The iconic scene in both "300" (2006) and "The 300 Spartans" (1962) where Persian arrows ‘blot out the sun’ is directly inspired by a famous historical event and quote attributed to the Battle of Thermopylae. According to the ancient historian Herodotus, when warned that the Persian archers were so numerous their arrows would block out the sun, a Spartan soldier named Dienekes remarked that they would then fight in the shade. Also, Frank Miller was inspired by the 1962 film when creating his gra

300 | Behind-The-Scenes The script demanded that most of the male cast spend the majority of their screen time bare-chested, as per Frank Miller’s original graphic novel. To adequately present themselves as the most well-trained and marshaled fighting force of the time, the entire principal cast underwent a rigorous 8-week training regime organized by Marc Twight, a world-record-holding professional mountain climber. Actors never repeated the same exercise twice, preventing the body from adaptin