02-04-2006, 07:05 PM
Dear friends,
You can't really expect Hollywood to be authentic on a historical movie! They have to cater both for the sensibilities of modern viewers, in an era that lawsuit is king, and for the paychecks of the producers/screenwriters/actors/studio. The only positive thing, that just might keep the movie from becoming a "Terminator" rendition, is the fact that Frank Miller is heavily involved in the production. If you had seen "Sin City" and read the actual comic, you will know that the movie was quite faithful to the vision of the writer in the comic. And since he mentions that reading the story of the Three Hundred made him believe in heroes and turned him towards comics in the first place, I have hopes for the movie version.
Although I believe that Steven Pressfield's book "The Gates of Fire" would be a better telling of the story, I really expect and hope that Miller will not allow Hollywood to prostitute his vision. And then again, if they do, he will just leave the production and disassociate himself from it.
This is no particular help for history buffs or Hellenes, who tend to tear their hair every time Hollywood tries to tell one of the ancient myths or a historical fact, but then again we can decline going to the movie. I myself, if I hear that Miller has left production, I will refuse to go and see it.
You can't really expect Hollywood to be authentic on a historical movie! They have to cater both for the sensibilities of modern viewers, in an era that lawsuit is king, and for the paychecks of the producers/screenwriters/actors/studio. The only positive thing, that just might keep the movie from becoming a "Terminator" rendition, is the fact that Frank Miller is heavily involved in the production. If you had seen "Sin City" and read the actual comic, you will know that the movie was quite faithful to the vision of the writer in the comic. And since he mentions that reading the story of the Three Hundred made him believe in heroes and turned him towards comics in the first place, I have hopes for the movie version.
Although I believe that Steven Pressfield's book "The Gates of Fire" would be a better telling of the story, I really expect and hope that Miller will not allow Hollywood to prostitute his vision. And then again, if they do, he will just leave the production and disassociate himself from it.
This is no particular help for history buffs or Hellenes, who tend to tear their hair every time Hollywood tries to tell one of the ancient myths or a historical fact, but then again we can decline going to the movie. I myself, if I hear that Miller has left production, I will refuse to go and see it.
Honor to those who in their lives
have defined and guard their Thermopylae.
............
And more honor is due to them
when they foresee (and many do foresee)
that Ephialtes will finally appear,
and that the Medes in the end will go through.
have defined and guard their Thermopylae.
............
And more honor is due to them
when they foresee (and many do foresee)
that Ephialtes will finally appear,
and that the Medes in the end will go through.
