is about as violent as “Apocalypto” and twice as stupid. Adapted from a graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, it offers up a bombastic spectacle of honor and betrayal, rendered in images that might have been airbrushed onto a customized van sometime in the late 1970s. The basic story is a good deal older. It’s all about the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, which unfolded at a narrow pass on the coast of Greece whose name translates as Hot Gates. According to The Guardian, Iranian critics of 300, ranging from bloggers to government officials, described the movie "as a calculated attempt to demonise Iran at a time of intensifying U.S. pressure over the country's nuclear programme." [137] An Iranian government spokesman described the film as "hostile behavior which is the result of cultural and psychological warfare." [137] Moaveni reported that the Iranians with whom she interacted were "adamant that the movie was secretly funded by the U.S. government to prepare Americans for going to war against Iran." [136] In popular culture [ edit ] In August 2006, Warner Bros. announced 300 's release date as March 16, 2007, [51] but in October the release was moved forward to March 9, 2007. [41] An unfinished cut of 300 was shown at Butt-Numb-A-Thon film festival on December 9, 2006. [52] Home media [ edit ] During pre-production, Snyder bonded with Frank Miller over a shared affection for samurai movies and gory low-budget horror cinema. Snyder’s main note to the screenwriters adapting Miller’s graphic novel was to add more weirdness.

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Grossman, Lev (March 2, 2007). "The Art of War". TIME. Archived from the original on March 4, 2007 . Retrieved March 7, 2007. Lena Headey as Queen Gorgo, Queen of Sparta (Gorgo has a larger role in the film than she does in the comic book, where she only appears in the beginning). [6] Newsday critic Gene Seymour, on the other hand, stated that such reactions are misguided, writing that "the movie's just too darned silly to withstand any ideological theorizing." [111] Snyder himself dismissed ideological readings, suggesting that reviewers who critique "a graphic novel movie about a bunch of guys... stomping the snot out of each other" using words like "'neocon,' 'homophobic,' 'homoerotic' or 'racist '" are "missing the point". [112] Snyder, however, also admitted to fashioning an effeminate villain specifically to make young straight males in the audience uncomfortable: "What's more scary to a 20-year-old boy than a giant god-king who wants to have his way with you?" [113] The Slovenian critic Slavoj Žižek pointed out that the story represents "a poor, small country (Greece) invaded by the army of a much large[r] state (Persia)" and suggested the identification of the Spartans with a modern superpower to be flawed. [114]

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Best of 2007– Movie Awards, Favorite Character". IGN. Archived from the original on December 30, 2007 . Retrieved December 31, 2007. World Premiere Gets Standing Ovation". SuperHeroHype.com. February 2, 2007. Archived from the original on February 18, 2007 . Retrieved February 15, 2007.

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The bonus materials here are great, as they contain well-over an hour of content, not including the audio commentary, but there’s something missing here. Well, actually a few things are missing. So, let me explain that and a short bit of the history of this film on the high definition home video format over the years shortly a bit below, and the extras that came with those releases. Reading the comic and studying the compositions, I am BLOWN AWAY! I am so inspired. Let me share some thoughts: Epic compositions a b Nelson, Resa (February 1, 2006). " 300 Mixes History, Fantasy". Sci Fi Wire. Archived from the original on June 10, 2008 . Retrieved April 17, 2010. Garrett, Diane (June 29, 2008). "New 300 rallies troops". Variety. Archived from the original on July 3, 2008 . Retrieved June 30, 2008. In 480 BC, King Leonidas of Sparta gathers 300 of his best men to fight the upcoming Persian invasion. In what is likely a suicide mission, they and their allies plan to stop King Xerxes' invasion of Greece at the narrow cliffs of the "Hot Gates" ( Thermopylae). The terrain prevents the Greeks from being overwhelmed by Xerxes' superior numbers (a military tactic usually called " defeat in detail").

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Romanticizing the Spartan: 300 (Movie Review)". Britannica.com. Archived from the original on November 18, 2008 . Retrieved September 13, 2008. Furey, Emmett (2007-07-19). "Homosexuality in Comics: Part IV". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on 22 August 2007 . Retrieved 2007-07-20. Sets IMAX Opening Records". SuperHeroHype.com. March 13, 2007. Archived from the original on March 17, 2007 . Retrieved March 13, 2007. The story is set in 480 BCE and is about King Leonidas of Sparta and 300 of his personal guard standing up to a massive Persian army many thousands strong led by the self-proclaimed god-king Xerxes. What looks like a massacre based on figures alone, changes when Leonidas chooses a narrow coastal passageway called the Hot Gates as the place he and his men will make their last stand. They will die but not without taking a fair chunk out of Xerxes' force, causing his army to stumble in their mission to dominate the civilised world, and inspire others to oppose and eventually defeat Xerxes.

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Ito, Robert (November 26, 2006). "The Gore of Greece, Torn From a Comic". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 29, 2017 . Retrieved February 4, 2017. That Athenian triumph deserves a movie! And believe me, it weighed heavily on the real life Leonidas, ten years later. 300 author Frank Miller portrays the Spartans' preening arrogance in the best possible light, as a kind of endearing tribal machismo. Miller never hints at the underlying reason for Leonidas's rant, a deep current of smoldering shame over how Sparta sat out Marathon, leaving it to Athenian amateurs, like the playwright Aeschylus, to save all of Greece. The "shopkeepers" whom Leonidas outrageously and ungratefully despises in the film. [6] makes its debut on 4K UHD Blu-ray in Dolby Atmos, with a Dolby TrueHD 7.1 core, for those who don’t have the proper equipment to fully decode the Atmos. Now, this is something always worth noting that the previously released original 2007 Blu-ray included a lossless 5.1 mix in a different audio format: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Audio. Here, you will not probably notice too much of a difference if you’re listening on a non-Atmos capable sound system. I felt that’s, again something worth noting, always going to be something people need to know going into any Atmos mix or such — if they aren’t experiencing it in the format. Now, with that out of the way, I’ll move on.Smith, Kyle (March 9, 2007). "Persian Shrug". New York Post. Archived from the original on March 3, 2017 . Retrieved April 17, 2010. Essentially all you get here are the original 2007 Blu-ray extras, the audio commentary over on the 4K disc, and a digital code (copy) of the film in 4K. Now, don’t get me wrong, it is still as impressive of a set of bonus materials as it was 13 years ago, however, there has been another Blu-ray release of this film that consisted of new materials and that was all on “ The Complete Experience” Blu-ray rerelease from 2009. The extras that were new to that release aren’t found here, because it is essentially using (bundling) an outdated disc. A disc that very easily could have just been that 2009 disc, with all of the extras missing. Let me clarify a bit further. We all love the movie 300. And now I can state confidently that the movie is one hell of an adaptation of its source material. The movie not only absorbs the story faithfully but also manages to transcend the source material in many parts. As with many comics and graphic novels, I've seen the movie before I read the book. But despite the extreme pathos, the floods of blood / body parts and the ridiculous make-up/CGI abs, I liked it. Thus I wanted to read the graphic novel. Top March Opening Weekends". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015 . Retrieved November 6, 2015.