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By vanrozenheim
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The forthcoming film 300, a man-flesh epic based on Frank Miller's graphic novel of the same name, depicts the bloody battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans led by King Leonidas died fighting off a monstrously larger Persian invasion force commanded by the Great King, himself, Xerxes. There's no denying it was a glorious victory. But Miller's approach to history repeats the hoary old myth that it was a victory for freedom. "A new age has begun," says Leonidas (hunk Gerard Butler) in the film, "an age of freedom."
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