300 The Movie
Posted by John Campeaon 10. 08. 2006in News Chat
A lot of you have been hearing about this new movie “300“. Here’s the skinny on it. It’s a Frank Miller graphic Novel (Yes, the same Sin City Frank Miller). Here’s the synopsis from Amazon:
An emperor amasses an army of hundreds of thousands, drawn from two continents, to invade a third continent and conquer a tiny, divided nation. Only a few hundred warriors stand against them. Yet the tiny nation is saved. It sounds like the plot of a preposterous fantasy novel. It is historical fact. In 481-480 B.C., King Xerxes of Persia raised forces in Asia and Africa and invaded Greece with an army so huge that it “drank rivers dry.” Then they entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae and encountered 300 determined soldiers from Sparta.
I wasn’t there to see the footage at Comic-Con, but from all reports it looked amazing! I haven’t read 300 myself… I think I need to run out and grab myself a copy of it today, because everyone says it just rules.
3 posters for 300 have been released, here’s a look at them. Holy crap do they ever have a Sin City feel to them.
If you’d like to see even larger versions of them, you can go here.
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The posters look cool. Sounds like an epic. I hope it is filmed as such!
What studio is making 300? If its the same studio that did Sin City, this movie will be great, if its not the same studio, it come come off looking like they’re trying to imitate the Sin City look, and that would be bad for business.
I mean, its one thing to make Sin City, which was a totally new look for a movie, but its another thing to make a movie (albeit by the same author & artist) that looks, cinematically, the same as Sin City. Visually, it needs to be different, but from the posters, it looks like they’re going in the Sin City direction which kind of makes me not want to see it.
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVED Sin City, and consider it possibly the best comic book based movie of all time, but its just my opinion that it would be a mistake to imitate the things that made Sin City so great, because a) Sin City wouldn’t stand out in people’s minds as being a movie that set a whole new standard for the film noir style and b) it would make 300 seem like a rip off of Sin City.
Bottom line is that visually they look like they’re going to be too similar, and that will detract from what made the movie stand apart. The casual movie watcher, who doesn’t read Frank Miller’s graphic novels it may come off as 300 being a sequal or prequal or having some sort of connection to Sin City
This film will rule, just check out the video journals in the official site.
I just love this graphic novel.
“The casual movie watcher, who doesn’t read Frank Miller’s graphic novels it may come off as 300 being a sequal or prequal or having some sort of connection to Sin City”
that is the most stupidiest things I ever read
Don’t know if this is very old or not but…
comicon trailer at youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msLecYT8nS4
Just a note, that the comic is based on a real historical battle, the Battle of Thermopylae. The comic book is fantastic. A borrowed and read it a few years ago, just before the release of Sin City, and I’ve been looking for my own copy since. Good luck tracking one down John.
I’m looking forward to this as much as Apocalypto and The Black Dahlia (check out the best trailer of the year!). The diaries look great and Zach Snyder did a fantastic job on Dawn Of The Dead. It sounds like an awesome story.
This does look cool.
You know, John, a lot of people think Halo is the bomb. You ought to go out and buy the graphic novel and see for yourself.
Oh man, the 300 was about my favourite story from Greek history: the battle of Thermopylae. It in the histories of Heroditus and contains wicked lines such as:
wife of the Spartan king – “come back laid upon your shield or do not come back at all!”
Spartan king – “Ah, she is a good wife!”
or
Xerxes (Persian emporer) to Spartan king – “Surrender, do you not realise that my archers will release enough arrows to block out the sun light”
Spartan King – “Then we will fight in the shade”
I’m paraphrasing because it’s been a while since I read this stuff, but it’s absolutely going to make for an iconic film.
Fredoteabaggins:
Man, thanks to the lines from the 300 Greek story, i’m going to have to buy Frank Miller’s book from Amazon TODAY and i’m going to have to wait anxiously for the film to hit my local theaters sometime in 2007 or 2008.
Thanks man… thanks a lot :-)
Hey, I am greek and I love frank miller’s work. I love sin city, batman return etc.
Being greek, I would normaly love 300 even more, even if it had flaws. I would be more forgiving.
But i really dont understand why ppl are so enthusiastic about it.
To me the graphic novel was not as ‘complicated’ as Sin CIty. The plot was pretty linear. Perhaps it might be that I already knew what was going to happen. I liked the fact that Miller used the ‘original’ catchphrases’ and didn’t invent his own. But then again it was like re-reading my history book.
Not everybody knows the story, Nick. I didn’t have a clue what it’s about until I read bits here. All I knew was big battles happened.
Matlot, those are some bitchin’ lines! If it wasn’t so pricey and I wasn’t such a penniless wretch I’d totally buy it right now.
And remember, if Snyder does a great job on this… Watchmen.
I didn’t know they had orcs in ancient Grecian times.
“I didn’t know they had orcs in ancient Grecian times.”
It’s just smeagol under disguise lolol
I don’t like to talk about it, but sometimes when I’m having a late night cobra-fest in the shitter, I encounter what I call “ass orcs.” One time I looked down and – I swear this happened – one of them opened their nutty eyes and said, “FIND THE HALFLINGS!” Little did I know the halflings were almost out.
I am suprised that John hasn’t posted that Zack Synder has also recently nabbed the director role for arguably the greatest comic book of all time the WATCHMEN. I would think that would be huge news and i was suprised i didn’t see anything about it here.
I am sure Zack will do fine with 300 but Watchmen is a different story. I will give him the benefit of the doubt.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed on this one, as I thought the graphic novel was wretched.
