300 (film)

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Movie
German title 300
Original title 300
300-logo.svg
Country of production United States , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Zack Snyder
script Zack Snyder,
Kurt Johnstad ,
Michael Gordon
production Mark Canton ,
Bernie Goldman ,
Jeffrey Silver ,
Gianni Nunnari
music Tyler Bates
camera Larry Fong
cut William Hoy
occupation
chronology

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300: Rise of an Empire

300 is an American comic adaptation from 2006. The film is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley from 1998. World premiere was on December 9, 2006 at Austin Butt-Numb-A-Thon in the USA . On February 14, 2007, the film was shown out of competition in the competition at the Berlinale 2007 . The film was released in US cinemas on March 9, 2007, while it was released in Germany and Switzerland on April 5, 2007, and one day later in Austria.

The film is a fictionalized narrative of an episode from the Persian Wars , namely the story of the Battle of Thermopylae . Just like its comic model, the film is only roughly based on the histories of the ancient historian Herodotus . With gross revenues of over $ 445 million worldwide and a production cost of $ 65 million, 300 was one of the top hits of 2007.

action

300 is told from the perspective of Dilios, a soldier from Sparta . The Spartans are shown as a race of merciless warriors who kill deformed and frail babies immediately after birth and raise their sons with extreme severity according to the agoge . The narrator tells of the legend of a 15-year-old boy who is sent alone into the wilderness in an initiation ritual, where he stands up against a wild wolf.

30 years later, this boy is King Leonidas I of Sparta, when Great King Xerxes of Persia marches with a huge army to Greece . He sends a messenger to Sparta to offer Leonidas an annexation of Sparta without a fight . He perceives the offer as an insult and throws the negotiator and his companion into a well. Before Leonidas goes to war to defend Sparta, he asks the oracle according to old law about his war plan. The ephors , the keepers of the oracle, have been bribed by Xerxes and refuse him the blessing on the pretext of the Carnelian festival , which forbids any fighting for nine days.

In the council Leonidas is heavily criticized for the oracle for his war plans, but above all for the hopelessness of a fight against the numerically far superior Persian armed forces. Nevertheless, Leonidas moves “on the road” with 300 selected Spartians , each of whom has already fathered a male ancestor. His goal is to stop the Persians at a narrow pass between the sea and the mountains, the Thermopylae , where the numerical superiority of the enemy is less important. On the way there, the Spartians join a group of Arcadians .

So that the Persians are forced to use the path over the Thermopylae, the Greeks build a wall of stones and killed Persian scouts. A physically handicapped Spartan exile named Ephialtes warns Leonidas of a hidden path that the Persians could use to encircle the Greeks. At the same time he asks Leonidas to be allowed to fight with the Spartians against the Persians in order to clear the name of his father, who fled with him from Sparta immediately after his birth to prevent the killing of his son. Leonidas rejects him, because Ephialtes with his handicap can wield a spear, but his weak shield arm would weaken the phalanx of the Greeks. He offers Ephialtes the task of looking after wounded or fallen warriors instead, which the latter, offended, rejects.

Before the attacks begin, the Persians give the Greeks the opportunity to lay down their arms, but Leonidas only replies: “ Come and get them. “The Greeks repel the first attacks by the Persians. Xerxes then asks Leonidas for an audience and tries to persuade him to give up by offering him command of the Persian armed forces throughout Greece. Leonidas refuses, however, and with his men also fights back the king's elite guard, the dreaded immortals , which anger Xerxes even more.

In the meantime, Leonidas' wife, Queen Gorgo, tries to convince the Senate to support her husband with the army and to fight for the freedom of Sparta. Senator Theron exploits the supremacy given by his gender and blackmailed the queen. He won't contradict her in the Senate, she has to be Theron for that. To save her husband, the queen accepts the offer. However, Theron breaks his word and accuses her in the Senate of offering herself up to him and others. The Queen then stabs him to death and Persian coins fall out of his pocket - this is how the Senate recognizes Theron as a traitor.

Meanwhile, it is known that Ephialtes has betrayed the secret path to the Persians. The situation of the Greeks is therefore hopeless, because without the strategically favorable position on the Thermopylae Pass, they are no match for the numerically far superior Persians. The Arcadians therefore withdraw. The wounded Dilios is sent to Sparta by Leonidas to report on the brave fight against the Persians. His only wish is that the people of the Greeks remember what he did. Dilios joins the Arcadians and sets off on a journey to Sparta.

