This Is Sparta!: 10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About 300
300 Zack Snyder’s300is the movie that put him on the mapping . It found his signature visual expressive style — saturate color , using mirthful Word as storyboards , and cut in and out of super slow - motion during military action scenes — and put him in good stead to direct Hollywood blockbuster for year to follow . Although the movie is very upfront about the fact that its telling of the Battle of Thermopylae is coming from a wildly unreliable narrator,300was so surprisingly successful that a hatful of non - history buffs have convey its version of events as evangel ....