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When the persians told the spartans to lay down their weapons, Leonidas' reply: "come and take them", is an historical quote. There is a statue of Leonidas in Thermopylae with the inscription "Molon Labe", which is ancient greek for "come and take them".

Your lack of over acting, or over reacting is exactly why I watch these videos every week.

Leonidas didn't intend on killing Xerxes, but merely humiliate him in front of his army, a fate worse than death for a narcissist with a god-complex

I love how consistent this guy is. If he's asked a question about the technical details of the movie, he'll answer it, but not if it gives away any of the plot. That's not an easy line to walk, somtimes.

Mrs having Spartan blood completely explains the lack of tears for some reactions. I get it now.

"You gotta use your words carefully around the Spartans" Funny you should say that, they are famous for the origin of laconic phrasing (named after the region of Greece Sparta was in, Laconia). They take terseness to a whole other level, imbuing just one word with loads of meaning and intent. When Philip II of Macedon was conquering all of Greece, he sent a message to Sparta asking if he should come as friend or foe. Sparta's response was just one word: "Neither". Frustrated, Philip sent back "If I invade Laconia, I shall turn you out" The Spartans again replied with a single word: *If*

Frank Miller, who wrote the comic that the movie is based on, was inspired by the 1962 movie "The 300 Spartans." He said it was first time he had seen a story that said the heroes weren't the people who won but, instead, the people who sacrificed themselves for a greater good.

The narrator is storytelling and playing it bigger than it was. Wich was he did an amazing job. Alot of people forget or never see it like this.

Spartans were actually known more for their philosophy than warfare, but their decision to stay and fight at Thermopylae is what inflated their military reputation and took them into legend

I've seen this movie so many times and the ending speech still gives me chills

I respect the Spartan reserve.

The only people who got grave stones in Sparta were men who died in battle and women who died in childbirth.

The persian messanger is an epic actor. He played the gladiator trainer in spartacus haha "A gladiator does not fear death. He embraces it,caresses it,....fucks it." Lol

"Yesss I want it all! Wealth! women! .. and one more thing...." "I want a unicorn."

The queen of Sparta (I don’t remember when, or which queen) was walking through a city and a woman asked her why Spartan women were free to do as they wish, and she and others weren’t and she replied, “Only Spartan women give birth to real men”

Sparta is the capitol of Lacadamia, the region in Southern Greece below Carthage known as Pelopensia. Today we call them Spartans, but they referred to themselves as Lacadamians. Notably, the city itself had no fortifications because of the fierceness of the warriors. When ancients referred to the walls of Sparta, they meant the shields of the warriors. When a Spartan left to go to war, his wife would tell him, "Come home with your shield or come home upon it."

The part I love the most about this story is that the whole tale is being told by Spartan Faramir at the behest of King Leonidas in order to inspire the allied Greek force to beat Persia, so even if the main facts of what happened at the Thermopylae are true, he's clearly bullshitting his way through all the details to make the Spartans look way more badass with their super awesome kills and badass one-liners and the Persians way more awful with their demonic soldiers and monsters and so on, when even in-story, let alone real life obviously, they were probably just normal dudes like the Spartans. I think it's a brilliant narrative choice.

Spartans were known for their quick witty retorts but also for their respect for the elderly. There's a story about how during some games between several polis an old man was looking for a place to sit. No one offered him their seat. However, the moment he got to the Spartans they all stood up and offered him a place to sit. Before accepting he turned to the others and said "only in Sparta does it pay to grow old" If I remember right their reasoning was you've been fighting life long enough to grow old, which is an achievement in itself. Edit: On a sidenote, it's not only that for Spartans the best death was a warriors death, again if memory serves me right, in Sparta there were only 2 ways to earn a "tombstone" (or the equivalent in those times), either you died in battle or you died during childbirth.

David Wenham (Faramir from Lord of the Rings) was great in this! He was also in Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman). Very versatile actor!

31:30 Spartans were taught to be witty. They could spar with you verbally as well as physically.

“Come and take them” is still to this day a motto of the modern Greek army.

Fun fact: Leonidas was one of the only spartan kings to go through the agoge - heirs to the throne were exempt but leonidas was 3rd in line and when told "Except for being king you are not at all superior to us,' Leonidas replied: 'But were I not better than you, I should not be king. - its speculated he meant that because he went through the Agoge - that made him more of the people and therefore better suited to rule.

Sparta is about 100 miles west of Athens. They are both in modern day Greece, but at that time, Sparta and Athens were city-states, and so: different polities. They were constantly warring with each other and competitors during this period, only allying to face the greater threat of Persia. There is a good novel that is closer to fact than this movie by Steven Pressman.

