hits a lot of crucial themes
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The movie was released in theaters at the end of 2006— a year in which GOP fortunes had fallen gradually (& then suddenly); “Lost Cause” mythology was back in vogue. Months later, 300’s Xerxes character would become seed material for the Right’s boogeyman vision of Barack Obama
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The comic the film was based on came out in 1998. The film was true to the comic in all respects--probably more so than any adaptation of a comic ever before. It was full of ahistorical orientalist garbage. Miller already fixated on portraying Sparta as the essence of "the West"
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