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In Reply to: RE: "They got the name 300 by... posted by clarkjohnsen on June 09, 2007 at 11:51:49
I'm bummed to hear they screwed it up as much as they did.
The battle at Thermopylae is fantastic enough when told historically correct . It eludes me why they made a comic book out of it.
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Can you make a valuable novel out of the story? You'd probably say yes. How about a series of paintings? An opera? A movie? Well, yes once again if they are done well.
Why not a comic book? It can be regarded as a series of pictures and a text. Both pictures and text can be artistically valuable so why can't the combination be so as well?
Is Frank Miller's graphic novel artistically valuable? Most definitely for some, and that's all that can be said for any art work. There isn't a single work of art that everyone likes.
Are there any subjects that should be reserved for some forms of art but not for others? Should a particular historical story be reserved for history books and not portrayed in artistic works? Should a particular story be reserved for some art forms and not others?
There's nothing wrong with making a comic book out of the story of Thermopylae. The important question is whether or not it's done well. In my view it isn't bad. It's not great but it's not bad. You can say that about most art works. Only a few are really great, only a few are really bad. The majority fall in the middle. I didn't think the movie was on the bad side of the middle. I haven't read the Miller book.
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Plus, they incorporated mythology such as the cretins living on the mountain top.
It was great entertainment.
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Unless you know of another location known as "The Hot Gates." Cretins living on the mountain top? Must have missed that. there was no attempt to avoid the word "Thermopylae." There was no deliberate attempt to be ambiguous about what historical event was being portrayed. If it isn't in there it was only becuase "The Hot Gates" sounded cooler.
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What exactly is "historically correct?" Why do movies about historical events have to be documentaries? Should all the stories of King Arthur be tossed out for historical inaccuracies?
I'd say this form was a more marketable way to sell the movie than one of those boring old historically accurate productions like....like... wait i know i can think of a historically accurate feature film that isn't a documentary.. ummm.. Ohh.. aaahhh.. Spartacus? El Cid? Cleopatra? noo.. i don't know maybe i missed it.
Your speculation is utterly unneeded. Frank Miller wrote a graphic novel inspired by his childhood experience of watching 300 Spartans. The producers made the movie because they thought the *graphic novel* was a great work.
fellas, it's only a film (even if one of you had much to do with production).
I wish I knew if it were any less cynical, joyless, and one-dimensional than "Sin City." I might see it if it were.
you might want to take your own advise, relax.
... take a deep breath and let's do some healthy asylum calisthenics to reduce tensions!
Either that or I will send in the official anti-riot squad...
... and they know how to use those knee pads!
How unlikely it is that I am the voice of reason is something that should make all parties stop to laugh!!
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his wood-walled Ivy League library in "New England."
At that point, a reasonable guy would say you both take each other and one another a bit seriously...
but I can't take him seriously.
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