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"The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, even a god-king can bleed" King Leonidas
@@horsearcher6852t what a «strange» thing. They fight their own wars. And they DON'T use slaves for that purpose. In the other side. They use only, even almost, slaves to do their dirty work. More careful systematic studies has shown that the "slaves" ('Δούλοι' and not 'Σκλάβοι') in ancient Greece they weren't «res», on the contrary, they were protected by existing and enforced laws. You could not treat them like animals or objects, nor act against them and generally treat them unnaturally. Yes, they did not have political rights, but they had human rights, even economic ones. They could make a fortune in Athens e.g. And in Sparta they even won their freedom if they wanted to enlist in a battle, in a war, and they fought alongside them. «Δουλεία», or «δούλος» in ancient greece meant «servant» in an ethical way. Of course no one is perfect. Their society wasn't perfect. So what. Αlso, they did not go through the famous and rather arduous process of the literally very hard, painful (even deadly!) training and in general the military, moral and political education of Spartans. They did not follow, i.e. they were not obliged to follow the particularly hard and difficult way of life they did. No one blamed them..
Lmao all your history is like this telling bullshit with zero percent fact, based on fact and true history xerxes never got injured not even a little persian never got that much casualty and that hill of bodies is more like a fantasy, the numbers in this movie is total lies, xerxes hardly defeated roman empire in less than a week and burned athen in return of romans burning a city of persian empire in turkey, persia never was tyrants and respected all nations with any religion
@@anderseriksson7698a glorious death dying by his morals and code versus a man who claimed to be a God forced to walk to a city in defeat and embarrassment... Yeah... Much different.
In ancient Sparta the men only concentrated on learning warfare the Spartan Women were educated in book learning wrestling and spear throwing the women handled all business so the men were free to train and study war. The women of Sparta were the freeist and most powerful in the ancient world. That is why the king turned to look and get the ok from his queen. It is because in ancient Sparta the women ran the business.
@@aaronbarlow4376 Yeah, no King would ask permission from his woman, he would lead, that's what leaders to. two hundred thousand years plus and we haven't changed, men lead women follow.
More so he looked back at her for her blessing as a courtesy. The Queen of Sparta was basically just a title. The 2 kings of Sparta had most of the power. The main thing this movie/comic doesn't get right is showing Leonidas as the only King at this time. He was definitely the most famous and brave beyond words but his co-ruler was King Leotychidas.
We don't know that for sure cause the Spartans don't write they history the people Athens do it and when they say that is for discredited them and say they are weak .
Only men who die in battle were allowed to have a grave and be remembered, so "may you live forever" is the greatest Spartan insult to deliver to anyone.
And it was a headstone not a grave. All the dead got graves but only women who died in child birth and men who died in battle where allowed to have a headstone.
The over-the-top nature of the wolf at the beginning, the Immortals, the huge guy that fights Leonidas - it all makes more sense when you realise that the story is being narrated by the guy at the end. That maybe the enemy looked monstrous to him, or maybe the huge guy was just a normal tall bloke who knew how to fight - but to the narrator, they were monsters. Great movie, thanks for your reaction
@@ΝίκοςΒασιλάκης-ι6υ The comic has used Herodotus's "The Histories" (or later secondary sources who have used it) for their material. There are several quotes from the movie to back this up. What I was pointing out is that the movie shows that the events don't have to be taken literally, they are being narrated by a man who was literally singled out for his skill at telling an engaging story. This gives the movie makers license for the monstrous appearance of some Persian soldiers. From sources from the time though, it appears that Xerxes really was extremely tall... The Persian royal family deliberately bred for height. Even allowing for a bit of creative license he must have been close to 7 feet
@@AndyFNQ84 Ok, my comment was on the persian appearence in this movie. Now for Herodotus...Man he is literaly the father of history....of course we watch a movie but the last stand of the 300 was far more brutal....King Leonidas wasn;t the last to fall...we have description of the fight for Leonidas corpse....the last spartans were fighting bare hands (their weapons were broken) and there were breaking the collarbones of the Persians...ofcourse the Spartan appearence is not accurate, nor the appearence of the immortals....for Xerxes height...i dont know...i ve never heard of it
@@SaulBachman "Ok but all of that aside, the movie is purposefully stylized in such a way that makes it illusory and dreamlike since it’s a story being told from memory by the narrator. Am I wrong?¨ we know for fact that the battle of Thermopolai and the battle of Platea happened, that Sparta had fearsome warriors with high tech technonogy (high metalurgy) and the Greco-Persians war was the reason for Alexander the great to invade Asia..i believe that is enough and Herodotus did his job by far.
i love he looks back to his wife to see if he was over reacting, or about to do some thing dumb. a good wife is a good anchor and compass, holding back impulses and guiding in a good direction.
