曾执导过《Dawn of the Dead》等片的美国导演Zack Snyder在蒙特利尔已待了几个星期，为他的新片做筹备，从10月10日起，他将拍摄预算七千万至八千万的电影《300》，此片由《Sin City》一片的作者Frank Miller创作的漫画小说改编。在《剧院魅影 The Phantom of the Opera》电影版中扮演蒙面人的苏格兰演员Gerard Butler将在此片中担纲男主角，Gerard Butler表示，他出演这部电影是因为被发生在四百八十年前希腊的斯巴达人与波斯人斗争的传奇历史所打动。与《Sin City》这部电影一样，《300》的制作主要在室内完成，然后通过后期的特技，整合出虚拟的历史背景。
1."Spartan, today we dine in the hell!!!!"
斯巴达战士们, 今天, 我们在地狱中进餐!
2. "The arrows will blot out the sun!" "Then we will fight in the shade!" 箭雨将会遮蔽太阳 那我们就在阴影下战斗
3. "A new age has began, an age of freedom And all would know, that three hundred Spartans get the las breath to defendant! We will stand and fight, and die"
新的时代已经来临, 一个自由的时代 所有人都将知道, 三百斯巴达勇士, 守护至最后一口气
4. "Spartans! This is where we fight! This is where they die!"
斯巴达勇士们! 这里, 是我们的战场! 这里, 是他们的坟墓!
The 300 Spartans
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The 300 Spartans
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Produced by Rudolph Maté
George St. George
Written by George St. George
Gian Paolo Callegari
Remigio Del Grosso
Giovanni d'Eramo
Ugo Liberatore
Starring Richard Egan
Ralph Richardson
Diane Baker
Barry Coe
David Farrar
Music by Manos Hadjidakis
Cinematography Geoffrey Unsworth
Editing by Jerry Webb
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) August 1962
Running time 109 mins.
Country United States
Language English
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The 300 Spartans is a 1962 film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. Made with the cooperation of the Greek government, it was shot in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese. It starred Richard Egan as the Spartan king Leonidas, Ralph Richardson as Themistocles of Athens and David Farrar as Persian king Xerxes, with Diane Baker as Ellas and Barry Coe as Phylon providing the requisite romantic element in the film. In the film, a force of Greek warriors led by 300 Spartans fights against a Persian army of almost limitless size. Despite the odds, the Spartans will not flee or surrender, even if it means their deaths.
The picture was noted for its Cold War overtones,[1] repeatedly referring to the independent Greek states as "the only stronghold of freedom remaining in the then known world", holding out against the Persian 'slave empire'.
Frank Miller saw this movie as a boy and said "it changed the course of my creative life".[2] His graphic novel 300 is about the Battle of Thermopylae, and was the basis for the 2007 film 300.
[edit] Plot
Xerxes I of Persia leads a vast army of soldiers into Europe to crush the small city-states of Greece to fulfil not only the idea of "one world ruled by one master", but to avenge the defeat of his father, Darius I of Persia, at the Battle of Marathon ten years previously. Accompanying him are Artemisia I, the Queen of Halicarnassus who beguiles Xerxes with her feminine charm, and Demaratus, an exiled king of Sparta whose warnings Xerxes pays little heed to.
In Corinth, Themistocles wins the support of the allies and convinces both the delegates and the Spartan representative, Leonidas I, to grant Sparta leadership of the force. Outside the hall, Leonidas and Themistocles agree to fortify the pass at Thermopylae until the rest of the army arrives. After this, Leonidas learns of the Persian advance and travels to Sparta to spread the news.
In Sparta, fellow king Leotychidas is fighting a losing battle with the Ephors over a festival that is due to take place, and that the army should wait until after the festival is over to march, by which time the Persians will have conquered Greece. Leonidas secretly decides to take his personal bodyguard of 300 men to the pass, who are exempt from the decisions of the Ephors and the Gerousia. They are reinforced by Thespians and other Greek allies.
After days of fighting, Xerxes grows angry as his army is "slaughtered like sheep" by the Greeks, with the Spartans in the forefront. Leonidas further pressures his men after receiving word that the remainder of the Spartan army will only fortify the isthmus in the Peloponnese and will advance no further. The Greeks constantly beat off the Persians, and Xerxes begins to consider withdrawing to Sardis until he can equip a larger force at a later date. Just then, he receives word from Ephialtes of a goat-track through the mountains. Rewarding Ephialtes greatly, Xerxes sends his army onward.
Once Leonidas realises this, he sends away the Greek allies to alert the cities to the south. Being too few to hold the pass, the Spartans instead attack the Persian front, where Xerxes is nearby. Leonidas is killed in the meleé. Surrounded, the survivors refuse to leave his body and are annihilated by arrowfire. After this, the Battle of Salamis and the Battle of Platea end the Persian invasion, which could not have been organised without the help of the 300 Spartans who defied the tyranny of Xerxes at Thermopylae.