300: Rise of an Empire

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Popular culture always has been transporting people back in time, replicating the history. It is necessary to examine a movie in depth to make a connection between history and fictional storyline in films. The most recent example of this is the movie 300: Rise of an Empire. I attended the movie theater recently to see how historically accurate or inaccurate the movie was compared to original historical events. The movie's storyline takes places in the ancient city-state of Athens and the Persian Empire. The battle between two nations gets heated up when the warrior Themistocles of Athens kills Persian king Darius. As far as the story goes, this event provoked the son of Darius, Xerses to get revenge. He turned into a mighty God-king. He was powerful and scary visually, which made everyone obey him, accept his sister Artemisia, who led the army instead of Xerses.
In reality, movie's plot was changed in a lot of parts to impress the audience, make it dramatic and more engaging than what happened in history. “The real Darius wasn't at the Battle of Marathon, and Themistocles didn't kil...

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