Gerard Butler, who stars as King Leonidas, states, “It’s almost like somebody who was there and witnessed the battle went to sleep and dreamed the whole thing again because a lot of it is very representational … a lot of it exists in the imagination, so it allows us to take it so much further. It’s an incredible story, which has been an inspiration to so many people throughout history, but it’s not a documentary. It is a fantastic story full of passion and politics and brutality and so many more things, existing in this hyper-real, beautiful, emotional world.”
It does seem to have lots of gore and a bit of sex, but reports so far seem to indicate that the highly stylised nature of the action scenes makes it acceptable. It always stood out as one of the more interesting moments in history when I was at school - it was the first example I saw of men defining heroism by what they tried to do, rather than what they actually achieved.
Watch the trailer for yourself:
Seeing the style of the art for the movie reminded me of another great poster which Chris Achilleos created for another take on the Battle of Thermopylae:
“Madness? This is Sparta!”
3 comments:
So good but so bad. I was really looking forward to seeing a good Spartan movie but hey lost me with all the monsters. And David Wenham with muscles??? Not in my top 100 but the computerisation was absolutely brilliant. Think I'll stick to hiring "Dead like me" or The Golden Girls.
This is actually a great movie and I really enjoyed it. It has a couple of flaws (mainly with the music) but it was interesting and visually beautiful. Very true to the book/comic as well.
Did you know you can see this at IMAX, now that would be an experience.
I still haven't seen this yet, but I heard it seemed too big at Imax and not as bold as it was on the normal cinema screen.
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