>in GD. copy/paste b/c that thread won't stay up long:
>
>Not to give any plot spoilers, but very early on they state
>that the enemy is a dark beast. This is voice-over on the shot
>when the messenger is riding into town. draw your own
>conclusions there.

yeah I hadn't even thought about that really, they said it like that? I'll try to catch that if/when I see it again.


>But overall, my beef was, in a larger systemic sense, with
>Hollywood. Its funny how Hollywood will portray people from
>history, in parts of the world that were inhabited by
>non-white/non-eurpoeans, as dark skinned when it suits a
>particular purpose of the film (villainy), but light-skinned
>or caucasian when there is a heroic or noble element
>(Elizabeth Taylor playing Cleopatra; no black Egyptians in 5th
>element, few in Stargate, almost white-looking actors in
>Scorpion King, etc.) I saw a bio / story on the History
>Channel about Hannibal, and they had him cast as a caucasian.
>
>There are a ton more examples, I've been studying this for a
>minute.


Well, in The Mummy Imhotep was white (which is a whole other issue, but he was the villian in the movie), Stargate had a bunch of dark skinned folks, Scorpion King too. I mean yeah in 300 it was ridiculous and you do have a basic point here, but I think you are reaching a bit with the generalizations.

And btw, Cleopatra *was* white, and Hannibal wasn't black.


>My other beef was the historical issue surrounding the idea of
>Sparta fighting for a unified Greece. I'm not very familiar
>with the hellenistic timeline but I thought the idea &
>unification of greece didn't come until later, and that the
>city-states used to fight each other quite often. so that
>whole thing I thought was odd. I gotta research that part more
>though.

they didn't say they were fighting for a unified greece, they said they were fighting to defend the ideal of freedom - which is just as ahistorical.