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Yes, this is based on a historical event. I am a historian, and economist and an expert on the Constitution of the United States of America. This has been one of my favorite stories for a very long time. Yes, Sparta was that brutal with its children. Male children. Anyway. They were a very war-like society. They peaked at the exact right time. In history, the Persian army was in fact close to a million strong. The region that this battle happened in, the hot Gates/ thermopylae, is still devoid of trees. They cut down a forest to make camp and bonfires. It has never grown back. It wasn't just 300 Spartans, there were about 7,000 Greek soldiers supporting them as well. The other 300 movie is about the navel battle. It was a combination of the two. They did outflink the Spartans and all 300 died, many of the 7000 other Greeks were able to return home. However, Athens was burned to the ground. The next spring, the rest of the Spartan army engaged the encampment of Persians, which is what you see at the end of this film. The Athenian Navy led by thermostocles defeated the Persian Navy which destroyed their supply lines. The vast majority of the Persian army had to retreat. What was left was completely obliterated because they only had a three-to-one margin over the Spartan army. And they were obliterated by them. The sad part is, less than a generation. Later, Sparta was a shell of its former self. The brutality they had on their society, including Spartans, killing their slaves to prove their manhood and the discarding of children who didn't live up to their standard just destroyed the integrity of their society overall. One more thing though, as amazing as the Spartans were and as good as they were at War, they are not the greatest soldiers of all time. That distinction is held by the Navy seals. 12. Navy seals took out an oil platform that was guarded by over a thousand men at the beginning of the Gulf War. They didn't lose a single man and they took the platform by themselves. It had to be done before the United States Navy entered the region because that platform had French Exocet anti-ship missiles. The coolest line in the movie was when the queen told Leonidas to come back with his shield or upon it. That meant don't surrender or retreat. In ancient battles, when an army retreats they drop their Shields because they are heavy. Especially Spartan Shields. You drop the shield so you can run faster. But when you are running, you are vulnerable to attack from behind without being able to respond. The vast majority of deaths in ancient battle were caused by retreating. This is what made Alexander the Great so special, not only did he fight alongside his men at the front, but he trained his men not to retreat and not to use the shield of the person to the right of them. You would swing your sword, and then you would lean right to hide behind the shield of the person to the right of you. You would slowly start to move to the right. That could open up gaps that left your flank unsecured. He taught his men not to do that and then he took advantage of the opposing army doing that very thing and that's how he obliterated them repeatedly. As powerful as the Spartans were, they were nothing compared to Alexander the Great. Keep in mind, Alexander, the Great was a student of Aristotle, who was a student of Plato, who was a student of Socrates. That is the greatest chain of intellectual thought in human history. And Alexander's intelligence is what made him the greatest general in history. He didn't just never lose a war, from the age of 16. He never lost a battle. Spartans were incredible, but Alexander the Great was vastly superior to them.
A bronze statue of Leonidas was erected at Thermopylae in 1955.[20] A sign, under the statue, reads simply: "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ" ("Come and take them"), which was Leonidas' laconic reply when Xerxes offered to spare the lives of the Spartans if they gave up their arms.[21] Another statue, also with the inscription ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, was erected in Sparta in 1968.
As a Greek that had been taught history intensely i must tell you that all the important things in this movie is facts. Written by the historians of the time. All the great lines you heard really happened. A few men stood and died for freedom against the largest army of the time. And they gave them hell before their death. Arthur miller who made the comic that was used frame by frame to the making of this movie decided to start it after a visit in the grave of Leonidas. In Greece, in Thermopylae (hot gates). This battle and their sacrifice is an inspiration for all Greeks for almost 2500 years.
@@GregoryArgiriou So you do think, the gods were fighting among men? Come on, just because there was a bronze age city in Asia Minor doesn't mean the Iliad is accurate. Saxons and Britons existed as well, but King Arthur and Camelot or even Avalon? Debatable...
It was a suicide mission from the beginning. Leonidas knew the only way to save Sparta was to sacrifice his life. If they killed the king then Sparta could go to war. Fun fact : the only ones allowed a headstone was a man who died in battle or a woman would died in childbirth.
And that is why he mentions a beautiful death because spartan army was formed by smaller companies who were like closed clubs. One had to demonstrate bravery , skill and courage to be invited by a member to join and the best ones had the honour of seeing more active duty. As human life span is limited and age takes away strength stamina etc if failing to die in battle meant your chances were getting fewer. Therefore veterans who neared the age they no longer would be called to fight fought hardest so that more enemies would seek to fight them earning the honour of the kill of a worthy foe and getting in return a chance to die in a last battle earning that tombstone and the immortality it provided by leaving a trace of your name after death.
@@eatsmylifeYT and why would it not be? Learning new things should be fun. An example of a fact that isn't fun (for the most part) would be learning that Hitler reduced the world's carbon footprint.
@@galadballcrusher8182 The Spartans treated most of their dead the same by wrapping them in a red robe with olive leaves and burying them without any sort of artifacts or headstones. ((Plutarch, Instituta Laconica, 18.)) The lack of markers has made it difficult to find Spartan graves. ((Paul Cartledge, Thermopylae: The Battle that changed the World (New York: Vintage Books, 2007), 81.))
