The actors playing the Greeks are all fair-skinned, and Dilios (David Wenham) has somewhere between blond and light brown hair, depending on the lighting.
The only exception to this is Gorgo (Lena Headey), who is white, female, straight, and physically perfect. They’re white, they’re male, they’re straight, and they’re physically perfect. They are shown to be motivated by patriotism, by a love of liberty (despite the fact that most of them just do whatever Leonidas tells them, even when it gets them all killed senselessly), and, at least in the case of Leonidas, by a tender love of his wife. They’re the buff white guys in jockstraps. The good guys in this movie are pretty easy to spot. While there may have been a few Negros in the Persian Empire, they would have been a minuscule proportion of the population. But while the Achaemenid Empire covered a lot of territory, one area it didn’t occupy was Sub-Saharan Africa. Linguistically, Persian is closely related to Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, and modern English, and entirely unrelated to Semitic languages such as Arabic or Hebrew or to the Turkic language family, although it does naturally have loan-words from those languages. (If you don’t believe me, google ‘red-haired Persian’ and see the results.) Persians are more closely related to Western Europeans than to, for example, Arabs, Jews, or Turks.
What was the movie 300 based on skin#
Northern Persians often have skin as fair as Europeans, and reddish-blond hair, while uncommon, is not unheard of. Persians are Caucasians they have ‘European’ features, but with dark brown to black hair, and somewhat swarthier skin tone, ranging from olive to light brown. Ethnically, its dominant group were the Persians, an Indo-European people who today are often called Iranians. In that sense, it included a wide range of ethnic groups.
While I have a lot of issues with this film, in many ways, this is the most problematic element of the film for me.Īt its height, the Achaemenid Empire (the Persian Empire of this film) covered a very large portion of what we today call the Middle East: Egypt, Asia Minor, the Fertile Crescent, Iran, and modern Afghanistan and Pakistan. In this post, I want to examine another, more disturbing, problem with the film, namely the way it treats everyone who’s not a hot straight white guy. Zack Snyder) depicts the battle of Thermopylae and Spartan society. So in previous posts about 300I’ve discussed the problems with the way that 300 (2007, dir.
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