I want my Herodotus.
I’m in the cinema when this trailer comes on—heavy on the CGI, stylized visuals, a red, gray, and copper palette. Ancient Greek warriors, mountains, the sea, are those Persians?, long lances, hoplites…
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
If you were in Greenhills yesterday, that was me with the piercing shriek of “It’s the 300 Spartans!” Haven’t been keeping up with movie news so it’s the first I heard of this production. Frank Miller (Eeeeeeee!) is the visual consultant, and the images look like the paintings on vases. The lovely Scottish actor Gerald Butler plays Leonidas, I think. The director is not Ridley Scott, but I can’t wait. The movie, 300, opens in March 2007. I should watch it with Ted and Manolo—they can take it apart for historical authenticity while I relish the carnage. I wanted to run home and polish my sword (that sounds vaguely obscene), which reminds me that I have to get a thinner, lighter sword because mine is only good for whacking and for ceremonial purposes (being pulled out of stone, being passed on by hands sticking out of a lake…). Here’s the classic account of the Battle of Thermopylae by Herodotus, not the most accurate of sources but a hell of a storyteller. It’s essential reading for World Domination.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
October 27th, 2006 at 16:45
So how was “The Prestige”?
October 27th, 2006 at 21:24
Search Youtube (or Gootube, if you prefer) for the 5 “video diaries” of the making of the film.
I think Leonidas screams too much (“This. is. SPARTA!!!”)
Then again, they look awfully good with only those red capes and leather… er, briefs? XD
October 31st, 2006 at 15:19
300 is not your regular swords and sandals epic. Its an adaptation of a Frank Miller graphic novel like SIM CITY and its sure to be a bloody picture with a few creative license moves to make it more cool.
Check out the cool teaser Trailer again and other stuff in the official website http://300themovie.warnerbros.com/