🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To 300 (2006) - FIRST TIME WATCHING - MOVIE REACTION!
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The Battle of Thermopylae is still taught at West Point ( US Army Academy) as an example of how to fight a battle against an enemy with superior forces.
Really? That's good. What did you learn exactly from the training
@@drownedhorses How to maximize available terrain in defense.
dude sorry for my arrogance but please tell me which army is superior than US army???
@@Hades32The US Army is the superior fighting force on the planet right now but there will be times where a small squad will have to hold a position against a larger force.
@@richardovercast2258 yes you holding position with all those high tech weapons against rebels .i dont want to disperect you but this is true.i love usa btw
"We've been sharing our culture with you all morning." God I love that line.
Müslims will take over europa
Love this movie. Stayed faithful to the graphic novel rather than the actual historical event but there really was Sparta and the 300 really did take a stand. Awesome movie though!! I'm up to watch it anytime.
Yeah gotta make it theatric which makes this movie more fun. I really enjoyed this movie. Zack Snyder is definitely a showman. THIS IS SPARTA!!
There is a movie from the 60’s called “The 300 Spartans” that strives for historical accuracy and puts more focus on actual battle formations and strategies used. It’s obviously not as theatrical, but it was really good, IMO.
@@brettg274 Cheers for the suggestion! Always looking for a new movie to watch since today's stuff doesn't really interest me much.
@@Timmycoo I know exactly what you mean!
@@Timmycoo You ever seen House on Haunted Hill?
The mistake Xerxes made was thinking Leonidas wanted power, he went there for only one reason he was 60 years old and in a year he would have to stop being a soldier, and one thing he wanted was a beautiful death. The highest honor in his culture.
The actual Leonidas was 60, but here the character is in his 40's.
Damn that was a factor I didn’t realize, nothing worse than dealing with a man who literally wants to die 😂😂
I love it when guys react to this for the first time. Everyone gets pumped up 😂
Imagine me when i first saw it..living literally 500 meters from ancient Sparta... ;)
As for the Captain and his son Astinos..Astinos was his favored son, the one he saw himself most in, which is why he chose him for the march. They are a hard people who don't show much sensitivity, but Spartans loved as hard as they lived.
Edit: Leonidas didn't just return because that would be complete defeat that would turn Spartans to slaves of Xerxes. If he stays and dies, all of the Spartan military MUST go to war, which is how Greece (all of Greece, not just Sparta) repelled Xerxes and the Persian Empire from their home.
Lead by example, also in real world it was the only way a spartan will get a headstone in their grave was dying in battle.
@@AugustoEL Absolutely!. And the women got their warrior status if they died during childbirth..
@@JoeyBlueTx Yeah I knew that, was the only way a woman got a headstone. At least they were pretty equal in that, "either die in war or die bringing someone to this world or no headstone for you"
At the end the "most that go" are the Athenians (Arcadians). One Spartan is sent home to tell the story, the remaining of the original 300 stay to fight. Great reaction; this film is storytelling at its finest.
Thanks for saving me the trouble. 🫵🏻🙏🏼
It was not only the 300 who stayed . Over a 1000 other troops , mostly Arcadians, stayed also . The reason that the 300 are remembered over the other troops is that their king also remained to fight . I'm not trying to take anything away from the bravery of the Spartans, but they were not on there own .
@@tiffanybiscuit7587 he was explaining the movies version.
@@spartan_warrior5927 I get that . Just pointing out there's more to the story . For instance the Spartan who went back to tell the tale in real life was disgusted with himself for not dying with his comrades. In the battle mentioned at the end of the film he attacked the enemy in what can only be described as a 'suicide ' attack . The other Spartans in the battle were reportedly angry with his actions as he broke rank and was killed trying to redeem his own honour and not fighting for the honour of Sparta.
@@tiffanybiscuit7587 I understand but most people don’t wanna know that. 99 of based on true story’s do it. It ruins the movie.
that "lay down your weapons"/"come and take them" line is an actual quote, according to Plutarch, an ancient Greek historian.
The quote and the Spartan helmet is used by members of the pro Second Amendment lobby here in America.
@@technopirate304 based
Literally "come take".
A lot of the lines in the movie are actual quotes according to documents of those times. Which was why the Spartas developed a reputations about their laconic quips. In fact the term "laconic" today comes from the region of Laconia in Greece which is where Sparta was/is.
