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NUMBERS GAME '300' PLAYS UP IMPOSSIBLE ODDS - AND A CHEAPER WAY TO MAKE BATTLE EPICS.(U)
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Byline: Bob Strauss
Film Writer
If you're wondering why the new movie "300" (opening Friday) looks like nothing you've ever seen, the basic reasons are as old as civilization itself: art and commerce.
Director Zack Snyder was determined to render the drawings of Frank Miller's graphic novel, about the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, as faithfully as a movie could.
Warner Bros., which has been burned recently on such sword-and-sandal epics as "Troy" and "Alexander," wanted the tale of the 300 Spartans who stood against a quarter-million-
man Persian army made ...
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