83210, you're insane Posted by 40thStreetBlack, Wed Mar-14-07 05:10 PM
>I'm going to go ahead and concede everything else, because >this is what is truly key to this discussion. > >>yes, but Xerxes was not a nine foot tall transvestite, the >>Persian army were not mutated freaks with claws and fangs, >and >>the Spartans were not fighting to defend "a new age of >>freedom", as was portrayed in the movie. > >Xerxes WAS a nine foot tall tranvestite, the Persian army WERE >mutated freaks with claws and fangs, and the Spartans WERE >fighting to defend "a new age of freedom", as was portrayed by >Dilios in the GRAPHIC NOVEL that is loosely based on a >historical event.
you were talking about history there, not the graphic novel.
>Now let's assume people went into the movie thinking it was a >historically accurate portrayal of the famous battle. After >seeing the large menacing wolf with glowing eyes, the mutated >elders of Sparta, the anatomically perfect Spartans, the >hunchback Ephialtes, blob man with blades for arms, a chained >up giant, charging Rhinos, the Immortals with perfectly >matching shiny new masks and outfits, a 9 foot tall feminine >Xerxes with a moving stage, countless 'bombs', etc... that >people walked out of the theater with a new opinion on what >Persians must look like? Immediately thought, USA is so much >better than those Iranians and their mutant freak friends!!! >and now people will tell their grandchildren that this is the >history of the Persian Empire? > >Really?
who the fuck said anything about that?
>Really? > >Are we assuming the world is absolutely mentally challenged at >this point?
no, but at this point I'd have to assume you are.
>Are we going to start banning movies that shed a bad light on >any historical figures? Everyone will be the good guys? No >more ability to be creative? If a story consists of any >historical context, it can only be a 100% accurate >documentary? > >Where do we draw the line?
uh, look at my avi. I liked the movie. that doesn't change the facts of the matter though.
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