300 Analysis

Media Representations & Ideologies

The person who is mainly being represented is Leonidas (Gerad Butler) to be a masuline male. The ideologies that are shown from this character; are typical male dominance and a paitriotic breadwinner. The individual is a king of Sparta and who is going war with th persian's to win back his glory and respect of Sparta.

The scene where he leaves his family to go to war is a typical breadwinner scene as the individual is leaving the family to go war (work). And the wife is left to take care of the children and in her case also the village.

The reason this individual is being represented in this way is because the individual contains power over his family and over his country. His power concerns many as it is up to him to take his pure bred army to save Sparta.
His representation should be presented this way of having the masculine attitude of control and the boldness to show he is pshyically capiable.


Media Languages

The main connotations within this film are that you are the one who must look after the family and other close individuals. this applies only to the male sex as females role tend to be presented as the common housewife who is use for cooking and cleaning and completing all home chores.

These connotations are presented through a scene where Leonidas gathers a group of pure bred spartans from their families to save their country. When the king leaves the Queen doesn't hold as much powerr as king Leonidas had. This shows that female Equality doesn't exist within this film.

the Non-verbal meaning from this film are clearly shown from a scene were Leonidas leaves his wife to go to war and his wife's expression show sadness and tears, but the males is agression saying he must do this for his country and leaving speechless with no buy or i love you shows that his country is more important than his love. This clearly shows that the new man has dissapeared as the new man wouldn;t show violence as they have gone throyugh an evolutiony stage were they have grown out of the violent stage to a stage where love and caring is replaced.


Narrative

The narrative follows TODOROV's theory of the equilibrium-Disequilibrium-revolution.

Equilibrium: Sparta is living happy training and producing pure bbred spartan children. They are lving there life in incraesing their lands.

Diseqilibrium: The persian God king sends a messenger to say to Leonidas that his country must fall under the power of Persia or his city will suffer. Leonidas disagrees and a war is f0rmed.

Revolution: Leonidas looses the war but one survivor produces a larger amry of spartans years after to go to war.

The hero's are created through them standing up for their country and city. The hero's are sacrifing themselves in a war against millions to 300.

The villians are created through the structure by them attacking constantly.

The narrative structure is shown to bring tension upon the 300 against 1million and the fight techniques and slow motion actio and gore to present they will win the battle. But the storyline ends with a realistic revolution of themdoing damage but loosing a 300 to 1million battle.

Genre

The film genre is mainly action and adventure. The action is from the great action sequences. 300 Has the best rateing for action scenes as slow mation, gory blood and zoom in and outs are used to entice the audience and increase tension upson the scene.

The adventure is created through the climax and scenary within the film. The film has many setting which makes it an adventure and follows the spartyans to differnt parts of the country.

All scene tend to be male dominant or masucline. It tends to be a patirialchal society and female are either typical houysef wifes or connoted as sex objects and pleasure.