@@ordinaryextraordinarybrotha Spartans had two kings and almost always they were sending one in the front lines. Kings supposed to lead by example and that boosted morale. The more you go back in time the more you will see high ranked people (even kings) fighting in the front line. Of course, as you are saying, this tactic has also a high risk.
This is Gerald Butlers BEST performance, I completely bought him as King Leonidas in every scene. The fact he even did his own stunts makes the performance even more legendary too. This film and performance to me are so underrated, Zack Snyder made a truly great film here which I feel still doesn’t get talked about enough in comparison to other period pieces. Makes you want to go hit the gym everyday and look like Leonidas
In my honest opinion they should’ve gave Gerard a little bit of gray hairs around the beard and head because it was said that Leonidas was 60 years old at the time of this battle.
@@user-vw3rm8np8fThe battle between Greeks and Persians happened, however not how the movie portrays it. It was a footnote in the war, which became a symbol because of later interest in Greek history. The Achemenids retreated after the battle of Salamis - which was a later, naval battle. Given the gloryfication of Spartans I would also like to add that some years later their rivalry with Athens would be so important to them, that they teamed up with Persia to take down Athens. So much for honorable oiled-up Greeks fighting off intruders.
Definitely up there for sure! Ride of the Rohirrim in the Lord of the Rings, the Battle for Helms Deep in the Lord of the Rings, and the last ten minutes of the Last of the Mohicans as well.
Actually it did! When 300 Published Many body builder wanted to be 300 Main Cast’s Spartan physique(Gerard butler ) and many actually joined gym fitness center membership there was even diet for that
In 2007 a lot of classic movies came out. The 1st Transformers, Hulk and of course 300. I remember having 2 jobs n my part time job for sum extra cash was working at the movie theater. Regal Cinama in Queens Ny from 06 to 08. I remember seeing all the moves for free for 2 yrs. The experience of seeing 300 in the theater when it dropped was so insane. I didn't even know who Gerald Butler was back than. Fwd yrs later when i seen him in other movies n was like "Yo thats the dude from 300?" He is a master at his craft. 300 is definitely in my top 20 movies of all time. I will keep watching it till I've seen it 300 times😅!
@@three5581 bruh King Baldwin was a straight up savage. Straight up was about to fight the east greatest general in a battle blind , bedridden while struggling with leprosy and above all that was still a good man.
That shield bash is one of the best things I've ever seen in any battle scene period. The bash mixed with the screams and yells of that horde of men puts this battle above the rest
Yea interesting that when directors decide to make their battles somewhat realistic with shield walls and tactics, the audience ends up enjoying it more.
Yup, the shield bash is what made this scene one of my favorite scenes of all time. The way he walks towards his vicitm afterwards man. A walk that portrays pure violence.
@@geechyguy3441 It's kinda like how in Top Gun Maverik they put the cast in real plane cockpits to film the scenes and flew real planes in front of the camera for everything but the hardest stunts that needed a bit of CG help. It does SO much for the immersion.
In Ancient Greece, a Greek hoplite's gear weighted almost 30kg. Imagine having to constantly carry that weight with you. Those were not ordinary warriors. They were killing machines...
😂 u couldn’t have said it more Funny or right Brotha!!! Hahaha Seriously who they think was gonna win a bunch of Guys still in Training as Rookies going up Against Bad ass Killing machine Trained spartans 🤣
i am a full blooded 100% Peruvian, south america. The land of the Incas country. The Incas were the Greeks of South America. I fell in love with Greek culture and history and the medical terminology. I even can speak some words in Greek. I am in love with European men and love them so much, and love european history. 300 is one of my favorite european historical movies and The Greeks look amazing here 😊😊
0:49 I love this quote. Its not just that the battle will be remembered by history. Its literally a hardcore "Carpe Diem". If you survive or die, nobody can take away the fact you were at this battle. So fight like hell.
Twos days ago I watched 300 with my mom and I quoted your comment. She laughed so hard she almost felt on the floor (I even had to pause the movie). 😅😅😅
Not really. They drop their shields way too much just to stab, and conveniently none of the enemies take advantage of this. Not to mention the enemy army just sorta disappears so they can do the badass part at the end. Its cool AF though, no doubt.
@@HideyoshiKinoshita84 if the phalanx formation incorporated missle warfare into it, they would have beaten the legion system. That is the biggest weakness of it, it does not have any ranged ability (nor defense) in the formation. Which is why despite what you may think, the Athenians won nearly every engagement in the Peloponnese War. Cause they used missle warfare.