When leonidas tells the guy “may you live forever” it's the ultimate diss. A spartan soldiers ultimate glory was to fall in the field of battle. Something which the traitor will never do and he knows it. Thus, he will never have Spartan honor for as long as he lives.
That's not why he said it. One is eternal regrets. The other is that he would live forever with the stamp of the traitor, which he had throughout his life where he could not return to his homeland of Antikyra of Boeotia, since after the final victory of the Greeks, he went into self-imposed exile. After 11 years, in 469 BC he went back to Antikyra thinking that no one would remember him, but he was wrong. That was the end of his. It's an expression we use in Greece, with variations, such as "may your regrets 'eat' you for life". I don't know where you read what you're saying, but it's clearly a delusional.
Xerxes: "imagine the horrible fate that awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory" Leonidas: "And I would die for any of mine"
The only survivor (the story teller) was mocked and dishonoured as a coward (back in Sparta) till the battle of Platea where he fought twice as hard to clean his name. Ofcourse he did
@@aidankrapf428 And if I remember correctly, he wasn't buried with Spartan honors because he fought too hard outside of their formation. I'm a rookie, so I might be wrong.
"Come back with your shield, or on it." This means come back victorious carrying your shield, or come back dead, being carried on your shield. When hoplites ran, they would discard their shields because they were so heavy. So, come back alive and brave, or dead.
Not exactly. This means not returning without the shield, because you were cowardly and threw it away in retreat. The phrase required them to return with their shield having fought bravely.
What's even more interesting is that this was improvised. I think it was in an interview with Gerard Butler where he talked about 300 and they were making a lot of different takes on the "this is Sparta" scene but none actually worked or felt impactful,, so Butler decided to try something different and just yelled like a madman, in the end that was the one that stuck and for very good reason. I don't think he knew he was creating one of the most epic and memeable delivery in movie history.
If you liked the actor playing the Persian emissary at the beginning, he is amazing in a Starz show called Spartacus. Really good but no way you can react to it lol maybe.
The movie is from the 300 comic book series with the art done by Frank Miller. The movie looks the way it does because it is emulating his art. I love Frank Miller's art and I love his Batman, Ronin and Hard Boiled comics.
The Sin City books are great my favorite story arc has to be Frank's Daredevil Born Again Saga. Although when Frank wrote DC's All Star Batman & Robin The Boy Wonder everyone hated the series. The 2005-2008 series had Jim Lee as artist but as great as he is even he couldn't hide the bizarre writing Frank was submitting. If you haven't read Daredevil's Born Again Saga it's a book I highly recommend.
he asked the other commanders men what are the jobs and they proceed to actually say their jobs.. he then asks his own men what are their jobs and they warrior chant showing fighting and war is their jobs. that shit was cold
@@SixballQ45 Actually no. That means come back victorious or you die fighting. Without your shield you are living or dying as a coward. If you don't have your shield , is because you dropped it to run away. And this is unacceptable to Spartans. Sparta, is no home anymore..The man who returned to Sparta, with the news from the battle, exiled because he left the battle.
20:10 - You missed one of the best lines of the movie. When Xerkses said "I would gladly kill one of my own men for victory.", Leonidas replied "And I would die for any of mine.".
Nope didn’t miss it at all, that’s why I chuckled because of the big difference between the two Kings and how it says a lot about the kind of men they are. Leonidas is a true King.
a magnificent film that never got old! according to ancient historians, Xerxes was so enraged by the huge and completely unexpected losses that he ordered the head of Leonidas to be speared. something completely contrary to the customs of the time for relations between kings - and this reveals a lot!
