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Then we followed that up with our review of the movie by Brian Juergens which confirmed Hollywood was giving us yet another villain whose creepiness was amped up by making him seem gay. Last Monday we ran our article Frank Miller and 300’s Assault on the Gay Past which documented how Miller, upon whose graphic novel the film version of 300 was based, had previously used coded in homophobia in his work, and done so again in 300 while at the same time erasing gays from the historical record. None of this comes as a surprise to us here at AfterElton. Why worry about people interpreting your movie as homophobic as long as you get $9 out of the audience, right Zack? But I don’t have a problem with people interpreting it the way they’d like to.” As long as they buy tickets first. ”Some people have said to me, ’Your movie is homoerotic,’ and some have said, ’Your movie’s homophobic.’ In my mind, the movie is neither. None of this is played for gay appeal, but could induce snickering among some teens. The movie, true to Miller’s vision, is also loaded with sweaty hunks running around in those tight leather Speedos and capes. I suspect he’d get trashed for a bigot trading in ugly stereotypes which is exactly what he’s doing.Īnd this is from an earlier interview Snyder did with EW: No doubt, Snyder’s homophobic comment will pass largely unnoticed by the mainstream press, but imagine if he had made his villain a hulking black man and said he’d done so because nothing scares white women like a giant black god-king who wants to have his way with you. Gee, where on earth do you think 20 year old straight guys get the notion that homosexuality is something to be afraid of? It didn’t hurt the box office any, however, as 300 hauled in $70 million which makes it the highest grossing March opening ever. The director says that the film’s (homo)sexual undertones were intended to make young straight males in the audience uncomfortable, because “What’s more scary to a 20-year-old boy than a giant god-king who wants to have his way with you?” In an interview running in this week’s edition of Entertainment Weekly, 300 director Zack Snyder admits to doing exactly that. that some historians credit with preserving Western civilization as we know it. 300 recounts the epic battle between the Spartans and Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. For those who don’t know, 300 is the big budget action adventure based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel of the same name that opened on Friday. I don’t know about you folks, but I have had it up to here with Hollywood using homosexuality as shorthand for evil.