I was fortunate to see this movie at a theatre with a Kurdish friend. The way they filmed this scene was incredibly hair raising, the kings words of courage, the Hoplite phalanx crush, the preparation to advance and destroy and then the rampage of death through the Persian ranks… my friend was dumbstruck, I was like shivering with excitement but didn’t want it to show in case he took it the wrong way and cursed me. Without doubt one of the most heroic scenes of hand to hand battle I’ve ever seen.
While "Earn these shields, boys!" does sound badass and represents the Spartan mindset, he actually said "On these shields!" It's a reference to how Spartan women would hand their men a shield when they went off to war, and tell them "Come back with this shield, or upon it". Basically saying, win or die.
Nobody and I mean NOBODY can frame an action scene like Zack Snyder can. His fight choreography from sucker punch to this and his DCEU movies are unmatched.
@@drointhewind480 The ride of the Rohirrim is legendary, but I gotta say that was an entirely different vibe. That was a whole army, King Leonidas is a one man army.
As always, congrats to the camera man for surviving. And of course, congrats to the brave Spartans that refused to give up defending their homeland even though they were destined to die.
*I don’t think everyone is understanding how POWERFUL was **0:45** - **0:50** is!* You are inspected meticulously as a newborn baby. . .& survive being discarded. You survive & conquer the Agoge. You thrive throughout the rigorous, extreme military training process of all Spartan men. You set yourself apart as one of the finest soldiers in this Warrior-Nation. You are personally chosen by the Captain of the Military to fight in a special battle where you will be outnumbered nearly 3,500-to-1 and you eagerly accept it. You march all through the Greek countryside to meet the massive army at the coast where they land & rebuild the ‘Hot Gates’. You excitedly take your place in the mighty Spartan phalanx at the battlefront beside your King, your Captain & the greatest-of-the-greatest of your fellow warrior-brothers. . . . . .& your Captain turns to you: “EARN these shields, boys!!!” After all you endured & accomplished & created, you still had to EARN that Spartan shield all over again; every day, every battle. SPARTA was that🔥🔥🔥
It's a reference to what happens should they fall in battle: They mention in the movie that the fallen spartan is carried on their shields back home... To earn your shield is thus to die an honorable death, taking all the enemies you can with you into the abyss.
I disagree. There were far more tense duels and battles in cinema. Zulu (1964) was for more tense imo and a beautiful tribute to the Zulu fighters (one of the actors playing the chieftain was actually a grandson of the real one that existed in this historical battle and on the british side some actors were actually veterans looking very credible in their role) and the british fighters. I can think of the Seven Samurai too.
@@RonJeremy514 if youre an oap maybe, not much comes close to this, maybe gladiator, scenes from tv show spartacus, zulu great film but pretty funny if u watch it now, so bad
@@fillipfairfile801 Zulu funny if we watch it now? Oh I see, for you guys cinema as art (nevermind, as a product for consumers lmao) is all about the technological progress of nice lenses and cameras, filters, SFX... So basically all the classics from the past are doomed to be bad because of that. Wow, 10/10 critique there gentlemen. So basically ancient monuments, paintings, classics of literature, it's all bad now because it's not as modern. Not even The Duellists in your list and this one blows out of the water anything in your list. All you want is explosions, overdoses of slow motion and yadi yada. Sorry but you have poor tastes.
@@lelouchvibritannia4028 to be fair my time stamp is directly on the image I was referring to. But yours encapsulates the moment in action much better 😉
same here brother....with the crap woke wood is pushing these days well never get a movie as epic as 300 again for a long timr but thor ragnorak comes close though
Amen. Also feel like we caught the last bit of real childhood before everything turned digital. We had the best mix of video games and actually doing shit outside lol
When that final part with Leonidas just mopping everyone in sight came on in the theater, literally 3/4 of the audience was standing or hovering to stand up from their seats. Such a powerful moment.
“Come and get them” That was actually said by Leonidas in the real battle (actually it was “come and take them”) It’s the motto of the Greek army to this day
Now when they say say come and get them they mean the IMF banks and the CIA run globalists via Goldman Sachs running them into debt where all of Europe /UK are nothing but an American Vassal state…now that is a Greek Tradgedy..warriors on the battlefield but fallen to politicians..like the one Goldman installed over a decade ago ..begging for scraps from America and the EU The US/Anglo alliance has better weapons..and they are just pens..not spears
I absolutely love when Leonidas breaks out of formation and just goes on a killing spree. The cinematography right there blew my mind the first time I saw this.
Must have been pretty damn demoralising seeing your side throwing thousands at just 300 men, just to kill one of them. The Spartans must have seemed like demi-gods to some of the Persians.
True. I mean, there were probably about 12,000 other Greek soldiers at Thermopylae (including light support troops), but still very discouraging for such a large army. Not only was the merit of their superior numbers greatly reduced by the Greek's ingenious use of terrain; but the vast majority of the empire's forces were drawn from desert nation's, and we're thusly light skirmishers accustomed to hit and run tactics and plains warfare. They were out of their element against the dense packed, heavily armored hoplites. It didn't help that most of them were nonprofessional draftees either.
