![]() Because of this, they will tend to assume that the movie is based directed on the historical event. any of those who have seen the movie have not read the graphic novel. While the movie owes a great deal to its source material, it must rise or fall on its own merits. But my purpose is to evaluate the movie as history, not as an adaption of a literary work. And yes, before you ask, I do know that the movie is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel. But just because I hate this movie doesn’t mean there might not be some merit in it. I loathed the voice-over narration with a passion and kept waiting for the narrator to get killed, only to be deeply disappointed to learn that he was the only one of the 300 to survive. I thought it was badly written, badly directed, badly acted, and just generally badly done. First off, let me say that I hated this film with a passion. The film I’m going to tackle is 300 (2006, dir. ![]() Instead, since this is the first question I’m usually asked, I’m going to start this blog by picking a film and just asking, does the film get the basic facts right? Whenever I get into a discussion about a historical film with someone, perhaps one of my students, a friend, or a casual acquaintance, usually the first question I get asked is “is the film historically accurate?” I have a lot of thoughts about the issue of historically accurate films, but I’ll leave most of them for another day. ![]() In doing so, I hope to illuminate some of the concerns historians have about the way that cinema, one of the most important art forms of our society produces, treats the human past. My goal with this blog is to explore the relationship between film and history, to look at film the way a historian does and not the way a member of the general audience or a fan does. ![]()
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