300 Movie Trailer #2

I have not seen this movie but many folks that I know are talking about seeing it. At first I was disturbed by the obvious Orientalist images and the articulation of the East vs. West, "war on terror" discourse. Yet upon being inundated by trailer after trailer I did notice that many of the Spartan King's rhetoric centered around ideas of Liberalism, in particular freedom and justice. What is even more interesting are all the articles I have been reading. There is frequent mention of the homoeroticism implicit in Greek masculine images, and the dismissal of obvious anti-Islam/middle-eastern/Arab for the sake of popular culture and art (when confronted with the racism and sexism, most that I've talked to say: "well yeah, but you have to admit it looks beautiful"). Yet, if one was to look at the gamut, the two discourses never seem to be in dialogue with each other. In essence, if we are to believe, that the 'holy trinity' of catagories (race, class, gender) are to intersect in the modern world, where is it in 300? But to be more bold, if 300 is the supposed Hollywood patriot unbound, where is our analysis of sexuality and race in the "war on terror"? And how has the "war on terror" shaped our ideas of race and sexuality?