The king remains behind with his remaining fighters to face the final stand. One last time he turns down an offer of surrender because he would rather die as a free Greek than continue to live as a warlord of the Greeks under Xerxes. So he and his men fight to the death against the far superior Persians, but thereby achieve what they believe to be the highest goal in life - to fall as a free man in the war for Sparta. In this last fight Leonidas refutes the claim of the Persian great king to be a deity and thus invulnerable by injuring the Persian great king in the face with a hurled spear before he and his warriors are overrun by the enemy.

A year later, Dilios himself is the leader of the Greek army and now faces the Persians at Plataiai with 10,000 Spartians who lead an army of 30,000 Greeks. Since the Persian armed force is only "ridiculously" three times larger this time, there are - according to Dilios - "good prospects for every Greek". With these words he leads his comrades into battle against the enemy.

background

production

300 is a co-production by Warner Bros. , Legendary Pictures , Atmosphere Entertainment MM, Virtual Studios and Hollywood Gang Productions, distributed in Germany by Warner Bros. Deutschland GmbH. The shooting with a budget of around 65 million US dollars , the equivalent of around 44 million euros, began on September 17, 2005 in Montréal and ended after 60 days of shooting in 2006 with post-production , which took almost a year to complete. Further recordings were made in Los Angeles .

Similar to Frank Miller's Sin City, the film was staged using the digital backlot method. For this purpose, the actors in Montréal acted on sets in front of blue and green screens , into which the backgrounds were subsequently inserted in the post-production of the film with digital image processing . Only one scene at the beginning of the film, in which a messenger approaches the camera, was shot outdoors in Los Angeles , but still in front of a green screen. The technique of the bleach bypass effect was also used in the production of the film . 90% blue screens and 10% green screens were used because the blue screens were more suitable for the desired lighting and the post-processing of the scenes, which contained red cloaks of the Spartans, could be done more easily. The scene in which the dance of the oracle can be seen was recorded using wet-for-dry technology. The film contains 1,523 cuts, over 1,300 scenes with visual effects and a total of over 8,600 visual elements.

To reduce the cost of the prop , weapons from the films Troy and Alexander , both produced in 2004, were resorted to.

publication

Lena Headey at the premiere of 300 , London March 2007

The film celebrated its world premiere on December 9, 2006 at the Austin Butt-Numb-A-Thon in the USA and was screened out of competition on February 14, 2007 in the competition at the Berlinale 2007 . The film was shown in US cinemas from March 9, 2007. The cinema release in Germany and Switzerland took place on April 5, 2007, in Austria one day later.

On the opening weekend, 300 grossed almost 70.9 million US dollars in US cinemas, 3.4 million of which in IMAX theaters. This surpassed the film Superman Returns , which had the best starting result in IMAX theaters to date. In addition, the film had its best March start so far. In the United States, the film generated revenues of nearly $ 210.6 million. In the meantime, the film is one of the 70 most successful film productions of all time, with worldwide grossing over 456 million US dollars. More than 1.5 million viewers were counted at the German box office.

Warner released the film not only on DVD , but also on Blu-ray , HD-DVD and UMD . As a result, the company did not participate in the dispute over the successor to the DVD. The film was released in eight versions:

  • Single DVD
  • Limited 2-DVD special edition in digipak and slipcase incl. 32-page book
  • strictly limited 2-DVD collector's edition in a metal case ( SteelBook ) with helmet, 32-page book and trading cards
  • Blu-ray SteelBook The Ultimate Experience including a 40-page book
  • HD DVD
  • UMD

The bonus material of the special edition contains an excerpt from the animation of the comic on which the film is based, as well as the complete test recording of a battle scene between Spartans and Persians as an Easter egg . With this material, Zack Snyder convinced Warner Bros. to commission him to produce the film. The special edition also includes the documentation The 300: Fact or Fiction? (English).

The film was released by Warner Home Video on August 24, 2007 in Germany with an FSK-16 rating. The movie was also released from the age of 16.

In the United States , the film received because of its dramatic depiction of violence in the fight scenes and some representations of sexuality and nudity from the MPAA an R rating , which under a parent or guardian or another adult admission 17-year grants to present only in the company. Originally, Zack Snyder received an order from Warner Bros. to shoot the film in such a way that it would receive PG-13 clearance. Snyder rejected this and was finally able to get his way to making an R-rated film.