A side note on the movie. There is a reason why you see a yellowish/dark screen, many crazy-looking beasts, abnormally deformed people, and a huge Persian King. The narrator is telling the events that happened to his soldiers a year later. The soldiers see it in their imagination as you see it. Another interesting point of this battle was that the Spartan King sent two messengers. They were accused of cowardice for leaving. One committed suicide and the other eventually proved himself in battle. The immortals were the personal guards of the Persian King. They were called that bc when they were killed in battle they would always be replaced with others to give the allusion of immortality, hence the name. Always a 10k strong force. One more thing is that this war is credited by most historians as preserving democracy. However, The Spartans were not fighting for democracy, but for survival. It was the Athenians for where democracy was born who fought for the survival and their democratic city-state. We should remember that 8 thousand other Creeks fought with the Spartans but in the end, they stood alone.
Great reaction. The films cinematography is styled after a previous graphic novel but the story is based on the ancient battle of Thermopylae between the Greeks and invading Persians in 480 BC.
At the Second Greco-Persian War, Leonidas led the allied Greek forces in a last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC), attempting to defend the pass from the invading Persian army, and was killed early during the third and last day of the battle. Leonidas entered myth as a hero and the leader of the 300 Spartans who died in battle at Thermopylae. While the Greeks lost this battle, they were able to expel the Persian invaders in the following year.
This movie is based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller which was inspired by the battle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans and roughly 10,000 other Greeks held off the invading Persian army long enough for the other Greek nations to gather strength. This was a perfect adaptation of the comic book which is why it's so highly stylized.
Check out what Wikipedia says about this battle: Around the start of the invasion, a Greek force of approximately 7,000 men led by Leonidas marched north to block the pass of Thermopylae. The Persian army, estimated by ancient authors to number in the millions, and by modern scholars to be between 120,000 and 300,000 soldiers, arrived at Thermopylae by late August or early September. During two full days of battle, the Greeks blocked the only road by which the massive Persian army could traverse the narrow pass. After the second day, a local resident named Ephialtes revealed to the Persians the existence of a path leading behind the Greek lines. Subsequently, Leonidas, aware that his force was being outflanked by the Persians, dismissed the bulk of the Greek army and remained to guard their retreat along with 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians. It has been reported that others also remained, including up to 900 helots and 400 Thebans. With the exception of the Thebans, most of whom reportedly surrendered, the Greeks fought the Persians to the death in one of history's most famous last stands.
Yes it was real. It's the battle of Thermopylae. Xerxes was a very real asshole. If you go to Greece, you can visit the magnificent memorial built to honor the brave 300, who many historians now believe that their sacrifice most probably saved what we call today "Western Civilization". Europe might never have been if Xerxes was victorious. A truly remarkable event in history. 👍👍😎🇺🇸
14:55 "Come and get them!" = MOLON LABE (the motto of the Greek Army 1st Corps). According to Herodotus, this was Leonidas' response to the Persian demand of the Spartans to surrender their weapons. This was paraphrased at the Battle of Gonzales, when Mexican forces demanded a six-pounder bronze cannon be surrendered to them, as agreed. This is where the Texas flag of a star over a cannon with the phrase "Come and Take It" had its origin, when the Texan women of Gonzales made it to help inspire the Texan militia against the Mexican Army. Many of the lines in the movie are straight from history. "Only Spartan women give birth to real men.", "Come back with your shield, or on it.", "Then we will fight in the shade.", "Tonight we dine in Hades (Hell).", "Go tell the Spartans, passerby, that here by Spartan law, we lie", and others I can't recall right now... This primarily revolves around The Battle of Thermopylae. Thermopile = Hot Gates/Gateway.
ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς , (Ḕ tā̀n ḕ epì tâs): “Come with (your shield), or on (it). ” This ancient Greek phrase was said by their mothers or wives giving them the shield. It was a wish of victory, because either he would return victorious holding his shield, or his victorious companions would bring him dead on his shield.If they lost the battle no one was to return alive. The Spartans were famous for the condensed meanings (Laconize ) expressed with few words. There is the ancient saying: "Laconize is philosophy". The Lacedaemonians (Spartans) and the rest of the ancient Greeks, considered death as the door to the underworld (ADES) and had unwavering faith in its existence.
Loved your reaction and observations about the cinematography and design etc. I also found the film very moving, because it's message reverberates in our time too - certainly here in Australia, and clearly in many other countries in recent times.
Watching woman react to War movies is amazing... 100000 Men gets killed, arms and legs cut off minor reaction.. 1 horse gets hit with anything bigger than a Rock And woman are like OHH NOO NOT THE HORSE poor horse .. Then 1 guy have a birth defect and you feel sorry for him.. Anyway I love this movie My take on the 300 story is that it was probably one of the first time a small Grupe of extreme well organized warriors faced a large Grupe of slaves that had already lost everything they cared for.. I think that's how the Myth of this story happened as it must have been a slaughter.. In reality we should have felt sorry for the enemy soldiers in this story their homes and family's are all gone.. But epiq movie non the less ..=)
It's understandable. The horses and other animals are by definition innocent. Obviously, some of the men are as well, while some are driven by hatred/greed/etc., but the audience has no way to distinguish. And it seems natural to me to feel sorry for Ephialtes, at least in the beginning.
The scene when theron assaults cerci is one of the more disturbing scenes in this movie. Makes me a little nauseous. There is a lot of weird stuff in this movie. But that scene just reaches some visceral hatred in most people. Great reaction.
