2007 · action · adventure · war
300
Directed by Zack Snyder1h 57m2007
A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians.
Our read: 300 (2007) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · adventure · war entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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