Comic and screenplay

In a direct comparison of Frank Miller's comics with the script adapted by Zack Snyder , what is particularly striking is the visual implementation as an authentic reproduction of the color palette and the mood of the original. The story line, on the other hand, was supplemented by various storylines and characters that do not appear in the comic: Neither the attacked village at the beginning of the journey, nor grotesque fighting creatures such as the rhinoceros, the hangman with scissor arms or the oversized berserker ("Uber Immortal") appear in the comic in front. The most striking change is the confrontation between Leonidas' wife, Queen Gorgon, with the Spartan Senate and the corrupt Senator Theron. The queen is a rather coarse person in the comic with a single, short appearance. In the film, she becomes an extremely attractive, quick-witted and emancipated woman who plays a central role. The characters of Senator Theron and Leonidas' son do not even appear in the comic. The portrayal of the protagonist Leonidas is significantly darker and more negative in the comic than in the film. Above all, the loving relationship with wife and child built into the film gives Leonidas a human facet that is missing in the comic.

Frank Miller responded to questions as to whether he considered the film adaptation of his comic to be successful, correspondingly ambivalent. On the one hand, he said that he was enthusiastic about the visual implementation. 300 is "in good hands" with Snyder in this regard. On the other hand, he expressed himself cryptically with regard to the changes in content. It was clear to him that the film adaptation of the comic had made some changes necessary. He made himself available as a consultant, but ultimately stayed in the background. When asked about the collaboration with Zack Snyder, Miller stated that it had hardly taken place. One or the other was discussed, but in the end it was Snyder's film, not his. He also emphasized that in the future he would only adapt and film his works himself. Miller co-directed the filming of his comic strip Sin City .

The comic of the same name on which the film is based is published by Cross Cult , as is the documentary 300: The Art of the Film on the making of the film .

Historical quotes and sayings

Many of the quotations and sayings that can be heard in the film are taken from Herodotus' traditions .

When Xerxes demands that the Spartans lay down their arms, Leonidas replies with the words “Come and get them!” This saying, in Greek “ Molon labe ”, was handed down by Plutarch . Today it is the motto of the first corps of the Greek armed forces and is also often brought up by US arms lobbyists .

The phrase " Then we shall fight in the shadows " comes from Dienekes , who uttered this after the Spartans were warned of the enormous number of archers who would darken the sky with their arrows. Today the XX. Panzer Division of the Greek Armed Forces use the saying as the motto.

Queen Gorgon says: "Because only women from Sparta give birth to true men". However, as in the film, she did not reply to a Persian envoy. According to Plutarch's third book, she responded to a woman from Athens who asked her why Spartan women would speak to men in the presence of men.

"Come back with your shield or on it" is a phrase that Spartan women gave to their husbands and sons who went to battle. The background to this phrase is that fallen Spartans were carried from the battlefield by their comrades on their shields. On the other hand, fighters fleeing the battlefield threw away their heavy shields in order to be able to escape faster. This cowardice was frowned upon by the Spartans.

When the narrator describes the chaos within the Persian troops, in which the foremost troops call for retreat while the rearmost troops call for attack, he makes use of the poem Horatius by Thomas Babington Macaulay . The poem was written in 1842 and is about a few Roman armed forces who were able to hold a bridge against an enemy superior force. From this poem come the lines: “Was none who would be foremost // To lead such dire attack; // But those behind cried, »Forward!« // And those before cried, »Back!« "

The monologue that the narrator recites while showing the fallen Leonidas and his slain troops is an inscription that is said to have stood on the memorial stone for the fallen Spartans. This famous phrase goes : "Wanderer, if you come to Sparta, proclaim there that you saw us lying here as the law commanded."

Historical inaccuracies

Herodotus reports on the historical events in the 7th book of his histories.

The film tries to implement Frank Miller's comic aesthetically precisely for the medium of film. An attempt to achieve historical accuracy would have destroyed this basic idea, since Frank Miller himself did not particularly strive for historical accuracy, but primarily applied aesthetic standards. Accordingly, it is pointless to try to compare the film with the findings of historical science , historiography and archeology - this can be seen most clearly in the appearance of imaginative monsters on the side of the Persian army.

music

The music for the film was written by Tyler Bates , who became known to a wider audience for his score for Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead and Rob Zombies The Devil's Rejects and who also contributed the music for Rob Zombie's Halloween and Resident Evil: Extinction . In a first official teaser - trailer was song Just Like You Imagined by Nine Inch Nails used that on her album The Fragile is included. The female voice, which can be heard in the soundtrack in various songs, comes from the Iranian-born singer Azam Ali , who has often worked with Tyler Bates.

