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Clark, very nice review. (disclaimer, i was the makeup department head so I am highly biased) a few notes...

Posted by Analog Scott (A) on April 1, 2007 at 11:48:00

In Reply to: That movie, 300? Saw it yesterday. And ya know what? It ain't half bad! posted by clarkjohnsen on April 1, 2007 at 11:19:20:

"First: Often have I put myself on record as detesting CGI, but here we have a situation where the original work *was* drawn, so CGI -- as an elaborate form of pen-and-ink -- fits in commendably. At least I was never disturbed by that aspect, just as I do not demand filmic realism in my comix."

while there is extensive CGI in this movie I think i should point out that it was indeed filmed with real actors on actual sets with, gasp, real film. The deep back grounds were all CGI as well as a few other things like the elephants and the rhino. But this was filmed. And though the process (we called it the crush) was done digitally it was in many was more like an old school film process where the dynamic range was literally crushed to black out the darks and blow out the highlights.The crush also reduced the over all color saturation and skewed the color spectrum towards yellow for day and blue for night. they even added film grain to make it look more film like.

"A word about the men's brief costumes. They work very much in the spirit of comic books, and the actors move in them most masculinely. The Persians, however -- led by a King Xerxes channeling Jaye Davidson's Ra from Stargate -- in other words, a big fag (if I may), and in this case a *really* big fag -- are completely and conventionally clothed, possibly because they don't want to give Xerxes any ideas.'

While the Persians were more covered than the Spartans I wouldn't call their costumes conventional. As for Xerxes, he was not intended to be a "big fag." Our intentions were to make him androgenous and overtly narcissistic. More a decadent omnisexual rather than homosexual. I'm not sure if we just failed or were simply the victims of certain subtle prejudices in this case.

But I really do like your review. I think you nailed the movie and the intentions of the movie makers.

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