It ain’t the movie they’re twisted over, it’s Miller’s views on the GWOT.

Miller, and I might say rightly so, sees the parallelisms between the dawn of the fall of Rome and the crap-puddle we’re hip deep in, currently:

So we’ve been kind of fighting a war on the side, and sitting off like a bunch of Romans complaining about it.

… of course, let the barbarians hang around long enough, and you’re asking for trouble. Big trouble.

He also has no restraint in calling out the anti-war crowd with deft aplomb:

Mainly in historical terms, mainly saying that the country that fought Okinawa and Iwo Jima is now spilling precious blood, but so little by comparison, it’s almost ridiculous. And the stakes are as high as they were then. Mostly I hear people say, ‘Why did we attack Iraq?’ for instance. Well, we’re taking on an idea. Nobody questions why after Pearl Harbor we attacked Nazi Germany. It was because we were taking on a form of global fascism, we’re doing the same thing now.

He says everything the anti-war folk are covering the ears to avoid, but he’s right. Dead right. He’s fearless and consistent when he speaks out, and when he releases a movie such as 300, the diaper tinkling port-leaners are bound to draw dotted lines between his words, his work and their platform of war is senseless (even if our enemy tends to disagree – but I digress).

They want this movie to fail so its success (or lack thereof) can be an allegory of pro-war sentiment. So, they want to stamp a pro-Bush label on this movie in order for it to tank and validate their beliefs.

I don’t possess the wherewithall to prove or disprove if their theory will hold water; but, it’s grossed $75M already, so you tell me.

.. apologies for the rant.

yo on March 12, 2007 at 12:11 AM