0:36 “This is where we hold them! This is where we FIGHT! THIS IS WHERE THEY DIE!” “Earn these shields, boys!” “Remember this day men, for it will be yours for all time!”
i saw this at the theatre when it came out. christ! what a movie! i was so amped up when i came out that i was ready for war. great movie and entertainment.
"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. No, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so." - Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
This scene is one of the best scenes in movie history... " this is where we hold them this is where we fight this where they die" that is just so gangsta on so many levels
I watched this scene habitually when it came out I watch it now to deal with a break up and pain and how I need to be when the odds are stacked against u internally. The Greek phalanx was in ingenuity of genius defense
The Spartan warriors were not soldiers, but the embodiment of the primal forces of nature. They were the thunder that roared across the heavens, the lightning that shattered the night, the hurricane that swept across the land, leaving nothing but awe and reverence in its wake. They were the embodiment of the warrior spirit, a force as ancient and as timeless as the cosmos itself. The battleground was their canvas, and their spears and swords were the brushes with which they painted their gruesome masterpieces. They wove a tapestry of war, a symphony of clashing steel and shattering shields, punctuated by the staccato rhythm of their battle cries. In their wake, they left a trail of vanquished foes and conquered lands, a testament to the fury and might of the Spartan spirit. Their hearts did not beat with the rhythm of life, but with the drumbeat of war. Each pulse was a call to arms, a battle cry that echoed through the ages, a testament to their indomitable will and unyielding resolve. Their veins did not carry blood, but the molten fire of courage, a flame that burned brighter with each passing moment, a beacon that illuminated the path of honor and glory.
@@RonJeremy514 nobody gives a sh it what you like or not like,just exactly the same way nobody ca res If you are al ive or not too bad for you the movie is ban gers both choreography and cinematography,go enjoy your marvel movies now LMAOOO 😂😂😂
It's crazy how in real life in the first wave of the Persian attack(the equivalent of this scene) which numbered around 10,000 soldiers, the 300 Spartan force only lost 2 or 3 Spartan soldiers. Similar in subsequent attacks. That's just insane and shows the might and well organized ability of the Spartan soldiers. It wasn't until the Spartans were betrayed and thus Persians entering the hidden path that allowed them to flank the Spartan force that they began to lose greater numbers.
indeed the spartans were only 300 BUT they were not alone they had other troops (non-spartan) stationed nearby and I believe the king was aware of the vulnerability of the infamous passage.
To be honest I became a really huge fan of history mainly because of seeing movies like this and Troy back when I was 12. It inspired a great interest in the history of the Greeks and that later developed into a great interest for most of the ancient world. So this movie is still very nostalgic to me because it was what sort of awakened that interest!
RIP Leonidas. What a bad ass little did he know that a couple thousand years later there would be a movie showing just how bad ass they were and how much that day was truly theirs!
Luckily for the real Leonidas, he was 65 when he fought this battle! Seriously! That is extremely old for back then, plus he led his 300 men and fought alongside them and they lasted for as Ling as they did.
According to history, the Spartans held the Hot Gates from the Persians for almost 3 days straight. Pretty much making Xerxes extremely frustrated that they couldn't get through until a traitor came and ruined everything. Thankfully though, it gave Greece enough time to rally their armies and beat the Persians back to where they came from. Such a sacrifice will never be forgotten.
Spartans! Lay down your weapons! Persians! Come and get them! Love how they included the Laconic speech in this movie (makes up for the many inaccuracies lmao)
When this movie came out, critics said that its colors and light made it look too unreal. They couldn't be more wrong. When I have dreams of a distant past, even from my childhood, the colors and lights are exactly the same as in this movie. I've no idea how the director knew it, but that movie captured my perception of the past in perfection. It reflects a long-gone era. Like memories of a faded past life.
@@kareemosman100 I had this still in that life actually, but not anymore. Time is unforgiving. What I meant is that dreaming about the past has a different "flavor", and our subconscious expresses that through shades of light and colors. At least, that's how my dreams deal with that "long gone era" . It amazed me the capacity of the director to reach such a level of collective subjectivity.
@@marcelosinico ammazing feeling. Maybe This is why this movie gets to the heart so easy. Personally , living many lives is probably true . I wish we have more recollection of past lives.
@@kareemosman100 Then, life would be an endless prison for eternity, an unending sequence of events without an final outcome. Dreams should be enough to recollect distant past, fading memories from another life. We must learn to enjoy it and let it go. We must move on. We have the present to care about.
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