Blogging to resume in a couple of hours
Bookworm on Mar 14 2007 at 1:23 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Busy, busy morning, followed by a busy mid-afternoon, to be followed by a sort of busy late afternoon — and that late afternoon is when I’ll resume blogging with a comprehensive unloading of all the stuff swirling in my brain. Until then, keep coming at me with your comments about manly men and others. It’s a fascinating discussion. I’ll just throw in two other things: (1) the movie 300, which is about Spartans, the ultimate manly men, has been an over-the-top hit; and (2) the military officer who is in trouble for saying he thinks homosexuality is immoral is a Marine.
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It is that word of mouth going on for 1, Book. Besides, as we discussed before, Americans have a hunger for decisiveness and kicking the a** of the enemy. Persians will do in this case.
It has been going around the blogs for a long time now, Book. Not just here, not just over at blackfive, but all over, Months before March.
And then when it appears… suddenly every blog is posting a free publicity post about it… amazing free publicity. Supply, combined with demand, combined with free advertisement… perfect storm.
This is a great discussion you have going, and I’m sorry I don’t now have the time to contribute properly to it, either. But John C. Wright’s take on “300″ makes his post entirely on point, and if you’re like me, his last line will make you laugh out loud.
The glittering eye was totally dumping on 300, so I had to post very long rebuttal reply.
This film was wonderful … if you are a guy. Ladies, I don’t think this film has much in it for you, unless you like seeing huge slabs of raw beefcake, or the rippling muscles of many macho manly men pluging bloody spears through torsos and hacking off many limbs.
Honestly, I don’t think that is right. Surely women… also value honor, duty, and self-sacrifice, correct? I mean, they cannot all be the harpies born of fake feminism?
Some are superficial and wish for the beefcakes but… I see many women over at blackfive say they desire something more robust than just gym muscles (talking about Hollywood) and feminist men.
In a weird kind of way, the Spartans had higher expectations for women than this reviewer did. While his imagery of the three headed hydra was downright ingenious, it is an ironic joke on him that he expects women to dislike the 300, while Sparta expected Spartan women to bear real men and to be worthy of leading them.
I find it curious the protestations of the Iranian government over 300. The actual historical event occurred well before Islam came into existence, so thus, one might say I had very little to do with modern-day Iran. Also, 300 is a stylistically exaggerated movie. The Persians really didn’t have creatures from Middle Earth bounding into war with them.
So what gives?
Funny that the Iranians would identify themselves with the Persians of the movie since, in a very real sense, the Persians portrayed in the movie was meant almost as an evil archetype, a caricature.
Perhaps the Iranian government found themselves looking in the mirror and didn’t like what they saw?…
I think you’re absolutely right, Thomas. It’s as if modern Europeans were to get terribly bent out of shape because of a movie portraying the pagan Visigoths as dangerous savages. The Iranians are doing nothing more but drawing attention to themselves unnecessarily, to achieve their own goals in the eyes of the world. Those who hate the US will sympathize with them; those who don’t hate the US will understand the charade.
There is so much historical revisionism going on these days that I wonder if much of the truth of history will be lost in a tsunami of political correctness…
After the success of 300, I’m waiting for a remake of Zulu.
I think the Iranians expect us to do propaganda at least similar to the kind that they put out. So they probably look at our stuff in that light, in the light of their propaganda videos designed to brainwash people into believing in the Jewish conspiracy.
So they look deep, and try to see whether it demonizes the Persians, even though Persians of some time ago. Regardless, so long as there is any connection, they are like “Aha, this would be the same sign for our propaganda footage, so this must also apply to the Americana stuff”.
Hey! I’m late to the party, but what about Bookworm’s 2nd point above: “he thinks homosexuality is immoral”? Since when is a military officer NOT entitled to express an opinion?? I’m afraid Tammy Bruce was alarmingly-dead-on in “The New Thought Police”. General Pace owes no apology or even “clarification” to anybody. Period.