I consulted Wikipedia about this movie, and it helpfully informed me:
"this movie is gay dont see it or ill rape you"
All in lowercase, just like that. Hooray for Wikipedia. Anyway, what's up with this? I got that it's adapted exactly from a graphic novel, just like Sin City, by checking the link to the comic. I assume they left out certain things for dramatic effect, such as:
-The Spartans, like most of ancient Greece, had an established, proud tradition of grown men seducing twelve-year-old boys.
-Sparta was a militaristic nightmare of a state. Boys were raised in barracks apart from their families (when they weren't getting railed, that is), and had to live in the wild for a year or two killing the lower classes to survive as part of their combat training. Sickly children were exposed to die for the good of the state.
-The "last stand of the 300" actually involved more than a thousand men, counting all their servants, armorers, etc.
-When the Persian army encountered the Spartans at Thermopylae, the Greek warriors were having their hair dressed.
My source for all of these is Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe, vol. 1; I always avoided reading more about the incident due to the weirdness of what I already know. I don't have a lot of interest in seeing the movie, since the sheer machismo-vibes given off by the ads are too strong for me to watch with a straight face. I am, however, very interested in what they did to achieve that lurid, cartoonish look. Every shot has this eye-catching, excessive contrast. Is it some sort of color filter for the film, or a certain kind of camera, or computer-aided editing?
Oh, and who here actually wants to see it?
"this movie is gay dont see it or ill rape you"
All in lowercase, just like that. Hooray for Wikipedia. Anyway, what's up with this? I got that it's adapted exactly from a graphic novel, just like Sin City, by checking the link to the comic. I assume they left out certain things for dramatic effect, such as:
-The Spartans, like most of ancient Greece, had an established, proud tradition of grown men seducing twelve-year-old boys.
-Sparta was a militaristic nightmare of a state. Boys were raised in barracks apart from their families (when they weren't getting railed, that is), and had to live in the wild for a year or two killing the lower classes to survive as part of their combat training. Sickly children were exposed to die for the good of the state.
-The "last stand of the 300" actually involved more than a thousand men, counting all their servants, armorers, etc.
-When the Persian army encountered the Spartans at Thermopylae, the Greek warriors were having their hair dressed.
My source for all of these is Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe, vol. 1; I always avoided reading more about the incident due to the weirdness of what I already know. I don't have a lot of interest in seeing the movie, since the sheer machismo-vibes given off by the ads are too strong for me to watch with a straight face. I am, however, very interested in what they did to achieve that lurid, cartoonish look. Every shot has this eye-catching, excessive contrast. Is it some sort of color filter for the film, or a certain kind of camera, or computer-aided editing?
Oh, and who here actually wants to see it?
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