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Wednesday, March 14
Frank Miller talks about 300.
"I learned first that the story of Thermopylae was real, then as the film went on I had to take my father aside and ask him if the good guys were going to lose. I'd never heard of such a thing, and when they fell it was a formative moment for me. It changed my idea of what a hero was. Up until then, it always seemed that heroes won, and they got a medal, or they got the girl, yet these men died in the middle of nowhere, sacrificing their lives for the greater good."
Or, if you want to know something about what really happened at the battle of Thermopylae but you don't want to read any Herodotus, this historian has an opinion.
"I learned first that the story of Thermopylae was real, then as the film went on I had to take my father aside and ask him if the good guys were going to lose. I'd never heard of such a thing, and when they fell it was a formative moment for me. It changed my idea of what a hero was. Up until then, it always seemed that heroes won, and they got a medal, or they got the girl, yet these men died in the middle of nowhere, sacrificing their lives for the greater good."
Or, if you want to know something about what really happened at the battle of Thermopylae but you don't want to read any Herodotus, this historian has an opinion.
