Who does Frank Miller see as being todays equivalent of Spartan soldiers?
In an Entertainment Weekly interview, graphic novelist Frank Miller addressed this by saying, “The closest comparison you can draw in terms of our own military today is to think of the red-caped Spartans as being like our special-ops forces. They’re these almost superhuman characters with a tremendous warrior ethic, who were unquestionably the best fighters in Greece.” Is there a political message in director Zack Snyder’s movie 300? The movie depicts a small group of European freedom fighters holding off a large army of Iranian slaves. Although people might draw comparisons to modern day conflicts, Zack Snyder said that he did not intend to create the movie to be a commentary on current events, “Someone asked me, ‘Is George Bush Leonidas or Xerxes?’ I said, ‘That’s an awesome question.’ The fact they asked tells me that this movie can mean one thing to one person and something totally different to another. I clearly didn’t mean either. I was just trying to get Frank’s book made into a
