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Gallery: Frank Miller's 300

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, Spartan soldiers discover the victims of the Persian army's invasion of Greece hanging like Dali's clocks from a tree. The backdrop and most of the soldiers in this scene were created digitally, painstakingly colored and composed to match the frames of Frank Miller's graphic novel. Director Zack Snyder and a multinational crew of digital effects artists spent a year doing post-production work on the film.Image: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
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shows the perfect example of this: the real-life Battle of Thermopylae, in which a band of 300 Spartan warriors held off an enormous army of Persians in 480 B.C. at a key mountain pass.

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