Queen Gorgo's "Only Spartan women give birth to real men" was an actual quote but instead of a Persian messenger it was said to an Athenian women, the "We will fight in the shade" line was an actual quote also so was the "Come back with your shield or on it" which was what Spartan mothers would say to their sons
Molon labe, "come and claim them"
I remember watching this in Toronto, and most of the people were quiet and not that into it, but down in the states people were cheering and screaming lol
Hahaha I guess you could say you Canadians are more like Athenians, while we Americans are more like Spartans
I don’t know of a more accurate way to portray the difference between Americans and Canadians better. Awesome.
@@coyotelong4349 or Americans are just annoying twats
They still teach Thermopoly in the US Marinecorps as an example of using the terrain to cancel your enemies advantages - by using a narrow pass the Spartan Heavy armoured elite troops could fight one-to-one without getting overrun by enemy numbers
This and Sin City are both based on Graphic Novels from Frank Miller. Both are extremely faithful to the source material, if you haven’t seen Sin City check it out.
Sin City is nauseating and heartless . . . doesn't hold a candle to 300.
@@OroborusFMA 🤣I don't know why your comment is so funny. I agree with heartless.....perhaps seeing Harry Potter do certain this made it nauseating to watch?
Both are great to me. There are more characters and scenes in Sin City and 300 more limited so would have liked more.
I have not read either of the graphic novels so cannot comment as to the transfer to screen but most commenters have stated both are true to the novels. I have seen the making of 300 and certainly puts a damper to things so will no longer watch the behind the scenes again.
The Battle of Thermopylae is probably my favorite Last Stand story in history. It wasn't limited to just 300 Spartans; it was actually more of them than Leonidas' 300 personal guard; there were also Spartan helots as well and in addition to the number of Arcadians there were several other groups of Greeks to join them like the Phocians, Boetians, Thebans and Thespians. I believe it was a total about 7,000 actually at the Hot Gates facing the Persians. At the very end the Spartans did not stand alone either. While the other forces left before getting cut off so they could fight another day, about 700 Thespians (along with @ 900 Spartan helots and @ 400 Thebans, and a smattering of Boetians) chose to stay with the Spartans that were left of the 300..
The best novelization of the event I've ever read is the book GATES OF FIRE. More historically accurate than the movie, its a great read.
Also, the Spartans hoplite infantry was heavy infantry, not loinclothed bodybuilders. Bronze Corinthian style helmets, bronze cuirass, bronze greaves and a 30lb. bronze covered wooden shield (the aspis or hoplon) made these hoplites walking tanks compared to the light Persian infantry with wicker shields. The 8-9ft dory spear with a deadly leaf-shaped bronze head at one and a "lizard-sticker" point at the other end (the length allowed for the spears of the first 3 os so ranks to project over the shoulders & shields of the front rank while the front rank generally used their dorys under the shields- making the front of the phalanx a terrifying meat grinder) and the Xiphos short sword rounded out the gear. Their strength was in the phalanx and not generally individual combat. They also had a well-developed system to rotate the front ranks to the rear to rest as fresh hoplites are brought to the front. It was necessary as combat by such heavy infantry was quickly exhausting.
I absolutely love 300 but it is more a faithful adaptation of the graphic novel than an accurate historical account; although many quotes were historically accurate like the "fight in the shade" and "come and get them".
Lastly, they also used a sort of early "dog tag" utilizing sticks...they would make marks on the sticks and break them in half, putting one half in a bowl and carry the other half on their person. After the battle the pieces were reunited and casualties counted and most quickly identified... though not after the Last Stand, obviously.
wouldn't put too much faith in Wikipedia, from what I've read over the years regarding the battle of Thermopylae, there were about 1500 troops from various Greek city states, alongside the Spartans at the pass, and about one thousand phocian's guarding the goat path! Putting the numbers around 3000. If there were as much as 7000, including high numbers of troops from states such as Thebes, it's highly likely that the Persians wouldn't have been able to break through at all, using the goat path or not!
@@chrisdolan9579 Didnt use Wikipoopia, sorry. 😏
Try Encyclopedia Britannica and National Geographic to start with. There are a vast array of credible sources available that don't have "Wiki" in their names.
Just because YOU don't wish to believe something, it doesn't naturally follow that the fact rearrange themselves to meet your desires.
