A phalanx battle formation is a well-oiled machine. The 2nd and 3rd row are there to help the front row. The front row has a REALLY big shield to block spear and sword thrusts and basically is in a shoving contest. If your line shoves harder than the other, their line starts to break and they become more vulnerable and some might fall. As you move forward, the 2nd and 3rd lines dispatch any enemy on the ground with their spear haft point. They also lift their spears to mitigate arrow fire as a sea of spear points will knock most arrows off of target and blunt the force with which they fall. The ONLY weakness a phalanx has is a flanking maneuver and it's lack of maneuverability in the face of one and thanks to the hot gates, a flanking maneuver was out of the question.
some more historical/military/war/freedom movies: (not ranked, just listed) 1. Last of the Mohicans (1992) 2. Troy (2004) 3. Gladiator (2000) 4. 300 (2006) // (the sequel though is krappy, aside from the action/fighting/battles, especially seeing the spartan/leonidas queen, that got r'ped in 300 by that traitor and then killing him, now being shown also as a warrior bad'ss at the ending battle scene with the mc) 5. Braveheart (1995) 6. King Arthur (2004) 7. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (has a young morgan freeman doing/being a badass fighter) 8. The Mummy (1999) 9. The Mummy Returns (2001) 10. The Scorpion King (2002) 11. The 13th Warrior (movie of michael crighton's "eaters of dead" book: beowulf saga / vikings) 12. Dances with Wolves (1990) 13. The Patriot (2000) 14. The Rocketeer (grins, has a sexy young Jennifer Connely, grins) 15. Prince of Persia (2010) 16. The Last Samurai 17. A Knight's Tale 18. Dragonheart (sean conner as the dragon, this was eragon way before eragon was ever written and then made into a movie, lol) // this is fantasy, not historical, lol, but still good and it is “historical-like” 19. Highlander // this is fantasy, not historical, lol, but still good and it is “historical-like” 20. Gods of Egypt // egyptian mythology 21. Apocalypto 22. Pocahontas (disney animated movie) 23. Mulan (disney animated movie) 24. Aladdin (disney animated movie) 25. Robin Hood (disney animated movie with animal characters) 26. First Knight (1995) // (sean connery) 27. Sparticus (1960) 28. Ben-Hur (1959) 29. Pathfinder (2007) // but it’s really not very good: about vikings that came to america, with its conflict/plot of: vikings vs native americans 30. The Mask of Zorro (1998) (and its sequel: The Legend of Zorro, 2005) (and there's the older/original TV series too, and maybe even some older/original movies too, probably, lol) 31. The Northman 32. 10,000 BC 33. Alpha ------------- tv films: (not ranked, just listed) 1. Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula, this IS actually a true historical documentary of the historical Vlad the Impaler, it's really good, too 2. Dark Kingdom: Ring of the Nibelungs (seigfried and brunhilde saga, grins Kristanna Loken is such a sexy and badass brunhilde, grins) 3. Helen of Troy (it's slower though, not too much action, but it's a very good tv film)
This is based on a real battle. The reason why everything looks the way it does is because Delios is telling the story to the soldiers and this is how they imagine things in their minds.
Yes, exactly! Everything is embellished and details are filled in by him as a campfire tale to rally the troops and pay homage to Leonidas and the 300 for their sacrifice.
@@orangewarm1 I don’t think anyone said they imagined this. King Leonidas and the 300 was a real story and the the Battle of Thermopylae happened, but the movie you are seeing is the exaggerated version by Delios to hype the men up.
@@orangewarm1 - The tales of war were exaggerated, but this is definitely portrayed as the imagery that would have come from hearing those tales. When Dilios tells the soldiers about the wolf, they imagine the biggest, meanest wolf ever. When he tells them that Xerxes was tall, they don't think of a 6 foot guy, they imagine him as 8 feet tall. When he talks about rhinos and elephants, most of them have only seen crude drawings of such beasts. And when he describes Ephialtes as deformed, they imagine all manner of severe deformations. This entire story is being narrated by Dilios as he addresses the troops on the battlefield at Marathon several years later.
On top of that, this movie isn't based directly on the historical records of the battle, but on a comic book retelling of the story by Frank Miller. So that exaggerates things even further than the context of Delios being the hype man.
