One of Zack Snyder’s best films (so not Rebel Moon) will soon be leaving Netflix, and it would be a shame to miss it before it leaves.
Before Rebel Moon (whose long versions full of blood and sex are coming), Zack Snyder pretty much knew how to make movies. If the American director has never been considered a genius, he remains a creator capable of providing a good big spectacle, often topped with slightly exaggerated, but effective staging, and a very assertive visual style.
And while Zack Snyder recently revealed the first image of Twilight of the Gods, his Netflix series scheduled for this fall, one of the best feature films in his filmography will soon leave the platform at the red N. It is one of the director’s greatest financial successes, and it would be a shame to miss it.
300, the birth of Snyder
This film is 300Zack Snyder’s first big success released here in 2007. Adapted from the graphic novel by Frank Miller, which itself was inspired by the historic battle of Thermopylae between the Spartans and the Persians, this film (Snyder’s second after Army of the dead) garnered more than 456 million dollars in revenue and has reached cult film status over time.
If 300 is not free from faults (its representation of the Persian invaders, its very, but really very outrageous renderings, and certain special effects which have aged quite badly), it retains a strong and resolutely striking aesthetic which, in addition to making it the starting point of Snyder’s recognizable style, brings many moments and sequences that have now become legendary (“THIS IS SPARTAAAA“).
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300, it is also a rather clumsy, but touching homage to the peplum, and above all an eminently epic reproduction of this confrontation between Greeks and Persians. If we can obviously point to Snyder’s very fantasized vision of the Battle of Thermopylae, the filmmaker nevertheless offers a grandiose, memorable and sometimes even magnificent spectacle. which makes it one of the greatest films of his career.
300 will leave the Netflix catalog on April 30so don’t hesitate to see it or see it again, because after that, we will only have Rebel Moon to sink your teeth into (it’s not true, but 300 still worth it, see it).