I did my research. Did you? 😏
And from a tactical standpoint, once you get the enemy BEHIND your fortified position and you are significantly outnumbered, simple attrition wins out, which is why Leonidas ordered the bulk of the remaining Hellenic forces to withdraw before being encircled while the Spartans and some others fought the rearguard action.
You need to study Ancient Greek historyA- the battle of Thermopylae
Weck up to thees!
Xerxes’ actor and Leonidas’ actor are about the same height. They used tricks to make him look huge. I love the obvious embellishments/fantasy elements that the storyteller put in there to motivate their troops! It actually makes perfect sense why a real historical event would be so mystical... it was told to troops as a motivation so the actual story was embellished and made richer, etc.
I still remember walking around shouting 'This is sparta!'
@16:30, I was just about to say “We still do” but you caught yourself. Scenes like this (minus the spears and colorful robes) have been taking place around the world throughout human history. Heck it’s happening right now as I write this.
It’s just that the last 4 generations of the Western world have lived in such relative peace and plenty we forget. All of this was paid for by the ultimate sacrifices of many people that we will never know.
If you ever go to Greece, stop at Thermopylae where the battle took place to see the statue of Leonidas. Below the statue is written ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ come and get our weapons. Also the the Spartans telling the visitor to go to Sparta and tell them that "Here we lie faithful to their laws!"
"Go tell the Spartans, passersby, that here obedient to their laws we lie."
US Patriots during the Revolution appropriated the Greek phrase of defiance uttered during the engagement for a battle flag - a white field with a black cannon over the legend "Come and Take Them".
One of my favorite movies ever. Never experienced anything like this still in theatres, it stood out from everything else when it came out.
Dope movie man! Remember watching it with my dad when it first came out.
“Then we will fight in the shade!” Greatest line in this movie imo
actually its true line not just a script
@@georgiosdrogoudis726 Which is crazy to me.. lol it's cool that Spartans were quick witted like that back then.
The Zingers were part of real Spartan culture
They were taught to be roast the fuck out of eachother and thats as awesome as the combat.
this movie has such a good narrative and aesthetic
Spartans are Greeks. At the time, specifically, the Athenians were called Greek. This movie is very accurate in depicting Spartan society. Yes, they would discard the sick and all children belonged to the state,, not their parents.. The Athenians thought the Spartans were brutal and uncivilized. The Persians are depicted as caricatures.
@@mikelarsen5836 Do you?
I've got the DVD. One of my all-time favorites. This movie made combat look like ballet. I kept watching the fight scenes over and over.
In reality, the reality wasn't too off . It was a dual front with the 300 Spartans fighting alongside 10-15 thousand other Greeks against 300k-about a million Persians at The Battle of Thermopylae that was occurring at the same time just as across the peninsula, the Battle of Artemisium (similar numbers although the Persians worst case didn't have nearly the numbers advantage on land. Sizable, not outrageous like the land battles' highest possible number). The plan was to fight them as long as possible by both land and sea, but if either force was to fall that the other was to immediately retreat. The land forces were eventually overrun, but Leonidas volunteered his personal force and a few thousand volunteers to fight to the death to buy time send word to the fleet and to evacuate the main bulk to the force to fight another day.
These battles were not just about fighting Xerces off, but buying time for not only forces from ALL OVER the Greek world to fight and mass, but for civilians to evacuate cities like Athens etc. Not only did the success in battle, but volunteers heroic work and success after the fact slowed his army down enough that the civilians were safely evacuated from the countryside and cities meaning there wasn't widespread civilian death but also allowed the Greek fleet to flee/armies to meet up and launch a gigantic offensive afterwards that drove Persia back en mass.
Looking at "that" side of history much of it is correct. The traitors giving up the senate/goat path. His personal bodyguard of 300. Their strategies focusing on the Hot Gates/Euripus Strait was much the same. Create a chokepoint and fight using the terrain of Greece itself. Also, it easier for a time to hold ground rather than take it (both literally and figuratively. Like basing out and making a tackle or defending a wrestlers shot, or Persians pushing against a shield) but at a certain point you'll give out/you can move forward longer. In real life, it's being calculated it's something like 3 times more difficult fighting UP terrain, i.e. a force a 3 men firing down a hill is equal to force 3 times as big. But in Vietnam battles were 500 Americans fighting 10,000 Viet Cong uphill meant the Americans were "outnumbered" 60-1. There have been some truly nutty battles in history were a group of a dozen or so have held off thousands because of a fixed position with an ability to fire DOWN ON an impossibly sized force.