The truth about Sparta, they were equal to other major city states only mutch more violent, they were acording to the cronicles of the greeks themselves the only greeks to make another greeks slaves the idea of never retreat and never surrender was because spartan law was very strict to desertors but was in many cases spartans fleeing the battlefield in fear, they took their own soldiers back home to make idea of few soldiers dying in battlefield when sparta faced Thebes the thebian generals let the defeated spartan army to rot in battlefield to those who come across see well they arent unbeatable, this tatics made by Sparta worked as psiclological warfare to instigate fear to the enemy before the battle to lower their morale, but all ancient times propaganda.
His brother was king. What I know and I studied all this years ago. His older brother was king but was dethroned. Its said he was loosing his marbles in some way or maybe he was just a bad ruler. The crown was passed onto Leo. I will go to this battlefield oneday. Call it what you want, but I will take a knee to these men. And show respect. People should study how this battle was won. Its actually very interesting. It came down to basically 2 men. One Leo and his army and what they achieved holding the enemy off. And one other man who stood up and spoke at those council meetings who changed the game! He wasn't royalty and still had his voice herd. If ut wasn't for his ideas and ship building etc.. and Leo's 300? Spartan would of fallen. Zurichies went home and was killed by his own bodyguard not to long after this battle.
The Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC, was a battle in the second Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I.
@@mplaysplays3427 I believe Athens was organizing the Greek coalition. The Spartans and Greeks there, were just meant to hold the Persians long enough for Greece to mobilize.
the "Spartans , what is your profession?" scene was just the spartan Battle cry. there is no spartan profession, only savage fighting and a glorious death.
True only slaves were the workers the citizens were only soldiers but no super human like this video tells the video is a very bad accurate in history, starting not using chest armor.
the second rank is there as a reserve. if someone should fall in the front rank there will be someone in the second rank to fill the gap. the front rank will eventually get tired and will then fall back into third position and allow the second rank to take over the fighting. it's called the phalanx and it is a well-oiled killing machine
still somewhat inspires modern military exercises/ techniques. but with ships and planes and other transport. No one wants to be in front of a phalanx.
@@deathninja16 In the Marine Corps, we learned numerous battle formations including the phalanx. Todays warefare is obviously different and different formations used. I served just as the Iraq war started. In boot camp, they were still training primarily Vietnam/ Jungle style combat with standard WWII trench warfare and mass assault formations. Next, in MCT Marine Combat Training, everything was Urban Warfare training. Going from house to house, through houses, alleys. Theres less air support in urban spaces. Just last night I was reading about siege warfare in the Middle ages, and about those that were the first to go up the ladders onto the castle walls ,to an almost guaranteed quick death. Turns out that soldiers competed in contests to earn the privileged to be the first up....and to die. Those up first earned honor for their family name, so their sacrifice wasnt completely in vain, as that honor would benefit the familiy in good ways. Their fearless courage was also a huge inspiration to all those that werent quite so excited and willing to die like that. Even having served as a Marine, its hard to imagine. I understand and respect risking your life to SAVE others if you have the chance, but just willingly literally running into the line of fire first with zero chances. Thats tough to fathom, but I guess if it leads to your nation, family, those in need surviving- you could call that "An honorable sacrifice."
Facts: 1. King Leonidas was around 60 years old when he fought this battle..!! Also today's military schools, teach his war tactics.. 🔥⚔ 2. Efialtis (Εφιάλτης) (The traitor who told Persians the secret passage), actually means "Nightmare" in Greek 3. The phrases below, were actually told by Spartans in that battle a) Get back with your shield, or on it. (᾿Ή τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς) b) Then we will fight in the shade. c) Come and get them. (Μολὼν λαβέ) P.S.: Spartans didn't wore full armor because it was heavy and would make them move slow in the battle.. Also their swords, spears and shields where made from various alloys that made them very superior against other armies.. P.S.2: Leonidas didn't miss.. Remember, he said that until this battle ends, you'll see that even a God-King could bleed.. 😉
@@raydafuq3570 He did, but come on bro. Don't tell me that he sacrificed himself to create a chance to throw a spear at Xerxes and instead of aiming to kill he aimed at a piercing.
@@alexkats30 you know how movies work. If they don't say it it's not their intention. Also if you think about it the Spartans are all about being killed by worthy opponents. Leonidas told Ephialtes he may live forever which is insulting for a Spartan. He probably rather humiliated Xerxes in front of his people instead of killing him.
