When is it coming out?
300 the movie...
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march. either the ides or st pattys day.
and it looks f***ing SICK.
and it looks f***ing SICK.
It's coming out in 2012
Knucks!!! ??? is that really you ?It's coming out in 2012
In!!!
3.9.07
go greek
I knew I felt a tremor in the force.It's coming out in 2012
USA 9 December 2006 (Austin Butt-Numb-A-Thon)
wow, it's already been shown, but there's no torrent out there for it.
That Films Real Message? It Could Be: Buy a Ticket
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
LOS ANGELES, March 4 Three weeks ago a handful of reporters at an international press junket here for the Warner Brothers movie 300, about the battle of Thermopylae some 2,500 years ago, cornered the director Zack Snyder with an unanticipated question.
Is George Bush Leonidas or Xerxes? one of them asked.
The questioner, by Mr. Snyders recollection, insisted that Mr. Bush was Xerxes, the Persian emperor who led his force against Greeks city states in 480 B.C., unleashing an army on a small country guarded by fanatical guerilla fighters so he could finish a job his father had left undone. More likely, another reporter chimed in, Mr. Bush was Leonidas, the Spartan king who would defend freedom at any cost.
Mr. Snyder, who said he intended neither analogy when he set out to adapt the graphic novel created by Frank Miller with Lynn Varley in 1998, suddenly knew he had the contemporary version of a water-cooler movie on his hands. And it has turned out to be one that could be construed as a thinly veiled polemic against the Bush administration, or be seen by others as slyly supporting it.
In the era of media clutter, film marketers increasingly welcome controversy as a way to get attention for their more provocative fare. The companies behind the Dixie Chicks documentary Shut Up & Sing and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, for example, positively reveled in it.
But the dance can be more delicate when viewers find a potentially divisive message in big studio movies that were meant more to entertain than enlighten. The danger is that an accidental political overtone will alienate part of the potential audience for a film that needs broad appeal to succeed.
Spontaneous debate on the Internet and around the office can be a films best friend when, as with a picture like The Passion of the Christ, even potential negatives, like accusations of anti-Semitic undertones, feed curiosity.
Whatever the question is, its wonderful for the movie, said Peter Sealey, a former Columbia Pictures executive who is now an adjunct professor of marketing at Claremont Graduate Universitys Drucker School of Management.
Yet studios can be wary of seeming to foster it. Walt Disney largely sidestepped arguments about whether its Pixar-created animated film The Incredibles was quietly channeling Ayn Rand. We feel that the longer we either refute or debate a subject like that, the more the story will live, said Dennis Rice, senior vice president of marketing for Disneys Buena Vista Pictures unit. So we chose to do nothing.
Executives at Warner, which is releasing 300 in the United States on Friday declined to discuss the studios approach in marketing the film. Billboards and trailers, seeming to mirror Disneys tack with The Incredibles, have focused heavily on the pictures battle action and visual flamboyance Prepare for Glory! runs the most oft-repeated advertising line while avoiding some deeper story elements that are stirring unexpectedly heated reactions, especially abroad.
Shortly after his press-junket grilling Mr. Snyder an established commercials director, whose best-known previous credit was a remake of George Romeros Dawn of the Dead ran into some surprising reactions at the Berlinale film festival in Germany. Some attendees walked out of a screening there, while others insisted on seeing its presentation of the Spartans defense of Western civilization in the face of a Persian horde as propaganda for Americas position vis-à-vis Iraq and Iran. (By contrast it drew applause at a Los Angeles screening last month.)
Dont you think its interesting that your movie was funded at this point? Mr. Snyder recalled being asked in Berlin. The implication was that funding came from the U.S. government.
When a Feb. 22 report on Wired.com carried a brief mention of the question about Mr. Bushs proper parallel in the film, Web commentators in the United States began to lock on its supposed political vibe. Yet attempts by both the left and the right to appropriate the lessons of Thermopylae clearly predated the movie.
Mr. Bush has been compared to Xerxes at least since his axis of evil speech in the wake of 9/11, for instance, while the Spartan cry Molon labe, or Come and take them, has long been a rallying call for supporters of the right to bear arms.
According to Deborah Snyder, Mr. Snyders wife and an executive producer of 300 (which has more than a dozen credited producers of various levels, including Mark Canton and Gianni Nunnari), some changes to Mr. Millers original story may have inadvertently amplified its political resonance.
