The comic as actually having a more complex composition. Note the silhouette of the character at the very top (which is missing in the film): THIS IS SPARTA! 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. Battle of Artemisium • Battle of Chaeronea • Battle of Corinth • Battle of Leuctra • Battle of Marathon • Battle of Plataea • Battle of Salamis • Battle of Samothrace • Battle of Thermopylae • Because the Spartans are antagonists too, they murder their own kind, have nothing in mind except war, escalating bromances, and oily fights, and deem any soft, feminine, sensitive emotion inferior and stupid. Even harder to imagine, than that it once was like that, is the fact that there are still cultures out there that keep living these standards by uniting theistic despotism with chauvinistic misogyny as an official and appropriate governmental form. is adapted from a graphic novel by Frank Miller. Miller had been fascinated with the Battle of Thermopylae ever since he saw Rudolph Maté’s movie The 300 Spartans when he was six years old.

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Webisodes” (38:33 – SD) have a “play all” function or you can watch each section own its own, individually. The webisodes here discuss the following topics: What spawns this huge battle is when one day in Sparta a messenger arrives, along with some other Persians. Long story short, that whole “don’t kill the messenger” thing was overrated — at least to the Spartans, specifically to King Leonidis. He’s not pleased with the news he’s given and he assembles his army. He’s ready to leave behind his son and wife “Queen Gorgo” ( Lena Headey) and go off to fight, as Spartans are meant to. The King’s army consists of some key members such as “Dilios” ( David Wenham), “Stelios” ( Michael Fassbender), “Astinos” ( Tom Wisdom), and “Daxos” ( Andrew Pleavin). Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century. Over-the-top battle-scene violence, including graphic decapitations, severed limbs, mutilated bodies piled high, arrow-filled torsos, etc. Young Spartan boys are forced to furiously fight each other. The Spartan mottos are "No retreat, no surrender" and "No prisoners, no mercy."Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander is a disaster that marks the end of a creator’s ability to deliver quality material. Who is who and who is doing what in this comic? The storytelling here makes the storytelling in "300: Rise of an Empire" seem like Citizen Kane. I was half-expecting a story similar to "Rise of an Empire" but noooope. Dear Frank went and made another Dark Knight Strikes Again! What's wrong with that man? Is he set on destroying his own bibliography? Imagine my surprise when I saw that Xerxes was published 4 years after the movie it was supposed to be adapted into. 4 years for what, Frank? ヽ(‵﹏´)ノ

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Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close Even in the face of sure defeat, brave soldiers stand firm against tyrannous threats to freedom. A corrupt Spartan councilman is exposed as a traitor and brought to justice. But also some stereotyping based on Asian culture, as well as one character's physical disability.The story to 300 takes place in ancient Sparta, at first, and involves an army led by “King Leonidis” ( Gerard Butler) with his troops at what is known [historically] as the Battle of Thermopylae. This factual event involved the king and his three hundred soldiers fighting their way to a Persian army led by a man named “Xerxes” ( Rodrigo Santoro). Spartan men were bred to fight, and they were put through grueling feats all throughout their young lives to condition them. This is how we are introduced to the King, as he’s growing up in a short bit of a sequence early on in the film. No. The movie 300 has the Spartan soldiers fighting nearly naked without any form of body armor protecting them. Body armor was a valuable asset to the real Spartan soldiers. 300 author Frank Miller commented on this alteration in an Entertainment Weekly interview, "I took those chest plates and leather skirts off of them for a reason. I wanted these guys to move and I wanted 'em to look good. ... Spartans, in full regalia, were almost indistinguishable except at a very close angle." Written and illustrated by comics luminary and legend, Frank Miller (Sin City, The Dark Knight, 300), and colored by Alex Sinclair (Batman: The Dark Knight III: The Master Race), this companion to Miller's epic masterpiece, 300, brings the historical story of Xerxes to the graphic novel audience with grit and visual style! I'd heard Frank Miller wasn't known for being a sensitive or subtle author, so I had hoped for some deliciously gruesome weirdness or kinkniness that may have been too much for the cinematic release, but no, the book feels more tame if anything. Striking when the iron’s hot, Frank Miller follows up 300 20 YEARS after it was first published with Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander - and it really wasn’t worth the wait. It’s such a rubbish sequel. And so confusing! I had no idea what was going on and had to do my own research to understand what Miller should’ve been able to convey if he were still a competent storyteller.

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FROM WIKI: "In May 2021, Snyder revealed he had written a third film, adapting the Alexander the Great segments of Xerxes as a conclusion to the 300 trilogy but Warner Bros. was not interested in it." This book is excellent if you need something to prop your computer up on if you're using it in bed and don't want the fan to get smothered by blankets. The last one is nowadays pureThere was just one particular line in it where one of the Spartan soldiers—I'll remind you, this is Spartans that we're talking about—one of them was talking disparagingly about the Athenians, and said, ‘Those boy-lovers.' You know, I mean, read a book, Frank. The Spartans were famous for something other than holding the bridge at Thermopylae, they were quite famous for actually enforcing man-boy love amongst the ranks as a way of military bonding. That specific example probably says more about Frank's grasp of history than it does about his grasp of homosexuality, so I'm not impugning his moral situation there. I'm not saying it was homophobic; just wasn't very well researched. [4] It's clear that Frank Miller wanted to capitalize from the great idea he had 20 years ago. But some things cannot be repeated. The comic is a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of Leonidas of Sparta. 300 was particularly inspired by the 1962 film The 300 Spartans, a film Miller watched as a young boy. [1] The work was adapted in 2006 to a film of the same name. [2] 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.

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makes its debut on 4K UHD Blu-ray in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio with the HDR10 form of High Dynamic Range. This movie was shot on Super 35mm film using Arriflex 235, Arriflex 435 Es, Panavision Panaflex Gold Ii, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, and Photo-Sonics 4Er cameras all using Panavision Primo Lenses — according to IMDb. Waldraff, Benjamin (2014). Differences Between Movie and Graphic Novel. The Adaptation of "300" by Frank Miller. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)In 2018, Dark Horse published Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander, also written and drawn by Miller, acting as a prequel and sequel to the events of 300, depicting Xerxes I's rise to the throne, and the subsequent destruction of the Persian Empire under his descendant Darius III, by Alexander the Great. And yet Frank Miller would have us believe they're better than the cultured Athenians (who're habitually described as boy-lovers, in spite of the Spartans being big macho maries themselves), that they can rationally reject their religion (the priests are painted as corrupt) and that what they're fighting for in their battle against the Persians is WESTERN CIVILISATION ITSELF. Fun and exciting. A worthwhile story to be told, though the omission of the Thespians and other abuses of artistic license mark the fault of Miller's sensationalism. Like the four-color comics before him, Miller takes archetypes and symbols and drives them full throttle to the epic, gun-blazing climax. Unfortunately, character and emotion suffer. This is not quite the liability that it could have been, as the Epic tradition is often purposefully guilty of the same and 300 fits into this tradition (or the modern swords & sandals permutation).