300

I’ve watched tis movie a few weeks back. I would like to share my xperience with others that tis movie is badass!! From the start till the end of the movie kept my adrenaline rushing. 300 is a real candy for the eyes, the sound track is amazing, and the story is well told. I have waited for tis movie to hit the big screen eons ago. For those of u out there u never knew anything bout tis movie, it is actually based on a comic by Frank Miller (the artist of Sin City). Some people who haven’t read the comic might wonder what all the fuss is about. It’s an impressive comic, and the movie rocks as well. So read on!

300 have been collected in a beautiful “wide-screen” hardcover, so it’s not too hard to find. I bought them way back in 1999 and is still in near mint condition. During those days It’s a perfect book to give to a non-comic book fan, since it’s a graphic retelling of the Spartan defense at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. Tis mini series consist of 5 issues. The picture is the scanned version of the comics. I dislike it at first cause all Frank Miller’s comics are an eyesore. The images are poor, almost grotesque. But as we read on.. We tend to forgive the drawing cause we eventually will get hooked to the story. It’s historically inspired, not historically accurate; Miller’s more interested in the myth and legend than detail.

The story is pretty straightforward, and Miller outlines it well in issue #1. The Persian king Xerxes wants to take over the world. He sends a messenger to Sparta telling them he wants a token gesture of submission. The Spartan king Leonidas kills the messenger and prepares for war. Leonidas plans to stop the Persian advance at a narrow pass through the mountains, a pass bordered on the other side by the sea. The Persian numbers will not be a factor because of the little space, and Spartans will kill them easily. If u wanna know more u just have to go and watch the movie.

The sad part bout tis is that many people are making it controversial. The Persians are mad at the movie claiming that tis is not historically accurate and is a blasphemy to the Iranians. In tis country people are condemning the movie by saying that it is too violent, too adultery and too… aarrgghh u get the point. They even planned to ban the movie. But who cares. 300 was an amazing work of art and nothing more. It was entertainment, capturing the myth and glory of ancient Greece. NOT a historically accurate vision of Greece. But some of the part in the movie or the comic are historiacally true if not accurate. Sigh… Can’t you people watch the movie for what it is? A piece of art? If u want to quarrel bout the historically inaccuracy of the story, might as well watch National Georgraphic channel or the Discovery channel.