After the lackluster movie season over Christmas, I am looking forward to seeing a movie: 300. This one happens to be one of the best battles in the history of battles, that of Thermopolae Pass. It is like the Alamo of the ancient world. It is being directed by Zack Snyder, who put together the great recent remake of Dawn of the Dead, bringing alive Frank Miller's (Sin City)comic book version of the story. The preview looked simply amazing, with its sepia tones and rich red contrasts.
In reality noone really knows how many people were at the battle, and it was probably more then 300. The 300 figure comes from the movie "The 300 Spartans", which came out in the 1960's. See: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0055719/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae for more information about the fight.
From Wikipedia:
Herodotus wrote that when Dienekes, a Spartan soldier, was informed that Persian arrows would be so numerous as to blot out the sun, he remarked with characteristically laconic prose, "So much the better, we shall fight in the shade." Today Dienekes's phrase is the motto of the Greek 20th Armored Division.
I can't wait!
2 comments:
Don't get too worked up. Let's all remember The Incredible Hulk and how bad that was, after incredible trailers and a seemingly great lineup. But yes, I'm pretty psyched too.
I didn't see the Hulk, it was so bad, I didn't want to waste my money. If it is half as good as Sin City, I will be pleased.
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