Most of the one liners and retorts were actual quotes from Spartans. One of my favorites is when a Persian envoy says if they win they will burn thier homes and enslave thier families and the Spartans responded with one word "if"
You're right except for the fact that it was an envoy of king Philip (the father of Alexander the Great) and after that reply he never actually attacked 😉
Law abiding citizen - same actor as Leonidas, Amazing, incredible character If you haven't. Watch it just know it's rated R and the good guy Has to get his hands dirty
7:40 Sad that this Spartan father discovered there is a big difference between hearing your son was killed and seeing it happened right in front of you.
this is the TRUE story of the battle of Thermopylae, it occurred over 3 days in the year 480 BC, it was preceded by the battle of Marathon 10 years earlier in 490 BC, and followed up the next year with the battle of Platea, in 490 BC, at the battle of Marathon, it was the Athenians and their shock troops who handed King Darius 1 of the Persian Empire, a very humiliating defeat, and Darius died a few days after the battle from his wounds, and his son Zerxes 1 ascended to the throne of Persia, known TODAY as Iran 10 years later, a 2 pronged battle occurred in the Artemisia straight and Thermopylae, the Naval battle of Artemisia between the Athens Navy and the Persian Navy happened simultaneously with the Battle of Thermopylae, this Movie is a TRUE accounting of the Battle of Thermopylae as told through a graphic novelist, so some creative liberties were taken in appearances of certain characters, but the story is pretty accurate as told by the Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus in the first century BC. although both the Battle of Thermopylae and the battle of Artemisia were technically won by the Persians, it was a very costly victory, while the 300 Spartan's led by King Leonidas minus a single messenger were all killed in the battle of Thermopylae, before they all fell, they inflicted hundreds of thousands of casualties on the Persian Army, some estimates are that the Persians lost anywhere from 165,000 to 310,000 men in the fight, and when the pass was lost to the Persians, the Athenian Navy broke away from the remainder of the Naval battle at Artemisia, so Zerxes campaign to conquer all of Greece was halted due to his high number of casualties, and in the year that followed ALL of the Greek city states committed all of their military forces and put all Naval forces under Athenian control, and all ground forces under Spartan control at the Battle of Platea, and virtually wiped out Zerxes remaining forces and permanently halted Persia's conquest of lands.
@@TheRedStateBlue OK, although the EVENTS of the movie "The Last Samurai" are in fact TRUE, the entire storyline is a fabrication, including almost all of the characters, some of the characters DID, exist by name, that is easy to confirm, but most of the characters in the movie DID NOT exist, So 300, IS TRUE with liberties towards CERTAIN characters only, but what can you expect when a movie about the Battle of Thermopylae is brought to the big screen by a graphic novelist?
I would recommend you read more on what really happened. This is not a true retelling with some creative liberties taken; this is extremely fictionalised.
@@dragoned7685 What is fictionalised is the monsters and the super cool warrior moves etc. Xerxes wasn't some super tall monster man, immortals weren't some masked nightmare creatures, Spartans didn't fight with their apps hanging out etc etc etc. But the base of the story is absolutely real. The battle did happen, 300 spartan soldiers did fight there and they did indeed embarrass the Persian troops by holding them too long and killing too many. King Leonidas did indeed lead them there and he did indeed died with them and he did shout come and get them to Persian soldiers asking him to surrender his arms. Efialtis was indeed a Greek that betrayed them by showing the Persians a secret pass to go around and surround the Spartans.
@@SIPEROTH There were indeed 300 Spartan soldiers there... along with 900 Spartan slaves (“Run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces free men here, not slaves!”) and an estimated ~6,000-7000 Greeks from other city states holding the ~ 15 metres wide mountain pass against an estimated 120,000 Persian troops. Furthermore, the Persian Achaemenid Empire is portrayed as an oppressive imperium who enslaved conquered nations and the Spartans as the champions of civilisation and freedom. This is also very fictional. In reality the Achaemenid Empire was one of the few ancient civilisations not built on slavery (that’s not to say it was outlawed, but it was not commonplace) whereas the Greek city states, especially Sparta, were slaver states. According to some higher estimates there could have been as many as 7x as many slaves in Sparta as free citizens. The Achaemenid Empire was very tolerant for its time, as they for the most part did not try to force their own culture and religion on conquered territories. In contrast, the Greeks were highly xenophobic. So yes, the movie is very fictional, mostly in how skewed the perspective in which it portrays history is.
