i know about frank miller and his gritty, dark gothic style. haven’t actually read any of it though.
but any man who’s written an entire graphic novel about the battle of thermopylae is awesome. how many people in the modern world even know how to pronounce thermopylae?! how much do i love that battle?? i still hear in my mind mr. williams describing the narrow pass…xerxes and his silver footstool (or was it darius?)…thousands and thousands in the persian swarm…all up against 300 spartans. because the oh-so-popular athenians just can’t swing it unless they’ve got a man like pericles at the helm. the fucking drama of it all. loved it and still do. been wondering when anyone’d create insane epic flicks about ancient greece. i mean, man, romans are cool and all but ain’t that stuff so overdone already? (don’t think they’ve make a flick about messalina though.) so. i don’t care much to see sin city, but i will Be There the day 300 opens in the theaters. the trailer has already caused me near fainting spells. OMG.
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and then, after this flick makes a bajillion dollars in the theaters, someone’ll have to convince frank to crank out the battle of marathon. a couple flicks on the peloppensian saga. the age of pericles and his hot courtesan girlfriend. socrates. a non-fruity version of alexander. some bloody sumerian rituals. egyptians v. nubians. imhotep. seti I. hatshepsut versus thutmoses III. then we can fast forward into other such fab subjects like nero, messalina, that one farmer dude who got forced into emperorship, theodora, justinian, charlemagne, charlemagne’s brood of infantile offspring, limbourg bros, the templar betrayal, rise of the merovingians, how the plantagenets were kick ass, edward longshanks….if i don’t stop now i will be sad because so many flicks haven’t been made. damn hollywood and the un-edumacation of peoples.