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March 05, 2007
"300" Seen As Pro-Defense-of-Civilization Propaganda, And The Left Doesn't Like It One BitBy the white beard of Zeus! And I thought we were just talking about a movie here! I thought artists had be permitted the freedom to explore controversial ideas! Well, not so much. Ideas which are controversial among Those Who Need The Elites' Moral Instruction are to be incessantly explored, whereas anything that discomfits the Teachable Moment Left is to be branded as vile. LOS ANGELES, March 4 — Three weeks ago a handful of reporters at an international press junket here for the Warner Brothers movie “300,” about the battle of Thermopylae some 2,500 years ago, cornered the director Zack Snyder with an unanticipated question. Not so. Funding may have come from media-controlling, warmongering Jews as well. ... The director was responsible for the nearly-perfect Dawn of the Dead remake? And refuses to answer questions about his politics? Well! Refusing to talk about one's politics in Hollywood is like refusing to talk about one's sexuality -- the very fact you won't simply acknowledge the default, prevalent choice speaks volumes. This brings to mind what I think was one of the most controversial one-second images in recent movie fare -- something so hiddeously offensive and outrageous that not a damn person except me seems to have noticed it. In the first few post-teaser shots in Dawn of the Dead -- a movie, of course, about a civilization destroyed by mindless, psychopathic hyperviolence -- a shot of Muslims bowing in unison in a mosque is shown. That can play two different ways, of course. It can just be seen as suggestive of the apocalypic end-time scenarios described in many religions. A suggestion made famously by the original Dawn of the Dead's promotional tag-line: When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.. On the other hand, it can be seen as suggesting a metaphor between the mindless death and destruction wrought by the film's anti-civilization, anti-human, primitive zombies and the mindless death and destruction wrought by the real world's anti-civilization, anti-human primitive Islamicists. I don't know which message Snyder intended. I do know for a fact -- based on skills -- that he's smart enough to know the shot could be taken either way, and didn't seem particularly bothered by that. So Zack Snyder finds himself directing another movie about the defense of Western civilization against viral insanity? Hmm. Good to know. We pretty much know where Frank Miller -- who declined to be interviewed for this article ("My sexuality is none of your business") -- stands on similar issues: After never fully believing in patriotism and the U.S. flag, Miller discusses how the events of 9/11 shaped his newfound belief in patriotism and the flag. In discussing 9/11, Miller says, “I draw and write comic books. One thing my job involves is making up bad guys. Imagining human villainy in all its forms. Now the real thing had showed up. The real thing murdered my neighbors. In my city. In my country.” Miller adds, “Patriotism, I now believe, isn’t some sentimental, old, conceit. It’s self-preservation. I believe patriotism is central to a nation’s survival.”
Sorry for the poor quality of that clip. There are several versions of that intro up on YouTube, but one cleaner version is useless for my purposes, as the poster was sensitive enough to cut that opening shot out.
A humorous little Easter Egg, but once again, one that seems to spring from a conservatively-oriented mind.
Thanks to Midaz and NiceDeb for alerting me to that. Apologies.
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