Quote Originally Posted by Rex_Pelasgorum
Howewer, i still keep asking myself, what was with the Goat-looking creature from Xerxe`s harem ? Was it a sugestions reffering to the decadence and perversion of the Persians ? Or was it a reference to the devil ? I did not understood...

Anyway, i do understand all the bad feelings that both greeks and iranians have towards this movie.
Not the devil, the concept of a devil is Mostly Christian.

The way I saw the the choice of how to portray Xerxes, and his emediate entourage including the Immortals (his Elite Bodyguard unit), I interpreted this as a bad taste metaphor.

Clearly, Miller's suggestive towards a given agenda is being displayed by that whole deal.

If you notice, not only the Goat was "odd" inside his tent, the whole crowd in there was either mutated or diformed in some way.

Politics asside, and from a strictly "story-line" point of view, Miller chose to make Ephialtes a Spartan outcast that seeks to restore the Honor of his familly that allowed him to live as a child even if he was diformed at Birth.

Now, I think, that whole scene is there to support his decision to betray the Spartans, as he was sourounded by other people who, under "normal" circomstances would be considered outcasts themselves, yet, under Xerxes they were cherished as his closest entourage.

But then again, lets not forget this is an adaptation of a comic, and if you immagine the "wierdness" of some things under the perspective of a comic, they make sence just like a Japanese comic with wierd Monsters and such.

At least my perception of it all concerning this.