@@raydafuq3570 Yeah, film logic is stupid. By allowing him to live he gives him the chance to continue to march his army against his city and his beloved family. But by cutting the snake's head he could put a stop to that campaign right there. Why would he ever want to do that 🤔? Lol
I wouldn’t call this movie historical, it is based on historical events but first and foremost this is a comic book movie written and drawn by Frank Miller ( Sin City/ Daredevil). 90% of the shots in this movie are taken directly from the comics. I would definitely recommend learning about Sparta, it’s quite interesting, and in the modern city there is an actual statue of Leonidus
Back in these days, you might have noticed, that there were bakers, blacksmiths ECT. in Sparta, these were typically done by former Spartan soldiers who had at some point been injured in battle and for 1 reason or another, were no longer fit for combat anymore, at that point they would be taught how to contribute to Sparta in one way or another, weather it is building dwellings in the city, farming the land, raising animals, and everything that is needed for Sparta to be self sufficient, they were ALSO the LAST line of defense along with the Spartan Women, who were also trained to fight to defend Sparta if the army was away, now this particular movie is centered around the land battle of Thermopylae, which was the second MAJOR battle out of the 3 where the future of Greece hung in the balance, and during this battle, 300 Spartans, along with the Military King of Sparta, with help from about 6,000 other Greeks from several other Greek city states, but on the 3rd day of fighting, only the last of the 300 Spartans and a handful of others delayed the rest of the retreating Greek forces, BUT during those 3 days, 300 Spartans who did most of the fighting, and stood against more than 1,000,000 Persian soldiers, killed somewhere between 125,000 and 225,000 Persians, with the 300 Spartans who sacrificed themselves, inspired ALL of the Greek city States to band together, and put an end to the Persian Empire about a year later, the entire Spartan army, along with the other beat the Persian army at the battle of Plateaus, ending the Persian Empire's conquest forever.
@@kvatchyobiv8540 Well... At the beginning of the fight yes,it is calculated to 6.000-7.000 greeks against 350.000 Persians. The last day of the battle everybody left, except Spartans,Thespians and few others, roughly 1.500 man in total.
@@thomasthomas8080 Yes, i knew they weren't alone, spartans at Termoplea had alot of help, besides they had a contract that invited Xerxes to atack Athens to help Spartan to increase its territory but when Sparta realized Xerxes would conquer them too decided to join is all in contract Between Spartans and Persians, my point was this battle was written by a spartan, that has given enphasis about his people, but in true, Sparta fought well as Athens, Thebs and any other major city aswell.
Tom Cruise did a historical set move called "The Last Samurai". If you have not seen it I think you would enjoy that movie. While maybe not quite as epic as Gladiator it is close. IMHO (thank you for another great reaction)
While based on both the Battle of Thermopylae and Spartan culture. There are many truths. When the you boys where whipped. Their family would gather and yell at him."Don't you pass out" and "Don't you cry out" Spartans started train at 7 and entered military service at 29. The women would tell their husbands and sons "Come back with this or On this" meaning come back victorious or dead. The only members of Spartan society that had Marked graves were the Soldiers who died in battle and the women who died in childbirth. Both were honored for giving their lives for Sparta. The Quote of "Then we'll fight in the shade" was said by a Spartan captain in response to the threat of blotting out the sun.
After having conquered the Chaldean, Egyptian, and Lydian Empires, the Persians believed the squabbling Greek city-states to be easy pickings. Turns out, give the Greeks a common enemy, and they'll forget their animosity towards each other.
In the actual battle, King Leonidas was killed early on. Decapitated. But there was a battle to reclaim his body, & the Persians paid dearly. But it was the Greek & Spartan Naval forces that kicked the shit out of the Persians, driving them back, saving early democracy.
2007's "Last Stand of the 300" is an excellent and very watchable documentary if you want to know the historical reality. There was a lot going on aside from 300 Spartans.
