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Cadillac Forums: The movie I most look forward to next year.
Maybe it's Frank Miller.
Maybe it's that they used Nine Inch Nails for the trailer background.
Maybe it's that I just like a bunch of half naked guys running around (okay, maybe not so much that).
...but I really want to see this movie.
I also like how Frank Miller only allows his graphic novels to be made into movies if they match his artistic style near perfectly (i.e. Sin City).
The Spartans at Thermopylae - 480 B.C. In 490 B.C., Miltiades and his 11,000 Greek hoplites repulsed a Persian expedition of 15,000 warriors, routing them severely at the Battle of Marathon. Nine years later, the Persians launched another even more massive assault. Xerxes, the son of Darius I, led a force of 100,000 Persians across the Dardanelles over a bridge of boats. The Persians marched through Thrace and Macedonia and into Thessaly. The Greeks took up strong defensive positions at Thermopylae Pass, guarding the entrance to Boeotia and Attica. Xerxes reached Thermopylae in the spring of 480 B.C., and found the Greeks could not be budged. Eventually after three days of fighting, a Greek traitor showed the Persians a flanking route through another pass. To give the main army of 5,000 Greek hoplites time to withdraw, King Leonidas I of Sparta remained at the pass with 300 of his bodyguards and small contingent of Thespians to fight a rear-guard action against overwhelming odds. All of the Spartans and Thespians died in the battle, but they delayed the Persians long enough to allow the Greek force to escape and reform at the Isthmus of Corinth.
Herodotus reports that one of the reasons Leonidas volunteered to fight the suicidal rear-guard action was because of an earlier Delphic prophesy: "Hear your fate, O dwellers in Sparta of the wide spaces; Either your famed, great towns must be sacked by Perseus' sons, Or, if that be not, the whole land of Lacedaemon shall mourn the death of a king of the house of Herakles, For not the strength of lions or of bulls shall hold him, Strength against strength; for he has the power of Zeus, And will not be checked until one of these two he has consumed."
Just before the Spartans engaged the Persians, one of the departing hoplites reported that "Such was the number of the Persians, that when they shot their arrows the sun was darkened by their multitude." A Spartan, Dieneces, was not at all frightened and joked about the strength of enemy, announcing to all within earshot that "Our friend brings us good news. If the Persians darken the sun with their arrows, we will be able to fight in the shade."
An epitaph to commemorate the heroic last stand at Thermopylae was written by Simonides: "Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by, that here obedient to their laws we lie."
"300" seems lacking. You'd think they could at least call it "The 300" or "The Three Hundred" Our culture is so tech-oriented these days, where is the art??
Not having seen the movie but being a fan of the era, my other preferences are:
"The Spartans"
"The Stand"
"Band of Brothers" oops, taken. A great miniseris BTW
anything but "300"
"300" seems lacking. You'd think they could at least call it "The 300" or "The Three Hundred" Our culture is so tech-oriented these days, where is the art??
Not having seen the movie but being a fan of the era, my other preferences are:
"The Spartans"
"The Stand"
"Band of Brothers" oops, taken. A great miniseris BTW
anything but "300"
Where is the art?! It's a Frank Miller movie!
The name is taken from his graphic novel (comics) that the movie is based upon:
Quote:
In 1998, Frank Miller shook the comics world with his groundbreaking series 300. Marking Miller's first collaboration with watercolor artist Lynn Varley (Ronin, The Dark Knight Returns) in over a decade, 300 was a gritty reimagining of a battle in which three hundred Spartan soldiers fought to hold back the entire Persian army. The series won three Eisner Awards, including Best Limited Series, Best Writer/Artist (Miller), and Best Colorist (Varley).
