![]() ![]() Some fervently loved the movie while others thought it was a waste of time. I was in film school at the time so the visual aesthetic of the film - shooting on 35mm - with entire CGI sets was a piece of debate. The film may not have had much historical meat on its bones, but it was a visual beast lighting up the box office and spurring a million guys to subscribe to Men's Health. When 300 dropped in 2006, Frank Miller was enjoying a welcome career resurgence - this was before The Spirit - and Zack Snyder was a filmmaker on the rise. Unable to muster the entire Spartan army to meet the enemy head-on, Leonidas and his personal guard of 300 soldiers will use the terrain of Greece to stop an army numbering in the millions dead in its track - or die trying. The Persian god-king Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) is on the warpath with his eye fixed on conquering the free peoples of Greece - in particular, the war-adept Spartans lead by King Leonidas (Gerard Butler). ![]() "Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning." ![]()
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