thread: 2007-03-19 : Tonight we dine
On 2007-03-19, Devin wrote:
The weirdest part for me was the Ephors. I mean, these guys are the only elected part of the Spartan hierarchy, really sort of the spearhead of democracy (okay, giving a voice to the working slave-oppressor, maybe not the best, but start with a democracy of the ruling class and historically it does seem to trickle down over a few thousand years). Miller re-writes them as mutant rape-priests. I don't get it. He writes the Spartans as much less free than they actually were.
Kaare, speaking only for myself, I read into deliberate authorial choices. When you drop a caption in there about a "last hope for reason, justice, and freedom" I have to assume you mean that. When you do that thing with the Ephors I have to assume you mean that. When Leonidas says something, okay, that's just how he thinks about himself. But when you break in with a caption to tell me about it, then I can only figure it's something you're trying to say to me. ("you" here referring to Frank, but also to any author who talks to me in the same way.)
I would have liked the movie and comic a lot better without those captions. Stick to Leonidas's internal monologue (and if that was supposed to be his internal monologue, why does he seem to have a 20th Century historical perspective on things that he hasn't even done yet? Is he really a ghost from out of time? (actually, that movie sounds pretty cool too, though not as cool as Vincent's King of Kings one)).
Vincent, hella Pavlovian, now that you mention it. I think I can still hear the bell ringing. But I can't stop myself.