In a key twist Mr. Snyder and his collaborators expanded the presence of Gorgo, the Spartan queen and Leonidass wife, including, among other things, a sequence in which she inspires a wavering populace and weak-willed council to resist the Eastern armies even at the cost of battle deaths. Her story is that she is trying to rally the troops, said Ms. Snyder, who dismissed as irrelevant a question about her and her husbands personal political philosophies.
Mr. Snyder acknowledged that Mr. Miller who declined to be interviewed for this article had opened the door for contemporary comparisons with his passionate, if not entirely accurate, portrayal of the ancient Spartans as saviors of Western civilization. Hed be on their side regardless of who they were fighting, because he just loves them, Mr. Snyder said.
Thanks to computer-generated effects that contribute to 300s highly stylized look, the films cost, according to its makers, was considerably less than the outsized production budgets of Troy, which did relatively well for Warner, and Alexander, which did not. But Warner could use a hit after finishing last year behind several competitors at the domestic box office. (A success in the second half of 2006, like Happy Feet, could only do so much to make up for duds like Poseidon.)
And the enormous expense of making and marketing any major studio picture the combined costs appear likely to exceed $100 million in the case of 300 sharpens the risk in alienating a portion of the hoped-for audience.
In any case Mr. Snyder said he was pleased about the debate, though he never meant the movie to provoke it. If thats a by-product, thats good, he said.
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
LOS ANGELES, March 4 Three weeks ago a handful of reporters at an international press junket here for the Warner Brothers movie 300, about the battle of Thermopylae some 2,500 years ago, cornered the director Zack Snyder with an unanticipated question.
Is George Bush Leonidas or Xerxes? one of them asked.
The questioner, by Mr. Snyders recollection, insisted that Mr. Bush was Xerxes, the Persian emperor who led his force against Greeks city states in 480 B.C., unleashing an army on a small country guarded by fanatical guerilla fighters so he could finish a job his father had left undone. More likely, another reporter chimed in, Mr. Bush was Leonidas, the Spartan king who would defend freedom at any cost.
Mr. Snyder, who said he intended neither analogy when he set out to adapt the graphic novel created by Frank Miller with Lynn Varley in 1998, suddenly knew he had the contemporary version of a water-cooler movie on his hands. And it has turned out to be one that could be construed as a thinly veiled polemic against the Bush administration, or be seen by others as slyly supporting it.
In the era of media clutter, film marketers increasingly welcome controversy as a way to get attention for their more provocative fare. The companies behind the Dixie Chicks documentary Shut Up & Sing and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, for example, positively reveled in it.
But the dance can be more delicate when viewers find a potentially divisive message in big studio movies that were meant more to entertain than enlighten. The danger is that an accidental political overtone will alienate part of the potential audience for a film that needs broad appeal to succeed.
Spontaneous debate on the Internet and around the office can be a films best friend when, as with a picture like The Passion of the Christ, even potential negatives, like accusations of anti-Semitic undertones, feed curiosity.
Whatever the question is, its wonderful for the movie, said Peter Sealey, a former Columbia Pictures executive who is now an adjunct professor of marketing at Claremont Graduate Universitys Drucker School of Management.
Yet studios can be wary of seeming to foster it. Walt Disney largely sidestepped arguments about whether its Pixar-created animated film The Incredibles was quietly channeling Ayn Rand. We feel that the longer we either refute or debate a subject like that, the more the story will live, said Dennis Rice, senior vice president of marketing for Disneys Buena Vista Pictures unit. So we chose to do nothing.
Executives at Warner, which is releasing 300 in the United States on Friday declined to discuss the studios approach in marketing the film. Billboards and trailers, seeming to mirror Disneys tack with The Incredibles, have focused heavily on the pictures battle action and visual flamboyance Prepare for Glory! runs the most oft-repeated advertising line while avoiding some deeper story elements that are stirring unexpectedly heated reactions, especially abroad.
Shortly after his press-junket grilling Mr. Snyder an established commercials director, whose best-known previous credit was a remake of George Romeros Dawn of the Dead ran into some surprising reactions at the Berlinale film festival in Germany. Some attendees walked out of a screening there, while others insisted on seeing its presentation of the Spartans defense of Western civilization in the face of a Persian horde as propaganda for Americas position vis-à-vis Iraq and Iran. (By contrast it drew applause at a Los Angeles screening last month.)
Dont you think its interesting that your movie was funded at this point? Mr. Snyder recalled being asked in Berlin. The implication was that funding came from the U.S. government.
When a Feb. 22 report on Wired.com carried a brief mention of the question about Mr. Bushs proper parallel in the film, Web commentators in the United States began to lock on its supposed political vibe. Yet attempts by both the left and the right to appropriate the lessons of Thermopylae clearly predated the movie.
