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300: Earth and Water
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Original Release Date:
2007, 2014
Original Running Time:
117, 102
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Fanedit Running Time:
147
Time Cut:
72
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Brief Synopsis:
When Xerxes of Persia launches an invasion of Greece, two of her most legendary warriors - Leonidas of Sparta and Themistocles of Athens - lead the defense of their homeland.
Intention:
As soon as '300: Rise of an Empire' was announced to take place before, during, and after the original 300, a fanedit was inevitable. Combining the two films was like putting together a big puzzle that was covered in blood and sweat. The end result is, I feel, a war epic that revels in absurd action and doesn't forget to have fun.
Release Information:
- Blu-Ray
- Digital
Editing Details:
Given that 'Rise of an Empire' takes place before, during, and after the original film, I used that as the main body of the film. Despite the films being about the same conflict, both have rather different approaches to how the story is told. I did my best to reconcile these differences, detailed in the cuts and additions, so they truly feel like one film.
Cuts and Additions:
This is a general list of cuts and edits. You'll notice that more content was cut from 300 than Rise of an Empire. This is because Rise of an Empire was a fair bit shorter and there wasn't really all that much to cut.
- All scenes from Rise of an Empire were slightly desaturated and film grain added to bring them closer in appearance to 300.
- Added Aztek Fanedit Classics bumper to the beginning.
- Added "Earth and Water" to the original title card for 300.
- Opens with the battle of Marathon. Trimmed in a few places.
- Added "490 B.C." at the beginning of the battle.
- Trimmed the first scene in Athens, added "480 B.C." to beginning of scene.
- Cut all of Leonidas's back story. The first Sparta scene is him training with his son.
- Trimmed scene with the Persian emissary.
- Removed Themistocles talking with Dilios when he visits Sparta.
- Cut the underwater dancing oracle.
- Trimmed the 300 leaving Sparta.
- Removed voice over from the night time storm scene.
- Combined the first battle between the Spartans and the Persians and the Athenians at sea.
- Trimmed the second naval engagement between the Athenians and Artemisia.
- Removed voice over from night battle with the Immortals. Fight trimmed a bit.
- Trimmed battle before the Captain's son is killed. Removed voice over from scene.
- Trimmed the defeat of the 300.
- Trimmed scenes with Themistocles talking with Daxos and Ephialtes.
- Removed voice over during the sacking of Athens.
- Trimmed scene with Xerxes and Artemisia before the final battle.
- Removed Gorgo's voice over before the Spartans arrive at Salamis.
- New credits, with "The End is the Beginning is the End" by Smashing Pumpkins as the music.
- All scenes from Rise of an Empire were slightly desaturated and film grain added to bring them closer in appearance to 300.
- Added Aztek Fanedit Classics bumper to the beginning.
- Added "Earth and Water" to the original title card for 300.
- Opens with the battle of Marathon. Trimmed in a few places.
- Added "490 B.C." at the beginning of the battle.
- Trimmed the first scene in Athens, added "480 B.C." to beginning of scene.
- Cut all of Leonidas's back story. The first Sparta scene is him training with his son.
- Trimmed scene with the Persian emissary.
- Removed Themistocles talking with Dilios when he visits Sparta.
- Cut the underwater dancing oracle.
- Trimmed the 300 leaving Sparta.
- Removed voice over from the night time storm scene.
- Combined the first battle between the Spartans and the Persians and the Athenians at sea.
- Trimmed the second naval engagement between the Athenians and Artemisia.
- Removed voice over from night battle with the Immortals. Fight trimmed a bit.
- Trimmed battle before the Captain's son is killed. Removed voice over from scene.
- Trimmed the defeat of the 300.
- Trimmed scenes with Themistocles talking with Daxos and Ephialtes.
- Removed voice over during the sacking of Athens.
- Trimmed scene with Xerxes and Artemisia before the final battle.
- Removed Gorgo's voice over before the Spartans arrive at Salamis.
- New credits, with "The End is the Beginning is the End" by Smashing Pumpkins as the music.
Cover art by Aztek463 (DOWNLOAD HERE)
User reviews
11 reviews
Overall rating
9.4
Audio/Video Quality
9.4(11)
Audio Editing
9.7(11)
Visual Editing
9.9(11)
Narrative
9.0(11)
Enjoyment
9.1(11)
Overall rating
9.4
Audio/Video Quality
8.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
9.0
Enjoyment
10.0
Turning the 2 films into a single chronological narrative works wonders, particularly in increasing the quality of the sequel’s narrative. For me, this turned the sequel into an almost as interesting story as 300 was, and that’s an achievement in itself.
The editing is top-notch here. The transitions from one film to the other were perfect, couldn’t find a difference between the original cuts and the (many) new ones.
At 17m12, there’s something weird happening with the framerate, just for a few seconds, the video seems jittery. I’ve checked, this is not present in the original.
The editing is top-notch here. The transitions from one film to the other were perfect, couldn’t find a difference between the original cuts and the (many) new ones.
