Film Review The Movie 300 Directed By Zack Syndar

The movie 300 directed by Zack Syndar starring Gerrald Butler as King Leonidas and Lena Headey as Queen Gorgo in an inspirational film around a historic story shown in excellent cinematography. While in many ways it is different in the movie to real life, it is still a historic fiction because it has added to the events to create a cohesive story. Within the first opening scenes, the brutality of the film begins. The feelings that rushed through my mind were that of pain and awe. The ways that the stories of Spartans last days are portrayed are incredible as if you were a ghost from the future reliving the pain that these courageous soldiers went through. Syndar’s goal was clearly to bring the suffering of the 300 men home to the viewer†¦show more content†¦the boy was taken from his mother and plunged into a world of violence. Manufactured by 300 years of Spartan warrior society†¦ ... to create the finest soldiers the world has ever known. The agoge, as it s called forces the boy to fight. Starves them, forces them to steal†¦ ... and if necessary, to kill. Men who were weak weren t accepted into the spartan army. The point of making it through all of the sufferings was because when it came to war only the fittest would survive. In every battle, the most physically fit would see the battle on both sides of the war. Even if that person that was larger completed all the tasks that the fittest did. The reason behind this is that the larger people can t work in the field of battle to the strategy that the either side fits. The 300 Spartans fought as a unit protecting the man on either side of you was your inspirations to be successful. Keeping that person alive was the backbone of the spartan army. Without having soldiers fit enough to take care of each other it would definitely lead to a different outcome in a battle or war. However, there is one man that stands as an outcast because of his physical aspects. Ephialtes, a deformed Spartan whose parents fled Sparta to spare him certain infanticide. Ephialtes asks to redeem his father s name by joining Leonidas army, warning him of a secret goat path the Persians could use to outflank and surround the Spartans. Though sympathetic, Leonidas rejects him since his deformity