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especially bad, because they make the point to explain why their military was superior, then fight for style points
"You can't join us, we don't break formation."
[immediately breaks formation]
That movie is 99% style points. with 1% protofascist messaging.
And 1500% Aaaaaaaaaaauuuubbbbbsssss
why are conservative themed movies the most homoerotic things on the planet?
What's the protofascist message? Don't remember the movie too well
Gonna second the other two comments, but I think its worth remembering that the warrior society of Sparta likely never existed. People didnt start talking about the indomitable martial society of Sparta until, like, 300 years after the nation of Sparta stopped existing. Contemporary accounts seem to tell that Spartan society looked pretty similar to other Greek states at the time, except they actually trained their soldiers. For example, the agoge now has a reputation as the brutal training ground where Spartan boys became men, but contemporary accounts say that their boys were not just trained in martial arts but also in hunting, dancing, singing, reading and writing, and rhetoric. It wasnt until the roman empire gave them a tourist industry that they started playing up the "legendary honorable warrior culture" angle, partially as a conservative movement calling to return to the good old days where men were real men.
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Yep. Tell the Roman tourists the stories they want to hear (and not to forget: Rome was an aggressive, imperialist nation at the time ...)
Big Joel, a YouTuber, covers some of it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hEMqTPUWXqw&pp=ygUMYmlnIEpvZWwgMzAw
give it a rewatch, tell me if you notice them.