At 17m12, there’s something weird happening with the framerate, just for a few seconds, the video seems jittery. I’ve checked, this is not present in the original.
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
G
Overall rating
8.2
Audio/Video Quality
6.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
8.0
Enjoyment
7.0
Now this was interesting.
The edit works incredibly well as a single narrative, regardless of the movies being released almost a decade apart. The reprising roles make it even more convincing, and no unaware viewer would take this for less than a back-to-back production of two separate installments. There are some narrative inconsistencies that could have been edited along - like the persian emissary disdain for Queen Gorgo's say as a woman, even though he is shown to have been Artemisia's mentor at that point. But that's on the nitpick side. While other reviewers have taken issue with how prominent the sequel story is in the edit, I think it's for the better since it gives the original some real-world political sustenance instead of relying just on mythic sandals-on-the-ground.
AV quality is just okay, editing is pretty flawless throughout.
Good showcase for fanediting.
The edit works incredibly well as a single narrative, regardless of the movies being released almost a decade apart. The reprising roles make it even more convincing, and no unaware viewer would take this for less than a back-to-back production of two separate installments. There are some narrative inconsistencies that could have been edited along - like the persian emissary disdain for Queen Gorgo's say as a woman, even though he is shown to have been Artemisia's mentor at that point. But that's on the nitpick side. While other reviewers have taken issue with how prominent the sequel story is in the edit, I think it's for the better since it gives the original some real-world political sustenance instead of relying just on mythic sandals-on-the-ground.
AV quality is just okay, editing is pretty flawless throughout.
Good showcase for fanediting.
User Review
Format Watched?
Digital
T
Overall rating
9.0
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
7.0
Enjoyment
8.0
Top notch editing. The technical profiency of this edit is very high. It was an interesting watch, but at the end of the day I just don't care about the events in Rise as much as the original. This makes them as good as they can be, I think. I wish the movie didn't have to go on after the ending of the original 300, but narratively there would be no way to make that work. This was a cool idea executed as well as is possible. I think the story of the sequel/prequel just isn't that strong. I'll watch this edit on occasion though it doesn't replace 300 for me.
The editing is pretty seamless and the picture quality is outstanding.
The editing is pretty seamless and the picture quality is outstanding.
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
T
Overall rating
8.8
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
9.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
8.0
Enjoyment
7.0
The editing here is superb, and the quality of chopping these 2 films together is top notch.
Unfortunately, the weak spots of the film are from the prequel. I hated 300 Rise of an Empire completely. Outside of the origin of Xerxes, the prequel was just garbage...and sadly, while the editing and pacing here was really well done, I still had zero interest in the 300 Rise characters or plotlines. The original 300 bits are still equally as good as they ever were, but it's obvious where the shift in tone and color scheme take place when switching between films, and I just didn't give a crap when the Rise parts came into play.
I was just hoping that the Rise portions would be minimal, which they weren't. I feel like the Spartan story took a backseat to the sub-par Rise bits in this edit. We never really got to know the Spartans before the war, although we got history on the main characters from Rise. It's a shame because the quality difference between 300 and Rise is huge. I feel like Rise is better off a secondary supplementary material than being a focus.
If anything I would have cut the stupid sex fight between Eva Green and whats-his-face from Rise. That was just dumb. I was hoping at a minimum, this edit would omit it, but alas it was still there.
I can't knock the quality of this edit though. Technically, it's a very professional edit. I just was hoping to much less Rise and retain the majority of 300. And the majority of my 7/10 score for enjoyment here goes to the original 300 bits.
Unfortunately, the weak spots of the film are from the prequel. I hated 300 Rise of an Empire completely. Outside of the origin of Xerxes, the prequel was just garbage...and sadly, while the editing and pacing here was really well done, I still had zero interest in the 300 Rise characters or plotlines. The original 300 bits are still equally as good as they ever were, but it's obvious where the shift in tone and color scheme take place when switching between films, and I just didn't give a crap when the Rise parts came into play.
I was just hoping that the Rise portions would be minimal, which they weren't. I feel like the Spartan story took a backseat to the sub-par Rise bits in this edit. We never really got to know the Spartans before the war, although we got history on the main characters from Rise. It's a shame because the quality difference between 300 and Rise is huge. I feel like Rise is better off a secondary supplementary material than being a focus.
If anything I would have cut the stupid sex fight between Eva Green and whats-his-face from Rise. That was just dumb. I was hoping at a minimum, this edit would omit it, but alas it was still there.
I can't knock the quality of this edit though. Technically, it's a very professional edit. I just was hoping to much less Rise and retain the majority of 300. And the majority of my 7/10 score for enjoyment here goes to the original 300 bits.
User Review
Format Watched?
Digital
J
Overall rating
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
10.0
Enjoyment
10.0
REALLY liked this. Like a hell of a lot. It works almost perfectly well. Good job taking out Wenham's narration from 300. I'm sure that wasn't easy.
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
O