3/17/2024 0 Comments The movie 300 rise of an empire![]() ![]() Wearing a royal blue cape, as opposed to the blood-red cloaks of the Spartans, there is little else meant to differentiate him from Leonidas. In comparison, Sullivan Stapleton, best known for Cinemax’s Strike Back TV Series, is not allowed to showcase any of the actual talent he promised in 2010’s Animal Kingdom. Indeed, in the movie’s version of history, it is Artemisia who lets Darius die after he loses his taste for Greek war following the Battle of Marathon, and it is Artemisia who coaxes a weak-minded Xerxes throughout a decade of brainwashing to believe that he is actually a God-King, destined to reign over a devastated Greece, the homeland that killed her family and stole her innocence so many years ago.Īrtemisia so dominates 300: Rise of an Empire by getting all the best lines (“Today we will dance across the backs of dead Greeks”), all the best scenes (she makes out with the severed head of a Greco enemy who said one too many mean things about her), and all the best kills, that it becomes a hindrance for the rest of the picture. Ironically for such a boy’s club franchise, Green’s Artemisia becomes the focal point of the film when at the halfway mark, it segues into her origin as a Greek woman (true) who rose in the ranks of Persian power until she became the preeminent naval commander for Darius I, Xerxes’ father. 300: Rise of An Empire Review 300: Rise of An Empire Review ![]()
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