Putting aside the incredible cinematography and camera work, 300 is, at its core, an epic battle between VIP clad men and PJ clad men.... and VIP wins (well..duh..I am an Indian). In a nutshell... Persians, wearing PJs come to Spartans wearing VIPs and ask them to surrender. VIP refuses and 300 men wearing black VIP briefs meet countless PJ clad Persians. Realistically, the 300 are wasted. BUT....the 300 VIps clad men then inspire 10,000 VIP clad men to take on the obviously lame PJ wearing villains and the rest is history.
And if you are keen on it, watch on the big screen. A small screen will be a major disappointment. Somehow, heads flying with full screen view of the innards loses its effect on the 21" screen. For all you fainthearted.. the wiers color scheme takes away the goriness of the scenes that could give steven king a run for his money. Its like a hybrid of Gladiator (with its dialogue and camera work) and Lord of the Rings (Battle scenes and hopeless odds).
My take on it.... if you missed it, don't sweat! There are better movies in the screen.
2 comments:
great writing....i could just see the fighting happening in front of me....really the Indian VIPs and their dull security men need some hammering like this...
hmmm....the VIP on this case was in reference to the underwear actually. All the time I was watching I kept thinking, period movie my ***, they didn't have such underwear...fig leaves may be..but...pplllleeaaazzzz!!
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