Zack Snyder's 300: New Clip and Behind the Scenes Action
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With less than a week before Zack Snyder's 300 crashes into theaters, MTV has an exclusive 300-second clip in which those lovable oiled-up Spartans prepare to battle the scary Persian Immortals ... and one giant beast of a man. After King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his crew plow through a number of Persian soldiers, using their dead bodies to build a strategic wall, along come an army of masked men -- the deadliest fighting force in all of Asia -- the Immortals. Will Leonidas and his 300 men have what it takes to slaughter their toughest competition? I guess you'll have to wait till March 9 to truly find out.
If this balls-to-the-wall clip isn't enough to whet your appetite, feel free to check out Moviefone's behind the scenes tour of 300; along with a video intro from Gerald Butler himself, you get to scope out the men, the sets and the filming of that already famous scene in which Leonidas and his soldiers push a herd of Persians off a cliff. If anything, it's fascinating to watch how Snyder turns a group of men falling onto a mat into some spectacular visuals -- the kind of stuff most people will have no problem shelling out ten bucks to watch unfold in front of their eyes. Will it live up to the hype? Will it stand tall alongside those fantastic battles featured in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy? For you Frank Miller fanatics, I'm sure this will be one helluva long week.
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3-03-2007 @ 8:37PM
P. Herman said...
For us Gerard Butler fans it will be one hell of a long week, too!
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3-13-2007 @ 6:55PM
mehrdad said...
The making of the movie 300 is an affront to the great and noble Persian nation, condemned in the strongest terms by the Persian community worldwide. Neither historical fact nor pure fiction, the movie is nothing less than a grotesque deception at the expense of mutilating and desecrating the glorious history and icons of a proud ancient civilization. Any reference to the Persian identity and history, any usage of terms, symbols, events, or historical figures that are the inherent property of a nation for the purposes of reenactment must be carried out with honesty, accuracy and respect. The people behind this movie have been extremely irresponsible, and should be held accountable and liable for performing an act of collective defamation and denigration of the Persian nation. It is clear that the timing of the release of this movie coincides with a state of heightened tensions between Iran and US; therefore this movie has been made for the purposes of political propaganda. The objective of making this movie was not to recount the battle of Thermopylae but to use that historical event as an opportunity to slander the Persian nation. As a consequence, this movie will engender unnecessary hatred and animosity toward the Persian community.
From a scholarly perspective, this movie has committed nothing less than fraud and a debauchment of history which can not be protected under the guise of freedom of expression or artistic creativity. This willful malicious intent is evident in the falsification of the image of King Xerxes and the disparity in the quality and quantity of the opposing forces. Furthermore the movie falsifies the truth by depicting the nature and identity of the Persians as a demonic and barbaric people.
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3-20-2007 @ 7:12PM
ih8idiots said...
get a life mehrdad.
this movie was never meant to be historically accurate. perhaps that was the perception before anyone went in to see the movie, but after having watched it, why don't we ask for a raise of hands on people who actually think that xerxes was a rupaul look-alike or that ogres existed. being a minority myself, i say that people such as yourself are the ones who are continuing the line of separation among races by spewing such crap.
next you'll say that ghostrider is a portrayal of jesus' resurrection and how racist it is because the protagonist is white.
get.a.life.
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