Reality is frightening. When another country invades,men go to war willing to die so that bad things don't happen to their wives and children. That's why every country needs an army. Look at Ukraine now. Ukrainian men are dying by the thousands in the battlefield and Ukrainian women are intact back home or in other countries they fled to .all men are banned from leaving the country. It's stay here and possibly die in the battlefield for them. Like the Titanic,where the men were also forced to stay in the boat and die,this movie shows there's not a lot of "male privilege" when shit gets serious
Yes this is a true story. The Battle of Thermopylae was an inspiration for many other battles and the origin of the Greek moto "Molon Labe" (Come and take it). In the Texas revolution against Mexico, The Mexican Army tried to confiscate a cannon owned by the town of Gonzales. The Texans made a flag with a single star and siloette of a cannon and the words "Come and Take it". A reference to a battle of lop-sided odds against a superior force. And they won.
As exaggerated and grandiose this movie is, the one-liners, quips and comebacks are mostly true, actual hostorical quotes from different Spartans that were recorded through history.. "Only Spartan women give birth to real men"... "Then we will fight in the shade"... "I broght more soldiers than you did"...
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it is based on a true story, but in the real story, there was 301.. there was a midget spartan in the center of the front row, that was known as nutbiter
Four, depending on how you consider the historical writings the comic was based on. There's a lot of debate concerning how authentic Herodotus' account is.
300 has the best logo intro to any movie I've ever seen. The WB logo looks like its carved out of a gold block, and the lightning and thunder behind it in the background. Just awesome.
The events of the movie were depicted through the eyes of the narrator at the start and end. Hense why he coloured the story with monstrous persians etc.How the hell did you not understand that.
I am new to your channel but i did a cursory look through your movie reactions… you need something funny and less tear-jerking. I recommend “pitch perfect”, “dodgeball” and “anchorman” if you haven’t seen those yet. Also, “the proposal” is hilarious.
@@marleysmoviesGreat! I love to see a variety of genres… except horror. I can watch horror. But i enjoyed your reaction and would love to see you not sad. 😀
The boy was the YOUNG Leonidas as he was going through the Ago gee, the fact is that Leonidas was never supposed to become the King of Sparta, but while he was doing his trials in the wild, (Where he killed the wolf) his cousin who was the king, and was actually insane, is the one who killed the Persian messengers and threw them down the well, Leonidas did not actually do that, but when Leonidas returned to Sparta from his time in the wild, his cousin the King had just died from his mental affliction, and having no children of his own, Leonidas became the next in line for the throne. and if you noticed, Leonidas was the ONLY Spartan who wore a LEATHER cape, which was made from the skin of the wolf he killed, when he killed that wolf, first he ate the meat, and then used the skin to keep warm, after he returned to Sparta, the skin was tanned and turned into leather for his cape, of course back then, Kings usually fought alongside their men.
A bit of history. It was not a storm that prevented the Persins from just sailing around, it was the Athenian navy. Of course, aSpartan would never admit the Athenians did anything praiseworthy. That and there were never any war rhinos. :) (This is based on a comic book.)(OK, a graphic novel, whick is an expensive comic book.)
The entirety of the visuals are in the minds of those who heard the tale--so yes, exaggerated and fantastical like legends are. The word "Epic" exactly applies, as a heroic tale or song (Epos is the Greek root) heard over again.
Sí. Se trata de un evento real. La batalla de las Termópilas. Aunque no eran solo 300. Y muchos detalles históricos son incorrectos. Aunque la premisa se mantiene. Eran pocos contra muchos. Sabían que marchaban a la muerte, pero contaban con acabar menguando al ejército persa en el pasaje de las Termópilas, lo suficiente para evitar que avanzaran sobre toda Grecia. Y que perdieron su ventaja por culpa de Efialtes.
Much of this film is based on historical events. I love showing this to feminist. Women who said men have had it throughout history sure looks that way right
For all who dont understand why the Wolf looks like that and the Elephants are so huge and freaky Creatures apear, it's because you just listining to the Story that Spartan tells you and imagine you live there in Greece at that Time, you never saw an Elephant or Rhino before.
A really gory movie but completely historically inaccurate, however you got to love the scenes when the battle starts and when the queen stabs the traitor! ❤ I think if everybody who committed sexual assault had this done to them it would be a problem that would cease to exist in our society! I do like the quote, give them nothing and take from them everything! Yes this was an actual battle the Battle of Thermopylae.
FOR TONIGHT ..we DINE IN HELL!! Sounds cool .. but the battle took place 480 B.C. .. So the whole scam concept of Hell and Heaven wasnt invented yet.. but its a cool MOVEY °!! 8)
In ancient Greek mythology the dead entered Hades (the Underworld) where they were split into two camps. Elysium (heaven) for the honored dead and Tartarus (hell) for sinners. Not that different then the Christian version of of the afterlife. Pretty much every civilization across the globe had some version of Hell.
Spartan men were known for poetry and dancing before Leonidas. The stories about their military and cruel society were mainly propaganda from Athens in order to gain favour from the other Greek states as Sparta grew in popularity. Athens even sought out financial support from Persia in their later conflicts with Sparta.
The greek and especially the Spartan's was the most famous mercenaries at tha times. The Egyptian, the Carthaginians they used greek advisors and mercenaries. Even the Persian's after the greek- persian war's.
