300 [Blu-ray]

Overview

Sin City author Frank Miller's sweeping take on the historic Battle of Thermopylae comes to the screen courtesy of Dawn of the Dead director Zack Snyder. Gerard Butler stars as Spartan King Leonidas and Lena Headey plays Queen Gorgo. The massive army of the Persian Empire is sweeping across the globe, crushing every force that dares stand in its path. When a Persian envoy arrives in Sparta offering King Leonidas power over all of Greece if he will only bow to the will of the all powerful Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), the strong-willed leader assembles a small army comprised of his empire's best fighters and marches off to battle. Though they have virtually no hope of defeating Xerxes' intimidating battalion, Leonidas' men soldier on, intent on letting it be known they will bow to no man but their king. Meanwhile, back in Sparta, the loyal Queen Gorgo attempts to convince both the skeptical council and the devious Theron (Dominic West) to send more troops despite the fact that many view Leonidas' unsanctioned war march as a serious transgression. As Xerxes' fearsome "immortals" draw near, a few noble Greeks vow to assist the Spartans on the battlefield. When King Leonidas and his 300 Spartan warriors fell to the overwhelming Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, the fearless actions of the noble fighters inspired all of Greece to stand up against their Persian enemy and wage the battle that would ultimately give birth to the modern concept of democracy.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/31/2007
UPC:	0085391161035
Original Release:	2007
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:56:00
Sales rank:	1,411

Special Features

Additional scenes of the traitorous hunchback and never-before-seen giant warriors [in High Definition]; Frank Miller's vision realized on film [in High Definition]; 300 Spartans - fact of fiction?" the shocking life of a Spartan revealed [in High Definition]; Who were the Spartans?: how the actors built their characters based on Spartan customs [in High Definition]; Webisodes: go on set with the cast and crew; Commentary by director Zack Snyder - and more!

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Gerard Butler	König Leonidas
Lena Headey	Königin Gorgo
David Wenham	Dilios
Rodrigo Santoro	Xerxes
Andrew Pleavin	Daxos
Andrew Tiernan	Ephialtes
Michael Fassbender	Stelios
Tom Wisdom	Astinos
Stephen McHattie	Actor
Giovani Antonio Cimmino	Pleistarchos,Pleistarchos
Bonnie Mak	Sklavin
Amelie Sorel	Sklavin
Caroline Aspirot	Sklavin
Gina Gagnon	Sklavin
Tania Trudell	Sklavin
Stephanie Aubrey	Sklavin
Sabrina-Jasmine Guilbault	Sklavin,Actor
Manny Cortez Tuazon	Actor
Atif Siddiqi	Actor
Camille Rizkallah	Actor
Trudi Hanley	Actor
Arthur Holden	Partisan
Neon Cobran	Actor
Greg Kramer	Actor
Frederic Smith	Actor,Actor,Sentry #1
Loucas Minchillo	Actor,Actor
Tom Rack	Actor
David Francis	Actor,Ephor #4
James Bradford	Actor
Tyrone Benskin	Actor
Robert Maillet	Actor
Patrick Sabongui	Actor
Stewart Myiow	Actor
Veronique-Natale Szalankiewicz	Actor
Maeva Nadon	Actor
David Thibodeau	Actor,Actor
David Schaap	Actor
Jean Michel Pare	Actor
Vervi Mauricio	Actor
Andreanne Ross	Actor
Ariadne Bourbonniere	Actor
Isabelle Fournel	Actor
Sandrine Merette-Attiow	Actor
Elisabeth Etienne	Actor
Danielle Hubbard	Actor
Ruan Vibegaard	Actor
David Lapommeray	Persian General Slaughtered
Tyler Neitzel	Actor
Isabelle Champeau	Actor
Sara Giacalone	Actor
Mercedes Leggett	Actor
Stephania Gambarova	Actor
Chanelle Lamothe	Actor
Dominic West	Actor
Eli Snyder	Actor,Actor
Tim Connolly	Actor
Neil Napier	Actor
Stuart Myiow	Persian General
Maurizio Terrazzano	Actor
Andrew Shaver	Actor
Robin Wilcock	Actor
Kent McQuaid	Actor
Marcel Jeannin	Actor
Jere Gillis	Actor
Alex Ivanovici	Actor
Dave Lapommeray	Actor
Leon Laderach	Actor
Charles Papasoff	Actor
Vincent Regan	Actor
Kelly Craig	Actor
Stephanie Aubry	Slave Girls
Marie-Julie Rivest	Actor
Alexandra Beaton	Actor
Stéphania Gambarova	Slave Girls
Robert Paradis	Actor
Peter Mensah	Actor
Kwasi Songui	Actor
Cindy	Transexual (Asian) #2
Sebastian St. Germain	Actor
Dennis St John	Actor
Gary A. Hecker	Voices,Ubermortal Vocals
Gerard Butlet	Actor
Tyler Bates	Composer
Michael Sinelnikoff	Elder councilman
John Dunn-Hill	Councilman

