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Article ToolsI saw 300 today and the short review would be "don't".
The battle scenes are well choreographed but the cartoon-like violence becomes repetitive when you have seen the fifteenth beheading. I found myself murmuring, "I've had worse than this, this is just a flesh wound." which seemed to send my daughter into fits of laughter.
The dialogue is forced and false. It is a bit of an insult to the Greeks who invented rhetoric to make them sound like neocon yahoos.
And Xerxes was a bit of a stereotype I think. The big bad black guy with an army of rhinos, giants and elephants.
And it is just the film to get Bush baby dropping 300 hundred troops into Iran just to see if it works.
No it was not history. To be fair, historical drama seldom is. Shakespeare (for example) certainly isn't. Having said which this certainly ain't Shakespeare!
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Movie analysis: Race, sex and eugenics in the movie 300
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by M.R. Caffery
Going to see "300" was an interesting experience and got me all pumped full of questions afterwards. Some might say that
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I know that this is rather an old issue by now, though I have just stumbled across the article now regarding '300' and it's
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This is not a simple topic to write about at any time, but with a film such as 300, which is bigoted on so many levels it
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I saw '300' in theatres and I was quite amazed by it. It had an effective plot with action and romance and gore all mixed
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I saw 300 today and the short review would be "don't".
The battle scenes are well choreographed but the cartoon-like violence
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