The few stood up to the many
300
What an exhilerating film.
I've seen it a few more times and I absolutely love it.
It's theatre run is almost over.
Gerard Butler is simply outstanding in the role of King Leonidas.
He is a leader to the marrow.
The way this film is staged is almost sheer ballet.
Artistic Battle Ballet.
The production design is stellar- really, some jaw-dropping shots and sequences punctuate the film.
In fact, I find it hard to think of a single shitty shot.
Zack Snyder can be really really proud of his work.
And so can Larry Fong.
I look very forward to the cinema career of Snyder.
With this film, he's proven his talent.
I love the whole Spartan "spirit".
You can put a lot of stock into giving it up- even with an oracle, "Immortals", bizarrely deformed monsters, oceans of blood, beheadings, stabbings, semi-graphic sex scenes, the worhipping of false Gods, and on and on.
This movie is out-there.
But it's so beautifully done that you accept the wildness in all of it's extremes. The editing is top-notch too. Just fantastic.
The visuals are breathtakingly eye-grabbing, all actors deliver their lines with passion and authority, looking away is almost out of the question.
Motion-Picture? You betcha.
Honor. Legacy. Freedom. Integrity. Tact.
Being a Spartan was not being a weak individual.
It was doing something to be remembered for.
It's one of the best films of the 21st Century.