Technical Credits

Zack Snyder

Michael Gordon

Kurt Johnstad

Frank Miller

Lynn Varley

Zack Snyder	Director,Screenwriter,Executive Producer,Producer
Michael Gordon	Screenwriter
Kurt Johnstad	Screenwriter
Carrie Hilton	Casting
Chris Hills-Wright	Special Effects
Chris Capell	Special Effects
Ana Marie Cruz	Special Effects
Grant Freckelton	Special Effects
Jake Morrison	Special Effects
Derek Wentworth	Special Effects
Louis Craig	Special Effects
Whitney Gearin	Special Effects
Damon Caro	Stunts
Stephane Lefebvre	Stunts,Special Effects
Jeffrey Silver	Producer
Mark Canton	Producer
Gianni Nunnari	Producer
Bernie Goldmann	Producer
William Fay	Executive Producer,Producer
Craig J. Flores	Executive Producer,Producer
Scott Mednick	Executive Producer,Producer
Frank Miller	Executive Producer,Screenwriter,Producer
Thomas Tull	Executive Producer,Producer
Ben Waisbren	Executive Producer,Producer
Lynn Varley	Screenwriter
Josette Perrotta	Producer
Chadi Abo	Special Effects
Sarah Bourgeois	Sound Effects
Zack Davis	Sound Effects
Maxime Ferland	Sound Effects
Marcello Bezina	Stunts
Steve Barnett	Producer
Brad Brock	Sound Effects
Michael Broomberg	Sound Effects
Marc Auclair	Special Effects
Wesley Coller	Producer
Nathalie Peter-Contesse	Producer
Pierre Bonnette	Special Effects
David Pritchard	Special Effects
Joshua Sherrett	Special Effects
Silenn Thomas	Producer
Joao Sita	Special Effects
Philip Benn	Special Effects
Pierre Côté	Special Effects
Thomas Dickens	Special Effects
Chris Haney	Special Effects
Christian Severin	Special Effects
Georges Chartrand	Special Effects
Francis Choquette	Special Effects
Matt Corrigan	Special Effects
Hubert Boorder	Stunts
Douglas Chapman	Stunts
Jean-Martin Desmarais	Special Effects
André Essiembre	Special Effects
Tig Fong	Stunts
Brian Jagersky	Stunts
Erick Herbert	Special Effects
Darren McGuire	Stunts
Pierre L'Heureux	Special Effects
David Loveday	Special Effects
Tim Rigby	Stunts
Vincent Marion	Special Effects
Michel Verdon	Special Effects
Max White	Stunts,Stunts
Dwayne Wiley	Stunts
Jesse James Youngblood	Stunts
Abdul Ayoola	Stunts
Clint Carleton	Stunts
Alexandre Prefontaine	Stunts
Jon Valera	Stunts
James Michalopolous	Stunts
Alain Massé	Key Grip
Stephen Gilbert	Special Effects
Ryan Watson	Stunts
William Ward III	Stunts
Patrick Kerton	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

The world of swords and sandals is pumped up to the extreme with 300, a testosterone-tinged tale that's been operatically translated from the page to the screen for the action-hungry masses by director Zack Snyder. Adapting Frank Miller's comic series must not have been easy. First and foremost, the books were pure eye candy. Printed in full horizontal splash pages brought to breathtaking life by Lynn Varley's brush strokes, each issue demanded your eye-time first, then paid it off with Miller's typical tough prose later. That same dialogue figures prominently in the film -- in fact, much of the screen and page line up wondrously, even if the film does include its share of deviations. The extra bits of action are welcomed -- armored rhinos are a nice touch, as is the giant chained Persian that's unleashed on the Spartans. However, the added subplot involving the queen has raised a few eyebrows, if only because of the questionable pro-right-wing politics it contains. Snyder himself has shrugged off much of this criticism, although even he cannot deny that this is one of the lone Hollywood products of its time to align itself to such a troubled administration. Some moviegoers might also feel a bit uninvolved in the action simply because the tale is as direct as it is. With little context for most of the characters, the whole thing runs the chance of simply being a song-and-dance number made up of quick-to-slow shots of steel, blood, and open-throated yelling. But really, there's not much wrong with that, just as long as that's something the ticket holders are craving. Stodgy critics have compared it to video-game filmmaking, but it's far better to view it as a stylish exercise in how to bring Miller's work to the big screen in a way that's never been seen before -- just as Robert Rodriguez did with Sin City. In that way, Snyder has achieved what he set out to do. Now it's time for him to apply the skills learned here on something that will ignite the same kind of fire in audiences that Leonidas instilled in his troops.