The movie, outside the fact that there were battles between the Greeks and Persians is based on fiction. Some of the other comic books Frank Miller has written are Star Trek, Super girl, Superman, Incredible Hulk, Batman and Bat Boy. The comic book writer has NEVER written a nonfictional comic.
The writer is a COMIC BOOK WRITER.
... That's what I just said.
Nowhere does the 300 name itself as a documentary, this is like NASA being angry at Star Wars.
Lighten up, it's a comic book movie.
The batlle of the 300 Spartans was NOT fiction. This movie and the comic book both rewrite history and fictionalize it. How would you feel if the D-day landing, for instance, was fictionalized with orges or what ever thrown into the mix? This movie is BS and belittles the actual battle. There is a monument at the site of the battle which honors the Spartans. It was placed there shortly after the battle and still remains there. Fiction my a**.
I saw the film and a disagree somewhat. The graphic novel called 300 was based upon a film called The 300 Spartans which was based upon the events of surrounding Leonidas and his 300 Spartan warriors defending Sparta from the Persian armies. After seeing the film, I checked out a few sites on the Internet that relate the story in more accurate detail and I found that while the film offered a highly stylized, dramatic version of the story, it was not far off from any other depiction.
The film was never intended to be historically accurate. It was entertainment. In fact, surprisingly, from what I read - even though it was based upon the graphic novel of the same name - it was more historically accurate than Braveheart was in telling the story of William Wallace.
Thermopylae? fictional? You can't be really serious posting this garbage...can you?
--...Star Trek, Super girl, Superman, Incredible Hulk, Batman and Bat Boy--
Main characters will be played, respectively, by Algore, John Edwards, Richard Clarke, Ted Kennedy, Barack Hussein Obama, and Henry Waxman.