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Blue one
>The Spartans were like the most gender equal of all the ancient Greeks.<Any society that depends on slave labor renders equality an unmoot question whether the women excercised or not.
blueone
>I mean that alone would of had the Taliban yied up in knots. And pound for pound a phalanx of Spartans woulda wiped trhe floor with the Taliban...<Were the phalanx a Spartan tactic, but its not.
Do you think there's a reason why this film is being made now? Why is it so compelling?
Because in the historical analogy we are the Persian Empire- the greatest ever on the face of the earth facing a bunch of determined warriors indifferent to death but not each other. That can't be right so let's make it a cartoon and glorify the violence and render combat mano-a-mano the hero of the story. ( IEDs are so cowardly) We can deal death and do like nobody's business. That is something we can believe in because don't look too closely why the spartans were there, or about how they organized their death camp farms, all that is not important!
"According to Mr. Suskind, "The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' " The aide told Mr. Suskind, "That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality."
You can do the same for $1o at the theatre.