Here are interesting tidbits about the 300 mythos. 1) Based on actual historical events. The Spartans, and others that were involved, pulled one of the greatest military last stands and upsets of all time. 2) The Persian Empire, at that particular in time, was considered the powerful country in existence (for that particular geographical region) at that point in time. It had the most land, people, money, etc. out of any country there. 3) The Spartans valor, along with future Greek victories, paved the way for a united Greece and future conquests of a little known person known as Alexander the Great. 4) The Greek City States all practiced slavery to varying degrees. Sparta was the greatest of them. Around 70 to 80% of their total population were slaves. 5) Sparta's military tradition was created after a nearly successful slave rebellion. They were so frightened of that possibility happening again that they started training in that manner. 6) Sparta was a monarchy. Athens was a democracy. Sparta's leadership was deftly afraid of democracy catching on and spreading to Sparta. 7) Ancient Greece was extremely anti-woman. For example in Athens it was a crime for a woman to learn or perform medicine. The punishment for that was death. We know this because we have a recorded case of a woman traveling to Egypt to learn and practice medicine due to the laws in Athens. Sparta, by the standards of the region, was extremely pro-woman. 8) Spartan women were incredibly physically fit. Spartan society encouraged to do this due to the belief that physically fit people produced healthy and strong children. So everyone was fit. 9) Spartan women did throw down with their male counterparts. Matter of fact this was one of the legal ways they could get out of an undesired marriage. 10) Persia didn't own slaves. They actually outlawed the practice. Matter of fact their founder was responsible for freeing the Jews from Babylonia, helped them get back home, and provided them with money to build a temple. 11) The Persian monarchy, and a great deal of the Persian people, practiced a monotheistic religion. However, they didn't force that religion upon their vassals. People were free to worship whomever they wanted. 12) The Persian Empire, unlike all those around them, had a habit of not mistreating those they conquered. They typically didn't sack or burn down cities, didn't force extra taxes, etc. Any time it happened it was considered an eyebrow raising event for onlookers considering their MO. 13) The Persian Empire, while being extremely tolerate, and even progressive by their time period's standards, did not take rebellion or the refusal to pay taxes well. 14) The Persian Empire was very pro woman. Some of their generals were women.
@@SixballQ45 Tell that to the Scythians. The Scythians were pretty famous for their female warriors. It's believed they are where our stories of the Amazons come from given a number of things. The Scythians were one of the few peoples that Alexander the Great couldn't defeat. It ended in a stalemate of sorts. The Scythians utilized horse archery. That style of fighting utilized a lot of hit and runs, feints, etc. Alexander, and most other fighting forces for that matter, wasn't used to that. The end result was Alexander's forces being slowly whittled down through a combination of different tactics. Eventually, Alexander went "screw this", decided to cancel his campaign on them, and decided to march on someone else.
the movie is BS when it shows them walking out of the funnel and fighting individually.. They would never break the phalanx like that plus, making the enemy fight over the dead bodies would be better and leave the Spartans on a more solid footing. Good for cinema i guess, but not good strategically.
Xerxes was actually known to be 8 feet tall born from I believe a higher society in Persian culture. And was actually a lot better then depicted in the movie. He was very fair and led the Persian culture to greatness of society then beyond anything any previous governmental system worked in those areas of the world. And they turn them into city states. Where even newly taken over countries had a fair say in anything the persians would do next. And they would have Persian support connections to their system of wealth, countrymen from the country to represent them. Letting their own culture thrive as long as they allowed Persian culture to be taught. The persians as a culture were actually pretty decent compared to many of predecessor governmental designs. The Romans were worse then the persians. And the they fell for the same reason. A single conflict that resonated backward that cracked the bell For the romans it was Germania andbthe defeat of a legendary legion was defeated by barbarians the news hit the line and the news traveled fast. And created fractures in the society. And once that happened. Locals who hated the Roman reign attacked almost all at once give or take a century for full aspect. And Rome broke. The same thing happened with the persians when cite states no longer believed in the Persian hierarchy the problems began to show like cracks. When king Leonidas threw that spear. He didnt want to kill him. "Before this is over. I will prove that even a god king can bleed."
