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Originally Posted by gunnut
You make valid points.
But if you look at the movie closely, you'll find the entire story was told from the perspective of that lone surviving Spartan at Thermopylae, one year later. He was telling a story to inspire his countrymen. Of course he's gonna exaggerate stuff a bit, like Xerxes was 8' tall and shoots lightning bolt out of his ass. Well, maybe not the lightning bolt part but you get the idea.
The exaggerations and the farcical depictions of the Persians make more sense if you can see from the point of the story teller.
It was not meant to demean the Persians from the perspective of the author. But it certainly was meant to dehumanize the Persians from the perspective of the Spartan story teller.
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Third time, you typed the samething for another person hehe ...
if it is any recocilation, I find myself in agreement with you on that subject of point of view, but still even a lone surviving Spartan should not confuse Imperial Guards "Immortals", with the Japanese swordsmen armed with Katana, considering the fact that he never heard of Japan. 
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If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery of gunpowder with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind. - Edward Gibbon
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