300 (film)

See also: 300 (homonymy)

300 is a American film carried out by Zack Snyder and left in 2007. Drawn from the Romance graph of Frank Miller, 300 , it gives a vision Fantastique of the Bataille of Thermopyles in 480 before Jesus-Christ

In the weeks which preceded and followed its exit, the film raised a controversy relating to the representation of the Perse S in the international context of the tensions between the the United States and the Iran.

Synopsis

Léonidas became king of Sparte following the ritual tests Spartans over which he triumphed. He learns from a messenger that the Persian king Xerxès plans to invade the Greece and to subject its city. Against the opinion of the oracle, it leaves to the meeting the enemy with the 300 soldiers who compose his personal guard. It chooses to fight the enemy army in the narrow and rock passage of the Thermopyles. Vis-a-vis the gigantic army of the Persian invader, resistance is heroic but desperate.

Around film

Adaptation

Zack Snyder carried out film running 2006. The film is carried out with the same technical processes as the film Sin City itself adapted of the cartoon of Frank Miller, with the massive use of synthesized images.

Even if all the Scène S present in the original Cartoon are accurately reconstituted on the Big screen, the Scénario were supplemented of some characters and additional Scène S:

  • Éphialtès, that which ends up betraying the Spartiate S, tries to commit suicide in the Cartoon when Léonidas refuses it like Guerrier, whereas in the Film it is not the case (the scene was turned, but cut to the assembly).
  • all the Scene S being held with Sparte and implying the Queen and of the intrigues Politique S were added to reinforce single the female role .
  • fantastic elements, monsters…

Discusses

Critics Iranian women

The Film, although not yet diffused in Iran, raised criticisms on behalf of the Gouvernement and of the intellectuals Iraniens, , , , .

Principal criticism relates to the dressing-up of historical reality, associated with a more political criticism: that to try to attack the image of Iran in a political context tended between this country and the United States.

Indeed, the representation which is made Perse S at the period achéménide is false. This period is regarded as a golden age in the Histoire of Iran, with in particular the writing on the Cylindre of Cyrus of what is regarded as the first declaration of the human rights. In the graphic novel whose the film is inspired, the Perse S are depicted like a horde Barbare, declining, are opposed to noble the Greek.

From a more political point of view, Javad Shamghadri, cultural adviser of the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that the the United States tried to humiliate the Iran in order to modify historical reality.

Daily newspaper Āyande No has said in its pages that “the film depicts the Iranians like demons without culture, feelings and humanity, which think of anything else only of tackling the other nations and of killing”, which the newspaper compares to “a new effort to discredit the Iranian people and his civilization with respect to the international public opinion at one time when the American threats against the Iran intensify”.

Others critical

Others critical were emitted in connection with this film, which concentrate on various aspects.

The newspaper The Arab American News speaks about “an unwise warlike propaganda” ( mindless war propaganda ).

Ephraim Lytle, professor of history Hellenic at the University of Toronto, writes that “the way in which the film idealizes the Spartans selectively is disconcerting”, in particular on the following points:

  • Xerxès Ier east depicts like homosexual, which is ironic knowing the value granted to the Pédérastie with Sparte.
  • Persians are shown under a monstrous aspect while the Spartans are perfect men (except the traitor, a deformed monster also).

The idealization of certain elements in film is also criticized by Touraj Daryāi, professor of history ancient at the University of California with Fullerton criticizes the central theme of film, namely the opposition between the “free” world and “liking the democracy” represented by the Spartans on a side and the world of slave Persian of the other. He refutes this vision by the following arguments:

  • Greece of then comprised approximately 37% slaves whereas the Persian Empire remunerated military and mercenaries independently of their race or sex;
  • Sparte was an oligarchy, and not a democracy.

Others critical are delayed on the aspect fascisant film. For Kyle Smith, New York Post, " the film would have rained with the Jeunesses Hitlériennes " ( Adolf' S servant boys ). Dana Stevens compares it, in Slate, film with propaganda film national-Socialist DER ewige Jude (. Roger Moore, critic film to the Orlando Sentinel considers that the film corresponds to the definition which Susan Sontag gives fascistic art.

In answer to its criticisms, the Realizer, the producing S of films and the author of the Cartoon, stressed that this filmographic adaptation of a cartoon is not that a version Heroic fantasy of the Bataille of Thermopyles and that there was no historical aspect to retain film. In an interview in March 2007, Frank Miller, questioned about the political situation of the United States, points out that the United States behaves like a declining empire, and that great civilizations are never conquered but that they disaggregate interior. He also recalls that the war of the American empire against Iraq, just like the Second world war, falls under a fight against a total Fascism.

Zack Snyder had already creates a polemic at the time of the exit of the film the army of dead the . Indeed, the credits of film comprised a fugitive plan (Subliminal?) Moslems requesting in a mosque in the middle of plans of zombies.

Data sheet

  • Title: 300
  • Realizer: Zack Snyder
  • Scenario writers: Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad and Michael Gordons
  • Producing: Mark Canton, Bernie Goldman, Gianni Nunnari and Jeffrey Silver
  • Executive producers: William Fay, Craig J. Flora, Scott Mednick, Frank Miller, Deborah Snyder, Thomas Tull and Ben Waisbren
  • Music: Tyler Packsaddlled
  • Assembly: William Hoy
  • Budget: 60 million $
  • Comings out date:
  • Prohibitions with the cinema:
    • the United States: interdict with less than 17 years not accompanied.
    • France: interdict with less than 12 years.
    • Swiss: interdict with less than 16 years.
  • Left DVD:

Distribution

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • 300 the official site
  • Site in reaction to film of Zack Snyder, presenting the Persian antique from the point of view of Iranian artists.

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