Heylo :),

One of the worst phases in a junior consultant's career is The Waiting Period, wherein you are staffed on a case but it is stalled because of certain starting pangs. So, as it is, I am currently staffed on a German case (yet again !) , and due to some client stuff, it is just stalled. And I have to come into office everyday with my only occupation being to do bheja fry of everyone around ! Shho, today, I decided to go back in time (sic) and finish the blog posts I had left upended and hanging in mid-air (Ohh Gawd ! I can be soo impulsive afterall !)..anyhow, here it goes :

Today I went to watch 300, the uber-stylized new offering from Warners and yet another adaptation of the Sin City creator, Frank Miller's work. So, does it live up to its pedigree and name ? Well, in a simple word, Yes it does, and does it in some style. Director Zack Snyder maybe a new entrant to Film noir, but he really takes it to an aspirational level, with his moorish photography (erstwhile relegated purely to the realm of Flashbacks in epics and just maybe to Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) and nuanced camera angles making 300 a visual treat, rarely seen before. Essentially, 300 is a biased picturization of a much-debated historical incident that saw 300 Spartans square off against a million Persians with not-so-inconsiderable help from Mother Nature herself (ask the cliffs !!) which allowed the whole Greece to unite and thwart the great Persian juggernaut later. The movie, in typical Hollywood spirit, chooses to trash Persians with historical inconsistencies to make it a tale of sinister evil vs. the Few Good Men :) [depicting Xerxes, the son of Darius, the Persian ruler as effeminate serves the purpose of contrasting the rippling Spartan manhood against the withering Persian bunch of savages. Moreover, the movie also shows Persian slavery when infact, Persians under Xerxes were the 1stest of peepz to pay for service !! Talk about hogwash :)). But then, Zack's direction of this painting rather than a movie makes it worth a watch, or mebbe two. The highly stylized depiction even makes Woodies like Gerald Butler seem grand, but then, the movie was never about acting, was it :-) ?

So, if you still haven't watched it (Cummon, remember PSPO ??), please do yourself a favor and buy a ticket :).

Tataz then !
Ranjan