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Like a bunch of super-butch Greeks storming Thermopylae, but with fewer casualties and a different ending, the no-star antique war drama 300 triumphed at the box office last weekend. Director Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) pulled in $70.9 million, the highest domestic gross for a movie released in March, and third best for an R-rated film. Since sword-and-sandal epics tend to do much bigger business abroad (Gladiator 59% of its theatrical take, Troy 73%), the upside for 300 is enormous...
...That's not bad for a picture made on a frugal $65 million budget and shot on a bare Montreal soundstage, with the backgrounds digitally green-screened in later, in the manner of Robert Rodriguez's version of the Miller Sin City. It's also not bad for a movie that's not good. For all its battle-scene gore, 300 is at heart a talky civics lesson. It's dead-serious, stentorian and, when it's not hacking muscular fighters to bits, pretty stodgy...
...Planted firmly in the realm of cartoons / video games / comic books to which 90% of American movies aspire, the Miller graphic novel (with coloring by Lynn Varley) is a faithful, if jizzed-up, version of the 479 B.C. battle of Thermopylae. The action and much of the dialogue are taken from Herodotus' near-contemporary history...
Today, the highly anticipated film “300,” a Frank Miller graphic novel adapted into a “Sin City”-styled cinematic extravaganza, opens in theaters across the world. For fans who stood shivering in lines last night to catch a midnight showing, “300” is a worthy piece of modern art, blending Greek history and shed Persian blood. Some would argue it is little more than another desperate Hollywood attempt to prostitute for the mass media any meaning history has. But regardless of where you personally stand...
...Before that, who was your greatest enemy? The Soviet Union. You guys owe us.” Allison added that if he were in the Bush Administration, he would tell Iran that the time had come for America “to collect.” But Steve Miller, director of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center, said that Iranians feel they have done enough to create an alliance between the two countries. “We supported you after 9/11, especially against the Taliban,” said Miller, speaking from the Iranian perspective...