Re: 300. History? Heck No. But Glorantha? Sure!

David Cake wrote:
> At 7:21 PM -0700 14/3/07, Roderick and Ellen Robertson wrote:
> >Just got back from the theatre, where I watched "300" with much
enjoyment.
> >
> >Lots of people are up in arms about "travesty of history" and other
> >nonsense - but it never was intended to be a Historical depiction
of the
> >Spartan stand at Thermopylae; rather it is a movie based on a
comic book
> >(sorry, Graphic Novel) based on another movie, based somewhat
tenuously on
> >history. (And yet it still gets more right than "King Arthur"...)
>
> This comes across a bit as 'of course its rubbish, its based
> on a comic', which isn't an argument I have a lot of sympathy for.
> A different argument that I have seen made in defence of its
> dodgy history is to note that its told by an unreliable narrator,
who
> is retelling it to spartan troops.

I have seen the trailes for it here in the UK, it looks a bit silly. I might go and see it to get some ideas.             Received on Thu 15 Mar 2007 - 04:20:45 EET