I have to admit it: I can't wait to see 300, the comic-book/quasi-historical account of the Spartans versus the King Xerxes-led Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae, circa 480 B.C.
And yes, Christianity Today notes, that's the same King Xerxes who took Esther as his queen.
300 raked in a record-breaking $70 million in its first weekend.
Even serious-minded Classical Military scholar Victor Davis Hanson likes the movie for what it is:
"If critics think that 300 reduces and simplifies the meaning of Thermopylae into freedom versus tyranny, they should reread carefully ancient accounts and then blame Herodotus, Plutarch, and Diodorus — who long ago boasted that Greek freedom was on trial against Persian autocracy, free men in superior fashion dying for their liberty, their enslaved enemies being whipped to enslave others."
Iran is upset, however. It's "Cultural and psychological warfare," in Tehran's opinion. I'd like to tell them that Hollywood just ain't that subtle.
When we saw a preview for this movie a while back I said "COOL." EC looked at me with furrowed brow, in complete disbelief.
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