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...City”-styled cinematic extravaganza, opens in theaters across the world. For fans who stood shivering in lines last night to catch a midnight showing, “300” is a worthy piece of modern art, blending Greek history and shed Persian blood. Some would argue it is little more than another desperate Hollywood attempt to prostitute for the mass media any meaning history has. But regardless of where you personally stand, the film’s contemporary portrayal of bygone epics reveals more about our times’ cultural and ideological biases than about the ancients?...
...Herodotus cites the Persian despot in the midst of the battle, a line that appears also in the highly stylized screen version: “I have so many archers that their arrows will blot...
...could be wrong—perhaps the Spartans did love freedom. Just as much as we do. After all, isn’t ours a time of war on Persian terror, of diabolic foreigners threatening our precious freedoms? Next time you read or watch history, be ready to be told more than about yesterday. Today always seeps through...
...news with Angelina last night. It becomes pop culture dressing itself up as a movie.”According to Snyder, Butler’s enthusiasm also helped him get cast as Leonidas, the Spartan king who leads a band of 300 men to fight a Persian force of a million. When Butler and Snyder first met in a coffee shop on Los Angeles’s Ventura Boulevard to discuss the script, Butler came with his character already prepared.“When he showed up, he stomped around the coffee shop and he was acting like Leonidas...
...Bush remains Commander in Chief, however, and Cheney his faithful lieutenant, the Vice President's power will flow through the Oval Office. Cheney remains the Administration's point man in its war of words with Iran and helped persuade the President to send an extra carrier group to the Persian Gulf last month. He remains a force in White House debates about the conduct of the war, and though he has been forced to retreat in some areas, he has not walked away from the fight. He remains Bush's best messenger when delivering the tough love that Washington spoons...