Quote Originally Posted by Xtiaan72
I think anyone with a keen enough interest in history, like people who post here, would pass on that curiosity to their kids. It's not those kids I'm worried about. It's the other kids running around thinking that 'Spartans' were great defenders of freedom and that The Persian Empire was ruled by evil monsters that ate their own young. It has the potential to spread bigotry and wrong headedness, that's all I'm saying. Not because it's entertainment but because they chose a historical event to frame their entertainment.
Very Good points, really. And I agree aswell with your view on it.

But permit me please to also ask, what is the root of the problem here?

Why are there kids that run around dissinformed about the Spartans and the Persian Empire? Why cant these kids be more like the kids of those who post here?

See for me the root problem is not the movie or the way movies and artists choose to interpret them. For me the problem is that somewhere allong the line we failed to inform all kids to discern between entertainment and history.

And changing the way or imposing rules on the way movies are made or categorising movies between good & bad from an ethical point of view, will not solve the root problem, which resides with those kids and how we educate them to be able to make the distinction on their own.

I think it would be better to use such movies to incite interest for the real history rather than supress them.