Media Group Breather Rough Draft

Kirstin Diroll
English 2010 M&W
Breather Assignment
300 Brave Spartans
King Leonidas a 5th century B.C. king who lead 300 hundred Spartan soldiers to war against 150, 000 Persians. They fought in the battle known as the Thermopylae. A movie was made in remembrance of this famous war. A movie starring Gerard Butler as King Leonidas called “300” came out in 2006. This movie describes the fall of the Spartans against the “God King” king Xerxes. Seeing that movies are made to entertain, they leave out certain facts, but will sometimes make the movie as real as possible.
The movie “300” is no exception, geared toward a male audience, because of violence. Viewers watch this movie expecting a phenomenal show, but also to learn a little about the history of Greece. This movie does an amazing job at pin pointing most of what happened in the battle. With the movie not entirely in color, but more of a grayish makes the color red stand out completely. The battle of Thermopylae took place in 480 B.C. when King Xerxes decided he wanted to take over Sparta.
King Leonidas was aware of this and decided to block them for the Thermopylae trial, aka “hot gates”. His warriors were more than men they are Spartans (Miller). The movie shows a great example of this when King Leonidas asks of an Arcadian soldier, “you there what is your profession?” and the soldier replies, “I am a potter-sir.” Then he turns to his warriors and yells “Spartans what is your profession?” and they answer back, “Hoo-Ah, Hoo-Ah.” Finally King Leonidas looks at the Arcadian leader and says “You see old friend? I brought more soldiers than you did.” The makers of this movie did exactly what they need to, they are keeping the movie as close to history as possible, but without boring viewers.
People engulf themselves in the media it can take over lives. Frank Miller originally made a comic book of 300, and that is the reason for the movie make.