"SPARTANS!!!!! WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION!?!?!? HOU!!!! HOU!!! HOU!!! HOU!!!""

"Ephialtes" means nightmare in Greek. It's deserved. In addition, the phrase that Leonidas said to the Persians, "come and take them", is today the motto of the 1st Greek Army Corps. magnificent.

The Battle of Thermopylae took place at the end of August/beginning of September in 480 BCE. Leonidas, one of the Spartan kings at the time (Sparta always had two), led the Greek forces, whereas the Persians were led by their emporer Xerxes, as well as his main general, Mardonius. The battle resulted in the death of Leonidas, who became a hero for his decision to remain behind and fight to the death. The Persian army at the beginning of the battle is estimated to have numbered 180,000 with most of the troops being taken from the various regions of Persian territory. Herodotus estimated the Persian army to number in the millions, but modern historians tend to doubt his reportage. This a quick summery, but there us a little more to it..

"This is RU-vid!" (kicks the low subscribers into the pit) Oh, and a "blowie?" XD

"I can see why this movie is popular...lots of boobies!" Is THAT why Spartacus:Blood and Sand is so popular!? It all makes sense now!

When she said that, that guy is the Gollum of this movie, that’s actually a great comparison, never thought of it that way but it works.

I watched this movie a million times and I'm just noticing how that was Jimmy McNulty as the "Slimy Dude".

Loved the Mrs. reaction..."good thing that didn't land on his toe, that would of hurt really bad" Fng Hillarious!!!

I know this battle was stylized and all that, but can you imagine the PTSD one would get from ancient warfare? Everything so up close and personal. And before anyone who says it didn't exist back then, from ancient Hittite records alone there are stories of soldiers reporting symptoms that sound very much like PTSD.

Hahah the mrs. Is way too accurate about Zach Schneider movies lol. Keep up the amazing reactions. Also great job on doing the opening editing👍

The thing that makes the slowmotion work so well in this movie as opposed to other movies is that it's *not just* for stylistic effect. It complements the action so well as it both slows it down so you see exactly what's happening and also makes the movement feel softer and more stream lined. This is hands down the best use of this effect I've ever seen in any movie.

I suppose it would've been less cool for Leonidas to say "due to the extremely high proportion of slaves in our economy we can maintain a standing army and thus I've brought more soldiers than you did."

24:47 To be fair, I would have betrayed Leonidas for that hat.

Just saw this a few months back and I agree, this is easily Snyder's best work. Probably not an exaggaration to call it a masterpiece, not only because of the battle scenes, production design and the technical aspects, but bc the dialog is so well written. Such an emotional and inspiring story told in the best way possible.

Artabanus, the commander of the royal bodyguard and the most powerful official in the Persian court, assassinated Xerxes with the help of a eunuch in 465 BC.

“Before this battle was over that even a godking can bleed”

I don't know why, but movies make so much more emotion in me than real life. It doesn't mean more, but, for some some reason I don't show emotion in real life. But, just the intensity of this really got me. It's not a perfect movie. But, it has a lot emotion, I really feel for the characters, and everything that's happening. I think it's a good movie

Has she seen The Devil's Advocate? Now that's a master piece with some horror tones

Really enjoyed the sequel as well. Go see that as well and you're gonna love the director cut of Sucker Punch.

I prefer the sequel, cause it's like 'Well actually, Greece is a coastal nation and you can't defend it by land alone, dumbasses...'

"Ready to die". Not wanting to die but accepting. Such that its presence will not hinder him mentally in battle and he can act as needed instead of being paralyzed.

I appreciate the history lesson of the dunce cap. Ephialtes of Trachis, you will live forever.

0:53 - 'It's like slow motion with swords" Us - "Uh...yeah it's got a little bit of that"

