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83212, RE: you're insane
Posted by 40thStreetBlack, Fri Mar-16-07 02:48 PM
>Clearly, your ability to read between the lines and basic
>comprehension skills are falling a little short today.

clearly you're a fucking moron and I'm wasting my time here.

>
>>you were talking about history there, not the graphic novel.
>
>Yes, I asked if those events happened in history. I didn't ask
>about what the empire consisted of, or a historical account of
>Xerxes characteristics. You came back with the
>Xerxes/tranvestite remark out of nowhere. You BROUGHT in the
>graphic novel in responding to my questions.

this entire debate is about how the film PORTRAYS those events, not whether the basic events happened in history or not.


>I chose my words carefully when speaking of the historical
>context. Why? Because that is what the movie is based on - the
>EVENTS. This isn't a character piece about Leonidas, Xerxes,
>the Spartans, or the Persian Empire.
>
>Again, it is HISTORICAL FANTASY. Real names, real events, and
>real locations intertwined with fantasy elements to create a
>fictional story.

see above.

>>who the fuck said anything about that?
>
>The point was people are getting "offended" about a fantasy
>movie because they say it shows them in a bad light. They
>think it is propaganda from the US, and/or that they are being
>labeled as evil and mutants.

that doesn't change the fact of the matter about what I said.


>that doesn't change the
>>facts of the matter though.
>
>What are THE facts of the matter though?

that you're wrong.