Over the years the story of the famous confrontation at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. “I tend to be drawn to characters who might die disgraced to the world, who technically lose whatever combat they’re in but win the moral victory,” Mr. In “Sin City” one hero shoots himself in the mouth to protect a loved one another is executed by a corrupt system after ridding the world of not one but two cannibals. In “The Dark Knight Returns,” which many credit with reinvigorating the Batman franchise, an aging Bruce Wayne goes out in a blaze of glory in an outmatched battle against his old pal Superman. Miller would return again and again to the concept of heroic, often seppuku-like sacrifice. It was an epiphany to realize that the hero wasn’t necessarily the guy who won.”Īs a young comic book artist and writer, Mr. “I was used to seeing Superman punch out planets. Miller said in a recent telephone interview. “It was a shocker, because the heroes died,” Mr. Miller was stunned as he watched its climax, in which the few remaining Spartans are slaughtered in a hail of arrows. The film’s dialogue and staging may seem a bit quaint now. led 300 warriors in a doomed battle against the much larger Persian army, and David Farrar, regal in robes of purple and green, was the Persian king Xerxes. In this telling of the battle of Thermopylae, Richard Egan played the Greek king Leonidas, who in 480 B.C.
The year was 1963, and “The 300 Spartans” was in theaters. THE story of “300” - the popular comic book mini-series and, soon, a film from Warner Brothers - began when Frank Miller, the series’s creator, was 6.
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