Keep in mind that Spartan hoplites did not, in fact, fight in just their leather speedos :P They were the Classical equivalent of main battle tanks, wearing cuirass, greaves, bracers, and helms in addition to their LARGE shields. Phalanx formations are one of the oldest and most successful battle formations in history, and is still used by riot police today. Spartans are also most famous for their development of the laconic phrase (named for the region of Greece Sparta was located in, Laconia). When Philip II of Macedon was fighting to conquer all of Greece, he sent a message to Sparta asking if he should come as friend or foe. Their response? One word: "Neither." Philip got mad and sent a message back telling them if he came to their city he would turn them out, and the responded, again, with one word: "If." The 10,000 Immortals were named such as when one of them fell in battle, they were immediately replaced, providing the enemy with the illusion that they just could not be killed, no matter how many you may have seemed to have slain, their numbers never dwindled.
@@nullakjg767 The irony of this movie is that they portray the Persian as being the evil slavers when during this time there were more slaves in Greece than in the entire Persian Empire lol
@@SisyphusOfSodom Yes, I believe slavery was specifically outlawed in persia at this time due to their religion. But overtime their religion was replaced with islam and slavery came back in full force in the region. Lasting for over 1000 years and only ending with the fall of the ottoman empire in ww1. In antiquity, they were anti slavery, but in recent memory, they had an entire slave empire where greece had already abolished slavery for thousands of years. And of course the movie is supposed to be a biased retelling of the events from the spartan perspective. A lot of people dont get that and think zack snyder just hates persians lol.
@@nullakjg767 I don't recall it being outlawed per se, but a century later Alexander the Great destroyed the Persian Empire and that's nearly a 1000 years before the creation of Islam. So Islam has nothing to do with anything here. And with Alexander's conquest, if slavery wasn't as common as it was in Greece, it sure would have been then. And not long after Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire, he died and his empire crumbled into a many civil wars across many decades after which new Empires emerged such as the Seleucid Empire, Ptolemaic Empire, and so on. So Greeks made slavery popular again, not Islam.
@@SisyphusOfSodom No not directly after. Im talking about the region in the 700s where it then continued until the formation of the ottoman slave empire. By the 700s, slavery had been outlawed in greece for nearly a millenia. It continued in other european nations but ended with internal machinations while the islamic ottoman empire only ended slavery after they were defeated in ww1. Slavery is intrinsic to the history of islam from its formation until a century ago. There are still examples of modern day slavery in the region. Qatar for example used some to build their fifa stadium. Not to mention the general attitude toward women is not much better than property.
Oh Spartan women were competent warriors in their own right, whenever the Spartan Army would go off to war, the Spartan Women protected Sparta and were known through the region that Spartan women were just as hard to defeat as the Spartan men were.
What are you on about? Spartan women were never warriors and were never expected to be warriors. Complete fabrication. The Spartan army functioned like any other. Are you trying to suggest Athens or any other city state was completely undefended when their army left, because they were stupid enough to leave no garrison? No. Trained MEN were left behind to secure military fortifications, as was the case in all armies of the time.
Molan labe is Laconic(spartan) meaning come,take. Or come and get them. Spartans were the ancient kings of mic drop one liners. Look up some of their famous one liners many of which were portrayed here and are relatively accurate historically speaking.
Year year year later. Alexander the Great with 40000 Greek soldiers won the war against the Persian Empire. And conquered them. Greek to remind them again. Never invaded again. Never another tyrannical ruler again.
@@Josh86_925 I agree... But I could barely stomach watching the sequel.. As good as the original was.. They really should have brought it with the sequel if they wanted to get the same kind of money and reaction from it.
7:13 "But 300 men against _millions?"_ If you put 'em in the right _place_ and arrange 'em the right _way?_ Sure. You've gotta be _smart_ about it, but you can make it _work._
fun fact spart had 2 kings that rules at the same time and after their rule as king they always had a trial to see if the king committed any crimes against humanity during his rule and if he had he was executed
The thing that made this movie epic is that the stuff in the beginning was REAL!!!!! Eugenics with the babies, training of the boys, takening them away and they were gone for YEARS!!!!! After they lived passed the agogi, they were let lose by the spartan trainers to hunt and kill slaves, the homeless, and thieves. This was some real shit.