Maybe I can help you out, this is the TRUE story of the Battle of Thermopylae which took place about 2,500 years ago, at that time, the Persian Empire extended from Iran through the Middle East nearly to the Mediterranean sea, and down and included about half of the African continent, they were the most advanced power on the planet at that time, meanwhile, Greece was split up between about 16 or so City/States, Sparta, Ithaca, Athens, Thessaly, Ect. each with their own King and each had their own specialty, now the Greek war started about 10 years BEFORE the events of this movie when the Persians landed on the shores of Athens, after a couple of months at sea, at a place called Marathon, the Athenians, outnumbered, and knowing that had no chance of beating the Persians if they allowed them any time at all to get ready for a siege, attacked them as they landed on the beaches, the Persians still wobbly on their feet after 2 months at sea, were ineffective as a fighting force, during this battle, a Greek soldier shot and killed the Persian King Darius with a bow and arrow, after what was left of the Persian Army and Navy left and headed back to what is Iran today, King Darius's son Prince Xerxes assumed the throne and became the King of Persia, now go forward 10 years, and now King Xerxes still wanting revenge, assembled the largest army that the world had ever seen up to that point of more than 1,000,000 men, and after King Xerxes messengers were killed and thrown into a well by Sparta's King BEFORE king Leonidas, King Xerxes was intent on the destruction of both Athens and Sparta, which led to the Battle of Thermopylae, which is what you are seeing in this movie, the history records of this event were told by a Greek historian Herodotus, and passed own from one generation to the next for centuries, now during the battle of Thermopylae, there were the 300 Spartan's, Arcadians, Thespians, Pheotians and a few others totaling about 7,000 to hold off Xerxes army of about 1,000,000 and Athenian General Themistocles took Athens Navy of about 20 ships and faced off with the Persian Navy's ships of about 300 in the Artesian straight, both the land battle and sea battle happened simultaneously, but on the 3rd day of the battle, and after the Greeks on land had killed about 200,000 or more of King Xerxes men, the Persian army finally surrounded the Greeks, and while most of the Greeks withdrew, King Leonidas and his 300 stood and fought to the death delaying the Persians from catching the others and slaughtering them, in the aftermath, and NOT knowing that there were more than just the 300 Spartans, Xerxes, considered very hard that 300 men had wiped out more than 200,000 of his men, and decided to retreat back to Persia to rebuild his army, but about a year later, the most he could muster up was about 160,000, and he again pushed them into Greece and the Platea Plateau, but in that year, the Greek City/States, UNITED behind the Spartan's and the Persians were no longer facing 300 Spartan's and about 6,000 other Greeks, they were facing the ENTIRE Spartan army of 10,000 men, which was leading a consolidated Greek force of about 30,000 more, and despite being outnumbered 4 to 1, the consolidated Greek army slaughtered the Persian army in just a couple of hours, the battle of Platea ended all hostilities between Persia and all the Greek City/States as the Persian Empire began shrinking from it's height and back into what today we know as Iran, now the Greek historian Herodotus, is the one where this originates from, BUT this movie has been taken from the Graphic Novelist Zack Snyder's book, so a LOT of liberties have been taken, BUT the story of the battle of Thermopylae is really not far from fact.
About the selection of babies it's doesn't be true. The king agesilaus was sort and lame. The Leonidas was one of the two kigs of Sparta. The sparta have always two king's, one go to war and one stay back to roll. An leonidas at the time of battle was 60 years old. The efors was like American Congress and selected from apela the parliament to control the king's.
Let's be real here. "300" is based on a COMIC BOOK. The defense at Thermopylae was a real event BUT the Spartans actually had another 3000 to 4000 troops with them, mostly from Spartan client states. They did NOT fight bare-chested; nobody in their right minds would have done so in this era. The Immortals weren't monsters. They were called "Immortal" because when one died, he was immediately replaced. They did NOT practice infanticide as it is shown here. They were NOT a democratic state. The Spartans were an oligarchy that owned SLAVES. This is a fantasy film VERY loosely based on a historic event and badly at that. If you enjoyed it, great but don't confuse this with real events.
Everybody knows the facts are not exact and Persians were not monsters. But the important facts are real, even 7000 against 300 thousand the Spartans were unbelievably outnumbered, and their resistance was heroic
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After watching 300 you could watch the parody of it
Meet the Spartans a 2008 parody film
It's cringy but fun
Loooooosely based on historical events.
A Beautiful Mind, The Man who Knew Infinity. Both amazing shows. Les Miserables, Stigmata were also great.
Yes, this is based on a historical event. I am a historian, and economist and an expert on the Constitution of the United States of America.
This has been one of my favorite stories for a very long time.
Yes, Sparta was that brutal with its children. Male children. Anyway. They were a very war-like society. They peaked at the exact right time. In history, the Persian army was in fact close to a million strong. The region that this battle happened in, the hot Gates/ thermopylae, is still devoid of trees. They cut down a forest to make camp and bonfires. It has never grown back.
It wasn't just 300 Spartans, there were about 7,000 Greek soldiers supporting them as well.
The other 300 movie is about the navel battle. It was a combination of the two. They did outflink the Spartans and all 300 died, many of the 7000 other Greeks were able to return home. However, Athens was burned to the ground. The next spring, the rest of the Spartan army engaged the encampment of Persians, which is what you see at the end of this film. The Athenian Navy led by thermostocles defeated the Persian Navy which destroyed their supply lines. The vast majority of the Persian army had to retreat. What was left was completely obliterated because they only had a three-to-one margin over the Spartan army. And they were obliterated by them.
The sad part is, less than a generation. Later, Sparta was a shell of its former self. The brutality they had on their society, including Spartans, killing their slaves to prove their manhood and the discarding of children who didn't live up to their standard just destroyed the integrity of their society overall.
One more thing though, as amazing as the Spartans were and as good as they were at War, they are not the greatest soldiers of all time. That distinction is held by the Navy seals. 12. Navy seals took out an oil platform that was guarded by over a thousand men at the beginning of the Gulf War. They didn't lose a single man and they took the platform by themselves. It had to be done before the United States Navy entered the region because that platform had French Exocet anti-ship missiles.
