300 4K 2006 Ultra HD 2160p

The events of the picture tell about the bloody battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, when three hundred brave Spartans, led by their king Leonidas, blocked the path of the many thousands of army of the Persian king Xerxes. Despite the numerical superiority of the Persians, the Spartans stubbornly held the defense, showing courage and courage. Their fearlessness and heroism inspired all of Greece to unite against an invincible enemy, thereby turning the tide of the Greco-Persian wars.

300 4K Review
Zach Snyder computerized the Battle of Thermopylae

Snyder made a movie about Frank Miller's comics, transferring them to the screen with maximum accuracy. During pre-production, he was mainly engaged in collecting the necessary amount of shields, spears and swords for filming. A lot of time was still spent on communication between the actors and special battle choreographers, who taught how to swing their weapons correctly and beautifully and move their bodies reliably, in a fighting way. And then the work practically did not go beyond the shooting pavilions. Snyder and the film's producer Gianni Nunnari (to make a movie about this battle was the latter's childhood dream) decided to make the picture so stunning that it was deliberately pointless to look for it in wildlife (and how to find in nature something similar to that drawn in comics).

Instead, they filmed everything on chroma key, that is, blue and green backgrounds, which in peacetime help the presenter of the weather forecast guide his hand over the map with clouds and rain. And when the shooting ended, which from the outside looked extremely stupid, several dozen computer artists joined the business. With superhuman scrupulousness, for a year they have painted apocalyptic skies, huge war elephants, giants three human heights and a cloud of arrows that (stunning shot) completely obscures the sun. At the same time, they did not show any special imagination, but this was not necessary, since the picture was invented in 1998 by Frank Miller, a man who, therefore, in many ways invented modern cinema, at least this enchanting part of it. Lines like Leonidas (Gerard Butler) scream "Dinner in hell tonight!" Miller also came up with, or rather, paraphrased the saying of Leonidas, who invited his soldiers to have a hearty breakfast, because the next meal will take place already in Hades.

"300 Spartans", despite all its production uncertainty, turned out to be a very impressive movie. Cruel - hand-to-hand fights were filmed here without discounts for spectator sentimentality. Unsentimental - even during erotic scenes, one feels that in the end everyone will die.
And somehow wildly modern - starting with the fact that there are 1,500 cuts for 117 minutes of screen time, and ending with the fact that even Xerxes here looks not like his own canonical image with a thick beard and a stern look, but rather, on some then a bald, pierced club idiot who ate something wrong and went to kill everyone who came to hand.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Upscaled 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles
English SDH, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Danish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Thai, Ukrainian.