0:39 This is why the character Master Chief from the Halo game series is called a Spartan. Within the story of the game, he and his fellow squad mates were put into a supersoldier program at the age of 8. From that point on they are physically and mentally enhanced to become the greatest soldiers in human history.
All Spartans receive hard training from young age. It was part of their society. Halo developers named the program after that fact since it fitted with taking young men from young age to create super soldiers like the Spartans used to do.
Lena Headey is amazing. If you want to see more of her and have seen Terminator and T2 then you should check out Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles where she plays Sarah Connor. Its 2 seasons. Unfortunately, it was canceled after that and never got to complete it's story.
Sparta didn’t actually send the 300 best soldiers, but the 300 with the strongest wives, because Leonidas knew if they all died they need strong people to hold the kingdom together, and if the wives were full of grief or even wanted revenge, then the kingdom could crumble
"May you live forever" That was actually the greatest insult/curse Leonidas could give. To live forever, when a Spartan's ideal end is death in combat.
As a Greek this movie definitely takes a lot of liberties with the portrayal of the Spartans and the Persians but it nevertheless does an amazing job at capturing the epicness that was indeed the battle at the Hot Gates and the craziness of the Spartans. (Tho they where mostly looked at as savages by other greek city states) Side note i always loved Xerxes design in this movie so much and the actor did a perfect job, the sequel to this "300 Rise of the Empire." focuses also on the Persian side and Xerxes story a bit more as well. Following the events of the Greco-Persian war.
The historical reason why they sent 300 Spartans was because that was all that Sparta was able to send at the time. If my memory serves correct there were about 7000 Greeks against roughly 70,000-100,000 Persians(I could be wrong about the exact numbers but Ik it’s somewhere in that range) at first they stood strong, but after a couple days most of the 7000 Greeks were sent back, all that remained were the 300 , 400 thebians and 700 thespians so 1,400 in total made the last stand. They had one objective, to slow down Xerxes army and give the rest of Greece enough time to prepare themselves. This wasn’t a battle they could win and they knew that. It was a valiant sacrifice from those 1,400 men and they succeeded in their goal even if it was at the cost of their lives. The spartan that returned with a message to Sparta told the story of the final stand and that helped inspire the rest of Greece. Things to note, this battle took place around the same time that some sporting event was taking place( like our Olympics but back then in Greece) so that’s why most of Greece was unprepared. It was also getting close to winter so Xerxes was also pressured to advance the most that he could or he’d have issues with getting the required supplies to feed his soldiers, slaves, animals, and his traveling companions. I believe there is a stone statue of a Lion at Thermopylae too to honor king Leonidas and the men who fought by his side during the greatest last stand of all time *edit* The stone state of the lion isn’t at Thermopylae, it hasn’t been for quite some time actually. In 1926 it was aquired from the British school at Athens and placed in the archeological museum of Sparta
If that good looking dude (the messenger with the piercings) from the beginning of the movie interests you, check out the show 'Spartacus'. He *will not* disappoint! 😁 And niether will the show!!!!
The documentary on the 300 should be checked out. This movie is fun but it is a mixture of truth and fantasy. There was a 300 only no giants or unicorns..no eight foot tall hairless and pierced Zerksies..and the Spartans had body armor on their chests and lower legs..with no superhero capes on.
The documentary on the 300 should be checked out. This movie is fun but it is a mixture of truth and fantasy. There was a 300 only no giants or unicorns..no eight foot tall hairless and pierced Zerksies..and the Spartans had body armor on their chests and lower legs..with no superhero capes on.
The documentary on the 300 should be checked out. This movie is fun but it is a mixture of truth and fantasy. There was a 300 only no giants or unicorns..no eight foot tall hairless and pierced Zerksies..and the Spartans had body armor on their chests and lower legs..with no superhero capes on.
