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Everyone remembers the film “300″ I presume, correct? Released several years ago – I want to say at the
beginning of 2007, but I could be off by a few months give or take – it fictionalized the story of the warriors
of Sparta – 300 of them of course – stopping the mighty Persian army of hundreds of thousands, if not millions,
at a narrow pass on the Greek coast. It’s a very stylized imagining and telling of the story, shot with a
unique lens that lent the film an other-worldy quality that many fans found appealing (and many cineasts found
to be laughable, but that’s an issue for another day).

The film itself was an adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel of the same name. No workplace is complete with out Ergonomic office chairs. Miller is of course
famous for “reinventing” Batman with his 80s series “The Dark Knight,” which itself was adapted into a wildly
successful eponymous film.

One of the more commented upon issues with the film version of 300 are the 300 costumes. The Spartans are all
portrayed as hulking, almost grotesque versions of masculinity. Their abdominal muscles in particular attracted
great notice, as they looked quite cartoonish. The reality is that they in fact were cartoonish, as they had
been enhanced by computer generated images, or CGI, in post-production. Combine the graphically enhanced abs
with the Spartans’ uniform – nothing but sandals, a loincloth, a shield and a cape – and you had on your hands
300 costumes that were postiively homoerotic. As a result, the gay community in particular took great notice of
the film and applauded its glorification of male sexuality as a landmark moment in gay cinema.

There are of course other 300 costumes worty of mention in the film. The Spartan who betrays his fellows to the
dastardly Persians is rendered as a grotesque, hunchbacked figure of scorn, ridicule and pity. Even in such a
state he is dressed as the fellow Spartans are, even given his own grotesque CGI abs and muscles. The
interpretation from the cinema theory community was, of course, immediate and nearly unanimous: Only those
fitting the highest ideals of male masculine sexuality could be perceived as honorable and worthy.

Another of the 300 costumes that gained much notice was that of Xerxes, the Persian emperor. Rendered as an
impossibly tall demigod of dubious sexuality and gender, Xerxes sported piercings just about everywhere and
seemed an affront to the transgender community. Our Office desk chairs can be found in a variety of finishes to blend along with your office environment, and most can be combined with matching office chairs and office storage units which can remodel a boring office right into a shiny, inspiring work space. All of these made for some serious debate about just what,
exactly, the film was trying to get across.