EB poll of '300'

[Caratacos]

I do, actually. But what's the use when you don't have an audience nevermind the backers and resources needed to make a movie ?

Yeah that's the sad part. But all great writers or filmakers have to start somewhere [insert "hold on to the dream" type clichè here]. Then again there are also other avenues to persue. Like supporting the work of others you do agree with (like EB-- I tell people about it all the time )

And 300 is about as "just entertainment, man" as Riefenstahl's Olympia (which, incidentally, I understand is an sich a quite fine and impressive movie as her works now tend to be, but...); Miller hasn't exactly been quiet about being an angry old man with a lot to say you know.

To be honest (as i mentioned before) i haven't seen 300 or read the graphic novel and I don't know that much about Frank Miller so i can't make any authoritative comments in this regard. Only that in general nothing is made to be "purely entertainment". If the "artist" involved in the production of something-- anything-- considers themself an "artist" at all, they will try to convey a message or comment on something. How it received is another story. People that say it is "just entertainment, man" are receiving it as "just entertainment". Those who perceive a message in the work receive it as the bearer of that message (and let me remind us that we may see messages in things that were not intended by the "artist"-- I'm sure this is the case with 300 as well-- though like i said i wouldn't know). The world would be a rather boring place if well all saw things and responded to them in the same way.

This isn't a defence of 300. Just a reminder of things everyone already knows already (I'm sure).