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Episode 93 Teaser - Emperor Xanga

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Chapo Trap House

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

We talk about what we think is a founding cultural document of the contemporary alt-right, Zack Snyder’s first really shitty racist movie, 300. Get the whole thing here: https://www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse

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0:00.0

Zaxniter said 90% of the movie is historically accurate.

0:04.0

And that does include that the Persian army, they did have

0:08.1

ogers, mummies, and goat men.

0:11.6

I think I saw some Frankenstein and weird wolf men fat

0:15.0

S&M creatures with sword hands those are just Germans who go to techno-Goliphyph shows

0:19.8

but we wandered on set we actually Snyder gives us a look into the emperor's tent when the

0:27.5

deformed.

0:28.5

When the deform, Matt Forney goes to betray the Spartans, which also tracks because Forney is kind of a persona non-grata even among a lot of the

0:36.4

alt-right guys so this this is perfect and he sees like the court of Xerces and it's a bunch of pansexual multiracial people doing like

0:48.7

a sexy rave dancing gender ambiguous gender ambiguity there's a body types they're all body types dancing. Gender ambiguity. Gender ambiguity.

0:53.0

There's a body types.

0:54.0

They're all body types.

0:55.0

Total body acceptance.

0:56.0

There's an armless dude, so they're totally, like they're not ableist.

1:01.0

And, but like the way this is shot is definitely to give you idea that you're supposed to be

1:04.8

disgusted. Your gods are cruel to shape you so friendly fiall this. The Spartans too, too, are cruel to reject you.

1:17.0

But I am kind.

1:21.0

Horrified by the depravity of these people engaging in pleasure in an open-minded society.

1:27.0

No, the scene in Xerxes tent is Tumblr.

1:31.0

Yeah, that is Tumblr.

1:32.0

Yeah. That's also, that's Obama's limousine yeah yeah again

1:36.3

how do you not root for the Persians when you watch this movie?

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