Excellent Film

Rating: 10/10 (12 March 2007)

I have been waiting for an Epic from ancient history that was true to form for the longest time. The Movie "Troy" changed the story of the Iliad and made it useless for teaching (eg., Agamemnon has to get home to his wife to be murdered and set up the cycles for many tragedies). How could Wolfgang Peterson change a text that was the chief piece of Western literature for 1000 years? "Alexander" was just a mess, and showed a tortured confused soul, rather than a person the ancient world admired.
The 300 at least gave me a story that I recognized. It is in line with Herodotus and with Stephen Pressfield's recent wonderful book, "Gates of Fire."
The people who are hung up on the politics are making at least a partial error in transposing todays values on the past. For the Ancients Freedom was not the same as it is for us today. For them the state of freedom was not being a slave, which would have been their condition under Xerxes.
Moen Laube (Come get them).