The coolest line in the movie was when the queen told Leonidas to come back with his shield or upon it. That meant don't surrender or retreat. In ancient battles, when an army retreats they drop their Shields because they are heavy. Especially Spartan Shields. You drop the shield so you can run faster. But when you are running, you are vulnerable to attack from behind without being able to respond. The vast majority of deaths in ancient battle were caused by retreating. This is what made Alexander the Great so special, not only did he fight alongside his men at the front, but he trained his men not to retreat and not to use the shield of the person to the right of them. You would swing your sword, and then you would lean right to hide behind the shield of the person to the right of you. You would slowly start to move to the right. That could open up gaps that left your flank unsecured. He taught his men not to do that and then he took advantage of the opposing army doing that very thing and that's how he obliterated them repeatedly. As powerful as the Spartans were, they were nothing compared to Alexander the Great. Keep in mind, Alexander, the Great was a student of Aristotle, who was a student of Plato, who was a student of Socrates. That is the greatest chain of intellectual thought in human history. And Alexander's intelligence is what made him the greatest general in history. He didn't just never lose a war, from the age of 16. He never lost a battle.
Spartans were incredible, but Alexander the Great was vastly superior to them.
A bronze statue of Leonidas was erected at Thermopylae in 1955.[20] A sign, under the statue, reads simply: "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ" ("Come and take them"), which was Leonidas' laconic reply when Xerxes offered to spare the lives of the Spartans if they gave up their arms.[21] Another statue, also with the inscription ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, was erected in Sparta in 1968.
That’s interesting, thank you ☺️
As a Greek that had been taught history intensely i must tell you that all the important things in this movie is facts. Written by the historians of the time. All the great lines you heard really happened. A few men stood and died for freedom against the largest army of the time. And they gave them hell before their death. Arthur miller who made the comic that was used frame by frame to the making of this movie decided to start it after a visit in the grave of Leonidas. In Greece, in Thermopylae (hot gates). This battle and their sacrifice is an inspiration for all Greeks for almost 2500 years.
Herodotus was the father of journalism, not the father of history. It is very apparent even through translations that embellishments were made.
@@CaucasianCajun In ancient Greek historians we owe all the knowledge for the era. Sorry but they were around there at the time. Not me or you.
@GregoryArgiriou Do you normally sound this whiney? Or is this a special occasion because you know Greeks were horrible record keepers?
@@CaucasianCajun Just an example for you. Before the discovery of ancient Troy in 1890 the whole Iliad by Homer was considered a fairy tale.
@@GregoryArgiriou
So you do think, the gods were fighting among men?
Come on, just because there was a bronze age city in Asia Minor doesn't mean the Iliad is accurate.
Saxons and Britons existed as well, but King Arthur and Camelot or even Avalon? Debatable...
It was a suicide mission from the beginning. Leonidas knew the only way to save Sparta was to sacrifice his life. If they killed the king then Sparta could go to war.
Fun fact : the only ones allowed a headstone was a man who died in battle or a woman would died in childbirth.
And that is why he mentions a beautiful death because spartan army was formed by smaller companies who were like closed clubs. One had to demonstrate bravery , skill and courage to be invited by a member to join and the best ones had the honour of seeing more active duty. As human life span is limited and age takes away strength stamina etc if failing to die in battle meant your chances were getting fewer. Therefore veterans who neared the age they no longer would be called to fight fought hardest so that more enemies would seek to fight them earning the honour of the kill of a worthy foe and getting in return a chance to die in a last battle earning that tombstone and the immortality it provided by leaving a trace of your name after death.
Why is that "fun"?
@@eatsmylifeYT and why would it not be? Learning new things should be fun. An example of a fact that isn't fun (for the most part) would be learning that Hitler reduced the world's carbon footprint.
@@roger5322 Have you ever tried flatlining? Believe me, dying is not fun. Stop using words and phrases you don't know the meaning of.
@@galadballcrusher8182 The Spartans treated most of their dead the same by wrapping them in a red robe with olive leaves and burying them without any sort of artifacts or headstones. ((Plutarch, Instituta Laconica, 18.)) The lack of markers has made it difficult to find Spartan graves. ((Paul Cartledge, Thermopylae: The Battle that changed the World (New York: Vintage Books, 2007), 81.))
A side note on the movie. There is a reason why you see a yellowish/dark screen, many crazy-looking beasts, abnormally deformed people, and a huge Persian King. The narrator is telling the events that happened to his soldiers a year later. The soldiers see it in their imagination as you see it. Another interesting point of this battle was that the Spartan King sent two messengers. They were accused of cowardice for leaving. One committed suicide and the other eventually proved himself in battle. The immortals were the personal guards of the Persian King. They were called that bc when they were killed in battle they would always be replaced with others to give the allusion of immortality, hence the name. Always a 10k strong force. One more thing is that this war is credited by most historians as preserving democracy. However, The Spartans were not fighting for democracy, but for survival. It was the Athenians for where democracy was born who fought for the survival and their democratic city-state. We should remember that 8 thousand other Creeks fought with the Spartans but in the end, they stood alone.
Great reaction. The films cinematography is styled after a previous graphic novel but the story is based on the ancient battle of Thermopylae between the Greeks and invading Persians in 480 BC.
