thread: 2007-03-19 : Tonight we dine
On 2007-03-19, Moreno R. wrote:
I don't know how "comic-booky" is the film (I didn't see it yet), but it seems it's more comic-booky than the comic books, where the Greeks doesn't appear so nordic to me...
(sorry, but the fact that hollywood movies are much, much dumber that the comic books they copy, and still people talk as if it was the other way around, it's a pet peeve of mine. And I fear for the next Watchmen movie. I already suffered enough viewing the dumbed-down V for Vendetta movie...)
In the comic books the fight is between "gods" and "laws". Leonida fight for the law, not for democracy (and say so, many times). For human law. Every man-of-god in the comic book is corrupt (the spartans priests), or want to enslave you (the emperor-god).
After rading the book, it seems clear to me that Frank Miller see BOTH al-kaeda and George Bush as Persians.
(and anybody read his very short story about 9-11? It's only 2 pages. It show a flag, with wriiten over it "I am sick of flags", a cross, with written over it "I'm sick of God" and the falling towers, with written over it "I've seen the power of faith")
