Then you have indeed validated my idea for a caricature of President George Washington. The rationale you have presented applies to basically anything one can throw on the table then.

But most people who walked into that movie understood that it was fiction.
Either you are expecting the best out of the audience, or you are incredibly naïve. Have you read YouTube comments as of late? As before, I do not care about the official response of the movie-makers and their sponsors, as they are just providing a response for catering. You can keep crying about fiction all you like, at least Frank Miller portrayed the Persians within the sapient spectra; Zack Snyder however went the extra mile, and the inclusion of this concept is bizarre to say the least. Besides, the movie does have a historical precedent to it (As did the comic), effectively negating the argument of "fiction". Snyder says it here himself:

"The events are 90 percent accurate. It's just in the visualization that it's crazy.... I've shown this movie to world-class historians who have said it's amazing. They can't believe it's as accurate as it is."

Historians! World-class historians even, if we are to take Snyder's words somewhat seriously. If this is even somewhat true, many professors ought to lose their tenures. Why then put any faith to the average Joe who probably slept through elementary history classes? Where did this 90% figure come from, and why does it appear to be so remote from the appeal to fiction? Like I said, if this is no more than harmless fiction, then why was there not a black or a Mongol Spartan? I would have enjoyed a wise-cracking Chris Tucker, or Gerry Lopez doing another "battle of the Mounds". Instead we got to see a Riefenstahl-influenced cockamamie caricature of an event that Greeks hold in high esteem. If I as an Iranian, am baffled by how the Persians were depicted as sub-human demons, then I would, if I were a Greek, be even more baffled at how a bunch of Americans have taken the Spartans and turned them into Hitler's little boys. All fully intended.

You claim "fiction", but are you willfully forgetting that even fiction can have its own subconscious and sometimes explicit political innuendos and statements? You make it out like it's all about the money. It's not just about the money. We are talking about a 60 million dollar movie full of various ideas that are getting streamed into the popular culture. You say "That's the model, and it sells tickets", but I say that this is still a filthy business, and the filthy money is accumulated at the expense of another. On one hand, it defames and dehumanizes the Persians (There is no argument, it does); on the other hand it lampoons physically disabled, and "non-white" peoples. On boot, the movie is very serious in its portrayal of the events. If this is what caters the popular youth, then I can only lament. Now what if this was a movie which glorified Hitler and portrayed a bunch of Jews as monsters with claws begging to be gassed en masse? The argument of demographics doesn't hold water, if one must assume a perspective broader than that of a marketer.

I'm not advocating a boycott; it would only serve to dignify the film intellectually, which it does not deserve. I'm not advocating censorship, because even though the movie was fucking racist (This coming from someone with enough anthropological know-how to dismiss the concept of "race" altogether), it's still creative property and would in the spirit of Voltaire still have it this way than the other. I am however pointing out the movie for what it is and what it portrays. It's full of irrational Nordicist demagoguery, it's full of derogatory racial allusions, and wears a deceptively simplistic facade from where it can resort to "IT'S FICTION IT'S ALL FICTION GET IT IT'S JUST FICTION AMERICAN YOUTH WANTS THIS NYAH-NYAH!"-card which already has seen official application. It's a stupid flick, yes, but it carries a message nonetheless.

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Warner Bros. doesn't care about what I think? Good riddance, I don't need the approval or permission of a bunch of overpaid mentally numb individuals wearing the executive badge so that I can speak my mind. They'd probably sell their own mothers as prostitutes for peanuts. You are very right, my friend, their target demographics colloquially forms the relevant cash-cow, and the same would apply to fascist rhetorics being directed towards aspiring bullies. So? It doesn't render what I have said untrue. It's like saying the latest TV-shop scam, promising instant abs and pecs, doesn't care about what I think, just because I'm not obese and therefore not a part of the target demographics. Isn't it still a scam? Someone needs to break the ice.

And speaking of which, where is this Aemilius Paulus now? I'd certainly like to hear his "politically incorrect" point-of-view on this ordeal. On-topic or not, the poll lives on.

May the Jägermeister-gods forbid that Satrap Ariobarzanes shall ever be subject to the fate of King Leonidas. Thermopylae has been cheapened and served like a MacDonald's burger: Cheap, quick and without nutrition. I will hang myself if they turn the battle of the Persian Gate into something even remotely similar to "300".

THIS. IS. CAKETOWN.