At the Second Greco-Persian War, Leonidas led the allied Greek forces in a last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC), attempting to defend the pass from the invading Persian army, and was killed early during the third and last day of the battle. Leonidas entered myth as a hero and the leader of the 300 Spartans who died in battle at Thermopylae. While the Greeks lost this battle, they were able to expel the Persian invaders in the following year.
This movie is based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller which was inspired by the battle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans and roughly 10,000 other Greeks held off the invading Persian army long enough for the other Greek nations to gather strength. This was a perfect adaptation of the comic book which is why it's so highly stylized.
Their deaths united the city states into one fighting force that drove the Persian army out
Check out what Wikipedia says about this battle:
Around the start of the invasion, a Greek force of approximately 7,000 men led by Leonidas marched north to block the pass of Thermopylae. The Persian army, estimated by ancient authors to number in the millions, and by modern scholars to be between 120,000 and 300,000 soldiers, arrived at Thermopylae by late August or early September. During two full days of battle, the Greeks blocked the only road by which the massive Persian army could traverse the narrow pass. After the second day, a local resident named Ephialtes revealed to the Persians the existence of a path leading behind the Greek lines. Subsequently, Leonidas, aware that his force was being outflanked by the Persians, dismissed the bulk of the Greek army and remained to guard their retreat along with 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians. It has been reported that others also remained, including up to 900 helots and 400 Thebans. With the exception of the Thebans, most of whom reportedly surrendered, the Greeks fought the Persians to the death in one of history's most famous last stands.
But how many persians did the 7000 spartans killed?
@@reupload7200 Many many of them, think that the passage and the wall persians had to go through was 5-6 meters wide
Yes ma'am it's loosely based on fact, the sequel "300 Rise of an Empire" is really good too😊
Il have to watch it! I loved this one!
Yes it was real. It's the battle of Thermopylae. Xerxes was a very real asshole. If you go to Greece, you can visit the magnificent memorial built to honor the brave 300, who many historians now believe that their sacrifice most probably saved what we call today "Western Civilization". Europe might never have been if Xerxes was victorious. A truly remarkable event in history. 👍👍😎🇺🇸
14:55 "Come and get them!" = MOLON LABE (the motto of the Greek Army 1st Corps). According to Herodotus, this was Leonidas' response to the Persian demand of the Spartans to surrender their weapons. This was paraphrased at the Battle of Gonzales, when Mexican forces demanded a six-pounder bronze cannon be surrendered to them, as agreed. This is where the Texas flag of a star over a cannon with the phrase "Come and Take It" had its origin, when the Texan women of Gonzales made it to help inspire the Texan militia against the Mexican Army.
Many of the lines in the movie are straight from history. "Only Spartan women give birth to real men.", "Come back with your shield, or on it.", "Then we will fight in the shade.", "Tonight we dine in Hades (Hell).", "Go tell the Spartans, passerby, that here by Spartan law, we lie", and others I can't recall right now...
This primarily revolves around The Battle of Thermopylae. Thermopile = Hot Gates/Gateway.
Alright Marley. Its based on the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC
ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς , (Ḕ tā̀n ḕ epì tâs): “Come with (your shield), or on (it). ”
This ancient Greek phrase was said by their mothers or wives giving them the shield.
It was a wish of victory, because either he would return victorious holding his shield, or his victorious companions would bring him dead on his shield.If they lost the battle no one was to return alive.
The Spartans were famous for the condensed meanings (Laconize ) expressed with few words.
There is the ancient saying: "Laconize is philosophy".
The Lacedaemonians (Spartans) and the rest of the ancient Greeks, considered death as the door to the underworld (ADES) and had unwavering faith in its existence.
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Loved your reaction and observations about the cinematography and design etc.
I also found the film very moving, because it's message reverberates in our time too - certainly here in Australia, and clearly in many other countries in recent times.
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Thank you so much that is so nice to hear! ✨😊
YES BASED IN THE TERMOPILAS BATTLE AND THE END (10000 SPARTANS) IN THE PLATEA BATTLE
Watching woman react to War movies is amazing... 100000 Men gets killed, arms and legs cut off minor reaction.. 1 horse gets hit with anything bigger than a Rock And woman are like OHH NOO NOT THE HORSE poor horse .. Then 1 guy have a birth defect and you feel sorry for him.. Anyway I love this movie My take on the 300 story is that it was probably one of the first time a small Grupe of extreme well organized warriors faced a large Grupe of slaves that had already lost everything they cared for.. I think that's how the Myth of this story happened as it must have been a slaughter.. In reality we should have felt sorry for the enemy soldiers in this story their homes and family's are all gone.. But epiq movie non the less ..=)
It's understandable. The horses and other animals are by definition innocent. Obviously, some of the men are as well, while some are driven by hatred/greed/etc., but the audience has no way to distinguish. And it seems natural to me to feel sorry for Ephialtes, at least in the beginning.
The scene when theron assaults cerci is one of the more disturbing scenes in this movie. Makes me a little nauseous. There is a lot of weird stuff in this movie. But that scene just reaches some visceral hatred in most people. Great reaction.
Reality is frightening. When another country invades,men go to war willing to die so that bad things don't happen to their wives and children. That's why every country needs an army. Look at Ukraine now. Ukrainian men are dying by the thousands in the battlefield and Ukrainian women are intact back home or in other countries they fled to .all men are banned from leaving the country. It's stay here and possibly die in the battlefield for them. Like the Titanic,where the men were also forced to stay in the boat and die,this movie shows there's not a lot of "male privilege" when shit gets serious
Yes this is a true story. The Battle of Thermopylae was an inspiration for many other battles and the origin of the Greek moto "Molon Labe" (Come and take it). In the Texas revolution against Mexico, The Mexican Army tried to confiscate a cannon owned by the town of Gonzales. The Texans made a flag with a single star and siloette of a cannon and the words "Come and Take it". A reference to a battle of lop-sided odds against a superior force. And they won.
