Frank Miller on 300

I've been watching every teaser and trailer and every stupid little feature that has come out on 300 since it was first announced. No, I have not read the comic. I'd like to at some point, but like everything else, it's a desire that gets thrown further and further away due to the accumulation of all the books I've bought and been given. There's always a stack to read that comes before purchasing more. My original draw to the movie was Gerard Butler after seeing him as the Phantom. I would watch anything that man has made with open welcome arms. The other major draw is all of the studying I did on the Spartans and Greeks back in the day when I wanted nothing more than to become an archaeologist and live in a tent. Those classes were like sitting down to a magical story every day. And now comes a movie based on elements of all the mythology I held onto so tightly as real. Just with a very violent heroic front. As a standard, I go out of my way to avoid war movies, whether they be based on true events or are totally fantastic. I do not enjoy war for I cannot discriminate between the massive pointlessness of death and the strategy. But this is a movie I have been waiting on for a long time. And, albeit a rather blithe interview, it is an interview nonetheless with Frank Miller, the man who made this anticipation possible. So please, read and enjoy.


Oh, and on a side note, it really sucks to be enjoying a glass of wine outside in the beautiful night air to have it come to a sudden halt due to rain and the effect it can have on a laptop.