300

[Dylflon]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

So yeah...300...

Good movie.

[Professor S]

I wonder if they like 300 in Quebec? They might think its a symbol of American military and consumer empiricism and therefore hate it on principle....

****in' FROGS.














By the way, you can all thank me for the 5 page thread later. At least it was something to talk about. And yes, I am devious and evil.

[Dylflon]

I had a discussion with one of my arts professors about this film. He was troubled that this kind of movie would be released at this specific time in history with the current world events that are going on and whatnot.

I think his specific problem was he thought the Spartans were supposed to represent America (since this is an American film I guess?) fighting the evil brown guys and that this was something released to encourage young men to enlist.

I totally don't see it that way. Considering the Persians are an imperialist force, the Americans could be just as easily likened to them.

[Professor S]

Well, pretty much any villian in any movie can be likened to the U.S. by those who see America as an evil force in the world. It depends on your world view. I'm more dissdappointed to see professors using a movie depicting events that happened thousands of years ago as an excuse to influence others his or her own opinion.

Honestly, education is dead and indoctrination has replaced it.

[Happydude]

300 was an awesome movie! i loved all the backgrounds! i wonder what the producer guy...whatever his name was will do next...in any case, i will see it.

[DarkMaster]

The director is doing The Watchmen next, which is supposedly a pretty good comic book/graphic novel.

[Teuthida]

Originally Posted by DarkMaster

The director is doing The Watchmen next, which is supposedly a pretty good comic book/graphic novel.

I cannot see anyone making it into a movie without destroying the material. Perhaps if Alan Moore worked closely with the director like Frank Miller does...but he really does not want this movie made. And can you blame him? All the movie adaptations of his books have been crap.

Terry Gilliam eventually abandoned the project due to the funding problems, also adding the concern that Watchmen would have been unfilmable. "Reducing [the story] to a two or two-and-a-half hour film... seemed to me to take away the essence of what Watchmen is about," Gilliam said.

After Warner Bros. dropped the project, producer Lawrence Gordon acquired the rights to Watchmen and invited Gilliam back to helm the film. Gilliam declined, believing that the comic book would be better directed as a five-hour miniseries.

In October 2001, Gordon and Universal Studios signed screenwriter David Hayter to write and direct Watchmen in a "seven-figure deal". Hayter, being familiar with the project's long history, said, "[Watchmen] was considered too dark, too complex, too 'smart.' But the world has changed [after 9/11]. I think that the new global climate has finally caught up with the vision that Alan Moore had in 1986. It is the perfect time to make this movie."

Man, if they add some 9/11 twist to it...will be mighty pissed. The added America stuff in regard to the current war in V for Vendetta left a bad taste in my mouth.

Rorshach was stuck into a frame of the R-rated trailer for 300:

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by Happydude

i wonder what the producer guy...whatever his name was will do next...

Put money up for a project and either drive it into the ground with his own terrible "It's my money, you do it my way" decisions, or not do a thing and take the credit if it wins for Best Picture.

[GameMaster]

I've seen the ending about 300 times now. Its so epic and heart-wrenching.

[Dylflon]

Originally Posted by Professor S

Well, pretty much any villian in any movie can be likened to the U.S. by those who see America as an evil force in the world. It depends on your world view. I'm more dissdappointed to see professors using a movie depicting events that happened thousands of years ago as an excuse to influence others his or her own opinion.

Honestly, education is dead and indoctrination has replaced it.

It was a conversation, not him preaching.