300 Six-Packs
Last night we went to see 300 on the Imax screen at Waterloo. Based on the Frank Miller graphic novel, it's a retelling of the story of 300 Spartans who held back the massed ranks of the Persian army at Thermopylae. It's impossibly over the top, though really there's no way to underplay a story of that type, and as David said, would have been better with some real actors and better dialogue, but it was entertaining nonsense for a Friday evening.
My favourite thought arising from it was that the casting sessions must have been entertaining. Given that almost the whole film is packed with muscular blokes wearing skimpy leather pants, cloaks, and not much else, I have this vision of an endless stream of lovelies being asked; "Can you show us your thighs? And your arms? And now your obligatory six pack? And now could you just try these on? Thank you. Next!"
There are some amazing bodies in the world.
March 27th, 2007 - 09:59
In Empire, they say that a lot of the six-packs were actually air-brushed in order to emphasise them.
Whether this was on the actors themselves, or in post-production, I know not.