300, Fascism, and the Angry Men of Twitter
slightly rough cut, hope you enjoy. Bonus video out tomorrow or MAYBE the next day if I suck. Thank you hope you enjoy!!!!
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I think that it's a pretty good exercise to read critiques of your favorite media, and instead of throwing out the critique or throwing out the media, sitting with the discomfort and working through the points being made. I tried this as an exercise with three of my favorite films (Alien, Annette and Leaving Las Vegas) and although it's hard to avoid some of that knee-jerk reaction, it's really useful and I think deepens my love for the work to acknowledge those critiques. Thank you for this video! Really excellent and inspired me
This is the best video you've ever made.
I feel like a point missing here is that 300 and Synder generally cribs extensively from Leni Reifenstahl- the body worship in particular is very much something that looks like the opening shots of Olympia, long, slow, loving shots looking at perfect bodies in motion Which I guess could be an argument that this is satire but given that Synder movies just always kinda look like that wouldn't really hold up
As a fan of superhero films, I'm constantly trying to deal with the cognitive dissonance of wanting to be the exceptional super man who ignores the system to save lives, and my personal disbelief in the fascistic Great Man theory of history. I'm Civil War, I want Captain America to win because I know he's incorruptible. In real life, I would definitely support the Sekovia Accords. To my recollection, The Batman is the only superhero film that acknowledges the questionable assumptions in the premise of these films.
The politics of Civil War are deliberately extremely incoherent, like Tony's side appears to require that any 'hero' (?) be automatically suborned to the US military (??) or something, which also seems bad, though given that Tony himself is a vigilante who goes around committing acts of war makes a lot of sense for him specifically.
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Solid video. With all you covered, I noticed you didn’t even get to the inherent racism in the portrayal of the two nations, as well. Very telling (and historically inaccurate) to make that choice- one of those people on one of those “expert rates how accurate movies are” YouTube videos talks about this too.
this movie is my guilty pleasure. I've been aware for awhile that it is fashy but idk something about it is just fun to chill and watch every couple of years
Really great BJ! I thought "300 is fash" was a pretty normal take but apparently not... I will make one suggestion for the vid though, when you're talking about the 'Leonidas is gay' reading. Your video currently sounds like you're condemning anyone reading gay into the movie, but I think you might want to clarify that if people want to read a queer narrative in then that's cool, do what you want. Doesn't change your points at all, but the current section comes off a little unkind.
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I’ve always closed my eyes at the Indian Jones face melting scene, so this is the first time I’ve actually seen it. Wasn’t as scary as I thought.
Epic
And it was everything I'd hoped for and more
I've been unreasonably excited for this video for like two months lol
Thankee sai