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Angrist · 03-17-2007, 08:18 AM

KillerGremlin, please stay on topic, we're talking about Quebec here.

Dylflon · 03-17-2007, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Angrist

KillerGremlin, please stay on topic, we're talking about Quebec here.

Haha. Nice, Angrist.

Also to the Prof: All the french Canadians I've met have been pretty awesome and the females wildly attractive. My girlfriend also drove through there and said that the French Canadians she met were by and large pretty good people.

*shrug*

Matter of opinion I suppose.

Typhoid · 03-17-2007, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Dylflon

Matter of opinion I suppose.

Then again the french widely and openly hate the Americans, and we're not American, which can be why none of us have ever had problems with them.

So yeah...300...

Dylflon · 03-17-2007, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

So yeah...300...

Good movie.

Professor S · 03-18-2007, 01:17 PM

I wonder if they like 300 in Quebec? They might think its a symbol of American military and consumer empiricism and therefore hate it on principle....

****in' FROGS.

By the way, you can all thank me for the 5 page thread later. At least it was something to talk about. And yes, I am devious and evil.

Dylflon · 03-18-2007, 02:43 PM

I had a discussion with one of my arts professors about this film. He was troubled that this kind of movie would be released at this specific time in history with the current world events that are going on and whatnot.

I think his specific problem was he thought the Spartans were supposed to represent America (since this is an American film I guess?) fighting the evil brown guys and that this was something released to encourage young men to enlist.

I totally don't see it that way. Considering the Persians are an imperialist force, the Americans could be just as easily likened to them.

Professor S · 03-18-2007, 02:58 PM

Well, pretty much any villian in any movie can be likened to the U.S. by those who see America as an evil force in the world. It depends on your world view. I'm more dissdappointed to see professors using a movie depicting events that happened thousands of years ago as an excuse to influence others his or her own opinion.

Honestly, education is dead and indoctrination has replaced it.