The movie I'm going to talk about today is "Spartan 300 Warriors". According to the name of this movie, you should be able to know the background and content of this story (obviously). The story takes place in 480 BC. King Xerxes I of Persia led a massive army of 500,000 to attack Greece and approached the Demobili Pass all the way south. King Leonidas of Sparta personally led the Greek coalition to defend the dangerous hot springs pass, but the Greek defenders were quickly defeated. Leonidas ordered the main force of the Greek coalition to retreat quickly, and personally led 300 Sri Lankan troops. At the rear of the Bada Warriors Hall, they fought tens of thousands of Persian troops in a bloody and desperate struggle. In the end, all 300 warriors died in the battle, which also made the Persian army pay a painful price of 20,000 casualties in the battle of breaking the Wenquan Pass. (Sorry for the spoiler part) In general, this film uses a lot of short shots and constant shot switching to allow various characters to appear on the screen alternately to better understand the story that this work wants to express. The characteristics of each character in OK This is the shortest introduction to the whole work - next, let's get a little closer, a little closer - Character: Gerard Butler is the protagonist in this play, the kingdom of Sparta The king, and one of the three hundred warriors. Zack Snyder has a lot to say about how the protagonist shapes this. For example, a long shot in the middle of the movie (Gerald "killing" Persian soldiers) is also one of the few long shots in the movie - for the character of the protagonist, Gerald's bloody fighting action in this segment And the ever-present casualties of the Persian army, none of which reflect the character's love of war and cruelty (here cruelty can be understood as a positive description, because all Spartans at that time were born warriors) At the same time , In order to better portray the character and image of this character, the director told the story of Gerald at the beginning of the feature film, how he became an excellent soldier, how he became the monarch of a country, and told it from the mouth of the minister. It's natural, in my opinion. This not only creates the image of such an iron-blooded warrior and a smart young man, but also briefly introduces part of the background knowledge of the story - the life of the protagonist, so that the audience can better understand the background of the story (don't tell me I'm the only one) People who didn't know the king of Sparta and his life before watching the movie) Narrative skills: The movie as a whole is quite straightforward. After all, if the thinking of historical movies is jumping, it is easy for the audience to fail to keep up with the rhythm of the movie (after all, there are many People are unfamiliar with this history, don't you think?) Values: Generally speaking, the values of this movie are still biased towards Sparta (after all, European and American countries are accustomed to praise European and American countries tend to beautify the history of these countries), Persia is an aggressor and villain in the whole movie. Art Design: The art design of this film makes me feel a little pity (for example, there are some slightly anti-historical clothes on the Persian captive army), and the most unacceptable thing is the clothes of the Spartans, as Spartan heavy infantry, is it unreasonable to have no visible armor except for the armor on the knees (maybe the director just wants to better show the beauty of the body?) Isabelle Guay looks at the artistic expression in Mission Impossible 5 , I always feel that James D. Bissell may just have a slightly deviated voice in this film: the original sound producer of the 300 Warriors, Tyler Bates, because the films he participated in the creation of at the same time were all horror films (the landlord does not watch horror) Movie hhhhhhhhh) So I chose the original soundtrack of the movie Guardians of the Galaxy for comparison. As we know, the biggest villain in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 is Ronan, and every bgm accompanying Ronan always makes us shudder. Maybe it's because the horror movie is so well done that the character song also has a gloomy feeling... In 300 Warriors, although we did not feel many impressive or memorable soundtracks, it is undeniable that in 300 Warriors In the details (eg the background soundtrack of the night of the undead is amazing enough) Photography & camera: Larry Fong is a good photographer, there is no doubt that he likes to use extreme colors and very little soft light (most of the shots are is a huge scene), retreating to a large light source as the main light distribution for the film. He prefers to use 150 frames of slow motion, which is also in the scene where Gerald kills the Persian soldiers among the 300 warriors, and many pauses and slow motions can reflect this. He likes to use mirror lenses and spherical lenses, so that with his special coating can better reflect the colors and contrasts on the characters, just like the close-up of Superman's costume in Superman vs. Batman, he enhanced Superman's red and blue The contrast of the alternate clothing to make it stand out more. Shots: Larry Fong is an excellent photographer, no doubt, he likes to use extreme colors and very little soft light (mostly huge scenes), falling back to large light sources as the main lighting for the film. He prefers to use 150 frames of slow motion, which is also in the scene where Gerald kills the Persian soldiers among the 300 warriors, and many pauses and slow motions can reflect this. He likes to use mirror lenses and spherical lenses, so that with his special coating can better reflect the colors and contrasts on the characters, just like the close-up of Superman's costume in Superman vs. Batman, he enhanced Superman's red and blue The contrast of the alternate clothing to make it stand out more.
In short, everyone can see the shortcomings. But at that time, such a film was good enough.
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