February 17, 2007

thanks!

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[The 300 trai­ler]
Thanks to all the blog­gers for coming to the Lon­don blog­gers’ pre­mier of “300”. A mar­ve­lous time. Great movie. Won­der­ful etc. Thanks to War­ner Bros and Simon Duns­tan of Beat­wax for put­ting it together.
Barry did a nice write up of it here:

I loved how inc­re­dibly sty­lish Sin City was so I won­de­red how a greatly more vio­lent story would come over. I was rather impres­sed at how cine­ma­ti­cally beau­ti­ful it was even though there was an obs­cene amount of digi­tal blood all over the show. It is such a boy film, battle after battle, an ancient Greek ver­sion of Ham­bur­ger Hill or Full Metal Jac­ket, with the odd glance of nip­ple or fan­tas­tic mons­ters (har­ke­ning back to Jason and the Argo­nauts that I watched every Christ­mas); but the vio­lence is there to sup­port the story, not an add on for gig­gles. Of course the story itself is very sty­li­sed and rew­ri­tes the his­to­ri­cal view of Sparta (for exam­ple they say they’re figh­ting for free­dom and democ­racy whilst his­tory tells out the Spar­tans had sla­very and the ende­mic bise­xua­lity was skip­ped over com­ple­tely (Zac did com­ment that the stu­dio had ban­ned any shots of dan­gling genitals).

I pretty much con­cur with everything he said.
Rock on.

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3 Responses to “thanks!”

  1. Stowe Boyd says:
    February 17, 2007 at 3:45 PM

    I wish I had been there!

  2. Matt Propst says:
    February 21, 2007 at 2:37 PM

    Ok, now i’m jea­lous! It sounds like it was a great time. Looks like i just have to wait until next month when it comes out here in the states.

  3. Jaci Q. says:
    February 28, 2007 at 2:19 AM

    this is absurd. ha ha just kid­ding i love it.