Criticism was raised by commentators on the music track Message for the Queen , for which Tyler Bates draws, but whose melody is that of the folk song Zajdi, zajdi jasno sonce (translated roughly: "Go down, go down, glistening sun") by the Balkan Peninsula resembles. In the meantime, Bates has admitted to having oriented himself on a version of the song.

Such allegations against Tyler Bates are not new to the American film composing community. Bates has received criticism for using various pre-existing film scores by other composers for the music of 300 without major changes . In particular, the plagiarism of the main themes of the film Titus was emphasized , the film music themes Returns a King and Come and Get Them are two copies of the theme Victorious Titus by Elliot Goldenthal that are almost identical in key, harmony, tempo, rhythm, orchestration, melody and choir arrangement . The final music of 300 ( Remember Us ) is based entirely on the finale of the Titus soundtrack. Further allegations of plagiarism relate u. a. the illegal use of music from the two Troy soundtracks - both the official one by James Horner and the unused one by Gabriel Yared - and from the film Black Hawk Down , for which Hans Zimmer composed the music.

Nevertheless, Bates explains on his own website with regard to the film 300 that his music has an "independent timbre " and includes an orchestral "sound palette" that was previously unknown for this type of film.

On August 3, 2007, Warner Bros. announced on the company's website that the plagiarism had been carried out by Bates without the knowledge or involvement of Warner Bros. Accordingly, the re-release of the film's Blu-ray contains the note that the soundtrack was partly derived from existing material that did not come from Bates.

On April 7, 2007, Warner Bros. Records released a soundtrack for the film that contains 25 tracks with a total playing time of over 96 minutes.

synchronization

The German-language dubbed version was of Interopa film after the dialogue book by Klaus Bickert under the dialogue director of Tobias Meister produced.

actor German synchronization role
Gerard Butler Tilo Schmitz King Leonidas
Lena Headey Maud Ackermann Queen Gorgon
Dominic West Erich Rauker Theron
Vincent Regan Thomas Nero Wolff Captain
Andrew Tiernan Lutz Schnell Ephialtes
Rodrigo Santoro Peter Flechtner Xerxes
Tom Wisdom Dennis Schmidt-Foss Astinos
Andrew Pleavin Michael Iwannek Daxos
David Wenham Tobias Kluckert Dilios
Greg Kramer Karl Heinz Oppel First of the ephors
Stephen McHattie Bodo Wolf Loyalist
Peter Mensah Engelbert von Nordhausen Persian envoy
Michael Fassbender Nicolas Boell Stelios

Others

Parody This is Sparta!

King Leonida's saying “This is Sparta!” Led to an Internet phenomenon , as a result of which a wide variety of illustrations could be seen on the Internet, but also at demonstrations, including during the course of the Greek sovereign debt crisis .

In 2008 the comedy Meine Frau, die Spartaner und I appeared , satirizing the plot of 300 and also thematized elements from other films such as Transformers . The short film United 300 , which was released in 2007, also parodies the film 300 and the film Flug 93 . This parody was at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards in the category Best Movie Spoof excellent.

Rodrigo Santoro first auditioned for the role of Astinos. However, Zack Snyder was so impressed with his acting performance that he gave him the role of Xerxes. For the role of Queen Gorgon, which was finally awarded to Lena Headey , Sienna Miller and Silvia Colloca were initially planned. The young Leonidas, who can be seen fighting training at the beginning of the film, was played by Zack Snyder's son. Tim Connolly is not only seen as Leonidas' father in the film, but was also the stunt double for Gerard Butler . Butler trained his muscles in four months. The “300 rep workout for Spartans” by extreme mountaineer Mark Twight was specially developed for this purpose , in which many of the supporting actors and extras also took part.

reception

Fan in a "Spartan" costume based on the film

The film received mostly mixed to positive reception in the USA, while in Europe it met with mixed, tending to be negative, criticism.

Movie review

At the world premiere during the Berlinale, the film received a standing ovation from the 1,700 viewers present . Just a few hours earlier, the film had been booed at a press screening.

The aesthetics of the presentation, in particular the “impressively staged and choreographed battle scenes”, was praised. So be 300 a "visually stunning" Film work, which points to a "visual overpowering strategy." The "skillful game with slow motion and fast motion" was successful in the effective production, which is a "perfectly designed implementation of the comic template". Overall, the film is a "true-to-the-factory comic adaptation with an overwhelming look and artistically stylized battle scenes". Lukas Foerster from critic.de, on the other hand, rates 300 as an unsuccessful "attempt to transport a comic not by dealing with the structure of the medium , but by directly transferring the visual image content onto the screen". The comparison of the film to a video game has been drawn in both a positive and a negative sense. The critics largely agreed that the detailed depiction of the battles fell victim to the design of the plot and its characters. The American film critic Roger Ebert complains that the characters in the film are one-dimensional and more like caricatures than character drawings.

