300: Rise of an Empire: The Art of the Film

The media could not be loaded.  This artbook is a marked improvement over the one for the first film, 300: The Art of the Film.This book is actually a collection of production photography, film stills and concept art. Everything appears in high resolution, printed to the edge, huge. Hardcover, 160 pages.There are a lot of photos. I don't like artbooks that feature more photos than art. But in this case, all the visuals in the book are quite stunning, photos and art included, especially the photos actually.The photos and stills are great. You'll see many for the characters, behind the scenes where they use green screen, details on the costumes, weapons, and of course the sets where they build parts of the ships that appear in the movie. Lots of glamour shots to be seen, including the soulful, vengeful, deceitful and more.Concept art are mainly of the key scenes and environments, and mostly far shots of the capital Persepolis, Sparta, and other places on the war path of Xerxes.Layout of the book is quite well done to play up images. Photos and art well mixed throughout. There's a very textural feel throughout with the splatter, rain, sea and mud.The book has spoilers and they come in the form of pictures. But I don't suppose they will dull down your enjoyment of the film anyway. Story plots are mentioned in small bits only.Highly recommended. It's a visually beautiful book, wonderfully art directed.(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

In excellent shape and arrived quickly - I'm a big fan of the 300 franchise and the pictures are rich in detail - much needed for a 300 inspired project I'm working on

Unfortunately, it has become fashionable for all movie art of books to be printed in landscape format.This has the consequence that one needs a lot of space to properly unfold the book or to be able to read.Otherwise there is little to complain about: Very nice photos, good portraits, and an overall good compilation.As for the designs there is nothing really groundbreaking new. Fans of the film will need this, especially since it is one of the nicer art-of books (despite Landscape format). Plus it has Eva Green in it ;-)

Love the movies, lov the history and everything relaed to this period of time in world history and how things may have been different if the Persians had one.

Typically, unless I am buying a textbook, I don’t want to spend a whole lot; however, the sequential art titles offered by Titan Books are worth every penny they are priced at. Larger than most laptop screens, this book is a stunning piece of visually history. Peter Aperlo has brought together the entire process from design concept to final movie rendering. While this book strays away from historical accuracy, unlike the first 300, the attention to detail, CGI, and acting more than makes up for it. This book leads readers through the often-daunting process of playing the part with grueling hours in the gym and non-stop fight training to lead viewers to believe they truly are Spartan and Persian warriors. As you dive deeper into the book, you are given a rare glimpse of the fine-tuned detail from the iconography to the massive detail of the CGI environments that had to be created for so many different points in the movie.“What had captured Miller’s imagination during his research on the initial graphic novel was the fact that the Battle of Artemisium had taken place during the same three days as the Spartans’ stand at Thermopylae, and not very far away at that. ‘That’s a little too fun to ignore,’ says Snyder.”The stunning imagery within this book will surely provide readers with a newfound appreciation for the time, ingenuity, and perfection that goes into making a movie, and books such as this one deserve a sacred spot on display within any home library.*This book was provided in exchange for an honest review *You can view the original review at San Francisco Book Review

This book shows stunning artwork from the sequel movie to 300 - 300: Rise of An Empire.The film derives from the original 300 graphic novel from Frank Miller and his influence shows.Beautifully produced and rich with lush imagery, this book is wonderful to behold.Can't wait for the film!

¿Cuántas veces os han preguntado eso de un "pecado confesable", una película que para la gran mayoría es mediocre pero que para vosotros es algo primordial? Pues para mí, es esta secuela de la más popular y célebre "300".Posiblemente es la película que más veces he visto y su Banda Sonora me acompaña muchas veces tanto en horas de ocio como trabajando. Es una manera de ponerme las pilas.Pues bien, con esta... debilidad no podía dejar de tener este "art book". El acierto ha sido total.Ya son varios los "art book" que poseo y este cumple a la perfección con lo que uno busca: grandes imágenes, textos explicativos directos sin grandes discursos dando protagonismo al arte, calidad de papel e impresión notable.A pesar de tener ya unos años se conserva a la perfección lo que dice mucho a favor de su calidad.Resumiendo, un gran "art book" y no solo de tamaño que hace honor a una película que pasó sin pena ni gloria por la taquilla de medio mundo, pero que a los que realmente amamos el trabajo y pasión puesta en ella agradecemos de corazón.

Me encanto la peli...y este es el remate perfecto, precioso

Returned it, overpriced.

A very good art of film book, filled with everything related to the films special effects and actors costumes etc...4 stars.