We saw a documentary on the making of The 300. It was about the fighting. Those guys seemed to be sweating blood, they were working so hard. Lots of CGI of course but the actual hands on fighting kicked ass. Loved the movie!
There is a famous story told about Spartans, specifically a Spartan youth during the agoge, he had stolen a fox and hidden it under his shirt. He was apprehended and questioned, and while being questioned he suddenly dropped dead. After looking at the body of the boy they found the fox he had hidden, it had eaten it's way through his stomach into his internal organs, and not once did he cry out. Spartans were tough as old boots and harder than coffin nails, but apparently not very good at finding foxes that are literally right in front of them.
During the agoge-αγωγή Spartan youth were allowed to steal for food and also to kill slaves if they were about to be caught.If they were caught they were beaten by the Spartan authorities........because they were caught and not for the actual crime.
Yep, it had a comic book aesthetic because the film is based on the Frank Miller graphic novel. (Same bloke who did the Sin City series, The Spirit, and I believe The Watchmen as well.) But the battle was indeed a historical event. The Battle Thermopylae where 300 Spartans held off thousands of Persians, at a choke point along the coast of Greece and the Malian Gulf. It has been said that this war between Greece and Persia at the time was the defense of the idea of democracy. Greece defending democracy, while Persia being the Authoritarian Empire. Had Greece lost this war, democracy as we know it today may not have come about. Learned this point through my classes in college (History degree) and documentaries I've seen since.
One of my favorite movies ever loved your reaction Kabir
The movie is a true story about the the one eyed dudes retelling of the last stand of the 300, to psych up the soldiers. That's why there events are exaterated.
Even though this is an artistic-comic take of the real story they kept many things real. Here are some random facts:
The "big well" is called Kaiadas, the Spartans were throwing in there all the "problematic"/weak newborns after inspection.
Ephialtes (the traitor) is not a name anymore, it turned into a word and it literally means nightmare. It's the Greek word for nightmare.
At the scene at 25:25 that's actually Gerard Butler. They were actually hired a stunt double but Gerard got so passionate with the role that he decided to learn the "dancing" moves and the director got informed about it right before the scene. He crossed his fingers and thankfully they let him do it and turned out epic!
Those special Asian forces were actually called Immortals due to the fact that they were a vast number of really good warriors that each time one of them dropped dead their position was immediately replaced by an other one, thus the name. There was the impression like no one has ever died.
On the last stand, Leonidas died somewhere in the middle of the fight and Persians tried to take his body several times. The Spartan warriors managed to retrieve it each time until they all fell.
Dilios' (the one who returned to Sparta in the end) actual name was Aristodemos. There was an other Spartan that had almost completely lost his vision called Euritos. Leonidas commanded both of them to return to Sparta but on the way back Euritos decided to turn back on the battlefield and die. Aristodemos on the other hand went to Sparta and its arrival wasn't received well. They started calling him Aristodemos the coward, "dilos" is the actual Greek word for coward now. He fiercely fought in the The Battle of Plataea but, even though the other Spartans gave him lots of credit, he still didn't quite redeem himself due to his suicidal approach on the battlefield. Spartans respect brave warriors but also the cautious ones who love life. He survived that battle too nevertheless.
Kaidas is miles away from the city... It was/is basically a big hole in the mountain...(an entrance to a cave or volcano exhaust)..Ive been there 100s of times ..not much to see.
Leonidas knew that the Spartans needed time to prepare for the war. Leaving Thermopalye meant certain defeat of Sparta. That's why he stayed.
Bold to call one of the greatest leaders in history with a "poor judgement."
Didn’t that decision get him killed?
@@kabirconsiders that was never the point of this resistance :)
I didn’t think I could love this movie anymore but your reaction was icing on the cake!!❤️❤️❤️
I first wached "300" in early 2007. Was drafted to the Polish Army and there was organised saturday trip to the cinema. I tooked it and i'd end up watching the film in the cinema hall full of dudes in Polish Army fatigues :)
Quite an entourage :D !
This movie was based on true events. Spartan warriors were the elite of the elite, more like a combination of American Delta Force, Navy Seals and other elite fighting forces combined. Good movie but with a lot of dramatic effects which is what made it great. I love ancient history. Leonidas is right up there with Alexander the Great and Hannibal in my book.