Accusation of fascist tendencies

Ebert is one of a number of critics who accuse the film of celebrating a fascist ideal. The lexicon of international films summed up that with its “unreflective attitude towards fascist ideas”, “the pathetic action film could easily be understood as a propaganda film ”. Thomas Willmann from artechock judges that the film resembles a "ridiculously awkward Iraq war - perseverance propaganda strip (or Iraqi war preparation propaganda strip)" and looks like "an unholy alliance of fascist mentality and embarrassing pubertal aesthetics". The historian Joachim Schroth also sees 300 more as a persistence film than a typical antique film . The critic Joachim Schätz considers 300 to be so "crude" and his use of ideological terms to be so arbitrary that "rummaging for [geopolitical] subtexts" is pointless, but states:

"Really concrete in this Rorschach bloodstain (as most recently in Mel Gibson's similarly ambiguous criticism of civilization Apocalypto ) is only a reactionary disgust for multiculturalism and urban confusion: the evil Xerxes is an androgynous drag queen with the face of Grace Jones and the bass of James Brown , The democratic Athenians are sensitive cowards and ' boy lovers ' and the internal enemies of Sparta a diplomat and an ostracized freak. "

Claudius Seidl from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung defends the film against these allegations and instead points out "how much fiction is in those stories that we believe to be historiography". He sees the ideological allegations with regard to current conflicts between the Occident and the Orient weakened in the fact that "whenever the Occident was saved in European history , these were scenes that every Western defender dreads". Joachim Schätz from filmzentrale.com also makes no secret of the arbitrary interpretation of the plot: “The manliness madness about blood, soil and warrior honor hits you in the face so bluntly and undistantly that every subtle criticism of ideology ricochets off it like that Arrows of the Persians on the Spartan shields. ”Deike Stagge from Filmstarts also admits that the film may convey fascist ideas, which, however, come across as an unrealistic interpretation in the light of a“ completely exaggerated heroic trash in comic style ”.

The right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement has borrowed its logo - the Greek letter Lambda ( Λ  =  L , which stands for Lakedaimon , the ancient name of Sparta ) - from the film.

Point of view of the director and screenwriter

Around the premiere at the Berlinale 2007, journalists confronted the director and screenwriter of 300 , Zack Snyder, with numerous questions about the differences between comics and scripts that are criticized in Europe. These questions surprised and "amused" the American, who, according to his own words, had not expected it, since the film was less criticized in the USA than in Europe. The allegation, plot and character of the film arise from a fascist world of thought, denied Snyder and emphasized that this world of thought was not his. "It's bad to make a fascist film by accident," he joked.

Snyder wants the film to be understood as a story that an "immoral group of men around the campfire" would tell itself. That occasion would naturally exaggerate and idealize. The unreflective position from which the stereotypes of the superhero on the one hand and the subhuman on the other arise, is what makes the story so special. This stimulus in turn consists of the border-shifting curiosity that this form of representation arouses.

While Snyder did not deny the fascist character of the portrayal, he vigorously defended himself against the accusation that the film was fascist propaganda. In numerous scenes of the film, the “distance” and the “ambiguity” to the moral of the protagonists become clear. Irony and, above all, the clearly exaggerated staging make it clear to the viewer that the protagonists are morally bankrupt and therefore cannot be role models.

Original costume from the film, exhibited at ExpoSYFY in San Sebastián, Spain

When asked to what extent the film was historically traceable, Snyder said that he had “researched a lot, but used little of it”. In an interview with IGN.com he said that he had accepted historical inaccuracies in the fighting style and the fighting formations, especially the phalanx , so that they were more suitable for the film and look "cool". He oriented himself as closely as possible to the comic book by Frank Miller, which deliberately avoided realistic portrayals such as authentic costumes. 300 must be seen in this context like an opera, "like Kabuki or a Greek drama". "Structure and form are not in such a way that one thinks: This is reality now." This is why Snyder is of the opinion: "The truth can ruin a good story."