REMEMBER THOUGH that this is 1million Persians against 300 spartans, just think of what will happen when the Persians face an actual army of 1000's of spartans
He meant that you brought soldiers whose profession is other than war . I brought soldiers whose profession is war. So I brought warriors you brought tradesman. My 300 is worth 5times however many you brought.
A larger tie in here. From the Bible. Ruth was Xerxes servant. She in her own way, helped bring down the Persian empire. Daniel the prophet was his dad's servant, then Xerxes, and his son. He prophesied in order, before he was captured, the three rulers, in order, before they were born! 😮😮😮. Ruth is the grandmother of David and the only female listed in the genealogy from Adam to Jesus 😮😮. Come and take them! In Greek is Molon Labe'! U can buy that saying in T-shirts hats, etc. 2500 years later, The Texxans said that to the Mexican general at the battle of Gonzales! When they wanted their cannon back! Today it's represented by a black star over a black cannon usually on a white or yellow flag or background. It may say, Come and take It, ,or not, under the cannon or over the star. After this and their sea battle with the Greeks, Persia was never the same. " MOLON LABE!" Leonidas' response when told to lay down their swords. A real response. In 1824, the Mexican general told the free men of Gonzales Texas, to lay down their weapons, and return the cannon to the Mexican Army. The Texan commander said,"come and take it!" If u see a yellow flag with a black cannon with a star over it, with the words-come and take it!- this is their Greek response to Mexico, copied from the Greeks. I have a black cannon tattooed on each of my pecs, above one it says, MOLON LABE, above the other it says, come and take it! Without Texas, and what they did in the 1820s-1830s, there would be no America. We Texans are very proud of our history!! Storyteller is also in Lord of the rings and the movie with Hugh Jackman as the vampire hunter! I think Leonidas was about 55-60, when he did this. He also had a few hundred soldiers from other city/states that went with him, for backup. They all died...😮
Since Snyder made an overly masculine movie like 300 .. He also made a feminine empowerment movie called Sucker Punch that have an extended cut, which is better .. It's complex because it has so many layers .. But inspiring, eye opening and stunning otherwise ... It's not a generic, feminist strong women type movie tho, just to be clear ..
This is one of my favorite joints. Glad y'all reacted to it. Also, if you haven't already seen them it would be cool to see you react to The Raid movies, The John Wick movies, and The Batman.
This is base. On true events where those 300 killed 110 thousand enemy soldiers that tried to invade their land. Great reaction .....keep it coming ya..
8:58 - The Spartans are professional soldiers. They don't have any other job other than fighting and training to fight. The people who work a trade when they aren't fighting are militia.
2:25 "Before you speak, Persian, know that in Sparta, everyone, even a king's _messenger_ is held accountable for the words of his voice." And this policy is a mistake. It basically means, "Don't even bother bringing _news_ that something disastrous is going to happen, because we have no grasp of the difference between fighting the _crisis_ and fighting _word_ of the crisis."
Funfact about the Immortals IRL. Every time one of them died, they were immediately replaced to make it seem as though this group of warriors really were immortal.
Sparta was a hardcore society. Interesting thing in the society is that only two people could have a gravestone 1. A man who died in battle and 2. A woman who died in childbirth because having children wasn't for the sake of procreation it's part of it but however it was for the state not family 3:08
mmhmm.. the Battle of Thermopylae was real, but when they make the Spartans Walk over dead bodies (horrible tactic) and then fight individually (inaccurate) it ruins it
@@SixballQ45 Error: Your response parameter is missing... When did I say the Battle of Thermopylae never happened! Am I crazy? Maybe a little but not that much (lol) Let us not disturb Herodotus on this matter, even the movie title is wrong...just "300 Spartans" myass xD
The Persian emissary is the most committed employee of the world. Dude keeps on spitting fire even after his arm gets cut off, like bro you ain’t got no sick leave
Do you know why this film is in a yellowish/dark shadowy format with strange animals/people and a huge Persian king? The story is being told by the narrator to the entire Spartan army and they are seeing it in their imaginations as such.
There were 300 Spartan’s at Thermopylae and they actually did hold off the Persian empire long enough for the rest of the people to prepare a defense, best they could.. they definitely slowed them down.. they were true heroes to the people they fought to protect.. it’s not entirely fictional
