Have you watched 300 it’s in total fantasy it’s mystical warriors and beasts I don’t think anything in that movie is factual minus a couple of names, part 2 sucked though.I don’t think Hollywood was putting to much thought into it like you are lol I mean come on smh not everything is a long drawn out boring essay. I’m sorry I just had to tease you.
The film 300 was made by Frank Miller, a well-known far-right Zionist Islamophobe. In an interview about the film 300, he unironically compared West Asians to animals. Its release during the heyday of the Global War on Terror is an example of propaganda designed to manufacture consent for continued imperial war in the region. Much like Call of Duty primes Western children to desensitize themselves to the murder of West Asians and other people, films like "300", "Not Without My Daughter", "The Stoning of Soraya M", and "Syriana" have a similar propaganda effect. This is very similar to franchises made in the Cold War that dehumanized and barbarized Russians, though there's a further strain of racist disrespect as depicted Iranians and West Asians aren't shown to be half as competent as Soviet villains were.
300 showed the white, muscular, Adonis-bodied Calvin Klein model "Greeks" as brutally relishing in the easy murder of emaciated, dusty, deformed, unshowered Persians. Their gladiuses cut through Iranian sinew like butter and in one instance, Gerard Butler licked his lips as he pulled his blade out of a dying Persian warrior, as if he just eyed a sizzling steak. The dehumanization is so deep, so revolting that the film could only be the product of a right-wing American Zionist, a settler colonist, the type who unfortunately internalized the brutality, entitlement, and hatred inflicted by the Nazis in Europe and now inflicts it upon the Palestinians and other Muslims, in a sad twist of fate.
The danger of this movie- though it is a "fantasy"- is that like the Cleopatra black-washing of the Jada Pinkett Smith documentary, it is being watched and applauded by average-intellect and below-average intellect (with an army-for-pay and no conscription, most US military are working class or lower class whites and minorities who have no other choice for social mobility) adolescents who will internalize the propaganda and enthusiastically enlist to slaughter more people in imperialist wars. The mind of the imperialist soldier that r-pes the West Asian woman while occupying her country is addled with Call of Duty and 300-style propaganda. While you and I can sit here and say this movie was pure fantasy, and it's not a big deal to us, we must keep in mind that we are educated, articulate, and outspoken. The consumers of this tripe are largely not. I don't know about you, but I consider only a handful of American movies true art, but most Americans are content to watch, internalize and embody all of the garbage their media spews.
Be mindful that war is first fought in the mind, before swords are drawn.