Originally Posted by phoenix80

I think it is gonna be a biased and stupid movie against the Persians.

Well, you're from Iran. Don't watch it, then.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/300...r1/medium.html

Meh. Doesnt look like much..

Originally Posted by deerslayer

This actual battle has come up quite a bit in our English class, and I think the film will be worth seeing.

Not if Holywood has anything to do with it.
I am guessing it will be a moralistic pile of crap that will end in Leonidis waking up at the end from a dream sequence.

Sparta wasn't much of a city, little more than a village if memory serves me correct, yet the trailor shows some rather ornate buildings in the background.

Originally Posted by moving0target

Well they were the epitome of evil in that day and age...right?

Nope. They were not. You know nothing about Persians, I guess.

Originally Posted by Fox

Well, you're from Iran. Don't watch it, then.

I won't. It's like watching a Michael Moore's movie bashing Americans as evil or bad. Who cares?

I am going to watch this movie, but only for entertainment not for any correct historical accurate portrayal. I mean it is a movie based on the novel by Frank Miller, and you never see his name mentioned with other scholars on the subject.

stop getting uptight

it's sin city in the past is all

Originally Posted by phoenix80

Nope. They were not. You know nothing about Persians, I guess.

The Persians of the Ancient Times are viewed as evil by the west because we are more closely related to the Greeks than the Persians, much of western society is based on the accomplishments of the Greek city states, especially Athens. It is only natural then that historians in the west would look upon the Greeks as being the "good" guys and the Persians as being the "bad" guys. Same situation as the Germans in WWI being labeled as evil. They fought war the same way as the British, French and Americans yet somehow they were evil and we were the righteous hand of god sent to smack them down. (Did I go a bit overboard on that one?) Since the Greeks and Persians were fighting wars on and off for centuries it is only natural that they should despise each other, and when the Greeks were considered to be the most enlightened of people it should be no surprise that their hatred of the Persians was passed down through the years since their pupils believed everything they said to be an absolute truth.