That is not accurate.
@@Kenneth_James How so? This is what I was taught in college.
Most of American special forces at the end of their training in U.S. come to Greece for co training with the local special forces the so called “devil’s week” because its a week of extreme training demanding high endurance and mental ability to make it.
That last scene/speech still gives me serious chills!
There's a second movie, that covers the naval side of this conflict, called "300: Rise of an Empire". It talks more about Xerxes rise to power and the fighting the other Greek states were doing.
I remember when this first came out. It was not well received. I loved 🥰 it. ‘Over used CGI’ ?? New. Purposely. GLORIOUS
Sparta had two Kings who served at the same time. They developed the concept of citizenship, and the checks and balances of Constitutional government.
40:02 The thing you have to understand is that Leonidas was hoping to be killed on that battlefield - as he said to the Senators in the beginning, he was officially just "going for a stroll". By setting it up this way, Leonidas basically guaranteed that Greece's leaders would have no choice but to step up and send their armies as it was a clear indication that they, too, were in danger of being conquered by Xerxes if they didn't do something.
I saw 300 in the theaters. This film is the pure definition of epic. Great reaction bro! 👍🏿
A few facts and things about spartans and the movie.
The thing with the babies is partially a lie, they did not throwed the "defective" (do not know a good word to use) ones off a cliff but they were harsh with the less favored, but considering they were a warrior kingdom and as you see with the hunchback if you were not fit for war you were shuned, also little extra fact they were like baptised in wine as babies and I love to imagine the image of a baby being sumerged in wine to check if ithey were going to be great spartans. They started military training from the 7 years of age, being taught to fight, steal to get food most of the time, but being beten if found, and other things.
The "only womans give birth to real men" is partially true it was the spartan "queen"(there were no king and queen but similar role) and was with a woman of other kingdom wich asked why spartan womens were treated equal to man (funnny thing being that Atenas is consider the more advanced but was EXTREMLY misoginist) and the "queen" said "Only womans give birth to man" in reference that womans are as needed and importatn as mens.
The war the movie is based of is mostly real in that they defended that place, but it has quiet a few differences, can´t remember how it really happend but yeah not pulled out of the ass completly. In what is real and not the oracle was actully something real, there were a few placces in ancient Greek where you could ask for an audience with an oracle, you had to bring gold or very valuable offerings so you will be permited but also mostly real.
A few facts the main advantage the spartans had over the persas was the "technology" being the work in the armor and weapons, the spartans had bronce weapons and armors (yeah the thing of pecho lobo is not real obviously), the persiasn had iron (if I anm not wrong) weapons and les quality armor making them have a harder time actually killing the spartans.
The spartans respecte a LOT the elders, beacuase to live in Sparta was to live for war so old equal lot of wars fought and victorious, also only dying in battle or in childbirth (for womans) was the only way to have a headstone in your grave if you died in your sleep "sorry no headstone for you my friend".
I love how brutal they were no shits given.
Fun Facts and History facts:
Leonidas was around 50 - 60 years old at the time of the battle yeah he was jacked.
Despite the massive army not one Spartan died at the first day of battle.
It wasn't unusual for Spartans to embarrasse they're enemies with one-liners.
If you noticed the Persian king steps on his people, but in the end of the movie Stelios steps on Leonidas to kill the persian commander just shows the difference between them.
Actual historical quote "Molon labe" said by King Leonidas "come and get them" when the Persian told them to give up they're weapons.
I saw it with my husband and son. It was a blast. Such a good movie. Gerard Butler was great. Fassbender and was that Faomir (from Lord of the Rings?) with the eye bandage? Not sure. And the queen was Cersei from Game of Thrones. Pretty good cast. Good reaction Kabir. 😍😄
Your best line: “I gotta get to the gym!”
The reason why the messenger said "this is blasphemy!" Is because Xerxes was known as a living god king. And yes. The depiction of his height is accurate. He was huge.
I always thought the actual history of 300 Spartans holding off from 500K to a million Persians, for three days, so that Trojan and united Greek forces could get into position to drive the invaders out, was far and away a heroic enough story. I mean, it's still taught in military schools today. The closest we have in modern history is the Alamo, maybe, yet it still doesn't even come close. I just don't get why you need to guild this lily, or why this level of spectacle makes a better story.