Wonderful reaction Elena!! I really enjoyed this movie and the sequel as well!! You are amazing, talented and beautiful!! I love your hair so much also!! Best wishes and much love always!! 😍❤
"300 is a historical film" - not really, it's a film based on a comic book series. The original inspiration for the comics was a real battle, but this depiction of it is a live action retelling of a comic book, not a historical retelling of the events which inspired the story this movie is about. They had Frank Miller - the creator of the comics - as a consultant for the flim. They also had a historical consultant, whose opinion of the movie was that it was absolutely unrealistic, but in a way the ancient Greeks would have enjoyed! And your look here goes well with the movie too. Beautiful, historically inspired, and truly stylish! With the disclaimer about the (lack of) historical accuracy out of the way, it's worth noting that some of the most epic lines are actually attested in real history, and a few of them were even more impressive in the real world. The line "only Spartan women give birth to real men" is a quote attributed to the wife of Leonidas, but was a reply to a woman from another Greek state, asking why the Spartans allow a woman to hold power over men, not something which was said to an envoy from the Persians like in this movie. And the line "come back with your shield, or on it" is known to have been common parting words from Spartan woman to their husbands before they went into battle. The only reason a Spartan would leave his shield behind after a battle is if he dropped it while fleeing the battle, to be able to run faster. If he stayed and fought, and died, his body would be carried home on the shield. Coming home dead, but honoured, is a much better fate for their people than living with the shame of having fled from a battle. The "what is your profession?" speech is similarly based on a story which was told about this battle, where Leonidas asked a random assortment of the other Greek forces what their jobs were, then turned to his accuser, pointed behind himself to his own force, and said "It looks like I brought more soldiers than any of you" (the war cries make it sound cooler for a movie though). That line about fighting in the shade? Also a real quote, but it wasn't said to an official representative of the Persian army. Some of the merchants who often tagged along beside large armies in ancient wars approached the Spartans to trade with them, and told them the story they get in this movie from a Persian who's demanding their surrender. The fact that they dismissed it the way they did was made more impressive by the fact that it wasn't even in the context of a "proper" battle of wills with their enemies. As for the Persian forces, they're generally believed to have numbered in the hundreds of thousands (typically around 300,000 or so), but there are stories which suggest that the army may have been as large as 4 million men. It's quite likely those are extreme exaggerations, but even 300,000 is a pretty insane number to be stalled for as long as the Spartans held out in the real battle of Thermopylae. But it's worth noting that "300 Spartan soldiers" is actually a force of around 1,000 men, because Spartans were actually outnumbered around 7:1 by their slaves, and many of them brought several slaves into battle alongside them. Those slaves were often involved as skirmishers or archers alongside the main force, or doing other supporting duties like taking the role of medics and cooks and other personnel who are needed to keep an army going. I think my favourite stupid moment in the movie is that Leonidas rejected the hunchbacked guy because he can't fight in their formation, but throughout the movie, they almost never actually use that formation once the fighting starts anyway, so he wouldn't have been the liability the king claimed. He should have been allowed to stay, and even if he got himself killed, he wasn't putting anyone else at risk and would have at worst been a distraction for the enemies for a second or two. The reason he was refused a place in the army would only have been valid if the combat was handled realistically. Going back to the topic of other movies though... Gladiator is a fictional story in a historical setting, but it's very grounded and real in its feeling. This movie is a very fictionalised retelling of a true story, so they're kind of opposite ends of where you put the fiction and where you put the facts. Another one which might be interesting, if you're up for something that's more historical - still with some fictional elements added, but far less than either Gladiator or this - would be Kingdom Of Heaven. It's an incredible movie, and it stays a lot truer to history's record of events than this one does, while also being beautifully made and telling an epic story.
10:40 “What is your profession?” Greek hoplites were citizen-soldiers, when they weren’t ate war they doing day jobs such as smithing, pottery, sculpting, when war came around they put down their tools and took up arms. The Spartans however were different, when was there was peace they were drilling when they weren’t doing that, they were chilling with the friends in their local syssitia (mess hall)
Leonidas was about 55-65 when he accomplished this. The orator is slso in Lord of the rings and Van Helsing! There's a Bible tie in here. When Greece messed up the Persians and the Bible woman Ruth caught the eye and ear of king Xerxes, she started pecking them down from the inside, it was over for Persia! Type in here Jamie Foxx talks about 300 and Gerard Butler! The saying come and take them! In Greek is Molon Labe' if u see a shirt or cap with a Spartan helmet and that saying over it, now you know! 2000 years later, battle of Gonzales, the Mexican army came to town, demanding their cannon back. The texxans told them, come and take it! If u see a shirt cap or flag, yellow or white background, black sidee cannon, black star over it, with that saying, now you know! I have the cannon and star tatted on each pec, molon Labe' over one, come and take it, over the other, cuz I'm Texxan like that! Michael fassbender also played young Magneto and did the assassin's Creed mivie, and inglorious basterds! The movies, the watchmen and sin City, were much like this!
