We don't care about politics, but politics cares about us. We don't want to think about ideology in entertainment films, yet pop culture diligently "corrects" our common sense to conform to the standards of mainstream culture.
Western adoration and pride in ancient Greece is not a new thing. In the film, Greece has become a symbol of democracy, freedom, a healthy body and an independent personality. The Persians who dared to challenge ancient Greece stood on the opposite side of the Greeks, ignorant, backward, cruel, twisted and backward. There are traitors among the Greeks, corrupt politicians, and wicked gangsters in the name of gods. In short, there are people in the Greeks who do bad things, but those are the things of a very small number of degenerates. Except for the few scumbags, all the Greeks are excellent members with good faces, beautiful bodies, and independent personalities. In the Persian army, there was not a single "traitor", not even a Persian who showed a little bit of humanity. Except for the Persian king who is a pervert, the rest of the Persians do not need to have a separate personality. There is no one worthy of pity among them. They are all extras, and their role is to be killed and set off the glory of the protagonists. good. In order to strengthen the contrast effect, the Spartan slaves all hide behind the scenes (slavery is practiced in all Greek city-states, and it is the minority of the total population who can talk about freedom and democracy), and the Spartans do not look bad , The body is not fit - because the unqualified baby has been humanely destroyed by the Spartans. A poor product that escaped the disaster turned out to be the villain who betrayed the tribe, leading to the downfall of the three hundred warriors. This proves from the side how wise the cruel elimination system of the Spartans is.
Or the authors and filmmakers of the original work never thought of depicting the opposition and pros and cons between Eastern and Western cultures, and they never thought of using this to promote how noble the free people who inherited the Greek civilization are, and are still dominated by tyrants. And how wicked and pitiful the oriental people ruled by paganism. It's just that the motive theory is invalid, because we can't prove their motives, and they can't prove themselves in the world. Moreover, no matter what the motive for creation, once the work is completed, it surpasses the author and has its own life track. The chariot "300" swept across the world and no one could stop it.
Of course, we don't have to be so realistic with this movie. It is nothing but an entertainment movie, and we do not need to demand it by the standard of truth. According to this inference, we also don’t need to be true to the cartoons in Nazi Germany’s newspapers that mocked the big nosed Jews; we don’t need to be true to the despicable Chinese characters in Western movies in the 1980s and 1990s; Playing a cute idol that you don’t understand for so many years is more serious; you don’t need to be more serious with the booming Starbucks in the Forbidden City... Because it is mass entertainment, we don’t need to be more serious. We can see only the essence in this movie, but not the dross: those who love comics can see the gorgeousness of the painters, those who love special effects can see the superb skills, those who love music can hear the shocking and powerful rock, and those who love the beauty of the human body can see the Spartans Perfect nudity, a propaganda tool for the political and historical to see cultural hegemony...
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