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This is how we are introduced to the King, as he’s growing up in a short bit of a sequence early on in the film. Diodorus' statement about Greek valor to preserve their liberty is inserted in the film, but his mention of Persian valor is omitted. As shown in the film, on a young Spartan male's seventh birthday, he would leave home to begin an education and training regime known as the agoge. Another liberty I took was, they all had plumes, but I only gave a plume to Leonidas, to make him stand out and identify him as a king.

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This truly has a nice presentation in 4K that serves as on very nice upgrade from the previous 1080p HD on both the HD-DVD and Blu-ray formats we got some 13 years ago — back in 2007.Soldiers would drop their heavy shields when they ran, and their wives would rather they come home dead than a coward. was Zack Snyder’s 2006 bold film adaptation of Frank Miller’s original graphic novel (of the same title). Also, as I mentioned just a moment ago, it’s not at all a spoiler — as much as it is history — to tell you that the mighty 300 do not end up surviving but they manage to put up one absolutely hell of a fight that was considered a victory based on the fact of them being outnumbered heavily. 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.

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In epic battle scenes where he combines breathtaking and fluid choreography, gorgeous 3-D drawings and hundreds of visual effects, director Zack Snyder puts onscreen the seemingly impossible heroism and gore of which Homer sang in "The Iliad. Some critics employed at Greek newspapers have been particularly critical, such as film critic Robby Eksiel, who said that moviegoers would be dazzled by the "digital action" but also feel irritated by the "pompous interpretations and one-dimensional characters".is the collected comic series based on the Battle of Thermopylae written and drawn by Frank Miller with colors by Lynn Varley. Miller had been fascinated with the Battle of Thermopylae ever since he saw Rudolph Maté’s movie The 300 Spartans when he was six years old. This is doing things you won’t see via streaming 4K, able to handle the excessive amount of post-production film grain digitally added, and it’s hitting bitrates on the audio side you’d not be hearing across streaming services.