So glad this movie is getting recognition again

The second movie is about the same war. Athens (another Greek city state) fought against and mostly destroyed (the Athena's navy did better then expected and were also helped by a storm, which is seen in this movie when the 300 first get to the hot gates) Xerxes's Navy while the Spartan 300 (and around 1,500? other solders from other Greek city states) Fought Xerxes ground forces (numbering at least 20,000) and held them for like a week (they knew it was a suicide mission before they left, they were just buying time. plus Leonidas knew once he died it would force Sparta to join the war). Most of the witty one lingers are actual historical quotes from Spartans. They were known for their laconic wit. There are two examples from the Spartans (recorded by Herodotus,) both concerning the Battle of Thermopylae (the battle from this movie), The first is a boast from one of the Persians that when battle is joined, "our arrows will block out the sun!" The Spartans nonchalantly responded: "then we will fight in the shade." The second concerns a Persian commander's demand that the Spartans and their allies surrender and lay down their weapons. The Spartans, deployed for battle, responded: "come and take them!". Another example is when an enemy (after conquering much of Greece) sent a message saying "should I come as friend or foe?" they sent back a one word reply "Neither" The enemy sent a second message saying "if I invade I will put you out. To which they again replied with one word "if". They were some real shit talkers. Another story about Sparta is In an account from Herodotus, "When the banished Samians reached Sparta, they had audience of the magistrates, before whom they made a long speech, as was natural with persons greatly in want of aid." When it was over, the Spartans averred that they could no longer remember the first half of their speech, and thus "could make nothing of the remainder. Afterwards the Samians had another audience, whereat they simply said, showing a bag which they had brought with them, 'The bag wants flour.' The Spartans answered that they did not need to have said 'the bag'; however, they resolved to give them aid.

My favourite Spartan quote is in reply to the Athenians they were at war with. Athens threatened Sparta "if we win all your sons will be executed and your wives and daughters will become our slaves", Sparta replied "if"

Lol the thumbnail is epic 😂😂🙌🏼 This film is amazing, truly inspiring

the real life event referenced in the beginning of the movie for the boy was called the "Agogi". a kind of boot camp where at a young age the children were tossed out to live in the wilderness. There are a few accounts of what this entailed and no two accounts were the same. Suffice it to say: at its best and height, Spartan training was absolutely brutal.

A delicious movie te watch and react, thank you guys for bring it up. My favorite is the captain...Artemis (it took 3 man to take him out of the battlefield). His rage is legendary.

This movie is so Cool. Definitely one of the most enjoyable movies to watch.

" 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."

Some people are just addicted to emotions. Glad to see you not getting bothered by their comments. Respect.

The woman's pragmatism is crushing: 1) How will they get the message, and 2) didn't they just contaminate their well? Hilarious.

After watching this movie, she has been pregnant for 2 months and the baby with come out the womb with a full beard, spartan sword and yelling like King Leonidas getting ready for an epic battle

Zack Snyder is more than just a director, Zack Snyder is a genre of film

That giant Immortal was played by Robert Maillet. A former Pro Wrestler. He's a big dude in real life, too. 6'11''. He plays the heavy in a lot of film and tv. He actually accidentally bloodied RDJ's face on the set of Sherlock Holmes.

I like that Leonidas didn't kill Xerxes, because Xerxes will witness his downfall. Gain a lot of humility. Probably better than killing him. If any other "Godkings" pop up, then they can be like, remember that Xerxes guy? This is probably bullshit too!

The Sparta kick scene is still the most epic moment in cinema.

not only the best of snyder, one of the best comic book adaptations ever

Sparta is a city in South of Greece known for their military discipline and the finest warriors ever existed in the world. The movie is based on the comic which is related to the actual historic battle of Thermopyles which is translated to HotGates. The movie of course it's exaturated and presents the story as described in the comic and that's should be treated not to the historic facts. Sparta had 2 kings one going to the battle and one staying in the city to arrange the city's matters.

It really was more like 1400 Spartans and thespians helots and thebans. King Leonidas chose the pass at Thermopylae as it was only 200 yards wide a portion of the Greek Navy was in the Straits to deal with the Thousand warships of Xerxes but they really were Outnumbered by tens of thousands Leonidas was hoping tie up the Persians at the pass long enough for the Greek Nations to mass enough troops to deal with the Persian threat, this has to go down as one of the most badass brave last stands I imagine every man knew they wasn't going home. The end of this movie always Tugs at my heart bravery and stoicism in the face of impossible odds always gets me.

Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!

I think watching this film instantly raises testosterone levels.

Skippy! Popcorn! Carnage! Settle down, Skippy....😂😂😂😎🍷🍻🚬 Yes, Gladiator and Brave heart is a must!!!!!!! Do it!😎😜

24:16 Absolutely! :D And Spartan women were quite remarkable in their time. They could own land, they were educated, they were protected from the risks of too early sex and its associated death rate in childbirth and they were no shrinking violets, given to voicing their opinions with scathing wit. One thing they could not do was vote, in the main, but their opinions carried great weight. And woe betide a Spartan son who was a coward for his own mother was likely to end his life! If you find the time, take an hour to watch this documentary by one of my favourite popular historians, Bettany Hughes - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-piAEzVOqHHU.html

Cool! I suggest watchmen too. One of his best! Maybe you can watch the 2nd one it for some Eva Green action.

Damn, I wish I could double-like for the Mighty Ducks reference! I wonder why no one reacts to those movies. Childhood at it's best! ❤️

The wife must be a Spartan woman with all of her bravery in watching the horror genra that she's been checking out lately! Lol! Great review as always guys. Keep up the great work!!

