It's not about secret agendas but everything creative we make has politics behind it, conscious and unconscious, informed by our understanding of the world. We all have biases that might not be obvious to us. Art isn't made in an objective apolitical vacuum with no meaning, even the simplest of fiction.
The complete misunderstanding of where fiction comes is definitely a differing viewpoint. But don't take it so personally, no one is criticizing this movie to hurt you.
But you're the one butthurt about opinions.
Yeah the article itself ain't great. There were some better pieces written in 2007 linked earlier.
Maybe people bring up political agendas in the retelling of this particular event in history because it's one of the cornerstones of the mythology of "Western Civilization." Even Herodotus's interpretation, the most direct account we have, is seen as questionable because of his Greek bias and his propensity to seek moral lessons in history.
Oh yeah... totally understood and I wasn't thinking of you posts here when asking that question. It just seemed odd to me how some posters in here question how others can just see it as an action film.
See, that's how you experience movies. But you're wanting to dictate your view onto others, that because you don't think about a movie while you're watching it, treating it as brainless entertainment, why don't others do as you do.
So negative attitudes about racial minorities and members of lgbtq communities are equal to sharks, aliens, and dogs.
Being aware of the intent of the author and the history of similar adaptations of the same story doesn't preclude enjoying a shitty action flick. I can enjoy 300 for what it is, it's just that what it is is a campy, fascistic portrayal of the battle of White Europe to repel the invading dark skinned foreign hordes for the sake of their patriotism, freedom, democracy, and family. All of which the real Spartans had wildly different ideas of than the modern interpretation.
Yeah minorities, stop getting offended at negative portrayals of yourselves that are used to further strengthen certain people's hatred towards you in the present!
