Mmm...pretty, pretty moving pictures. I agree, Wenham was great as Dilios. I'm not going to claim to know what you do or don't already know about the actual historical event, but I will say that one of the things that made me squeal was how many of the lines in the movie are taken directly from history. A lot of the long dialogue was, well...crap, but so much of the laconic verse was kept in, and that is sexy. And it was obvious where they embellished and stylized portions of the story, such as the scene with the well. Leonidas and his men DID (historically) throw the persian messenger and his buddies into the well, and said that "you'll find plenty of both at the bottom" bit, but they probably did it without the badass kicking. Who knows. Sorry about the rambling. I'm not trying to be pretentious or anything; I think that learning about these things makes one appreciate the movie a bit more, especially since the the movie's presentation of the real story wasn't so great. And I'm no history buff, but my dad told me about the Battle of Thermopylae a few years ago and I've been hooked on it since.
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Date: 2007-03-14 03:04 am (UTC)I'm not going to claim to know what you do or don't already know about the actual historical event, but I will say that one of the things that made me squeal was how many of the lines in the movie are taken directly from history. A lot of the long dialogue was, well...crap, but so much of the laconic verse was kept in, and that is sexy. And it was obvious where they embellished and stylized portions of the story, such as the scene with the well. Leonidas and his men DID (historically) throw the persian messenger and his buddies into the well, and said that "you'll find plenty of both at the bottom" bit, but they probably did it without the badass kicking. Who knows. Sorry about the rambling. I'm not trying to be pretentious or anything; I think that learning about these things makes one appreciate the movie a bit more, especially since the the movie's presentation of the real story wasn't so great. And I'm no history buff, but my dad told me about the Battle of Thermopylae a few years ago and I've been hooked on it since.