Simple. Spectacles make more money. If it had been basic and without the flair, it wouldnt have garnered even 1/2 the attention it did.
@@btnhstillfire Too true, yeah. But couldn't they just make something up? Why do they have to bastardize history? Disney does it, too, Pocahontas, for jnstance. Bugs me. Good story, nice graphic novel, but why use a true event and warp it? Is creativity really in such short supply? Really? Doesn't look like it.
@@willcool713 it' not supposed to be historically accurate, it's the story told by that spartan general to hype the 10k spartan army to go to war. The narrator is not reliable in this case, and the battle had to be glamourized and exagerated.
@@ben-xt3iz Well, except that Spartans didn't do that. They neither exaggerated nor need hype. They were a military culture, prided themselves on brutal realism and on every man, woman, and child being always fully ready to fight, at any moment. Hype, especially from a well respected general, would never, ever happen. That would be a massive insult to his troops, certainly demoralize them.
It's just stupid. Fun, maybe, but utterly devoid of reality.
@@willcool713 makes sense
“Was Sparta like that?” Absolutely. For all the movie’s stylisation and exaggeration, that opening is very accurate, kids died in training and the attitude was “well, if he died in training, he wouldn’t make it in a battle anyway”.
The Messenger was warned that while his message would be heard, the way he said it was on him. Showcasing the dead kings’ heads, insulting the Queen, making threats because he thought nobody would cross Xerxes, that’s on him.
That's why it's still talked about even to this day, the glory to die for something so great that the idea of death makes them chuckle.
You should also watch the second one “300: Rise of an Empire”, it tells the same story of this battle but from the Athenians Naval fleet POV. It has the same art style with new characters and a focus on the rivalry between the Athenian naval commander Themistocles and Persian Naval commander Artemisia.
Note: When Leonaidas calls to the traitor; “Alfaetos, may you live forever “ is a total disrespect to him because all Spartans are supposed to die and receive glory by dying for their country
My favorite fact about Sparta:
Philip of Macedonia (Alexander the Great's father) sent a message to Sparta saying "If I invade Lakonia you will be destroyed, never to rise again.” The Spartan response? Their message said "If."
Philip never attacked Sparta. Neither did Alexander, who otherwise conquered most of the known world.
Lmao "He's just a lanky dude with a gold fetish" - Kabir 2022
I am a SF nerd. I love Frank Miller graphic novels and actually liked the movies. I prefer 300 to Sin City because it embraces the mythic properties of the Spartan culture.
300 Rise of an Empire is the 2nd movie to this one. also good
@14:50, this is where this Spartan dad screwed up. It’s one thing to send your son to war thinking you may lose him. But to see him killed right in front of you. No parent is really ready for that. 😭
This was a GREAT reaction man!
It's true the Spartans were taken control of by the state at 7 to begin their harsh training. I'm enjoying your movie reactions.
You should react to the Honest Trailer for this 👀👀
I read the graphic novel before the movie came out. I came to own that book and loved it.
I love that movie. I got the DVD when it came out. I just love the way it was shot in almost black and white.
For Glory that’s why, they will always be remembered in history.
If you like finding the history of some of these semi-historical movies, you should go read on the Battle of Thermopylae. Cuz that's what this is all about. And Xerxes I believe was like 7 feet tall. But he was actually very benevolent. From what I studied Xerxes would go in and he would take over an area that's why Persia or the Persian Empire was so large but he allowed the people in those specific areas to go ahead and govern the way they govern and run everything the way they do it was just that if they went to war they were called on to go to war with them.
Loved your reaction! This movie has so much badassery in it, it makes you feel like you could conquer anything! Certainly one of my top 5 battle movies!
The actor who narrates the movie also narrated the program Deadliest Warrior. In the scene where the Athenians leave, the movie doesn't show it but there were a few more armies that fought the Persian's and nearly all the Greek armies retreated from the final battle at Thermopylae apart from the Thespians and Thebans remained and fought until the end with Leonidas and his Spartans.
a line from an Italian poem goes like this: there were 300, they were young and strong and they died ...
Now, you NEED to react to the sequel ... the 2nd part of the story, 300: Rise of an Empire. It's just as Epic, maybe even more so in some ways.
Actualy the spartans never broke formation to go berserker they fought with an impregnable wall of shields and spears looking to break the enemy formation.
The scene where the sky is filled with arrows and is the end of Leonidas reminds me of the ending scene of "Hero" starring Jet Li, which is another epic movie that is so worth making the effort to see.
