{"id":65,"date":"2007-03-11T13:54:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T18:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/11\/frank-millers-300\/"},"modified":"2007-03-11T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T18:54:31","slug":"frank-millers-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Frank Miller&#8217;s 300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/300.jpg\" title=\"300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/300.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"300.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>After having seen Frank Miller&#8217;s <strong>300<\/strong> on opening night, I can tell you that it is brutal in its beauty, surreal in scope and cinematography, and totally gripping. It&#8217;s one of those films that, the more you think about it, the more it burrows under your skin.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Miller&#8217;s (also of <em>Sin City<\/em> fame) graphic novel of the same name, the film shares the book&#8217;s violence, the muted yet glowing colors, and through both you develop a love for the Spartans and their never surrender mentality.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that both the film, which is rated R, and the book display graphic violence. The representation is both visually stunning and powerful and prepare for a surge of adrenaline as you view it. If you can stand the blood (though there is no over gore), I highly recommend <em>300<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The graphic novel is available at this time through interlibrary loan. Be prepared to wait, though &#8212; there is a growing hold list on it.<\/p>\n<p>~Michelle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having seen Frank Miller&#8217;s 300 on opening night, I can tell you that it is brutal in its beauty, surreal in scope and cinematography, and totally gripping. It&#8217;s one of those films that, the more you think about it, the more it burrows under your skin. Based on Miller&#8217;s (also of Sin City fame)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-headlines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-13","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}