http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/300/trailer1/ wow...this is looking really amazing! The series was very underrated but it looks like the movie will open it up to a wider audience and get the recognition that it deserves. Too bad we gotta wait until march for it KW
before people flame a response, I would like to say I am a George Miller fan. Love him so much... however!!!! i dont know if its just me... but i feel that the backgrounds to the scenes are kinda too simple (plain white backgroudns, no budget?) and also the designs are too crisp and clean... also the action is too well choreographed... like things have to be placed in ways that everyone can see all the detail (especially the slo mo stuff). This is so different from LOTR art direction... 300 seems overdramatized... I kinda think that if it was more gritty...and moodier in lighting... it would have been a totally better film. >>>>>>>> O <<<<<<<<< Target...shoot now.
Yeah, you never heard of George Miller, Frank Millers brother?He ghost wrote 300, it was originally going to be called 3,000 but Frank changed it.
ha ha. I got my Miller's mixed up. I am working on a local promotion for the new Happy Feet animated film that is directed by George Miller (yikes!), who directed the Mad Max movies I believe. Sorry for the mix up. It's 6am here.
cool. background: in 480 BC Leonidas of Sparta , 300 noble troopers and about 1000 of their slaves fought a defensive rearguard action against an estimated 50,000 Persians,( some claim vastly larger numbers) including the Elite 'Immortals' and stopped (for a while) the invasion of the Persians under Xerxes the great, thereby 'saving' Cassical Greek Society and assuring the future of things like Wendy's etc.This is known as the Battle Of Thermopylae. The area was famous for its hot springs and was a religous site. The sacrifice of the Spartans and their reatiners (they all died) demoralized the Persians and brought Xerxes invasion to a grinding halt. The action took place at a narrow pass on the coast. It was an actual event,albeit heroicized, about 2477 years before Millers comic book. Sparta was the original fascist military city-state,where-in noble class farmers served life long military service starting at age 10,they also practiced institionalized warrior-pair homosexuality (the original 'buddy system) where an older warrior would train up a much younger man. They where proud of their long,oiled hair and ability to withstand the vilest food and physical hardships. Status depended on fighting ability and the women where even more fierce than the men. not a vegan or emo in the lot. -Professor Dandruff
yep. they were taught to read and write, owned property, competed in sports, faught, had multiple hustbands (as men had multipel wives), and othewises were much more equal to men than women in most other cultures and/or Greek city states.
cool. background: in 480 BC Leonidas of Sparta , 300 noble troopers and about 1000 of their slaves fought a defensive rearguard action against an estimated 50,000 Persians,( some claim vastly larger numbers) including the Elite 'Immortals' and stopped (for a while) the invasion of the Persians under Xerxes the great, thereby 'saving' Cassical Greek Society and assuring the future of things like Wendy's etc.This is known as the Battle Of Thermopylae. The area was famous for its hot springs and was a religous site. The sacrifice of the Spartans and their reatiners (they all died) demoralized the Persians and brought Xerxes invasion to a grinding halt. The action took place at a narrow pass on the coast. It was an actual event,albeit heroicized, about 2477 years before Millers comic book. Sparta was the original fascist military city-state,where-in noble class farmers served life long military service starting at age 10,they also practiced institionalized warrior-pair homosexuality (the original 'buddy system) where an older warrior would train up a much younger man. They where proud of their long,oiled hair and ability to withstand the vilest food and physical hardships. Status depended on fighting ability and the women where even more fierce than the men. not a vegan or emo in the lot. -Professor Dandruff
Hey, don't knock George Miller, he gave us the Mad Max movies. The trailer looks great, and I had no idea Zack Snyder was directing until now. I'm really looking forward to this.
not knocking I cant wait !!!! read a book called Gates Of Fire its an aweome fictional ccount of Thermopylae.
I don't know. big Miller fan (Frank). When I read the graphic novel (coffee table book) a few years ago, I was awed. Sometimes I feel his movies don't translate well into film. Either too much like his comicbook or just totally different medium and the director like Rodriguez just sucks. Looks good though.
I didn't like Sin City. To be fair, It wasn't as bad as my previous experience with Frank Miller on the big screen (Anyone remember Robocop 2 and 3?), but I was pretty bored by it. I never read the comic, but the movie didn't inspire me to read it. 300 looks really cool, though, so I will give it a chance, but given his political rants as of late I won't be surprised if any of that stuff creeps in there. I'm sure it will generate a headline or two.
Sin City the movie sucked. The comic was legendary. He also only wrote Robocop 2&3 but had no hand in directing which could be a good thing. he was always politically boisterous especially with Marvel. I think he just needs to find a good director that will convey his work in film media.
mmm...the film looks tasty. I think they nailed down the look and especially lynn varley's watercolor work. Plus...it's yet another film that shows us Greeks can lay the beat-down without even trying KW
spanakopita -- and I'll probably make some for the NerdQuake event. That's right kids...I'll be catering that bad boy KW
If it's happening, I think people need to know now so they can make plans. Just saying. I'm going to be the guy hanging out at the sternos.
I thought this was what was being made into a movie. I know things got underway at least. 300 looks good though.
