their
>eyes and teeth glowing white.

the Immortals didn't look African, shit they didn't even look human.


>i am not joking. it could have only been more perfect if the
>persian king was eating a chicken wing and watermelon on his
>throne.

LOL


>"fighting against the mysticism and tyranny of the east"...
>
>Get the fuck out of here with this drum-beating bull sh**

well yeah, but the Greeks did have that general outlook towards the Persian empire. all that stuff was definitely blown out of proportion in the movie though.