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It rests on a shaky syllogism where fascism is equated with racial purity and violence, the movie is claimed to violently champion racial purity, ergo the movie must be fascist.

Yours doesn't. And Breihan claims the opening images of the movie are literally fascist, not allegorically so.

It was opposed to fascists ideologically. In practice, it was fascist: it controlled all means of production, and civil as well as military power was held in the hands of a single dictator.

Do not practice your mirror work on me.

Except it seeks to describes a new phenomenon of the twentieth century, not to define a phenomenon that has existed throughout history. You can apply, say, Marxist criticism of worker exploitation to many eras, because Marx intended to describe a recurring phenomenon throughout history. But the word fascism was coined…

Best not to confuse intended allegories with perceived ones.

What does not being fascist have to do with not being racist. The Confederacy wasn't fascist, but it sure was racist. The Soviet Union wasn't racist, but it was pretty damned fascist.

There's no fascism in 300, so sarcasm fail. Fascism is a 20th century creation, a response to the specific results of WWI. Maybe you mean empire, or tyranny, or bullying. Or something.

I'd say King's response to the article is no more hyperbolic than Breihan's to the movie.

300 opens on a scene that literally glorifies fascism. The first thing we see is a chasm full of baby skulls, the remains of the infants who were deemed unfit. Leonidas has no visible disabilities, so he gets to live.

If the movie 300 Madness hadn't alerted us, we might be unaware of the dangerous addiction that lies beneath the surface of this seemingly frivolous entertainment.

Thank you, Dr. Fredric Wertham.

It's an image-by-image recreation of a graphic novel released prior to 911.

It came across as a slight at you when I meant it to be a statement about me. I should have worded it differently. My apologies.

I know lots of conservative, many, but hardly all of them, Republican. Personally, I can't imagine wanting to be around people who mirror my views, aesthetically, politically or whatever. Of course, I draw the line at bigots or abusive people.

What I've read says the opposite, and makes more sense, since Greek writing often associates light skin and eye-coloring with beauty, and the surviving statuary is quite Nordic-looking, in terms of features.

Maybe that's right.

A great movie offers something for everyone!

Fight Club talked to men about their need for dominance and aggression, and yes, it called men on it. But it didn't deconstruct masculinity out of existence. Imagining the movie or book would cause hyper-masculinity to die out as a result is like being surprised Catch-22 didn't end war once and for all.