300 Things...

Ok, I’m not listing all 300, but I am going to register one big, whopping 300lb complaint.

So far, I’ve read two reviews of the movie. Both panned it. Both came up with the same complaints – essentially boiling down to the fact that it’s not historically accurate.

The name of the movie is 300. The name of the graphic novel is 300. Guess what, the font used for the movie is the same as the graphic novel. Perhaps, maybe, just perhaps … the movie is based off of the graphic novel. Normally, when a movie is based off of a book, people complain that the movie didn’t live up to the expectations of people who read the book. Take the Da Vinci Code for example.

 So, if you’re going to complain that Xerxes didn’t look Persian enough and that he was too effeminate – question – what did he look like in the novel?

 Also, if you’re going to complain that Sparta looked too much like a video game version of Greek town – what did it look like in the graphic novel?

 Of course it’s not historically accurate. I didn’t live in the time of the Ancient Greeks but guess what – I’m quite certain there weren’t any lobster people who could lop heads off of generals. I’m also quite certain that even though the Spartans were a warrior clan – I highly doubt that they had protein and creatine supplements to make them look like something out of Muscle and Fitness. However, and once again, how did they look in the novel (and here really is a shocker – in a comic book, they were drawn very muscular, almost super-human … oooh … didn’t see that coming).

 So, in short, if you felt that the film betrayed the graphic novel, fine. If you felt it was a little over the top – fine. But panning it for historical inaccuracies – c’mon. No one involved in the making of the film was trying to portray it as such.

 Oh, and one more thing, when Dan Brown wrote a fictional account that Mary Magdalene was the wife of Christ – ummm … he might have meant it to be fictional.

P.S. – E.T. isn’t real either.