Written and illustrated by comics luminary and legend, Frank Miller (Sin City, The Dark Knight, 300), and colored by Alex Sinclair (Batman: The Dark Knight III: The Master Race), this companion to Miller's epic masterpiece, 300, brings the historical story of Xerxes to the graphic novel audience with grit and visual style!

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Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Thai Since the script required all the male cast members to be ripped and shirtless in basically every scene, the actors were subjected to a grueling training regime for eight weeks before shooting. The regime was put together by Marc Twight, a record-breaking professional mountain climber. The actors never did the same exercise more than once to prevent their bodies from getting accustomed to certain types of exertion. Adapting what? I just read it and I don't even remember what happened, I was just confused and bored out of my mind. There's no "300 trilogy" here, just one movie. Forget about the rest. Watch/read the first 300 movie/novel and don't bother with this one. Out of the 1,523 cuts featured in 300, more than 1,300 of its shots contain some elements of visual effects. All in all, 300 contains a grand total of 8,631 VFX elements. The crew decided to use blue screens a lot more than green screens, utilizing blue screens for 90% of shooting and green screens for just 10%.

There's also a plot and a vizier is forced to commit suicide? And then Alexander the Great invades Persia, kills a king, then his queen is abducted and then kills some other king and that's the end?

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Striking when the iron’s hot, Frank Miller follows up 300 20 YEARS after it was first published with Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander - and it really wasn’t worth the wait. It’s such a rubbish sequel. And so confusing! I had no idea what was going on and had to do my own research to understand what Miller should’ve been able to convey if he were still a competent storyteller. During pre-production, Snyder bonded with Frank Miller over a shared affection for samurai movies and gory low-budget horror cinema. Snyder’s main note to the screenwriters adapting Miller’s graphic novel was to add more weirdness. The story to 300 takes place in ancient Sparta, at first, and involves an army led by “King Leonidis” ( Gerard Butler) with his troops at what is known [historically] as the Battle of Thermopylae. This factual event involved the king and his three hundred soldiers fighting their way to a Persian army led by a man named “Xerxes” ( Rodrigo Santoro). Spartan men were bred to fight, and they were put through grueling feats all throughout their young lives to condition them. 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. is adapted from a graphic novel by Frank Miller. 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. That all being said, this did impress me, as mentioned, and I feel that it’s a nice enough improvement over the original HD releases of the film that I’ve owned over the years — discussed a bit further in the bonus section. “300” in its debut to the 4K UHD Blu-ray format impressed me enough to earn it a respectable 4.75 rating for video quality. It’s totally not perfect, being only from a 2K scan, but it looks very good and is a definite improvement. Next time around, on the film’s next 4K UHD Blu-ray release, perhaps they’ll give it a true 4K scan or remaster it. For now though, visually in 4K, this will do just fine and is one sure to leave the fans pleased.It's not too much of an overstatement to say that if Xerxes had employed better generals, Western Civilization would have been thrown off its axis. There was just one particular line in it where one of the Spartan soldiers—I'll remind you, this is Spartans that we're talking about—one of them was talking disparagingly about the Athenians, and said, ‘Those boy-lovers.' You know, I mean, read a book, Frank. 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. That specific example probably says more about Frank's grasp of history than it does about his grasp of homosexuality, so I'm not impugning his moral situation there. I'm not saying it was homophobic; just wasn't very well researched. [4] Next, in terms of sound quality on this 4K release of 300. Here you get an improvement over the previously available lossless 5.1 surround mixes and get this time around a Dolby Atmos sound mix. This also contains a Dolby TrueHD 7.1 core for those on equipment not capable of decoding the sound format. It’s simply put, one hell of a Dolby Atmos mix that is sure to leave you blown away, as it’s what I’d call downright “demo material”.

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In 480 BC, King Leonidas of Sparta gathers 300 of his best men to fight the upcoming Persian invasion. In what is likely a suicide mission, they and their allies plan to stop King Xerxes' invasion of Greece at the narrow cliffs of the "Hot Gates" ( Thermopylae). The terrain prevents the Greeks from being overwhelmed by Xerxes' superior numbers (a military tactic usually called " defeat in detail"). Xerxes" then abandons this timeline and becomes randomly episodic, treating later historical events with such scant detail that many of the "chapters" are filled with what appears to be concept art for a later publication. Ultimately, there is very little of the story of Xerxes in "Xerxes."Writer Alan Moore has criticized 300 as being historically inaccurate, with particular reference to the characters' attitudes towards homosexuality: Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close The comic is a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of Leonidas of Sparta. 300 was particularly inspired by the 1962 film The 300 Spartans, a film Miller watched as a young boy. [1] The work was adapted in 2006 to a film of the same name. [2] Only for about twenty years now has the creative reputation of Frank Miller been a shambles. Even as Hollywood fell in love with him, comic book fans grew to despise him. Until the recent launch of his own imprint, Miller’s last work looked like it would be Xerxes, a sequel to 300. Although it’s more of a sketch than a story (I haven’t read 300 so have no basis for comparison other than the movie), it’s more typically glorious artwork from Miller and more exploration of the deeds of towering men. Cast: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, Vincent Regan, Michael Fassbender, Tom Wisdom, Andrew Pleavin, Andrew Tiernan, Rodrigo Santoro, Giovani Cimmino, Stephen McHattie, Peter Mensah, Tyler Neitzel, Eli Snyder, Robert Maillet Jump to Sections:

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Summary Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against their Persian enemy, draw ... Read More

Graphics are amazing, unique and pioneer for their time; too brutal and too tale-like. Lines are as spartan-like as they should be: "το λακωνίζειν εστί φιλοσοφείν" (talk as less as you can to be wise) is the moto of these soldiers that fear nothing, even death himself. "Η ταν ή επί τας" (come carrying this shield or be brought up to it") is the other hesitate-in-front-of-no-enemy moto. No. A Spartan boy's right of passage was not to kill a wolf, it was to sneak out and murder a slave (Helot). If you were discovered, then you would be punished severely, not for taking the life of another human being, but rather for getting caught. Murdering a slave was meant to train you in the art of evasion. The other thing I noticed was how bad the lettering is. I guess Miller did it himself because no one else is credited. Lettering is something you don't really notice unless it's awful and it really stands out here. At lest Alex Sinclair's colors make Miller's cash grab look good. Miller must have really needed the money to release this turd of a comic. That Athenian triumph deserves a movie! And believe me, it weighed heavily on the real life Leonidas, ten years later. 300 author Frank Miller portrays the Spartans' preening arrogance in the best possible light, as a kind of endearing tribal machismo. Miller never hints at the underlying reason for Leonidas's rant, a deep current of smoldering shame over how Sparta sat out Marathon, leaving it to Athenian amateurs, like the playwright Aeschylus, to save all of Greece. The "shopkeepers" whom Leonidas outrageously and ungratefully despises in the film. [6]