CLAS 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Color Blindness, Aegeus, Fascist Architecture
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Plays with ideas of putting eastern and western traditions together. >the fall film about storytelling, about alexander the great. In response to new success of ancient epics (troy, gladiators, 300 etc) Hyper stylized figures of ancient greek warriors makes t more popular. Made by same producer as 300 and similarities between the two and how they were advertised. Colour blind casting: interesting poc director and several poc characters with speaking roles. Why do we think that this tagline is being used to sell the film. Cool, distinction away from racialized depiction of persians in 300. Interesting contrast between dark and light = who is good and who is bad. Dehumanization between good guys and bad guys (masks remove faces) Ancient greek women would have worn some kind of head cover, but not the face cover. They are kind of badass/heroic with them. Far departure from the phaedra in the life of theseus who falls in love with her.