"rescue the world from mysticism and tyranny, and usher in a future brighter than anything we can imagine." The director is pointing out the fact that these battles were crucial in preserving western civilization. "Come and get them" is a bumper sticker on every car in Florida and Texas.
He stayed and he knew he would probably fail but he hadn't yet done the blow he wanted to do to xerxes...which was to show the people that Xerxes is just a man who bleeds like the rest of us.
What many don't know is the one Spartan sent back was labeled a coward since he did not die in battle. He was treated like garbage untill he died
_"He's not a god, it's just a lanky dude...with a gold fetish"_
LOL, loved the comment; that could be applied to quite a few tyrants around the world.
Great reaction, I reacted the same way when I first watched this!!!
In the battle of Thermopylae, 300 Spartan's stood against more than 1 million soldiers of King Zerxes's army, and the Spartan's inflicted very heavy casualties on the Persians, however, the part of this fight which has largely been ignored, was the Naval battle that took place at the same time, when the Athenian Navy took on the Persian navy and although did not exact as heavy of a toll, did extremely well considered how badly that they were outnumbered, After King Leonitias and the 300 were slaughtered, the Spartan Senate got fully behind the war effort against King Zerxes and the Persians, about a year later, ALL of the Spartan army, along with the Athenian, Thessalonian and Photian Armies, numbering about 40,000 took on and defeated Zerxes and the Persians in the battle of Platea who numbered about 160,000, from that point forward the Persian Empire did nothing but decline
While obviously, “why stay if you’re going to die”, is true, it also must be understood, between Thermopylae and Marathon were the battles we remember. The few versus the many. Similar to the Alamo. The Texans could have surrendered, but they didn’t. And when the other Texans caught wind of the actions of those few Texans in the face of sure death, instead of hurting, the population was emboldened. It’s arguable the Spartans holding and death at the hot gates was the “we can actually do this”. Moment. If 8300 can hold 90,000+ imagine a full army. Imagine full armies, banded together. And that’s what happened. Greeks stood, and did enough damage that Xerxes decided “alright, this isn’t worth it”
Now, something I do genuinely hate with this movie, I understand it, but I hate it, is the depiction that the Persians were weak, talentless, poorly trained fighters. Reality is the Greeks adopted much in military tactics from the east. The Persians fielded Greeks, Nubians, anatolians, Syrians, and other places around the near east. They weren’t silly desert people sprinting to their death, these were conquerors with experience.
But, anyways, arguably, the Persians, unimpeded, might have conquered more and more territory and potentially have won the war.
But they didn’t, and instead we have stories of great heroes with names we still know in 2022. We still marvel at their actions. We still quote them, read and write stories, and place their emblems on things, in 2022. Nearly 2500 years later and still hold relevance. We probably wouldn’t remember them had they have fled.
Great reaction! Glad that you enjoyed the movie! This was one of the best reactions to this movie that I've ever watched! Again, great job!
37:30 - "unless there's a chance you can win "
The point is that they knew there were doomed in the long run anyway. They were not stupid. 300 people (IRL it was a bit more, and some of the Greek allies did stay too) cannot hold an entire army indefinitely. The Persians needed only to keep using human wave attacks and simple fatigue would eventually cause the defenders to fall.
But consider this: The battle of Thermopylae is immortalized as one of the foundational stories of the West. It is the tale of standing against incredible odds even when you're certainly doomed. It is the story of sacrifice to buy your allies and main force time to regroup and strike back.
The sacrifice of those Spartans and other Greeks at Thermopylae was certainly not in vain. We still speak of them with reverence and awe and admiration almost 2500 years later.
It's true that Sparta was the most warlike Greek city-state, a culture of hardened warriors. Athens was the center of learning and culture. Athenians considered themselves superior, and Spartans had contempt for Athens.
Well in a sense Athenians were superior, but only when we talk about learning. But when it comes to Sparta, they are obviously superior in combat.
