2006-10-18 Sparta vs. Persia

I remember reading 300 by Frank Miller. And now they’re make a movie for it (2007-11-17 Comic → Movie). The comic was visually impressive, but it’s all about macho self-sacrifice and war, so it wasn’t too good intellectually. And it seems that the movie 300 (2007) will not be much better. The trailer is full of pathos.

Reminds me of the comic Sin City by Frank Miller which also resulted in a bad movie. I didn’t read the comic but I don’t think it was much better.

Sin City by Frank Miller

I guess I don’t like the mix of AncientHistory & Fantasy. Or maybe I just take some time to adjust.

AncientHistory

Update*: I reread the comic, and thinking back to the trailer, I suddenly see a political angle to it. After all, the Persians are Iranians, right? And the Spartans fought for freedom and honor – and not for democracy. And they didn’t take prisoners, they just butchered them all. What kind of message does such a movie send? Strange how I think that moving the story from a comic to a movie will change the message significantly.

Then again, I’ve written about the move from book to movie of The Lord of the Rings before, I think. I just can’t find the reference to it anymore. I basically said that a good book has details, sidelines, depths, development, where as a good movie has action, fast-paced dialogues, interesting faces. Thus, either you take the book and make a good movie, pissing off all the people who loved the book, or you make a movie that goes into the same level of details as the book and piss off all the movie goers that did not read the book.

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