“Useful” Nationalists
By Nick Grifford: The 2006 film entitled 300 was the brainchild of graphic novelist Frank Miller and director, Zackery “Zack” Snyder. The story charts the military exploits of a small Spartan army (the eponymous 300) during the campaign against Persian invasion, circa 480 BC. The film is suitably emotive and clearly provides an allusion to invasive Muslim incursions into Europe during the the past few decades, which, in itself, is not unwelcome. However, being Hollywood, there…
Film Review – 300: Rise of an Empire
Brace yourself because THIS IS SPARTA! Again. The first 300 movie ranks among my favourite films of all time, less due to its cartoonish stylised gore offering as its wonderfully unapologetic masculine heroism. When I walked into the cinema this week to watch this follow-up I really didn’t know what to expect as I’d read nothing at all about it before hand. My assumption was that it would be a sequel but the story began…