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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
HISTORICAL fiction derives part of its charm and appeal and certainly all or most of its CONTEXT from a historical setting. There's a point to which we allow artists to play with history in order to make a compelling story.
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That's the main reason I went to see the movie, and I was very pleased.
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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
My complaint about the historical inaccuracies-and I think n0nsensical's too-is that they don't in any way contribute to making the story more compelling. For me, in fact, they made the story less compelling. I very much enjoyed watching the battles in the valley and the excess of Persia, as I noted, but the entire storyline in Sparta wasn't compelling. Why is my slaughter being interrupted with political nonsense that isn't factual and isn't interesting and, at the end of the day, didn't even matter?
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The side story in Sparta did take away from the slaughter, but like someone said before, Spoiler:
there were a lot of women in the audience who cheered when the queen killed killed Theron so I think te side story did it's job.