In terms of excessive depictions of violence, Snyder came out in the interviews as a fan of aesthetic violence: “The aesthetics that I like have violence as a topic.” He loves “detailed action scenes”. When asked about the (homo-) erotic component of 300, Snyder replied that it was apparently not possible “to stage naked male bodies without necessarily being connoted as gay”. Snyder justified the fact that he - unlike in the comic template - did not show completely naked men with the accompanying additional aggravation of the problem of film approval in the USA.

In response to the accusation that the film was propaganda for the politics of George W. Bush , a stick-out film for Iraq soldiers and a swipe at Iran, Snyder replied that he could understand that these parallels were drawn, but that they never happened was intended. A politicization of the film is therefore absurd and he does not want to "comment" on the conflicts with Iraq and Iran. However, he was annoyed by the implicit criticism of many journalists of the Bush administration and insinuated: "We apparently live in a world in which the idea of ​​fighting for freedom and democracy is frowned upon".

Iran's response

Because of the negative representation of the Persians who Iran , whose inhabitants are descendants of inhabitants of the Persian empire, even at the United Nations complained about the film on the grounds that he was a propaganda film based on the current situation in the Middle and the Middle East allude and at the same time portray the Persians as simple-minded, cruel barbarians . With the sandal film about the battle between the Persians and Spartans at the Thermopylae Pass, the USA had opened “a new front in the war against Iran”, according to Iranian television. According to the Iranian news agency Irna, Iranian culture minister Hussein Safar Harand said that the filmmakers wanted to take revenge on the Iranian people and question their glorious history and reputation. The cultural policy advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Javad Shamgari , accused the USA of wanting to humiliate his country. In the United States, where the film was a box-office hit, some Americans of Iranian descent are angry that the Persian king Xerxes is behaving as a vengeful and capricious tyrant. Nothing of this has been passed down in historiography. The Spartans, according to the critics, are, on the other hand, portrayed as much more progressive than they actually were. The critic of the New Yorker also showed understanding for the outraged Iranians: "You can't accuse them of having no understanding of American pop culture ."

The Persian-born Green Bundestag member Omid Nouripour brings in the news magazine Der Spiegel , the outrage over the film in Iran with a lack of confidence on the part of the Iranians in connection. They felt "simply denigrated by the portrayal of the Persians", which is why a wave of indignation spread there. Especially the stark black and white representation in the film tarnishes the ancient splendor of the Persians. Although Nouripour criticizes 300 and the dubious value system of the Spartans, what is far worse is Iran's lack of sovereignty and lack of self-confidence in dealing with a film: "The smaller the self-confidence, the greater the pain."

Andreas Platthaus , editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , points out in a conversation in the 3sat broadcast Kulturzeit on April 4, 2007 that of course a people like the Iranians, who do not feel well understood anywhere else in the world, have more problems with this film than, for example, the Greeks with the fact that the Athenians are insulted as “ boy lovers ”. Nonetheless, the film is one of the most successful to have been released in Athens for years.

Little attention was paid to the fact that both the opening and closing credits indicate that the film tells the events from the perspective of a Spartan.

Awards

The film, its actors and the film crew have been nominated for numerous film awards and received various awards.

At the 2008 Academy Awards , 300 was pre-selected for Best Visual Effects and Best Make-up , but ultimately received no nomination.

Tyler Bates received the 2007 BMI Film Music Award . Gerard Butler received an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight that same year for his battle against the immortals . Chris Watts was also honored in the 2007 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards for Best Achievement in Visual Effects . He received this award in the same year along with Grant Freckelton , Derek Wentworth and Daniel Leduc at the Satellite Awards .

The film won the Saturn Award in the category Best Action / Adventure / Thriller Film in 2008 and Zack Snyder was named best director. In addition, various actors received a Taurus Award in 2008 for the fight scenes between the Spartans and Persians.

continuation

The sequel 300: Rise of an Empire was directed by Noam Murro in the summer of 2012 and was released in theaters in March 2014. The film is about the Battle of Artemision and the Battle of Salamis . The main roles are played by Eva Green as ruler Artemisia I , Sullivan Stapleton as Themistocles and once again Rodrigo Santoro as King Xerxes. The comic Xerxes , which appeared in 2018, only depicts parts of the film plot and, in total, the period from the Persian Wars to the fall of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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  12. ↑ UGO Networks (English).
  13. ↑ See #Literature .
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  15. ↑ Historien des Herodotus , 7th book, translation by Walther Sontheimer , quoted from Manfred Hiebl .
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  20. ↑ Чия е “Зайди, зайди, ясно слънце”? (Bulgarian) . August 30, 2007. 
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