@@GLITCHED1 and goodness knows, that's what's most important in life right? Jesus.
the Athenians were certainly 'hardened warriors' too, seeing as they frequently fought wars against Sparta and were the more powerful state - and Athens had a *far* superior navy to the other Greek states. The Peloponnesian war was fought between Athens and basically the rest of Greece b/c Athens was getting SO powerful they feared it would turn into an empire like Persia. Yeah Athens lost that war but all the other states had to team up to meaningfully challenge the Athenian military b/c it was so much powerful than them individually (Sparta providing infantry, Corinth providing ships etc.). SO I doubt Spartans really saw Athenians with 'contempt' - that's just a caricature of them as jocks vs. nerds. After that war which coincided also with a period of plague, Athens suffered an identity crisis and some Athenians considered their own society decadent and saw Sparta as the 'superior' ones - you can see this in the writings of Plato. Also the Athenian military could be extremely brutal, see the story where they conquered the island of Melos after they refused to surrender - I don't think there's any stories like that about Sparta.
You seem even more educated on this subject than I. My first instinct is to….not sure? I’m half Greek. Half Canadian 🇨🇦 we’re super friendly 👋🏼 hello. Yet, I feel The pride of Greece pump though my veins with every beat of my heart
you only look at todays pop culture as your definition of an ancient people that quite literally invented your understanding of the word citizen. keep reading.@@squaaaaak3178
thank you brother that oyu cover our ansestors and our history.......
im already in tears
It was a perfect display of strategic defense and offense..an the lack there of
The second one is pretty cool too..artemisa is a facinating character
Zack Snyder's best film. I never get tired of it. It so tragic at the end because its only then that he calls his queen his love.
There are many famous british actors in this movie. No wonder it is so good.
It's not only a comic book,it is our history.
150 years later, Alexander the Great conquered all of Persia, the future Holy land, and Egypt. He died at 32. Persia is now Iran.
Hm I never noticed they say "Descendants of Hercules" I would expect them to be the descendants of Heracles which is the Greek equivalent of Hercules, but they do not stay loyal to the actual historical event but rather the graphic novel just like Leonidas' line "Prepare breakfast and eat heartily for tonight we dine in HADES" was changed to "-for tonight we dine in Hell"
There are a lot of lines that are historically accurate in this movie, for example, "Persians come and get them!" is Leonidas' famous line "Molon Labe" or "Then we will fight in the shade."
EDIT:
I just remembered "Come back with your shield, or on it" that is something MOTHERS used to say to their sons before they went into battle, basically meaning, you either get carried back on your shield (Die in battle) or you survive and take your shield back with you. That is actually a clever line and was definitely thought about a lot, as Leonidas said "We fight as a single impenetrable unit" If a Spartan were to drop his shield he would not only leave his own defense open but would also risk his life of the soldier to his left and right.
Even more impressive I think is that the real Leonidas I died *in his 60s*
If you want me to get into this more, please tell me I could go on for hours about the Spartans I have been obsessed with them since I was around 6 lmao
This is a great movie that holds up to time and much rewatching! Awoohoo!
It is based on a comic book.
This movie is a straight adaptation of Frank Miller's 300. That's where it gets it stylized vision and story-telling style from. There are so many shots in the movie that look exactly how they were drawn and the dialogue is mostly Frank Miller's dialogue from the comic.
I was actually from a Frank Miller comic book , hence the larger than life pictorals.
I have read that the 300 knew they were on a suicide mission. They fought to give their countrymen time to prepare a defense against the Persians. The Spartan diet was miserable. The troops were trained to live in what they could scrounge, so they could move fast and not be encumbered with supply wagons. At home, Spartans had no 'cuisine,' the national dish being soup made of pigs' blood and vinegar, with pieces of pork in it. Max Miller, of Tasting History fame, has made a version of Spartan broth on his TH-cam channel. It is worth a look.
"SPARTANS!! LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS!!"
"K" *chucks spear into chest* "You didn't say I had to lay it down over here!"
21:30 - "But what if he betrays you?"
Us - "Uh...yeah...that would be unfortunate"
yah, me too - i've seen this one several times now and it amazes me - it's very entertaining, ngl
I love it. You know it. You feel it.
Every main actor that played the lead Spartans actually under went intense training to get that ripped
One of my favorite movies ❤
This is based on a true story. Although they lost the battle but they dealt a great damage to the Persian army, leaving the remaining Persians to be dealt with by a unified Greek army. Oh yeah. The 300 Spartans also bought off time for the other greek states to assemble.
check out the big lebowski, it's a really funny movie
I LOVE THIS MOVIE. Great reaction
The over the top feel makes sense since it was based upon the graphic novel of the 300 story which was over stylized. You should react to the 2nd movie as well