{"id":1366,"date":"2007-03-09T15:14:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T15:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-03-09T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T15:18:35","slug":"300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"‘300’"},"content":{"rendered":"

…opens tonight, and we have tickets at the Bridge theater near the airport.<\/p>\n

Based on the comic, I got one for Littlest Guy as well, but on reading the reviews, I’m getting kinda doubtful that it’s appropriate for a 10 year old – even a mature one. The family will be discussing that today…<\/p>\n

But one interesting thing popped up as I read the available reviews (many linked at www.rottentomatoes.com<\/a>); the astounding historical and cultural ignorance of most film critics.<\/p>\n

Kenneth Turan of the LA Times was the only one who ‘got’ the historical context of Thermopylae (even though he didn’t like the movie). Sheesh. You’d think that people who write about culture for a living would know something about it, wouldn’t you?<\/p>\n

And the layering of modern politics and political correctness (see the Slate review by Dana Stevens<\/a> for a pluperfect example) is kind of funny. The war was, after all, factually between the Greeks (pretty much the founders of the West) and the Persians, so yes, more-or-less white people fought more-or-less brown ones. Is that racist? How do we deal with history, then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some fast thoughts on the reviews for ‘300’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}