300: Ma allora, Frank Miller e' fascista o no? |
"Based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel about the 300 Spartans who held back a million Persian soldiers at a narrow pass during the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., Director Zack Snyder’s 300 has little to do with history and everything to do with a modern disposition towards militarism now embraced by far too many Americans. As you might imagine, 300 depicts the Spartans as gallant heroes, warriors who gave their all in the defense of the world’s first democracy - obviously the audience is meant to identify with the soldiers of Sparta. But the danger in such a simplistic reading of history is that Sparta, far from being a society worthy of emulation, was above all else a militaristic state..." Full article: Artforachange.
"You'd have to be mighty dense not to see 300 as an exemplary example of fascist aesthetics. The grandiosity, the worship of combat, the worship of death in combat, the horror of putatively aberrant sexuality, and so much more..." Full article: Premiere.
"“Is George Bush Leonidas or Xerxes?” one of them asked. The questioner, by Mr. Snyder’s recollection, insisted that Mr. Bush was Xerxes, the Persian emperor who led his force against Greek’s city states in 480 B.C., unleashing an army on a small country guarded by fanatical guerilla fighters so he could finish a job his father had left undone. More likely, another reporter chimed in, Mr. Bush was Leonidas, the Spartan king who would defend freedom at any cost..." Full article: NewYorkTimes.
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