Once again, the film 300 is a great example of a film that defamiliarizes us to the ingrained ideas we have about things. In particular, I am expounding on the way that the film defamiliarizes us to the idea of war and our idea of soldiers. This scene where Leonidus asks his men about their profession is a perfect example. For the most part, we think as soldiers as being soldiers on the side in many ways. I mean, yes, today we have people who are full time soldiers in the military, and it is their profession; however, how many of those men lived their entire lives training to do nothing except fight and kill and go to war? I would argue that very few, if any, were brought up this way. In fact, I suppose that the way in which we usually think about being a soldier is similar to the way the Arcadians( the soldiers Leonidus questions) were portrayed in this specific scene. However, the film's portrayal of the Spartans, once again, defamiliarizes us to our normal ideas about being a soldier and restores the idea of glory to being a soldier and going to war. Go hit up this link!
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