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Running time116 minutesCountryUnited StatesCanadaLanguageEnglishBudget$65 millionBox office$456.1 million300 is a 2006 American based on the of the same name. Both are fictionalized retellings of the within the. The film was directed by, while Miller served as and consultant.
It was filmed mostly with a technique, to help replicate the imagery of the original comic book.The plot revolves around , who leads 300 into battle against the and his invading army of more than 300,000 soldiers. As the battle ragesattempts to rally support in Sparta for her husband. The story is framed by a narrative by the Spartan soldier. Through this, various fantastical creatures are introduced, placing 300 within the genre of.300 was released for the first time in Austin Butt-Numb-A-Thon on December 9, 2006, later released in Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2007, and finally released in both conventional and theaters in the United States on March 9, 2007, and on, Disc, and on July 31, 2007. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics, which included praise for its original visuals and style but criticism for its depiction of the, which some characterized as bigoted. Even so, the film was a box office success, grossing over $450 million, and the film's opening was the 24th-largest in history at the time. A, titled, based on Miller's previously unpublished Xerxes, was released on March 7, 2014.
Contents.Plot In 479 B.C., one year after the, Dilios, a in the, begins his story by depicting the life of from childhood to kingship via. Dilios's story continues and a herald arrives at the gates of demanding ' as a token of submission to —the Spartans reply. Leonidas then visits the, proposing a strategy to drive back the numerically superior Persians through the. His plan involves building a wall in order to funnel the Persians: negating the Persian advantage in numbers, and giving Greeks the advantage over the vast waves of Persian. The Ephors consult, who decrees that Sparta will not go to war during the.
As Leonidas angrily departs, an agent from Xerxes appears, rewarding the Ephors for their covert support.Although the Ephors have denied him permission to mobilize Sparta's army, Leonidas gathers three hundred of his best soldiers in the guise of his personal. They are joined along the way. At Thermopylae, they construct the wall made up of stones and slain Persian scouts as, angering a Persian emissary. Stelios, an elite Spartan soldier, orders the former to go back to the Persian lines and warn Xerxes, after cutting off his whipping arm.Meanwhile, Leonidas encounters, a deformed Spartan whose parents fled Sparta to spare him certain. Ephialtes asks to redeem his father's name by joining Leonidas' army, warning him of a secret path the Persians could use to outflank and surround the Spartans.
Though sympathetic, Leonidas rejects him since his deformity physically prevents him from holding his shield high enough, potentially compromising the formation, and Ephialtes is enraged.The battle begins soon after the Spartans'. Using the Hot Gates to their advantage, as well as their superior fighting skills, the Spartans repel wave after wave of the advancing Persian army. During a lull in the battle, Xerxes personally approaches Leonidas to persuade him to surrender, offering him wealth and power in exchange for his allegiance. Leonidas declines and mocks Xerxes for the inferior quality of his fanatical warriors. In response, Xerxes sends in his elite guard, the, later that night. The Spartans nonetheless manage to defeat the Immortals with few losses, with slight help from the Arcadians.On the second day, Xerxes sends in new waves of armies from Asia and other Persian subject states, including, to crush the Spartans once and for all, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Ephialtes defects to Xerxes to whom he reveals the secret path in exchange for wealth, luxury, women, and a Persian uniform.
The Arcadians retreat upon learning of Ephialtes' betrayal, but the Spartans stay. Leonidas orders an injured but reluctant Dilios to return to Sparta and tell them of what has happened: a 'tale of victory.' In Sparta, tries to persuade the to send reinforcements to aid the 300. Theron, a corrupt politician, claims that he 'owns' the Council and threatens the Queen, who reluctantly submits to his sexual demands in return for his help. When Theron disgraces her in front of the Council, Gorgo kills him out of rage, revealing within his robe a bag of Xerxes' gold.
Marking his betrayal, the Council unanimously agrees to send reinforcements. On the third day, the Persians, led by Ephialtes, traverse the secret path, encircling the Spartans. Xerxes' again demands their surrender. Leonidas seemingly kneels in submission, allowing Stelios to leap over him and kill the general. A furious Xerxes orders his troops to attack.
Leonidas rises and throws his spear at Xerxes; barely missing him, the spear cuts across and wounds his face, proving the 's mortality. Leonidas and the remaining Spartans fight to the last man until they finally succumb to an arrow barrage.Dilios, now back in Sparta, concludes his tale before the Council. Inspired by Leonidas' sacrifice, the Greeks mobilize.
