300 is still a good example of a classical European imperium that we need to get back to. Unlike The Hobbit which tried to Balkanize Middle Earth with West African immigrants, 300 remains fundamentally true to its pro-European message and imagery.

Whereas the first 300 tells the tale of the superiority of Greco-European culture and reason, over hideous Persian mysticism and slavery, this side-sequel takes the viewer into a deeper level of this contrast between the enlightened power of Democracy as it forges a pan-Greek nation in the fiery onslaught against Persian despotism and tyranny. 

At first glance it is another cheap American attempt to hijack otherwise noble history and turn it into a cause for equality, human rights, minorities, and the United Nations as the narration of Queen...