History is altered all the time. The director and writer never have been exceptional twisting the story producing 300.
Creating a fiction is understandable but mixing it with part of the history to gain momentum for MONEY indeed resembles taking children from their mothers creating some savage worriers, while scratching the back of some elements who are categorized as infamous Axis of Evil.
The world history, according to the Herodotus, Tacitus, and some historians of 17th Century such as Charles de Secondat, although their works do not meet the modern standards of impartiality and objectivity but they attest to the right side of the history when time is right for them to tell.
This movie is a transparent side taking with Spartan eugenics, and laughably side taking with Islamic values that emerged only some 1000 years after battle of Thermopylae.
Aryans (Persians) never was monsters and freaks. There is not evidence that Xerxes was eight feet tall, using body piercing, disfigured. The director mixed up the Islamic era with pre Jesus when had to choose the outfit. The producer and the writer, strongly implied Xerxes is homosexual, his army consists of colored savage men. This resembles frequent targets of Hollywood style comedy, taken back into the Athenian era painting insincere Spartans as Hollywood accustomed to. Hollywood did this to the President of the United States in several times, conducting the same to other nations for MONEY is no exception.
While history attests that Xerxes treated women warriors, as well as Naval personnel, equally with men, noteworthy abuse of history, in this 300, the Persians are turned into monsters. Xerxes ambassador portrayed as ugly person with black skin shocked to see Greeks are simply all too human having a woman in their side in the palace(!!).
There is no mention of treason in the Xerxes fleet who earlier defected to the Persians causing Iranians defeat in the second round of the battle. According to Herodotus, Leonidas led an army of perhaps 7,000 Greeks. These Greeks took turns rotating to the front of the phalanx stationed at Thermopylae, they held the narrow pass for two days. All told, some 4,000 Greeks perished there. In 300 the fighting is not in the hoplite fashion, and the fictions goes beyond imagination creating over 200,000 -2,000,000 warriors in the Xerxes side, not to mention all being work of computerized visual effect. The writer nor the producer neither director logically asked themselves this simple question; Logistic of such population including their horses, transportation not to mention feeding and communication makes the 300 fiction far beyond worthy of seeing in the theatre or renting when hit the video stores.
In Herodotus’ time there were various accounts of what transpired, but we know 700 hoplites remained fighting beside the Spartans, they, too, dying to the last man.
There is no mention, in 300 of the fact that at the same time a vastly outnumbered fleet led by Athenians was holding the Xerxes army in the straits adjacent to Thermopylae. This would wreck 300′s credibility resembling an historic production rather a baseless Fiction that Hollywood accustomed to.
To set the record right we all (Iranians) bound going to this page, leaving some comments speaking to the none Iranians proving the right side of the history.