This film remember me! The actual WAR in Ukraine 🇺🇦 50 Nations VS 1 Russia🇷🇺🦾
As exaggerated and grandiose this movie is, the one-liners, quips and comebacks are mostly true, actual hostorical quotes from different Spartans that were recorded through history..
"Only Spartan women give birth to real men"... "Then we will fight in the shade"... "I broght more soldiers than you did"...
It's base on a Frank Miller Graphic Novel that's loosely based on True events. :)
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I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!! YA HAVE TO DO THE NEXT ONE TOO LOL
" Molon Labe"
Yes, it was a famous battle. They say it was 300 vs a million but it more like over 300,000 or so.
I choked when she asked if it was based on a true event. LOL
it is based on a true story, but in the real story, there was 301.. there was a midget spartan in the center of the front row, that was known as nutbiter
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Gotta love that historic male privelege.
This is a cinematic version of a graphic novel of the actual battle of Thermopylae. So, three steps removed from reality.
Four, depending on how you consider the historical writings the comic was based on. There's a lot of debate concerning how authentic Herodotus' account is.
300 has the best logo intro to any movie I've ever seen. The WB logo looks like its carved out of a gold block, and the lightning and thunder behind it in the background. Just awesome.
There was a movie called the 300 Spartans. Terrible movie but accurate whereas this movie is a fantasy version of a true story.
The events of the movie were depicted through the eyes of the narrator at the start and end. Hense why he coloured the story with monstrous persians etc.How the hell did you not understand that.
They lived.. and they died. After a thousand years. Hmmm. I so doubt it. I Guess buried with smart phone's
i liked your reaction, but the cutting to black every few seconds was a tad distracting for me. keep up the great work, cheers.
Thousands upon thousands dead...ooh these poor horses. LMAO
My gf was same with John Wick. Had no problem with him gunning everyone down but what happened to the puppy sent her mental.
Let's hope your channel doesn't get banned because you referred to the creepy gay character as "creepy".
I am new to your channel but i did a cursory look through your movie reactions… you need something funny and less tear-jerking. I recommend “pitch perfect”, “dodgeball” and “anchorman” if you haven’t seen those yet. Also, “the proposal” is hilarious.
Yeah I agree! I will be looking to do more comedy and lighthearted stuff soon! Thanks for watching! ☺️
@@marleysmoviesGreat! I love to see a variety of genres… except horror. I can watch horror. But i enjoyed your reaction and would love to see you not sad. 😀
The boy was the YOUNG Leonidas as he was going through the Ago gee, the fact is that Leonidas was never supposed to become the King of Sparta, but while he was doing his trials in the wild, (Where he killed the wolf) his cousin who was the king, and was actually insane, is the one who killed the Persian messengers and threw them down the well, Leonidas did not actually do that, but when Leonidas returned to Sparta from his time in the wild, his cousin the King had just died from his mental affliction, and having no children of his own, Leonidas became the next in line for the throne. and if you noticed, Leonidas was the ONLY Spartan who wore a LEATHER cape, which was made from the skin of the wolf he killed, when he killed that wolf, first he ate the meat, and then used the skin to keep warm, after he returned to Sparta, the skin was tanned and turned into leather for his cape, of course back then, Kings usually fought alongside their men.
A bit of history. It was not a storm that prevented the Persins from just sailing around, it was the Athenian navy. Of course, aSpartan would never admit the Athenians did anything praiseworthy. That and there were never any war rhinos. :) (This is based on a comic book.)(OK, a graphic novel, whick is an expensive comic book.)
The entirety of the visuals are in the minds of those who heard the tale--so yes, exaggerated and fantastical like legends are. The word "Epic" exactly applies, as a heroic tale or song (Epos is the Greek root) heard over again.
why am i seeing" 300 movie reaction 2006 on the screen?
Sí. Se trata de un evento real. La batalla de las Termópilas.
Aunque no eran solo 300. Y muchos detalles históricos son incorrectos. Aunque la premisa se mantiene. Eran pocos contra muchos. Sabían que marchaban a la muerte, pero contaban con acabar menguando al ejército persa en el pasaje de las Termópilas, lo suficiente para evitar que avanzaran sobre toda Grecia. Y que perdieron su ventaja por culpa de Efialtes.
The Battle of Thermopylae Can easily be found on the Internet or in a good Old fashion book do you want the story look it up?
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Much of this film is based on historical events. I love showing this to feminist. Women who said men have had it throughout history sure looks that way right
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For all who dont understand why the Wolf looks like that and the Elephants are so huge and freaky Creatures apear, it's because you just listining to the Story that Spartan tells you and imagine you live there in Greece at that Time, you never saw an Elephant or Rhino before.
its the battle of thermopylae
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A really gory movie but completely historically inaccurate, however you got to love the scenes when the battle starts and when the queen stabs the traitor! ❤ I think if everybody who committed sexual assault had this done to them it would be a problem that would cease to exist in our society! I do like the quote, give them nothing and take from them everything!
Yes this was an actual battle the Battle of Thermopylae.
FOR TONIGHT ..we DINE IN HELL!! Sounds cool .. but the battle took place 480 B.C. .. So the whole scam concept of Hell and Heaven wasnt invented yet..
but its a cool MOVEY °!! 8)
In ancient Greek mythology the dead entered Hades (the Underworld) where they were split into two camps. Elysium (heaven) for the honored dead and Tartarus (hell) for sinners.
