300 Brings History to Bloody Life

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Wired News interviews 300 director Zack Snyder on his new movie, in 300 Brings History to Bloody Life, and Snyder demonstrates some self-promotional talent:

Wired News: This is one crazy-looking movie.

Zack Snyder: No one should ever take drugs, ever. I want to go on the record on that. But if someone was to slip you a mickey, I would immediately get into a taxi and go to an Imax screening of 300.
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WN: In the film, a tiny bunch of European freedom fighters hold off a huge army of Iranian slaves. Everyone is sure to be translating this into contemporary politics.

Snyder: Someone asked me, “Is George Bush Leonidas or Xerxes?” I said, “That’s an awesome question.” The fact they asked tells me that this movie can mean one thing to one person and something totally different to another.

Wired News also has an eerie-but-beautiful gallery of images from the film.

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