Glorious shots of Leonidas and crew gazing contemplatively at matte-painting storm clouds mirror stills from Miller's source comic. Snyder borrows substantially from Miller's visual palette as he paints 300 on the big screen. Their courageous stand bought limited time for Leonidas' wife, Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey), who fought to overcome political opposition in Sparta and assemble a properly armed resistance. Pigeonholing his enemies into a constricted and controllable mountain passage, Leonidas staged a brave front against escalating forces for three days. That's 300 in a nutshell, though Snyder's tight epic additionally bathes in every tired cliche of the warrior genre, yet somehow makes it all seem fresh.ĭo you know that cocky individual who appears in every decent combat film, the one wearing the disturbing ear-to-ear grin as he mows down waves of enemy troops? Spartan king Leonidas (Gerard Butler) had 300 of these wild-card soldiers on his side when his recruits went toe-to-toe with Persia's massive armies in 480 B.C.
Splotches of crimson (usually blood) stain sun-dried backdrops as impossibly chiseled warriors fight long past their dying breath. Because Miller's graphic novels have been fountains of inspiration for a handful of recent directors, his style has become overly identifiable. Like Robert Rodriguez in Sin City, Snyder employs cutting-edge visual technology and green-screen effects to essentially photocopy Miller's acclaimed work of the same name. I expected the former (Snyder's source material is a graphic novel from cult hero Frank Miller) and was delighted by the latter, as 300 winds up being far more original than I thought possible. Everything old is new again in 300, director Zack Snyder's account of the barbaric Battle of Thermopylae, a film that is ridiculously stylish and commendably substantive.
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