You and I know the 300 as the CG-heavy movie retelling the story of the Spartan's fight against the Persian King. I thought it was based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, but Sony Pictures' Yair Landau is calling it a videogame translation.
"Even though it's based on a graphic novel, the execution of that graphic novel was more to video games - and so you could say 300 is the first video game movie translation even though it's not really based on a video game."
He discusses film-game crossovers in the Gamasutra interview:
"I actually think that the phenomenon of 300 is really, in fact, a manifestation of the video game experience in kind of the collective conscience. The audience who came to see 300 was weaned on video games and what they saw in the marketing materials for 300 was a similar experience. They didn't show up because they were interested in the Spartans, or because they read Herodotus, or because they thought the Battle of Thermopylae was a great, untold story."
"They showed up because they saw a movie experience that was the most similar to the game experiences that they've grown up playing. The movie works because it's violent and it's actually very video game-ish."
What about you? Were you into the 300 for its videogame-like qualities, or was it just another Hollywood thing you wanted to see.
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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9:47 AM on 12.28.2007
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but... I see where he is coming from, most plebians don't know much about ancient history... and came for the violence... and yelling.
FOR SPARTA!
Is it just because it was written by Frank Miller? Seems like a thin argument to me, especially since being video game-ish is so vague a term.
No shock though, it seems like most of Sony's branches, video game, movie, or otherwise, have a tendency to put their collective feet in their mouths.
Truth be told, movies will always be movies, and games will always be games. You can't really see that the gamer audience came to see the movie becuase it was set up like a videogame just becuase it had some werid special affects and fighting. If that's the case then just about EVERY action movie is set up like a videogame.
When I watched 300 it WAS a movie. There was no player/watcher interaction with the movie, and therfore is in no way a game.
I was actully really suprised when i first heard 300 was being compared to a videogame, becuase I really couldent understand what they were getting at by saying that.
This guys right though. Lots of game fans saw this movie. Fuck, it was like watching an epic game in action.
NO LATE FEES!
300 is epic.
But, is that why anyone wanted to see it. No, stupid. Epic movie is epic. Anyone trying to create movies based on a "video game" experience, and especially because its violent, is completely out of touch with the meat of what a video game is. The violence is just a Barbecue sauce on what should otherwise be a well cooked cut of beef. I'll take my games with mango salsa.
Also, I haven't seen Crank, but THAT movie made me think video game, at all steps in its marketing.
Truer words have never been spoken.
Oh. Wait....
But yeah. I saw this because my friends said, "d0000d! 300 is siiick, man. Check it out or else you suuuck dick!"
And so I went and enjoyed myself.
i just wanted to see a good movie.
But sure, I'll bite/troll: 300 must've been the first, nevermind M.A.S.H., or Porkies, or others on the 2600.
Regardless, it doesn't matter: Can I have this guys job? Please tell me he doesn't get paid to write that shit.
It was like a movie and a game at the same time!
I miss my Sega CD.
Yes, you could say that...but then, you’d be horribly and stupidly wrong. Moron.
Bwuh?
So what he's trying to say is that it's an adaptation that's drawn stylistic influences from games?
........
SPARTA!
i went to see epic epicness
I went because I love Greek history and stories, I loved Sin City and love comics and graphic novels. Videogame comparison never entered my mind, just great storytelling.
On a side-note, Frank Miller is fucking insane now. "I'm the goddamn batman!" (See I-Mockery)