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2006, USA

Genres:

Action | Drama | History | War

Actors:

Gerard Butler		King Leonidas
Lena Headey		Queen Gorgo
Dominic West		Theron
David Wenham		Dilios
Vincent Regan		Captain
Michael Fassbender		Stelios
Tom Wisdom		Astinos
Andrew Pleavin		Daxos
Andrew Tiernan		Ephialtes
Rodrigo Santoro		Xerxes
Giovani Cimmino		Pleistarchos
Stephen McHattie		Loyalist
Greg Kramer		Ephor #1
Alex Ivanovici		Ephor #2
Craig Kelly		Oracle Girl

Directors:

Zack Snyder |

Certification:

Japan:R-15 | Australia:MA | USA:R | Italy:T | Canada:18A ... show all

IMDB Rating:

8.00 out of 10 (146583 votes)

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Taglines:	1: Prepare for glory! 2: Feel the wrath in IMAX 3: Spartans, tonight, we dine in hell! 4: Based on Frank Miller's Graphic Novel 5: Pledged to crush! 6: Thirsty for Spartan blood! 7: This is where we fight, this is where they die!! 8: What does it mean to turn one of the great graphic novels of our time into a major motion picture?
Plot Summary:	It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius' master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries' request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes' way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents' complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied "molon lave," which means "Come and get them." The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn't been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) "In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions)." For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) "Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws," meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians' morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.
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posted on 13 December 2007

There’s risk in playing around with legends, and “300,” based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller, takes a lot of risks. The story of the 300 Spartans is a famous one, and it’s a tale that already plays fast and loose with historical accuracy – giving Miller and the film’s director, Zack Snyder, plenty of room for interpretation, which will doubtless lead to much nitpicking among history wonks.

Sin City, based on another Miller work, has already proven that the man’s comics are easily adapted to film, and that the technique of having actors perform on empty sound stages in front of green screens doesn’t necessarily result in films of Lucas-esque torpidity. In 300 we have an epic action film that literally rewrites the way that such stories can be told, using all the latest cinematic tricks and gadgetry to pull the audience smack into the middle of battles that are as exquisite in their presentation as they are horrifying in their brutality.

Gerard Butler, best remembered as a wholly inadequate Phantom of the Opera, is magnificent as King Leonidas, the proud leader who kills Xerxes’ messenger upon receiving the Persians’ initial request for surrender. Denied permission from the state council to go to war, Leonidas instead takes a casual stroll with 300 armed-and-ready soldiers to a secluded mountain pass. There, he knows, “their numbers will mean nothing” and his men can defend all of free Greece, even if it’s unlikely that they’ll win.

The bulk of the film is devoted to the battle, so it’s worth noting that those who find cinematic representations of severed legs, decapitations and gushing spurts of blood distasteful won’t embrace “300,” and purists who can’t take to leap of faith to appreciate an action flick told in an utterly unique style may grumble about the film’s artiness.

But for everyone else, there’s a lot to love here. Snyder, director of the superb remake of Dawn of the Dead, pays faithful homage to Miller’s novel, often staging sequences that are flat-out representations of the original, static artwork while adding new elements that are so right, you’d swear that came from source material. Leonidas’ wife, Gorgo (Lena Headey) is given a larger role attempting to still the political waters at home, and the additions to the mind-bogglingly large Persian army are in keeping with Miller’s sensibility of celebrating the violent, the beautiful and the grotesque.

There are a few flaws, like the jarringly bad overdubbing of Xerxes’ (Rodrigo Santoro) dialogue, a few instances where the sight lines of actors in their one-shots don’t match up, and a really bad latex-and-makeup job on the traitorous hunchback Ephialtes (Andrew Tiernan). These are small let-downs, however, in a film that offers such rich rewards – stunning action sequences in which computer-generated objects and actors blend seamlessly, a totally fresh storytelling aesthetic, the gladiator epic-meets-heavy metal musical score, and the acres of buffed, oiled and mostly naked beefcake on display.

This is an action film boiled down to its very essence – the fight scenes – and then turned on its ear, offering a testosterone-drenched piece of fanboy art that’s brutally lovely, erotically charged, and a technological marvel.