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You should watch, Meet the Spartans. I think you'd be amused.
"Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty… For tonight, we dine in hell!"
Fun Fact: Warner Bros originally pushed Zack Snyder to make a PG-13 movie. Snyder refused and ultimately the studio agreed to make an R-rated movie.
The Crush Fact: The film's unique look was created in post-production, using "the crush effect. This where you "crush" the black content of the image and enhance the color saturation to change the contrast ratio of the film.
300 Training Fact: 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 adapting to any one type of exertion. Gerard Butler has said that the training was the most difficult thing he has ever had to do in his life. When it was over, Twight admitted that he pushed the actors as hard as he's ever pushed anyone before, including himself.
Historical Fact: It should go without saying, but the Greek Hoplite were NOT bare-chested. The quote "Then We Will Fight In the Shade" is from the Spartan warrior Dienekes when warned about the enemies' arrows. It is also on modern Greek soldiers' uniforms. When the Persians demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons, "Come And Get Them" is the reply. According to ancient historian Herodotus, Leonidas actually said that. It was also adopted as the motto of the Greek Army's 1st Corps. In October of 1835 a similar taunt initiated the first battle of the Texas revolution when Mexican soldiers were sent to take a canon from the town of Gonzales; a gun that had been given them for protection against Comanche raids. The Mexican government was concerned that it might be used against them. The settlers flew a flag with an image of a canon and the words "Come And Take It" written on it. The settlers won the battle.
The movie makes a lot more sense when you realize the whole thing is a story told by the one-eyed man to inspire the troops. Clear embellishments such as Xerxes being inhumanly tall, the literal monsters that the Spartans fight, etc. You asked why Leonidas didn't just kill Xerxes – the answer is because none of that sequence ever happened in reality. The one-eyed storyteller was not even present to see those events. It's just a good story ending for Leonidas to prove that Xerxes can bleed.
I've always thought Leonidas meant to kill X but missed by a few inches, despite his comment about showing a god-king could bleed. That's a LONG way to throw a spear. Trust me, I've thrown a LOT of rocks…. 🙂
You are very perceptive, great reaction!
Killing Xerxes would make him a martyr to his people, wounding him shows him to be merely a man
One of my favorite bits about this movie is that a few of the quotes are documented historical quotes. The "we will fight in the shade" quote was allegedly uttered (according to Herodotus, at least) by a Spartan soldier named Dienekes when told the Persian arrows would blot out the sun. Spartans were known to be terse and quick-witted, to such a degree that the word laconic (meaning concise) is derived from Laconia, which is the area of which Sparta was the capital. Also, fun fact: Gerard Butler wasn't meant to scream "This is Sparta." When he did, the whole set started laughing in surprise. Oh! And another good Gerard Butler movie is Law Abiding Citizen.
Great reaction Aria. Yes, Spartan like all cultures had good and bad aspects. One thing the Spartan taught us is military is a profession. NOT part time job.
The whole thing with the babies while it is horrible. What you have to remember they did this to babies that were considered disabled, because they didn't have the medical treatments we have today. Vikings had blood rituals along with other cultures to back then. As I said not everything was good from past. Easiest way is you have to take yourself out of modern day thinking and put yourself in their shoes during their time. They didn't have what we have today.
Also, known fact women had almost equal rights to men in Spartan culture. Yes, there were some weird things women did but remember they did it for their survival of their people. When Leo said you insult my queen. He meant it. She had the right to speak. The point of Leo cutting Xerxes was meant to show that truly even the real Xerxes thought he was a god. To show the world and people around he was just a man.
This movie is based of comic and isn't literally, but there are some real points still there. Yes, Sparta was outnumbered, and Leo was a great military strategist, using the terrain is still strategy used today in ALL militaries. Alot of aspect of Spartan military are seen today especially in the US military. Discipline and Training is required because you don't want men running away in fear and also, so all movements are muscle memory. Still to this day I can remember how to Field strip my M16/M4, still remember all my medical training (wound care, liter carring, etc) LOL. All in all, an epic movie it was.
yo this reupload right? or do I have devu ja?
Couple things first what is the purpose of that giant pit is that pit there primarily to kick enemies into, Secondly you never make demands next to another man's giant pit
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HE MISSED!!! ….Is the deal, I'm sure 😐🤷😁 …but still is meant to send a mortal shock into the spine of Xerxes 🙏💪 I think 🤷🙏
By throwing his spear and slicing Xerxes, he showed the Persians that their "God king" was mortal and vulnerable. So if 300 Spartans could injure their "God", what would they think when they faced 10,000 Spartans a year later?
