Starring:
Gerard
Bulter, Rodrigo Santoro, Lena Heady and Dominic West
300 movie based on the graphic novel ‘300’ by Frank
Miller & Lynn Varley.
General Bulter is performing King Leonidas’s role that
was born in 540 B.C and Sparata Greece was his birth place, while he died in
480 B.C in the battle of Thermopylae fatally wounded by arrows in the battle.
Rodrigo is performing the role of Xerxes, who was
born in 519 B.C in Persia and assassinated by political advisor Artabanus.
Immortals by Frank Miller’s are disfigured as
Imperial soldiers who fight behind the shiny masks using a martial arts like
fighting style. In Persian history Persian rulers were protected by Immortals.
There are few amendments from the original story to
fascinate the display, e.g. for Spartans body armor protection tool was very
valuable assets but in movie Spartan soldiers are fighting nearly naked without
any form of body armor protecting them.
History of 300 Spartans by the historians is that
battle took place in 480 B.C and whether it happened in August or Mid-September
of that year.
Spartans were not as ‘good’ as the movie portrays
them to be, many of the Greek soldiers who fought with the Spartan elite at the
battle of Thermopylae, were forced to fight because they were slaves. They were
biggest slaves owners in Greece, but at the same time Sparta women gad an
unusual level of rights.
The biggest problem with the movie is that film
leaves the audience believing that the Spartans were the only Greek force to
lead against the Persian. Similarly, King Xerxes role was exaggerated, he
wasn’t a tall man. No, Persian didn’t bring any charging elephant or rhinos to
the battle of Thermopylae.
‘The movie depicts a small group of European freedom
fighters holding off a large army of Iranian slaves. Although, many draw
comparisons to modern day conflicts. . On Sunday, March 11, 2007, two days
after the 300’s U.S release, Iran FARS news Agency reported that the Iranian
government wasn’t happy with the movie’s depiction of their culture.
Zack Synder the director said that he didn’t intend
to create the movie to be a commentary on current events.
