Huge film rant ahead XP
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GIP
omgomgOMG, why didn't anyone tell me that they were making a film about the Thermopylae Battle!!!???
Because I would have gone into hysterics, much like I've been doing ever since my cousin told me at Christmas dinner, that's why :B *geeks* *massively dorks*
Truth is, I'm usually a purist about historic films. That's why I hate them all. And Spartans along with Celts, Templar Knights and the ev0l Samurai are (read: were, when my brain still cooperated with me and I still read about history) like my babies, as in: do not fuck with them, Hollywood. But. BUT. See, 300 can not possibly be worst than Troy or Alexander (oh teh horrendous slaughtering of history >___<), and it will surely be better than Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven (but I did like KoH, fyi) *dies at hands of furious Orlando-ers and Russell-ers and Colin-ers* and even more, what the film does is to take Frank Miller's graphic style and make it come to life, from the graphic novel along with the story, not to tell the story from history books into screenplay and film, they're just adapting what's already been adapted by Frank in his graphic novel, so it's all cool. And Snyder, much to my surprise and delight, and opposite to Rodríguez, managed to capture Miller's chiaroscuro and comic atmosphere without stepping into the land of absurd like Sin City did (garggh). The graphic quality of 300 could even be compared to Mirrormask's way of nailing the look but not overdoing it. Erm, but don't get me wrong, Mirrormask is genius and the only one who can adapt Dave McKean correctly is Dave McKean, that's why Mirrormask was so amazing. Om, where was I?
Oh yes. I've downloaded both theatrical and teaser trailers and I'll bluntly say that they both made me come in my knickers at the art direction, at the look, at the atomsphere, at the battle scenes, omgz the battle scenes!!! *comes in knickers* And I forgot to mention that they combine classic warfare imagery with Nine Inch Nails background music for the trailers. NnGH! That's criminal. Don't they know what the effect of that is? Yes, me coming in my knickers! It's cheating! It's like that silly parfume comercial with naked Hilary Swank swirling around as if she was pole dancing, to Muse music! Hilary naked Muse. Of course I drool like an idiot everytime the comercial comes up. When the 300 trailers come to TV I'm gonna embarass myself more than I want to think about.
Just one little thing: Rodrigo Santoro as Xerxes... *raise of eyebrow*
*after seeing the look of Rodrigo-Xerxes on film* ... *massive raise of eyebrow*
Other than that I'm already a blob of goo, rubbing myself against my 300 wallpaper like the film slut that I am. It could go wrong when it hits the movies but at this point I don't give a damn, 300 has been thyrfing approved. And even if they end up raping history a bit (they're wearing loin-cloths, after all, but we can't have naked Spartans running around killing off Persians in nothing but cloaks and greaves now, can we? why the fuck not!?; there are no 700 Thespians at all, it seems, and Xerxe's army couldn't have been more than half a million, tops, but that one's up for grabs to this day), or more than a bit... erm, well, epic poets did as well, what the damn, their special effects where their words (and their way of corrupting history as well, but I won't go into that, as some of them were, sometimes, under peril of death XD)
Ok now, so when are we getting the other 300? *cough*Sacred Band of Thebes*cough*
GIP
omgomgOMG, why didn't anyone tell me that they were making a film about the Thermopylae Battle!!!???
Because I would have gone into hysterics, much like I've been doing ever since my cousin told me at Christmas dinner, that's why :B *geeks* *massively dorks*
Truth is, I'm usually a purist about historic films. That's why I hate them all. And Spartans along with Celts, Templar Knights and the ev0l Samurai are (read: were, when my brain still cooperated with me and I still read about history) like my babies, as in: do not fuck with them, Hollywood. But. BUT. See, 300 can not possibly be worst than Troy or Alexander (oh teh horrendous slaughtering of history >___<), and it will surely be better than Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven (but I did like KoH, fyi) *dies at hands of furious Orlando-ers and Russell-ers and Colin-ers* and even more, what the film does is to take Frank Miller's graphic style and make it come to life, from the graphic novel along with the story, not to tell the story from history books into screenplay and film, they're just adapting what's already been adapted by Frank in his graphic novel, so it's all cool. And Snyder, much to my surprise and delight, and opposite to Rodríguez, managed to capture Miller's chiaroscuro and comic atmosphere without stepping into the land of absurd like Sin City did (garggh). The graphic quality of 300 could even be compared to Mirrormask's way of nailing the look but not overdoing it. Erm, but don't get me wrong, Mirrormask is genius and the only one who can adapt Dave McKean correctly is Dave McKean, that's why Mirrormask was so amazing. Om, where was I?
Oh yes. I've downloaded both theatrical and teaser trailers and I'll bluntly say that they both made me come in my knickers at the art direction, at the look, at the atomsphere, at the battle scenes, omgz the battle scenes!!! *comes in knickers* And I forgot to mention that they combine classic warfare imagery with Nine Inch Nails background music for the trailers. NnGH! That's criminal. Don't they know what the effect of that is? Yes, me coming in my knickers! It's cheating! It's like that silly parfume comercial with naked Hilary Swank swirling around as if she was pole dancing, to Muse music! Hilary naked Muse. Of course I drool like an idiot everytime the comercial comes up. When the 300 trailers come to TV I'm gonna embarass myself more than I want to think about.
Just one little thing: Rodrigo Santoro as Xerxes... *raise of eyebrow*
*after seeing the look of Rodrigo-Xerxes on film* ... *massive raise of eyebrow*
Other than that I'm already a blob of goo, rubbing myself against my 300 wallpaper like the film slut that I am. It could go wrong when it hits the movies but at this point I don't give a damn, 300 has been thyrfing approved. And even if they end up raping history a bit (they're wearing loin-cloths, after all, but we can't have naked Spartans running around killing off Persians in nothing but cloaks and greaves now, can we? why the fuck not!?; there are no 700 Thespians at all, it seems, and Xerxe's army couldn't have been more than half a million, tops, but that one's up for grabs to this day), or more than a bit... erm, well, epic poets did as well, what the damn, their special effects where their words (and their way of corrupting history as well, but I won't go into that, as some of them were, sometimes, under peril of death XD)
Ok now, so when are we getting the other 300? *cough*Sacred Band of Thebes*cough*