Pali Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Anyone else seen the trailer for this movie? It looks freaking incredible. It's based on the Frank Miller graphic novels about the Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans volunteered to stay behind and hold off a Persian army of a million while the rest of the Greek army retreated. While they were wiped out in the end, the 300 Spartans took tens of thousands of Persians with them, and so badly hurt the morale of the Persian army that they were beaten shortly afterwards. The movie doesn't look to be a super-realistic telling of the story, as it's based off of the Frank Miller comics instead of history, but the mythic style of storytelling and combat looks amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Questioner Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 The persians may have been badly beat, but it was the fact that 300 spartan men could hold them off that raised the morale of the Greeks. The Greeks were also more heavily armored and better trained than the light armored persians. It was a great feat which those brave Spartans did. If it wasn't for the traitorous greek who showed the Persian King a way around the mountain path, the 300 would have done more damage to the invading persians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pali Posted December 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 The persians may have been badly beat' date=' but it was the fact that 300 spartan men could hold them off that raised the morale of the Greeks. The Greeks were also more heavily armored and better trained than the light armored persians. It was a great feat which those brave Spartans did. If it wasn't for the traitorous greek who showed the Persian King a way around the mountain path, the 300 would have done more damage to the invading persians.[/quote'] Actually, the 300 Spartans (and 700 Thespians that most of the legends and this movie ignore) volunteered to stay behind AFTER the second path was shown to the Persians. Before that, it was a combined Greek army of about 5,000, which stopped the first few waves of Persian attacks (10,000 or more each) with something like a dozen casualties total. Historians look at Thermopylae as one of the battles that best showed how training, equipment, discipline, and position could allow a small force to do otherwise unthinkable damage to a larger one. Not denying the advantages the Spartans and Thespians had, but I also refuse to deny the courage it takes for a thousand men to refuse to flee from an army that outnumbers them at least a thousand to one. Some estimates of the size of the Persian army are up to 2.5 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 The trailer for 300 won best trailer of the year on IGN.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pali Posted December 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 The trailer for 300 won best trailer of the year on IGN.com Where do you think I first had it pointed out to me? ^_~ I didn't even know the movie was being made until I read that. PS: IMO, that award was well deserved. As they said, if the point of a trailer is to make you want to see a movie... OH YEAH it did it's job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rensvert Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 The movie does look pretty cool I will admit but like you said the movie is based off of the novel and not actual myth. But this is the battle that was told aboutin several tales and even made a brief referance in Homer's Iliad. I have hopes for the movie but am not getting them to high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rairen Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 Wait, wait, wait... Sin City Frank Miller? *dies* If the same director is doing the adaptation, I could go to heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chayesh Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 I love how people these days see Frank Miller and say "Sin City" rather than his greater masterpiece "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangelion Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 For those who have not had the benefit of viewing this amazing trailer: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/300_hd.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rairen Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 I love how people these days see Frank Miller and say "Sin City" rather than his greater masterpiece "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns". It's nice to look at and all (like everything else he does), but I'm a sucker for a rockin' Noir plot. Can we have an FL Noir Day? Can we? We can all run around in trench coats shooting each other and followed around by a private bard to play us theme music. Oh, God. If there's ever a faerie bard in game running around setting PK fights to music... don't think of this post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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