Although I did enjoy watching the movie🎥300 in the Theater when it came out, I did understand that the movie maker's took a lot of liberties with the actual facts of the history of Leonidas, Xerxes and the actual battle of Thermopolyie!🏛 Actually it was Xerxes, as a young Prince, that had to fight a Lion🦁 in a cell with a Spear, in order to pass his Manhood test to become a King of Persia! Leonidas became the King of Sparta by marrying the Kings daughter! Also the brave, fierce 300 Spartans were only able to make their legendary and glorious last stand at Thermopolyie, because of the success and ingenuity of the Greek Navel Commander Themystacles, who through his navel victories over the Persians, allowed for Leonidas and his 300 Spartans to amass at Thermopolyie without Persian blockades enroute!
a visual masterpiece. since its appearance it has set the standards in the genre. I don't think that without it they would have made the series about Spartak, which were similar in many ways..(rest in peace,andy whitfield!) the movie also has a sequel, but I don't advise you to watch it. It only has battle scenes and endless talk about freedom, in the American style. 😊
They are in more than 2 rows for a reason its callad ccombined mass. Being against so many they needed to be able to stop persian formations momentum, so they can counter attack
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31:24 he did not miss... he made the self proclaimed god bleed... in front of all his army... Leonidas made the god bleed.... what does that, to the minds of those, that believe, that xerxes is an invincible, immortal god....
7000 Greeks vs more than 300,000 Persians. the first wave of Persians was 130,000 and was defeated by 300 Spartans while defending the road to Greece while the other Greek states were fighting the Persians by sea or trying to hold other territories. the reason why they are called the 300 is that not one spartan fell till the last wave when they got surrounded by the Persian army and were told to give up King Leonidas and join the Perian military or they would release all the arrows on them to the point the sky would be darkened by the volley of Persian arrows on them and one of the closest friends to king Leonidas said then we will fight under a shade and all the spartans started laughing at the Persian army. while the arrows were falling. and because of King Leonidas and his 300 Greece survived
I'd like to believe this battle was as epic as this.. movie battle really hypes it up. They probably held their own for a bit..but the numbers game always wins in the end. You can have 100 muscle bound men..but 1000 pee wee hermans will eventually getcha...lol🤣🤣
Nice reactions! Keep it up. Could you react to "Poseidon" 2006 in your next movie reactions please?. It would be really amazing. Few people have reacted to it 😃. I'm leaving my like.
The Battle of the Themophyles did not take place as shown in the film 300. There were an estimated 30,000 Greeks, the number of Persians fluctuated between 100,000 and 500,000, with 500,000 being more than unrealistic for an army that landed by sea. The fact is that the Greeks held the pass for several days until they were outflanked and threatened in the rear. In order to enable the Greeks to withdraw, around 300 in fact remained; some sources also speak of 3,000 spatiates to cover the retreat. The fact that 300 Spartans bore the brunt of the fighting for several days is completely false.
But in historical battle 300 spartan with 7000 other greek state as well if i remember correctly this movie which i still love it based on the book novel
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Obviously this is a movie based on a comic book which is loosely based on a historical event. But what is true is that 300, plus a few thousand others and the Athenian Fleet, stood against the largest imperial army and fleet assembled up to that time. The series of battles that followed assured a Western civilization versus Eastern survived long enough for Alexander the Great to reverse imperialism. The 300 saved the Grecian later Roman later European ideal of the noble individual and freedom, with all its brutal perversions to the contrary. Spartan Society was a warped truly toxic masculine society so homosexual that soldiers were required to marry and reproduce. Even so between low birth rates, constant wars and slave revolts the Spartans literally disappeared even though their city remained. And as hard as it is for modern Westerners to understand, slaves were the economic engine in every civilization no matter how “free” and Democratic. Spartan women were also legendarily athletic, not to give birth to real men, but to suppress the largest slave versus citizen ratio in Greece.