Not that different then the Christian version of of the afterlife.
Pretty much every civilization across the globe had some version of Hell.
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Loooooosely based on historical events.
Spartan men were known for poetry and dancing before Leonidas. The stories about their military and cruel society were mainly propaganda from Athens in order to gain favour from the other Greek states as Sparta grew in popularity. Athens even sought out financial support from Persia in their later conflicts with Sparta.
The greek and especially the Spartan's was the most famous mercenaries at tha times. The Egyptian, the Carthaginians they used greek advisors and mercenaries. Even the Persian's after the greek- persian war's.
Weren't they also fond of male-on-male sex?
Based on events of 480 BC.
Maybe I can help you out, this is the TRUE story of the Battle of Thermopylae which took place about 2,500 years ago, at that time, the Persian Empire extended from Iran through the Middle East nearly to the Mediterranean sea, and down and included about half of the African continent, they were the most advanced power on the planet at that time, meanwhile, Greece was split up between about 16 or so City/States, Sparta, Ithaca, Athens, Thessaly, Ect. each with their own King and each had their own specialty, now the Greek war started about 10 years BEFORE the events of this movie when the Persians landed on the shores of Athens, after a couple of months at sea, at a place called Marathon, the Athenians, outnumbered, and knowing that had no chance of beating the Persians if they allowed them any time at all to get ready for a siege, attacked them as they landed on the beaches, the Persians still wobbly on their feet after 2 months at sea, were ineffective as a fighting force, during this battle, a Greek soldier shot and killed the Persian King Darius with a bow and arrow, after what was left of the Persian Army and Navy left and headed back to what is Iran today, King Darius's son Prince Xerxes assumed the throne and became the King of Persia, now go forward 10 years, and now King Xerxes still wanting revenge, assembled the largest army that the world had ever seen up to that point of more than 1,000,000 men, and after King Xerxes messengers were killed and thrown into a well by Sparta's King BEFORE king Leonidas, King Xerxes was intent on the destruction of both Athens and Sparta, which led to the Battle of Thermopylae, which is what you are seeing in this movie, the history records of this event were told by a Greek historian Herodotus, and passed own from one generation to the next for centuries, now during the battle of Thermopylae, there were the 300 Spartan's, Arcadians, Thespians, Pheotians and a few others totaling about 7,000 to hold off Xerxes army of about 1,000,000 and Athenian General Themistocles took Athens Navy of about 20 ships and faced off with the Persian Navy's ships of about 300 in the Artesian straight, both the land battle and sea battle happened simultaneously, but on the 3rd day of the battle, and after the Greeks on land had killed about 200,000 or more of King Xerxes men, the Persian army finally surrounded the Greeks, and while most of the Greeks withdrew, King Leonidas and his 300 stood and fought to the death delaying the Persians from catching the others and slaughtering them, in the aftermath, and NOT knowing that there were more than just the 300 Spartans, Xerxes, considered very hard that 300 men had wiped out more than 200,000 of his men, and decided to retreat back to Persia to rebuild his army, but about a year later, the most he could muster up was about 160,000, and he again pushed them into Greece and the Platea Plateau, but in that year, the Greek City/States, UNITED behind the Spartan's and the Persians were no longer facing 300 Spartan's and about 6,000 other Greeks, they were facing the ENTIRE Spartan army of 10,000 men, which was leading a consolidated Greek force of about 30,000 more, and despite being outnumbered 4 to 1, the consolidated Greek army slaughtered the Persian army in just a couple of hours, the battle of Platea ended all hostilities between Persia and all the Greek City/States as the Persian Empire began shrinking from it's height and back into what today we know as Iran, now the Greek historian Herodotus, is the one where this originates from, BUT this movie has been taken from the Graphic Novelist Zack Snyder's book, so a LOT of liberties have been taken, BUT the story of the battle of Thermopylae is really not far from fact.
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About the selection of babies it's doesn't be true. The king agesilaus was sort and lame. The Leonidas was one of the two kigs of Sparta. The sparta have always two king's, one go to war and one stay back to roll. An leonidas at the time of battle was 60 years old. The efors was like American Congress and selected from apela the parliament to control the king's.
I just have never been able to get in to this movie!!!! Too much CGI
In this movie, history is completely distorted, exaggerated and false
Let's be real here. "300" is based on a COMIC BOOK. The defense at Thermopylae was a real event BUT the Spartans actually had another 3000 to 4000 troops with them, mostly from Spartan client states. They did NOT fight bare-chested; nobody in their right minds would have done so in this era. The Immortals weren't monsters. They were called "Immortal" because when one died, he was immediately replaced. They did NOT practice infanticide as it is shown here. They were NOT a democratic state. The Spartans were an oligarchy that owned SLAVES. This is a fantasy film VERY loosely based on a historic event and badly at that. If you enjoyed it, great but don't confuse this with real events.
I think they actually did commit infanticide
You missed the whole point of the movie by a mile. Congratz.
You missed the whole point of his comment, congrats @@johnkimble4119
Everybody knows the facts are not exact and Persians were not monsters. But the important facts are real, even 7000 against 300 thousand the Spartans were unbelievably outnumbered, and their resistance was heroic
@@andresausecha9553 He literally just said it wasn't 300, and you're saying 300 against 7000? 😂
another zack movie sucker punch
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So what's your point?
@@eatsmylifeYT. Good question
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