Mr. Bush has been compared to Xerxes at least since his axis of evil speech in the wake of 9/11, for instance, while the Spartan cry Molon labe, or Come and take them, has long been a rallying call for supporters of the right to bear arms.
According to Deborah Snyder, Mr. Snyders wife and an executive producer of 300 (which has more than a dozen credited producers of various levels, including Mark Canton and Gianni Nunnari), some changes to Mr. Millers original story may have inadvertently amplified its political resonance.
In a key twist Mr. Snyder and his collaborators expanded the presence of Gorgo, the Spartan queen and Leonidass wife, including, among other things, a sequence in which she inspires a wavering populace and weak-willed council to resist the Eastern armies even at the cost of battle deaths. Her story is that she is trying to rally the troops, said Ms. Snyder, who dismissed as irrelevant a question about her and her husbands personal political philosophies.
Mr. Snyder acknowledged that Mr. Miller who declined to be interviewed for this article had opened the door for contemporary comparisons with his passionate, if not entirely accurate, portrayal of the ancient Spartans as saviors of Western civilization. Hed be on their side regardless of who they were fighting, because he just loves them, Mr. Snyder said.
Thanks to computer-generated effects that contribute to 300s highly stylized look, the films cost, according to its makers, was considerably less than the outsized production budgets of Troy, which did relatively well for Warner, and Alexander, which did not. But Warner could use a hit after finishing last year behind several competitors at the domestic box office. (A success in the second half of 2006, like Happy Feet, could only do so much to make up for duds like Poseidon.)
And the enormous expense of making and marketing any major studio picture the combined costs appear likely to exceed $100 million in the case of 300 sharpens the risk in alienating a portion of the hoped-for audience.
In any case Mr. Snyder said he was pleased about the debate, though he never meant the movie to provoke it. If thats a by-product, thats good, he said.
Opens this Friday!!!
I wasn;t going to see this, but I just found out a friend of mine has a pretty big role in it, her first major role, so I will have to go see it.
imax..??? man that would be kick fvckin' ass!!!!Illl give that a, "SWEET". Wife is as excited about it as I am... we're going to see it on the IMAX on opening night
we were gonna go to tulsa to see it, but we thought that it wasn't playing at that imax....were we wrong???Illl give that a, "SWEET". Wife is as excited about it as I am... we're going to see it on the IMAX on opening night
No tickets available yet but I head it was.
Edit: Do with this what you will: "r".
As it turns out, I got tickets to a prescreening on Tuesday. Woohoo!
Interesting article. I watched "The 300 Spartans" yesterday and I'm reading on the web that "300" is not a remake nor is it historically accurate. Apparently it's an adaptation of a graphic novel by Frank Miller which was inspired by the 1961 movie. Ummm, OK? I guess that explains the monsters in the trailer anyway, I'll assume they're the immortals.
I don't understand what all the buzz is about, "this is unlike any movie ever before." I guess I'll just have to see it and make my own determination.
Gotta run down the IMAX version.
Nice long trailer.
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?name=movies&id=1553704&vid=136403
Nice long trailer.
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?name=movies&id=1553704&vid=136403
I think it's a combination of good direction, sweet camera work and a shot by shot movie version of the graphic novel. It's not a screen adaptation.
like most things, the real story is far more interesting and the people involved more heroic than any film could ever hope to be.
I have a bragging rights bet with a friend of mine. He says that more than half the movie will be played in real time. I say hell no...it'll mostly be slow-mo baby.
The Immortals were the 2nd wave. They were the force of 10,000 of Persia's most elite warriors. I think they are the guys with the cool pissed off masks.
LOL!! I'm with you. Probably be slow-mo 100% of the time unless someone is talking.
as a lark, i personally translated several ancient tomes on the subject from classical Greek into English last year.
yeah ok... so i caught a 15 second ad for an upcoming special on the History Channel late one nite....
..so?
Sq-Earl and I are both interested in seeing this one as well
What is this Sq-Earl and can he or can he not kill giant razor teeth beatsties with his sword and shield?Sq-Earl and I are both interested in seeing this one as well
I dont understand why folks are so harsh on this stuff so much before even seeing it.
1) Its a freaking Movie
2) In all actuality there maybe just as much historic accuracy in 300 as there was in any of Homer's works.
Its obviously not as RELEVANT to Ancient Greek/Roman history, but the events might be more accurately portrayed. No one will ever really know.
Actually from my understanding its simply a graphic novel inspired by the events at the battle of thermopylae, so in otherwords it is simply a kickass historical fiction movie.
And the winner is....