One year later, the Persians face an army of 30,000 free Greeks led by a vanguard of 10,000 Spartans. After one final speech commemorating the 300, Dilios, now head of the Spartan Army, leads them to war, against the Persians across the fields of.Cast. Above: the film version of a panel from the graphic novel ( below)Producer Gianni Nunnari was not the only person planning a film about the; director already planned a film of the battle based on the book. Nunnari discovered Frank Miller's 300, which impressed him enough to acquire the film rights.
300 was jointly produced by Nunnari and Mark Canton, and Michael B. Gordon wrote the script.
Director was hired in June 2004 as he had attempted to make a film based on Miller's novel before making his debut with the remake of. Snyder then had screenwriter rewrite Gordon's script for production and Frank Miller was retained as consultant and executive producer. Frank Miller's original graphic novel was inspired by the film, which Miller first saw at age 6.The film is a adaptation of the, similar to the film adaptation of. Snyder photocopied panels from the comic book, from which he planned the preceding and succeeding shots. 'It was a fun process for me to have a frame as a goal to get to,' he said. Like the comic book, the adaptation also used the character Dilios as a narrator.
Snyder used this narrative technique to show the audience that the surreal 'Frank Miller world' of 300 was told from a subjective perspective. By using Dilios' gift of storytelling, he was able to introduce fantasy elements into the film, explaining that 'Dilios is a guy who knows how not to wreck a good story with truth.' Snyder also added the in which Queen Gorgo attempts to rally support for her husband. Above: A scene during filmingBelow: The finished sceneTwo months of were required to create hundreds of shields, spears, and swords, some of which were recycled from. Creatures were designed by, and an wolf and thirteen animatronic horses were created. The actors trained alongside the stuntmen, and even Snyder joined in. Upwards of 600 costumes were created for the film, as well as extensive prosthetics for various characters and the corpses of Persian soldiers.
And worked hand in hand with Snyder in pre-production to design the look of the individual characters, and to produce the effects, props, weapons and dummy bodies required for the production.300 entered active production on October 17, 2005, in, and was shot over the course of sixty days in chronological order with a budget of $60 million. Employing the technique, Snyder shot at the now-defunct Icestorm Studios in Montreal using. Butler said that while he did not feel constrained by Snyder's direction, fidelity to the comic imposed certain limitations on his performance. Wenham said there were times when Snyder wanted to precisely capture iconic moments from the comic book, and other times when he gave actors freedom 'to explore within the world and the confines that had been set.' Headey said of her experience with the bluescreens, 'It's very odd, and emotionally, there's nothing to connect to apart from another actor.'
Only one scene, in which horses travel across the countryside, was shot outdoors. The film was an intensely physical production, and Butler pulled an arm tendon and developed.was handled by Montreal's and filled in the bluescreen footage with more than 1,500 shots. And created a process dubbed 'The Crush,' which allowed the Meteor artists to manipulate the colors by increasing the contrast of light and dark. Certain sequences were and tinted to establish different moods.
Ghislain St-Pierre, who led the team of artists, described the effect: 'Everything looks realistic, but it has a kind of a gritty illustrative feel.' Various, including, and, were used to create the 'spraying blood.' The post-production lasted for a year and was handled by a total of ten companies. Soundtrack. Main article:In July 2005, composer began work on the film, describing the score as having 'beautiful themes on the top and large choir,' but 'tempered with some extreme heaviness.'
The had scored for a test scene that the director wanted to show to Warner Bros. To illustrate the path of the project. Bates said that the score had 'a lot of weight and intensity in the low end of the percussion' that Snyder found agreeable to the film. The score was recorded at and features the vocals of. A standard edition and a of the soundtrack containing 25 tracks was released on March 6, 2007, with the special edition containing a 16-page booklet and three two-sided.The score has caused some controversy in the film composer community, garnering criticism for its striking similarity to several other recent soundtracks, including and 's work for the film. The heaviest borrowings are said to be from 's 1999 for. 'Remember Us,' from 300, is identical in parts to the ' from Titus, and 'Returns a King' is similar to the cue '.'
On August 3, 2007, Warner Bros. Pictures acknowledged in an official statement:“ a number of the music cues for the score of 300 were, without our knowledge or participation, derived from music composed by Academy Award-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal for the motion picture Titus. Pictures has great respect for Elliot, our longtime collaborator, and is pleased to have amicably resolved this matter.”Promotion and release. Some interpreted the portrayal of (right) as.