This movies might be epic but not historically accurate, starting spartans hand chest armor, persians were highly disciplined soldiers not dumb soldiers charging the battlefield they walked and not run if they came closer to the enemy were already dead by tiring, and mutch more the propaganda of being invincible, was so fake, thebes when won against sparta let the corpses rot in battlefield to every soul that came to pass to see they were dead, also was the only greek city state known to make another greeks slaves.
With all the testosterone in this movie you are now pregnant with a Spartan King. He will be born with a full beard, six packs abs, and a Spartan sword covered in blood yelling in victory, HOO HOO HOOOOO.
These men and this battle is 480 years older then Yushua/Jesus. Like 2600/2700 years ago. Zaxis zurichies went back home and was killed by his bodyguard. Not very long after this battle.
Solo los 300 derrotaron a miles en la historia real. Y sino no los traicionan dándoles a los Persas la información del paso de las Termopilas, los hubieran derrotado a todos. De los mejores guerreros de la historia!. Espartanos
Yes, 300 was based on an actual battle. No it is not historicaly accurate. This movie is based on a graphic novel that was based on a movie from the 1960's called 300 Spartans. So you are watching a movie based on comic book that was based on another movie. Pretty much everything in the movie is made up accept for the location and the names of Leonidas and Xerxes.
He didn’t Miss remember his said when it’s all said and done 300 men stood too a tyrant and he would show him a god king could bleed and the god king saw his blood
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As a dumb, fun action movie this is a good one, but if you know about actual Spartan society it's just silly. First off, their whole culture was built on owning massive amounts of slaves. It's how the warrior class could focus solely on being soliders: they had hundreds of thousands of slaves doing all their labor for them. So this whole "we hate slavery and love freedom" thing is just pure nonsense. Also they wore full armour, Leonidas died early on in the battle, and the Arcadian Greeks had some pretty strong armies. Also the Persians were pretty cool for the times they lived in. They were imperliasts, but they were very good to the people they conquered when compared to other invading armies of the day. The tithes they took were actually pretty reasonable, they didn't massacre entire civilian populations when they took cities and they allowed people from outside of Persia to retain their own religions and cultures. That's why the early Jews saw them as liberators. Next to the Babylonians and Assyrians that they were used to being invaded by the Persians were wonderful.
Even thousands of years ago proto-fascism and barely repressed (in the film, not at all in the historical Sparta) homosexuality went hand in hand! Zack Snyder makes good looking bad movies.
Don't be delusional This movie is a lie and has no truth Iranians and Xerxes were not and are not like this We conquered Greece easily and you are still under delusion😅
SORRY BUT WHAT DID YOU LEARN IN " SCHOOL " THAT YOU DIDNT KNOW OF THAT WAR ?? EVER HEARD OF " MARATHON " I PERSUME ONLY FROM THE LONGEST RUN ??? BUT WERE DID THE NAME FOR THAT SPORT CAMME FROM BO CLUE , WELL ALSO A BATTLE AGAINST THE PERSIANS BY THE GREEKS . THERE IS A SAYING IF YOU DONT KNOW HISTORY YOU WONT UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE
@@mjgFlati Nope, i just want to tell that don't romantize movies inspired in history, confunding with actual history, the story told in actual book before this movie, was inspired in the cronicles of the 300 ancient greeks but has a detail, was written by an spartan, Leonidas allied first to Xerxes to atack the Athenians and his allies in exchange Xerxes would give Leonidas all Greece, when Xerxes didn't wanted to give Leonidas Athens after burning the city Sparta took the side of the other greeks, before the excuse was like in the movie, "the oracle says not the time to go to war or festivities to the gods are taken place". Borth Sparta and the Persia were autocratic politics no freedom how can a city state defend freedom where was the only one to make other greeks slaves? The battle took place and for 2 times sparta asked athens to switch the formation with them to be called by Xerxes as cowards, 300 really died but was too mutch romantization about what really was sparta.
@@mjgFlati Another example of the innacurate history in this movie, the kids when agoge was made as training was no other diferent of other greek in terms of kids wandering few clothing and bare feet to develop natural defenses and skills, aswell agoge was said if necessary to kill, the killing refered was an elite of kids sent in secret just to kill slaves from the surrounding enemy cities to instigate fear, killing unharmed people including woman and children, in the battle they wore armor not bare chest as it is so bad, all greeks had chesplate armor, any good soldier of that time can't only rely on shield for his survival, because was good before coming close to body but was easly broken due to low quality metal in that era remembering was during the bronze age when this metal was very brittle.