Frank Miller is an artistic genius.
I will forever call a guillotine a Jill-O-teen now, thanks Aria.
The queen, aka, the lady from Game of Thrones, before that show existed, she was Sarah Connor on the tv show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. She has a naturally sour facial expression, so she tends to get roles as tough and angry characters.
18:23 I'm impressed. I never thought about the parallel between the narrow passage with the wolf and where King Leonidas chose to put his fighting men — but you're exactly right! 👍🐺
"If you have to keep calling yourself a god, maybe you're not [one]." 👍👍👍
28:33 Yes, your pronunciation of guillotine was correct. It follows different pronunciation rules because it was taken, unaltered, from French.
One of my favourite films of all time. Zack Snyder did an amazing job.
No, if you listen to the narration, the king's spear didn't miss Xerxes on purpose. He tried to kill Xerxes, but failed — but, even in that failure, he did what he'd predicted: he proved that "even a god-king can bleed."
This film is the best exemplar I know of epic storytelling — as well as an excellent demonstration of how oral accounts so easily convert historical fact into legend and myth.
Yes, there's a sequel called 300: Rise of an Empire (2014). However, it's generally not as well liked as the original. (Rotten Tomatoes lists an audience score of 89% for 300, but only 51% for its sequel.)
The tragedy of discarding the babies was actually worse in real life. In the film, they threw them off of a cliff and they died instantly. In the real world, they would simply abandon them in a shallow pit and leave them to starve or get eaten by wild animals. And the majority of their manual labor was done by slaves. You couldn’t just force a deformed spartan to do manual labor as it was considered disgraceful.
9:20 I remember way back in the early days of YouTube, somebody did a Podcast which happened to be on Veteran's Day, and he made sure to remind his viewers/listeners that it was Veteran's Day by saying "This is a day we give thanks to our service member for doing something that's pretty cool which is being brave so that we don't have to."
Is this A re upload? Coulda sworn that I watched a few days ago.
Hey guys, this is a re-upload. The video got deleted so had to upload it again. Sorry for any kind of confusion:))
a sublime reimagening of the Battle of Thermopylae, always worth a watch
For reference, according to the ancient recorded history the 300 Spartans faced an army of a million Persian fighters, who suffered so much at the hands of the Spartans that the Persians became thoroughly demoralized when facing the full might of the combined Spartan and Greek armies, and as such the Persians were defeated in the subsequent battle referenced at the end of the film. 😊
If you want to get historic they used to stick pen needles in deformed babies in their Temple and kick him off the cliff if they were not to the Spartan level just one facts
History is key
Gerard Butler is A fine Actor indeed & in my humble opinion these 2 Movies Besides the 300 & 300 Rise of An empire are some of his best work
1) Phantom of the opera ( musical )
2) Law Abiding Citizen (crime / action)
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A movie thats a story about a story – beautiful epic – little wonder that we still dream of sparta after these long millenia
There is a reason why you see this movie in a dark/yellowish screen format. Also why you will see large, strange animals, people, and a huge Persian King. It's BC the narrator is telling the story to the Spartan army and they see it in their imaginations as such. A few points of facts, King Leonidas had actually sent two messengers back. These messengers were accused of cowardness. So one committed suicide while the other proved himself in battle. It took the Creeks over a year to push out the Persians. Lastly, the Immortals always maintain a force of 10k soldiers, so if one was killed others would be recruited to replace them so as to maintain the allusion of the force never being dwindled. The Spartans were credited for saving the western world even though they themselves would be destroyed in a few generations. Mainly due to internal strife.
Some historical background: Leonidas actually died early on in the battle on the last day, and the Spartans and Persians fighting over his body.
“Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here by Spartan law we lie” is actually written on a monument as tribute to the 300 who died.
The immortals weren’t actually immortal. Rather when they died, another person just took their place and so they had the reputation of not being able to die.
The Spartans were known for their wittiness and laconic speech, which comes from Laconia, the area the were from.
It is always great watching someone react to this when they don’t know the history behind it. It makes their sacrifice mean that much more.
If you are a woman, and you ever want to understand men, you should watch this movie.