Snyder said of Xerxes: 'What's more scary to a 20-year-old boy than a giant god-king who wants to have his way with you?' From its opening, 300 also attracted controversy over its portrayal of. Officials of the Iranian government denounced the film.Some scenes in the film portray -like and other fictional creatures as part of the Persian army, and the fictionalized portrayal of Persian King has been criticized as. Critics suggested that this was meant to stand in stark contrast to the portrayed masculinity of the Spartan army. Argued that the film's Persians were a vehicle for an anachronistic cross-section of Western aspirational stereotypes of Asian and African cultures.The film's portrayal of ancient Persians caused a particularly strong reaction in.
Various Iranian officials condemned the film. The submitted a formal complaint against the film to, labelling it an attack on the historical identity of Iran. The Iranian mission to the U.N. Protested the film in a, and Iranian embassies protested its screening in France,. The film was banned within Iran as 'hurtful American propaganda'. Reviewers in the United States and elsewhere 'noted the political overtones of the West-against-Iran story line and the way Persians are depicted as, sexually flamboyant and evil in contrast to the noble Greeks'. With bootleg versions of the film already available in with the film's international release and news of the film's surprising success at the U.S., it prompted widespread anger in Iran.
Of reported, 'All of Tehran was outraged. Everywhere I went yesterday, the talk vibrated with indignation over the film'. Newspapers in Iran featured headlines such as 'Hollywood declares war on Iranians' and '300 Against 70 Million' (Iran's population)., an independent Iranian newspaper, said that 'the film depicts Iranians as demons, without culture, feeling or humanity, who think of nothing except attacking other nations and killing people'. Four Iranian have called for Muslim countries to ban the film, and a group of Iranian film makers submitted a letter of protest to UNESCO regarding the film's alleged misrepresentation of Iranian history and culture. Iran's cultural advisor to president has called the film an 'American attempt for against Iran'.Moaveni identified two factors which may have contributed to the intensity of Iranian indignation over the film. First, she describes the timing of the film's release, on the eve of, the Persian, as 'inauspicious.'
Second, Iranians tend to view the era depicted in the film as 'a particularly noble page in their history'. Moaveni also suggests that 'the box office success of 300, compared with the relative flop of Alexander (another spurious period epic dealing with Persians), is cause for considerable alarm, signaling ominous U.S. Intentions'.According to, Iranian critics of 300, ranging from bloggers to government officials, have described the movie 'as a calculated attempt to demonise Iran at a time of intensifying U.S. Pressure over the country's nuclear programme'. An Iranian government described the film as 'hostile behavior which is the result of cultural and psychological warfare'. Moaveni reported that the Iranians she interacted with were 'adamant that the movie was secretly funded by the U.S. Government to prepare Americans for going to war against Iran'.
In popular culture 300 has been in film, television, and other media, and spawned the 'This is Sparta!' Based upon the film have appeared on and, the latter of which mimicked the visual style of 300 in a parody set during the American Revolutionary War, titled '1776'. Other parodies include an episode of named ', the short film which won the 2007 MTV Movie Spoof Award, and 'BOO!'
By magazine in its September 2007 issue #481, written by and illustrated. Released, a spoof directed. Once planned a similar parody, titled National Lampoon's 301: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus Wallace Leonidas.300, particularly its pithy quotations, has been 'adopted' by the student body of (whose nickname is the ), with chants of 'Spartans, what is your profession?'
Becoming common at sporting events starting after the film's release, and head coach dressed as Leonidas at one student event., a player with the in the and formerly with the, was nicknamed 'Leonidas,' after the Greek warrior-king hero of Sparta acted by Gerard Butler in the movie 300, because of his intense workout regimen, and his beard. Main article:In June 2008, producers Mark Canton, Gianni Nunnari and Bernie Goldmann revealed that work had begun on a sequel to 300, 300: Rise of an Empire. Legendary Pictures had announced that Frank Miller started writing the follow-up graphic novel, and Zack Snyder was interested in directing the adaptation, but moved on to develop and direct the Superman reboot. Noam Murro directed instead, while Zack Snyder produced. The film focused on the Athenian admiral, as portrayed by Australian actor. The sequel, was released on March 7, 2014.
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