I'M TALKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPEND AND YOU ARE TALKING IF IT IS ACCURATE WHAT THEY WERE WEARING IN THE MOVIE . I'M SAYING THAT THIS REALY TOOK PLACE AND YOU TALK ABOUT ARMOR , ARE YOU SAIN ?? OR DONT YOU STILL UNDERSTAND ?????
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A phalanx battle formation is a well-oiled machine. The 2nd and 3rd row are there to help the front row. The front row has a REALLY big shield to block spear and sword thrusts and basically is in a shoving contest. If your line shoves harder than the other, their line starts to break and they become more vulnerable and some might fall. As you move forward, the 2nd and 3rd lines dispatch any enemy on the ground with their spear haft point. They also lift their spears to mitigate arrow fire as a sea of spear points will knock most arrows off of target and blunt the force with which they fall. The ONLY weakness a phalanx has is a flanking maneuver and it's lack of maneuverability in the face of one and thanks to the hot gates, a flanking maneuver was out of the question.
some more historical/military/war/freedom movies:
(not ranked, just listed)
1. Last of the Mohicans (1992)
2. Troy (2004)
3. Gladiator (2000)
4. 300 (2006) // (the sequel though is krappy, aside from the action/fighting/battles, especially seeing the spartan/leonidas queen, that got r'ped in 300 by that traitor and then killing him, now being shown also as a warrior bad'ss at the ending battle scene with the mc)
5. Braveheart (1995)
6. King Arthur (2004)
7. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (has a young morgan freeman doing/being a badass fighter)
8. The Mummy (1999)
9. The Mummy Returns (2001)
10. The Scorpion King (2002)
11. The 13th Warrior (movie of michael crighton's "eaters of dead" book: beowulf saga / vikings)
12. Dances with Wolves (1990)
13. The Patriot (2000)
14. The Rocketeer (grins, has a sexy young Jennifer Connely, grins)
15. Prince of Persia (2010)
16. The Last Samurai
17. A Knight's Tale
18. Dragonheart (sean conner as the dragon, this was eragon way before eragon was ever written and then made into a movie, lol) // this is fantasy, not historical, lol, but still good and it is “historical-like”
19. Highlander // this is fantasy, not historical, lol, but still good and it is “historical-like”
20. Gods of Egypt // egyptian mythology
21. Apocalypto
22. Pocahontas (disney animated movie)
23. Mulan (disney animated movie)
24. Aladdin (disney animated movie)
25. Robin Hood (disney animated movie with animal characters)
26. First Knight (1995) // (sean connery)
27. Sparticus (1960)
28. Ben-Hur (1959)
29. Pathfinder (2007) // but it’s really not very good: about vikings that came to america, with its conflict/plot of: vikings vs native americans
30. The Mask of Zorro (1998) (and its sequel: The Legend of Zorro, 2005) (and there's the older/original TV series too, and maybe even some older/original movies too, probably, lol)
31. The Northman
32. 10,000 BC
33. Alpha
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tv films:
(not ranked, just listed)
1. Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula, this IS actually a true historical documentary of the historical Vlad the Impaler, it's really good, too
2. Dark Kingdom: Ring of the Nibelungs (seigfried and brunhilde saga, grins Kristanna Loken is such a sexy and badass brunhilde, grins)
3. Helen of Troy (it's slower though, not too much action, but it's a very good tv film)
This is based on a real battle. The reason why everything looks the way it does is because Delios is telling the story to the soldiers and this is how they imagine things in their minds.
Yes, exactly! Everything is embellished and details are filled in by him as a campfire tale to rally the troops and pay homage to Leonidas and the 300 for their sacrifice.
Not sure they imagined this. Stories in the old days were told with exaggeration.
@@orangewarm1 I don’t think anyone said they imagined this. King Leonidas and the 300 was a real story and the the Battle of Thermopylae happened, but the movie you are seeing is the exaggerated version by Delios to hype the men up.
