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300 spartans
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For the city of Sparta to survive, one king of Sparta must die. - - The oracle at Delphi The classic struggle of free men fighting against tyranny is not always as clears cut as we are led to believe. The clash of the ancient Greeks and the Persian Empire, as portrayed in the new movie "300," is a good example. While the legend of 300 brave Spartans standing up against overwhelming odds to protect Greek freedom seems admirable on the surface, the lifestyle of the Spartans, who depended on slave labor, presents a different story.
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Consider "300" a palate cleanser for comic book fans still tasting the bitter swill that was "Ghost Rider." The adaptation of comic book auteur Frank Miller's limited series re- creates the fury behind one of history's most famous battles, the Battle of Thermopylae - known to some as the "Greek Alamo" - in 480 B.C. The number 300 counts the Spartan soldiers who stared down a Persian army of incalculable size. That the Spartans made a stand is the stuff of not just legends but some testosterone-fueled filmmaking. It's hard to fathom a film more geared to the chest- thumping male in us all. Spartan King Leonidas ("The Phantom of the Opera's" Gerard Butler) learns that a mass of Persian troops is lurking
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I always have been fascinated with some of the famous "Last Stands" of history, battles fought in the face of overwhelming odds and certain death. The 300 Spartans at Thermopylae come to mind, as do Bowie, Crockett and Travis at the Alamo and William Judd Fetterman's attempt to ride through the entire Sioux nation with 80 men.
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Con un guión de Kurt Johnstad y Michael B. Gordon adaptado de la muy popular novela gráfica de Frank Miller del mismo título (inspirada en la película de 1962 The 300 Spartans, que el autor vio de niño), el director, Zack Snyder da aquí rienda suelta a su muy fértil imaginación. El resultado es una película que, utilizando los últimos adelantos de la tecnología cinematográfica deslumbra visualmente, pero que, para su detrimento, tiende a tomarse demasiado en serio. Un prólogo establece que en Esparta los niños son separados de sus familias a la edad de 7 años y entrenados a ser osados y bravos guerreros. Cuando el rey Leonidas (Gerard Butler, que tuvo a su cargo el papel titular de Phantom of the Opera) mata a los arrogantes mensajeros del ejército persa que solamente ofrecen rendimient...
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Neither history nor cinema is especially well served by "300," which is, nonetheless, a remarkable intersection of technology and imagination. The battle at Thermopylae in 480 B.C., a suicidal last stand by an army of Spartans and Thespians estimated at about 5,000, against Persian invaders, estimated at from hundreds of thousands to millions, set the stage for a later Persian defeat and for its own transformation into a metaphor for the ages.
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Wow!" exhales DanZastrow, as the final post-climactic shot of Watchmen morphs on-screen into a loud end-credit sequence featuring Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan (Then We Take Berlin)." "Wow!" he repeats for emphasis. "Was that a big f- king mess oiwhafi "I'm shocked," says [Zastrow], "that this film was such a huge commercial hit this weekend. It made something like $59 million." That's just exactly the kind of figure Zastrow would have at his fingertips. As a lifelong member of the unofficial universal family of people who devote their lives to putting films on screen for the movie-loving masses, Zastrow speaks the language of film the way Romans spoke Latin (or did they speak Italian?). "Did you notice the inside joke with the Comedian's apartment number?" I ask. In an ope...
... on director Zack Snyder's (Dawn oftheDead, 300} much- anticipa ted cinematic adaptation of the be... the director's previous film about 300 Spartans with great abs fighting bad guys who look like the...
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THIS IS WHERE WE FIGHT! This is where we die! Full speed ahead. Speak loud AND carry a big stick. Damn the torpedoes, and remember the Alamo!
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They're the Steelers' Seven. Named Wednesday as potential partners in Steelers' chairman Dan Rooney's bid to buy out his brothers, they include a longtime Pittsburgh steel family, a truck-stop king from Tennessee Titans territory, and a former football player on the Maine-Endwell High School Spartans who later made the "300" movie about Spartans of an older vintage.
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In 480 B.C.E., a large Persian army led by Xerxes (from modern day Iran) was pressing down hard on the Greeks. The Greek states sent their armies to a narrow pass along the Greek coast called Thermopylae. They planned to hold the larger Persian Army there while the Athenian navy won a decisive victory. But the Greeks were betrayed, and the Persians were led along an alternate route through the mountains. Most of the Greeks retreated to regroup elsewhere, but 300 Spartans led by Leonidas stayed to hold the position. They were joined by 700 volunteers from the ancient city-state of Thespiae. The story is the subject of the feature film "300," influenced by a graphic novel by Frank Miller.