Good stuff! The sequel is actually about the Athenians, rather than the Spartans. Historically they were basically always mortal enemies until a threat came from elsewhere.

Is it just me, or is Mrs. Movies becoming less stoic lately? Please, don't ever lose you "Spartan reserve." It's awesome, and it's the perfect counterpoint to Mr. Movies' exuberance. I remember when this came out, my friends and I were all saying "Damn! We gotta cut back the carbs and hit the gym more often!"

THIS IS SPARTA!!!

In Sparta historically the only people who got a name on their tombstone was a man who died in combat or a woman who died in child birth both were considered giving their lives for Sparta and given a hero's funeral rights.

This was a great movie and based on a historical event. I feel he did wound him to show others he can bleed.

When the film came out, a lot of people were critical about how "Over the top" many of the Persians were depicted. The reason for this is that Dilios (the one Spartan who survived) had a knack for telling a story and he almost certainly embellished the story to make it more interesting and get the troops fired up for combat.

Priceless 28:31 wow element, look into her eyes, how she measures army from left to right

Mocking Xerxes was an actual move. You are sooo angry that you throw your best to die. What then? A battle is a marathon. Not a sprint! XD

"this is Sparta" so iconic

The dialog throughout the whole movie is fantastic. It's poetic even and brings so much atmosphere. This movie is a hidden masterpiece, disguised in the veil of an "action movie". It *is* and action movie... But it's also a work of art, from the cinematography to the dialog to the acting to the wardrobe. Its all perfectly executed. Action movies can be good movies to, not just dumb testosterone dick-flicks. This movie is the perfect example of that.

The feller in the hat reminds me of myself. Y’all are my kinda folks 🍺🤠👍🏻

I never saw a serious man like the react lad,like he is in battlefield

Great reaction and great movie. History differs from the graphic novel, but oddly enough, not totally drastically according to most research. Other than the numbers of both sides (still debated), there is debate about when Leonidas fell. Lots of research suggest the 2nd day and the majority of the battle amount to skirmishes of the Spartans trying to recover his body from the Persians. It served as the catalyst to the Battle of Plataea, which was a real turning point in ancient Greece and their city state mentality.

I like the cool flange effect that happens in your reactions when you distort out the sound in certain scenes. It adds a cool quality to certain movies you’ve reacted to

Now all I can picture is Leonidas dropping his shield on his toe, breaking it and hopping around.

Standing armies of full time soldiers were very rare in the ancient world because of how expensive it was.

09:14 When I saw this hand I swear I yelled at home "Gollum!! Gollum!! Where's my preciousssss" Edit: 10:07 Ooopss there u go, lol

There used to be a joke that Leonidas was one of the reasons why Europe isn't speaking Farsi. In fact, Greek became the language of much of the world at one point (thanks to Alexander the Great a century after Leonidas). Even the New Testament was written in Greek.

Just wanna say that when the Captain said "I have others to replace him" he meant that if Leonidas didn't want that specific son to fight with them (Since Leonidas was concerned that he was a bit young) then he could get one of his other sons to replace him to go to war with. Not that he could replace him if he died. The reason they didn't end up replacing him is because he really wanted to prove himself to his father and they said fuck it, he can come if he wants basically

Sparta is in Greece Σπάρτη / Spàrti we call it. Persia is the today’s country of Iran Women of Sparta are well known for what they were saying to their children and men when they went to war: Ή τάν ή επί τάς/í tan í epí tas Which means: you will return for war with your shield on your hands (alive) or they will bring back your dead body on your shield! The Λ on their shields is the Greek letter Λλ /the Ll sound in English. Λ is a phallic symbol, symbolising the male phallus and the women symbol was the opposite, a womb V Also, Spartans were the people lived in the city of Sparta but they were also called Λακεδαιμόνιοι/Lakedemònii

Sparta started as a Dorian Greek state and ended up incorporated into the late roman republic. 😁😁

Another great reaction 😁that last part when everyone dies still gets me sad moment, random video you should watch from dusk till dawn 😁

I enjoy watching movies and shows with you two. keep it up

Loved your reaction “300 rise of an empire” next?! Totally different but just as good as this one.

Lmao he has never overused his slo-mo style. He always does it the right amount and they make an impact. It's a myth that Zack Snyder loves doing slo-mo scenes.

Just one word: United 300!

LOL what her said "VERY HARD" AND HER EXPRESSION "WTF"

the template form the 6 packs comes from me .. hehehe xD

Awesome reaction/review. Cool glasses too 👍