6/21/2023 0 Comments The 300 frank millerWhere did your fascination with the battle of Thermopylae begin? When I was 5 years old, when the movie The 300 Spartans came out. It was the person who did the absolute right thing, even if it meant he would die, forgotten, in disgrace. A hero wasn’t necessarily the best-looking guy in town, or the one who got the woman or got all of Harry Potter’s schoolmates to cheer him. I think it’s the same story it was in 480 B.C., when heroes were tested for what they are. Is this really the right historical moment to be releasing a movie about an army of civilized Europeans taking on invading hordes of Middle Eastern barbarians? I can’t really think that way, because I wouldn’t get any work done. Miller spoke with Dave Itzkoff about Spartans, heroes, terrorists, and Angelina Jolie. Now his graphic novel 300, a hyperviolent retelling of the ancient battle of Thermopylae, gets its own cinematic treatment, this time by director Zack Snyder ( Dawn of the Dead). Moviegoers who never discovered comic-book artist and author Frank Miller through such geek-culture touchstones as Batman: The Dark Knight Returns got a crash course in his penchants for bullets, babes, and blood in Sin City, a stylish adaptation of his neo- noir comics that Miller co-directed with Robert Rodriguez.
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