'300' Built On Technology, Enthusiasm

But according to Snyder, the film is all about doing something just a little bit different.

“I think the technology we used to make the movie existed; I think the real change was in the studio's head, kind of exhaustive shorts and sandals genre a teeny bit -- to the point where they felt like the idea of reinventing it a little bit was a thing that they could go, 'You know what, maybe that is good and that does work. Maybe people do want to see something else.'"

Scottish actor Gerard Butler however said that the technology had nothing to do with his choice for the role, and it was something he didn’t really worry about during production.

"I can't worry about technology. The challenge for me is just to give the best performance that I can," he said. "You're always aware that you're working in a different environment and for me that's -- every film you do for one reason or another requires a different thought process or a different approach. And for me it's almost leaving yourself open to that in a weird way. It's not even necessarily a technique but leaving yourself open to trying to feel, almost by osmosis this different feeling that's going on there."

The actor also went on to say that the essence of it all was using his imagination to set foot into the comic-world in which the movie is set.

"It was definitely about trusting," said Butler. "Really trusting the world you were living in because I think the temptation was to force it a little because there's nothing there and yet sometimes it felt you were performing in a vacuum and in that respect, in using your imagination to create it, might push you towards more theatricality or perhaps explaining things a little more just with your voice and it was about trusting that and trusting who you're dealing with, your kind of immediate partners in crime if you like."

"300" follows the Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians, however for the purpose of the story a little bit of history had to be cut. But according to Snyder, the film still contains enough of the original context to bring about a feeling of the Spartan way of life and that it was important to get some level of support from historians.

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