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All Herodotus tells us is that the Spartan officials did not think that the engagement at Thermopylae would be decided so quickly and intended the main part of their force to arrive before the fighting broke out.

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Butler said that while he did not feel constrained by Snyder's direction, fidelity to the comic imposed certain limitations on his performance. In Sparta, Queen Gorgo has been attempting to persuade the Spartan Council to send reinforcements to aid the 300 Spartan soldiers making their last stand. Dominic West as Theron, a fictional corrupt Spartan politician (Theron is not featured in the comic book). There's blood galore as the Spartans -- trained war machines -- defend their land against Xerxes' massive Persian army.

This was back in 2009 when Snyder had just done Watchmen, another graphic novel film adaptation and the studio did a rerelease of the film with new extras in a promotional sense for that film, essentially. Producer Mark Canton said, "MySpace had an enormous impact but it has transcended the limitations of the Internet or the graphic novel. The bigger fans of the fill will find that the lack of some vital extras from the past 2009 release is a pretty big deal. Adapting Frank Miller's graphic novel 300, Snyder takes a hyperstylized visual approach to depicting the famed Battle of Thermopylae, where King Leonidas ( Gerard Butler) and his 300 elite personal guards defied their Oracle and the odds to wage war against Xerxes' huge, unrelenting Persian army. I felt that’s, again something worth noting, always going to be something people need to know going into any Atmos mix or such — if they aren’t experiencing it in the format.

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Perhaps the biggest problem with the movie 300 is that the f Faced with the choice of submitting to Xerxes (Brazilian Lost regular Rodrigo Santoro, rendered nearly unrecognizable in earrings and eye makeup) or waging war, Leonidas makes the only choice a warrior-king can: fight. With illegal versions of the film already available in Tehran with the film's international release and news of the film's surprising success at the US box office, the film prompted widespread anger in Iran. This new Dolby Atmos mix found here is as strong and relentless as the Spartan army depicted in the film (and novel).The color timing doesn’t seem to have been changed much at all really, as much as it’s just high dynamic range allowing for a wider range of colors to be achieved in some cases. It's not a big leap to postulate that they ridiculed their hedonistic Athenian rivals for something they themselves did. Snyder said of Xerxes, "What's more scary to a 20-year-old boy than a giant god-king who wants to have his way with you?

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It is impossible to know for certain whether this change in policy regarding the Carneia was based in shame about missing Marathon (as Brin suggests) or merely marked a reinterpretation of the military threat posed by the invading Persians.

author Frank Miller commented on this alteration in an Entertainment Weekly interview, "I took those chest plates and leather skirts off of them for a reason. The film is a shot-for-shot adaptation of the comic book, similar to the film adaptation of Sin City.