They fight till their last breaths, taking as many Persians with them as they can, in the honour of their kingdom, ultimately losing but dying as heroes. The first part centres around King Leonidas ( Gerard Butler), as he forms an army with his best 300 warriors to protect Sparta from Xerxes’ army, despite being heavily outnumbered. 300 3 Plot: What Can It Be About?īoth the ‘ 300‘ films are essentially about Spartans going to war against the Persians, ruled by “God-King” Xerxes.
Interestingly, it’s not something any of us had in mind. Snyder, too, has mentioned his plans for future sequels. Soon after the sequel, there were speculations that another part would be introduced to the franchise, making it a trilogy. Though ‘300: The Rise of The Empire’ was not as big a success as the first film, action-lovers deeply appreciated it. The film is roughly based on another graphic novel by Miller, titled, ‘Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander’, that only got published in 2018. The second part, titled, ‘300: The Rise of The Empire’ was released in 2014, and it serves both as a prequel and a sequel to the first film. With the immense and widespread success of the film, a sequel was commissioned and eventually created, turning the movie into a franchise. Snyder’s ‘300’, in many ways then, not only mythologizes the brave soldiers who gave up their lives, but also immortalizes them, while also immortalizing the comics and paying homage to the series. It is a fictional retelling of the events leads to the battle between the Spartans and the Persians, and the events that the battle eventually leads to.
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The characterization of the democratic Greeks (noble and scarred, bearded but chest-waxed) and the theocratic Persians (proto-Nazi berserkers dressed by Lady Gaga) is sheer nonsense.Miller’s ‘300’ is a historically inspired comic series that centres around Leonidas of Sparta’s perspective of the Battle of Thermopylae. It's unlikely, however, that either woman resembled a Marvel Comics superheroine quite so much as they do here.Ĭo-written by 300 director Zach Snyder, the script is based on Frank Miller's unfinished graphic novel, Xerxes, which draws on Hellenistic writer Herodotus (aka "the father of lies"). Also genuine is Sparta's Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey), who serves as the narrator.
There really was an Artemisia, although the backstory the movie provides is fiction. Random scraps of this scenario are historically true. No wonder Green's character is the film's most memorable, and loads more fun than Stapleton's earnest Themistokles. Rise of an Empire has such a thing for decapitations that severed noggins become almost routine, but only Artemisia thinks to lift a freshly separated head and kiss it on the lips. She leads repeated sallies against the Greeks, and never seems happier than when fighting one-on-one with implements that elicit what she calls "the ecstasy of steel and flesh." Other turn-ons: leather breastplates, setting things on fire and slaying ineffective subordinates. Luckily, the Persian king can count on Artemisia, who shares his goth-punk fashion sense but is much more focused on combat. The way he struts around - gleaming, pierced and nearly naked - it appears that what Xerxes really wants is to be on the cover of L'Uomo Vogue. So Darius' brooding son Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) seems to crave vengeance against the Athenian, although it's hard to tell for sure. Themistokles, it turns out, is the guy who took out Darius, the Persian king who led a failed assault on Greece 10 years earlier. While those 300 Spartans fight invading Persians on land, Athens-born Themistokles leads a Greek-coalition fleet against a much larger Persian armada. It's an effect that soon becomes numbing - but then so does everything else in Israeli director Noam Murro's drab, repetitive sequel to 2006's 300.Īctually, Rise of an Empire isn't exactly a sequel it's more of a simul-quel, since most of the action takes place at the same time as the battle in the earlier film. They're all primed to mangle, skewer and dismember each other, generally at angles that send red-black CGI blood spurting directly at 3-D-specs-wearing viewers. The other characters in this movie, a superstylized battle epic that doubles as an S&M comedy, suffer no such confusion. But then Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) and Artemisia (Eva Green) can't decide if they want to make love or war. Talk about meeting cute: The first time they're alone together, the protagonists of 300: Rise of an Empire rip each other's clothes off. With Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey Rated R graphic violence, sex scene, partial nudity, profanity
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