a b c Daly, Steve (March 13, 2007). "Miller's Tales". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 28, 2010 . Retrieved April 3, 2011. Extended love scene between Leonidas and the queen; viewers can see her nude breasts and his butt. The adolescent Oracle writhes and sways while wearing a sheer cloth that reveals her breasts. A character unwillingly has sex to procure a politician's favor. Although no nudity is shown in that scene, the aggressor whispers menacingly: "This will not be fast. You will not enjoy this." Xerxes' lair is depicted like an orgy, with various half-dressed Persian women kissing, moaning, and having sex.

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But it makes a great pair for crazy dictatorships, because one has a whole theistic military complex with a gigantic bureaucracy, controlling any aspect of life. As always, the less dramatic, but often more realistic reasons for wars, economic ones, aren´t in the game. They simply aren´t as thrilling as god emperors, a typical male characteristic often accompanied by Gilchrist, Todd (February 12, 2007). "IGN: 300 Review". IGN. Archived from the original on February 16, 2007 . Retrieved April 17, 2010. And yet Frank Miller would have us believe they're better than the cultured Athenians (who're habitually described as boy-lovers, in spite of the Spartans being big macho maries themselves), that they can rationally reject their religion (the priests are painted as corrupt) and that what they're fighting for in their battle against the Persians is WESTERN CIVILISATION ITSELF. Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Thai The relationship between King Leonidas and Queen Gorgo is minimised from an equal partnership of badassery in the film, to Gorgo being little but a badly drawn 'big-boobed wifey' with a single scene, about three lines and no hand in the political intrigue.

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Morris, Wesley (March 9, 2007). "300 Movie Review, Sweating it out at the Hot Gates". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on March 20, 2007 . Retrieved March 19, 2007. Graphics are amazing, unique and pioneer for their time; too brutal and too tale-like. Lines are as spartan-like as they should be: "το λακωνίζειν εστί φιλοσοφείν" (talk as less as you can to be wise) is the moto of these soldiers that fear nothing, even death himself. "Η ταν ή επί τας" (come carrying this shield or be brought up to it") is the other hesitate-in-front-of-no-enemy moto. Battle of Artemisium• Battle of Chaeronea• Battle of Corinth• Battle of Leuctra• Battle of Marathon• Battle of Plataea• Battle of Salamis• Battle of Samothrace• Battle of Thermopylae• Silverman, Jason (February 22, 2007). "300 Brings History to Bloody Life". Wired News. Archived from the original on March 25, 2010 . Retrieved April 17, 2010.

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The bonus materials here are great, as they contain well-over an hour of content, not including the audio commentary, but there’s something missing here. Well, actually a few things are missing. So, let me explain that and a short bit of the history of this film on the high definition home video format over the years shortly a bit below, and the extras that came with those releases. There was just one particular line in it where one of the Spartan soldiers—I'll remind you, this is Spartans that we're talking about—one of them was talking disparagingly about the Athenians, and said, ‘Those boy-lovers.' You know, I mean, read a book, Frank. The Spartans were famous for something other than holding the bridge at Thermopylae, they were quite famous for actually enforcing man-boy love amongst the ranks as a way of military bonding. That specific example probably says more about Frank's grasp of history than it does about his grasp of homosexuality, so I'm not impugning his moral situation there. I'm not saying it was homophobic; just wasn't very well researched. [4]Miller, Neil (February 14, 2007). "Interview: Director Zach Snyder talks 300". Archived from the original on May 15, 2008.

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Xerxes offers Leonidas what sounds like a sweet deal; why does the king, facing certain death, turn it down? Grossman, Lev (March 2, 2007). "The Art of War". TIME. Archived from the original on March 4, 2007 . Retrieved March 7, 2007. The writer Frank Miller said: "The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy. The closest comparison you can draw in terms of our own military today is to think of the red-caped Spartans as being like our special-ops forces. They're these almost superhuman characters with a tremendous warrior ethic, who were unquestionably the best fighters in Greece. I didn't want to render Sparta in overly accurate terms, because ultimately I do want you to root for the Spartans. I couldn't show them being quite as cruel as they were. I made them as cruel as I thought a modern audience could stand." [100] Writer David Brin has also criticized 300 as being historically inaccurate, with particular reference to the bravery and efficacy of the non-Spartan Greeks:

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Southall, James. "300". Movie Wave. Archived from the original on March 20, 2007 . Retrieved March 18, 2007. I'd heard Frank Miller wasn't known for being a sensitive or subtle author, so I had hoped for some deliciously gruesome weirdness or kinkniness that may have been too much for the cinematic release, but no, the book feels more tame if anything. Chemers, Michael M. (Summer 2007). " 'With Your Shield, or On It': Disability Representation in 300". Disability Studies Quarterly. 27 (3). doi: 10.18061/dsq.v27i3.37. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011 . Retrieved October 6, 2010. is a historically inspired 1998 comic book limited series written and illustrated by Frank Miller with painted colors by Lynn Varley. Over-the-top battle-scene violence, including graphic decapitations, severed limbs, mutilated bodies piled high, arrow-filled torsos, etc. Young Spartan boys are forced to furiously fight each other. The Spartan mottos are "No retreat, no surrender" and "No prisoners, no mercy."

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e tepkisi sürüyor". NTV (in Turkish). March 27, 2007. Archived from the original on April 22, 2007 . Retrieved March 28, 2007. Robert McHenry, the former editor-in-chief of Encyclopædia Britannica and the author of How to Know, said that the film "is an almost ineffably silly movie. Stills from the film could easily be used to promote Buns of Steel, or AbMaster, or ThighMaster. It's about the romanticizing of the Spartan 'ideal', a process that began even in ancient times, was promoted by the Romans, and has survived over time while less and less resembling the actual historical Sparta." [98] Alcibiades • Alexander the Great • Greek helmets • Greek shield • Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece • Hoplite • Leonidas I • Macedonian phalanx • Milo of Croton • Pericles • Phalanx formation • Sacred Band of Thebes • Themistocles • Thucydides • Trireme • Epstein, Daniel Robert (July 13, 2005). "Exclusive Interview with Tyler Bates, Score Composer for The Devil's Rejects". UGO. Archived from the original on December 13, 2006 . Retrieved October 29, 2006. is about as violent as “Apocalypto” and twice as stupid. Adapted from a graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, it offers up a bombastic spectacle of honor and betrayal, rendered in images that might have been airbrushed onto a customized van sometime in the late 1970s. The basic story is a good deal older. It’s all about the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, which unfolded at a narrow pass on the coast of Greece whose name translates as Hot Gates.

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Kaveh Farrokh, in the paper "The 300 Movie: Separating Fact from Fiction," [101] noted that the film falsely portrayed "the Greco-Persian Wars in binary terms: the democratic, good, rational 'Us' versus the tyrannical, evil and irrational, 'other' of the ever-nebulous (if not exotic) 'Persia '". He highlighted three points regarding the contribution of the Achaemenid Empire to the creation of democracy and human rights: "The founder of the Achaemenid Empire, Cyrus the Great, was the world's first emperor to openly declare and guarantee the sanctity of human rights and individual freedom.... Cyrus was a follower of the teachings of Zoroaster, the founder of one of the world's oldest monotheistic religions.... When Cyrus defeated King Nabonidus of Babylon, he officially declared the freedom of the Jews from their Babylonian captivity. This was the first time in history that a world power had guaranteed the survival of the Jewish people, religion, customs and culture." He abolished slavery. [102] General criticism [ edit ] Frank Miller: Graphic Novelist & Filmmaker". The Art Institutes. Archived from the original on March 4, 2007 . Retrieved March 5, 2007.