Call me crazy, but I could SWEAR I read where you mentioned Lord of the Rings not being accurate to the books. Unless there really was a Middle Earth you did bring up a work of fiction to prove your point.
Regardless, Miller didn't make the movie, Zack Snyder did. But beside the point, think of it as a story a guy thought was cool and wanted to make into a movie. Yeah, it did work for me. It would have worked for me even if there were no such people as Spartans or Persians. The story's strength is not drawn from its historical accuracy; in fact the history plays a back story to the story that was made up. Just like Titanic. Who do you hear say, "I didn't like it because the main two characters didn't really exist."? No one. Sure Xerxes wasn't 8ft tall with rings all through his face and the Spartans weren't mostly naked in battle, but remember remember remember: the story is being told by someone who is exaggerating and didn't see many of the things he's retelling. It's supposed to be inaccurate. Ephialtes was a hideous monster because he had no honor and betrayed the 300. Xerxes had to appear as an insurmountable foe, bigger than life and various other things that were altered as a means of pumping up the Spartan warriors for battle.
But that's all right if that went past you.
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