02-13-2012, 06:19 PM
I still would love to see the other side of the story...
Imagine...
A dark line in the horizon as the camera swoops in towards the ranks of a Greek army, shields with demonic designs, those robotish Corinthian helms and spears held by tanned muscular hands, shouting in Greek... On the other hand the colorful, sunny, multiracial Persian army, speaking English (Persian), black people hanging out with whites, even Greeks among their lines accepted as friends, fighting against the lingering expansion of the Greek racist egaliterianism... Then the iron mass of the enemy charges in as the Persians valiantly give up their lives for honor, fiendship... finding no mercy at the hands of these beastly Greeks.
I think that the audience would not find it difficult to identify with the Persian side, we tend to side with the weak, so instead of stressing their numbers, let's stress their inferiority in hand to hand combat and BOOM! we have sympathy!.
Imagine...
A dark line in the horizon as the camera swoops in towards the ranks of a Greek army, shields with demonic designs, those robotish Corinthian helms and spears held by tanned muscular hands, shouting in Greek... On the other hand the colorful, sunny, multiracial Persian army, speaking English (Persian), black people hanging out with whites, even Greeks among their lines accepted as friends, fighting against the lingering expansion of the Greek racist egaliterianism... Then the iron mass of the enemy charges in as the Persians valiantly give up their lives for honor, fiendship... finding no mercy at the hands of these beastly Greeks.
I think that the audience would not find it difficult to identify with the Persian side, we tend to side with the weak, so instead of stressing their numbers, let's stress their inferiority in hand to hand combat and BOOM! we have sympathy!.