The Comic-Con trailer made this the must see movie for me next year. 300 is a great book. I highly recommend getting a copy. Also, grab a copy of the historical novel called “Gates of Fire” buy Steve Pressfield. It is an account of the battle of Thermopylae. It came out around the same time as 300 and people asked Frank if he was influenced by it, and he said he had wanted to tell that story since he was a kid.
This is fact in the same sense that the bible is fact.
Even so it sounds fucking badass. If only the action is good (read: brings something new).
Umm… Henrik. Why are you going out of your way to offend people with your anti-religious biggotry?
If this was a religious post, I could understand… but this post has nothing to do with it… why why spread hate for no reason?
STF^ and stop stepping your religious defending foot somewhere else. He used and analogy that everyone would understand. I thought it was very clever. Everyone is entiltled.
Hey Bob,
Would you say the same thing is Henrik said:
“This is fact in the same sense that the holocost is fact”
I doubt it. I wouldn’t have accepted that… I don’t accept this either.
If the discussion was about religious issues… it would be fair. But it wasn’t.
Well moderated John
Man the trailer on Youtube looks shit hot. I liked the Dawn of the Dead remake. Zombies are better if they run! 300 looks like its going to amazing. march 2007!!! I CANT WAIT. Just watched the trailer 8 times in a row!
The visual look is awesome. Story is an absolute classic….can’t go wrong…..
Religion and politics…find a different site!!!!!!!
this film looks feckin amazing….done a wee bit of research and historically its quite correct….and just one more thing, for anyone who doesnt like Frank Millers work….dont watch it and post crap feckin comments…”Spartans, Tonight we dine in hell”
I too have always been fascinated by this story since the 6th grade, and we studies it in military history class. In fact, after almost 2000 years, there still stands a monument to that battle today.
Regardless, I also loved “Gates of Fire” and it is in my top 10 books ever, along with the first three black company series and LOTR.
The trailer looks good, but the true story is even better! Read the book, read the Graphic Novel, enjoy the movie, come out wishing you were a spartan!
this movie looks awsome. i’m gonna camp out in line for this movie. but all that i know is that if they make the spartan’s gay, i will raise hell and boycott hollywood…and this is no joke
No spartans were the least gay of all greeks..lol
you will mostly see girls kissing as this was tolerated in sparta.
The book is amazing , the movie will be like no other.
also do not forget the 1960z movie that was done back in the days.
300 will be like a remake.
do not forget the movie is about a historical fact mixed with fantasy.
keep that in mind.
I don’t read graphic novels and I don’t know Frank Miller by his work, although I may have come across to some of it without me knowing it, but what I know is this, that I really like Ancient History of this kind. Great Battles! Great Warrior Leaders and Fighting Kings, that laid their lives for a cause that it wasnt just their own, but their people’s, the preservation of their culture and their independence. And what a better way to see those battles that Herodotus narrated hundreds of years ago, than being projected unto an incredible screen with espectacular sound effects. I’m really eager to watch how this old epic, becomes new again by the vission of this Frank Miller.
This story is not only greek
the story is international
if spartan king leonidas and 299 god send man from sparta and plateiaes(thieva)didnt fight brave with persians…
No world today whould be the same as now..
No europe No america.
No coulture No nothing
No religion
I Hope american hollywood fantasy dont destroy the epic true story
Λ = gods (el)
el=hellenes = greeks
Well, the epic true story is that there were more than 300 hundred dudes battling Xerxe’s armada. There were about 7000 men in the Greek side, which consisted of 300 spartans and the rest of them all were a bunch of guys from different allied nations, but you already knew that. It’s also true that, most of them ran away (not the spartans, of course) from the bloody hell they got themselves into, but a few came back, about 1100 thebans and like 600 hundred guys from a different town, just to receive a glorious death besides the brave lacedaemonians and their great commander, Leonidas I, King of the little country called Sparta.
And as always, Holywood will ruin in some small way the history and the truth (and why not the fantasy already involved in the ancient story), but I hope all the rest will be as great as depicted in the previews.
Cheers to all…
There where also 700 thespians that stud by the side of Leonidas, till they where betraid, it was then that Leonidas ordered them to leave the battlefield, and be prepared to give an other battle. Some thespians left (most of them) and some other staid to fight. It was about 900 more or less fighters who gave their life, against over 50000 persians.
Persian army had such a loss, that they gave up their quest. For the time!
There is also an ancient report, from a historian of that time, that an other fighter, fought by the side of those heroes. The name of him was Ehelteos. There are no more information about him, only his name!
Honor to the fallen, for a better world!
I wish i was a Spartan and then i could rub jelly all over my bum……..
blah blah blah blah i wish i had 300 pounds of cocoaine
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Best wishes for all people around the world….
im persian
our country is in the evils hands now.
I saw the movie in Bangkok…
Whoooooosssssshhhhhhh !….. Amazing and Great….
Total respect for the 300 braves from Sparte…
May their legend survive forever.
Wow….300 was an amazing movie! I haven’t left the movie theater thinking that I just saw the greatest movie ever made, until now.
well i find the movie 300, mga puking inang mga walang kwentang mga putang ina nyong gagong hinayupak kayong tarantadong bwakanang ulul nyo…, awesome!
300 was the other political and dirty lie about persian culture ! if you wannt to know about persians , you can just read your bible ! abour Cyrus , Darius (father of Xerxes) Esther (Wife of Xerxes !) ! and all of these people in your bible are great personalities ! but in the fake political movie and a comic fiction book of Frank miller they are as GAY ! and … !
Maybe God made a mistake in writting Bible , and Frank miller and Bush and … are True .
=+d stoRy is vRy niCe..vry amazing…and so grat..
>>i hoPe evrybody cUd watCh it…
th is movie only portrait the ego of som one.