@@orangewarm1 - The tales of war were exaggerated, but this is definitely portrayed as the imagery that would have come from hearing those tales. When Dilios tells the soldiers about the wolf, they imagine the biggest, meanest wolf ever. When he tells them that Xerxes was tall, they don't think of a 6 foot guy, they imagine him as 8 feet tall. When he talks about rhinos and elephants, most of them have only seen crude drawings of such beasts. And when he describes Ephialtes as deformed, they imagine all manner of severe deformations.
This entire story is being narrated by Dilios as he addresses the troops on the battlefield at Marathon several years later.
On top of that, this movie isn't based directly on the historical records of the battle, but on a comic book retelling of the story by Frank Miller. So that exaggerates things even further than the context of Delios being the hype man.
Fun fact. King Leonidas was 65 when he fought and died at the battle of Thermopile
65!!! OMG 😮
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The truth about Sparta, they were equal to other major city states only mutch more violent, they were acording to the cronicles of the greeks themselves the only greeks to make another greeks slaves the idea of never retreat and never surrender was because spartan law was very strict to desertors but was in many cases spartans fleeing the battlefield in fear, they took their own soldiers back home to make idea of few soldiers dying in battlefield when sparta faced Thebes the thebian generals let the defeated spartan army to rot in battlefield to those who come across see well they arent unbeatable, this tatics made by Sparta worked as psiclological warfare to instigate fear to the enemy before the battle to lower their morale, but all ancient times propaganda.
His brother was king. What I know and I studied all this years ago. His older brother was king but was dethroned. Its said he was loosing his marbles in some way or maybe he was just a bad ruler. The crown was passed onto Leo. I will go to this battlefield oneday. Call it what you want, but I will take a knee to these men. And show respect. People should study how this battle was won. Its actually very interesting. It came down to basically 2 men. One Leo and his army and what they achieved holding the enemy off. And one other man who stood up and spoke at those council meetings who changed the game! He wasn't royalty and still had his voice herd. If ut wasn't for his ideas and ship building etc.. and Leo's 300? Spartan would of fallen. Zurichies went home and was killed by his own bodyguard not to long after this battle.
The Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC, was a battle in the second Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I.
Well it wasent led by sparta, i think it was atens
@@mplaysplays3427 I believe Athens was organizing the Greek coalition. The Spartans and Greeks there, were just meant to hold the Persians long enough for Greece to mobilize.
the "Spartans , what is your profession?" scene was just the spartan Battle cry. there is no spartan profession, only savage fighting and a glorious death.
They were fobidden to have jobs.
True only slaves were the workers the citizens were only soldiers but no super human like this video tells the video is a very bad accurate in history, starting not using chest armor.
the second rank is there as a reserve. if someone should fall in the front rank there will be someone in the second rank to fill the gap. the front rank will eventually get tired and will then fall back into third position and allow the second rank to take over the fighting. it's called the phalanx and it is a well-oiled killing machine
still somewhat inspires modern military exercises/ techniques. but with ships and planes and other transport. No one wants to be in front of a phalanx.
@@deathninja16 In the Marine Corps, we learned numerous battle formations including the phalanx.
Todays warefare is obviously different and different formations used.
I served just as the Iraq war started. In boot camp, they were still training primarily Vietnam/ Jungle style combat with standard WWII trench warfare and mass assault formations. Next, in MCT Marine Combat Training, everything was Urban Warfare training. Going from house to house, through houses, alleys. Theres less air support in urban spaces.
Just last night I was reading about siege warfare in the Middle ages, and about those that were the first to go up the ladders onto the castle walls ,to an almost guaranteed quick death.
Turns out that soldiers competed in contests to earn the privileged to be the first up....and to die.
Those up first earned honor for their family name, so their sacrifice wasnt completely in vain, as that honor would benefit the familiy in good ways. Their fearless courage was also a huge inspiration to all those that werent quite so excited and willing to die like that. Even having served as a Marine, its hard to imagine. I understand and respect risking your life to SAVE others if you have the chance, but just willingly literally running into the line of fire first with zero chances. Thats tough to fathom, but I guess if it leads to your nation, family, those in need surviving- you could call that "An honorable sacrifice."
Facts:
1. King Leonidas was around 60 years old when he fought this battle..!! Also today's military schools, teach his war tactics.. 🔥⚔
2. Efialtis (Εφιάλτης) (The traitor who told Persians the secret passage), actually means "Nightmare" in Greek
3. The phrases below, were actually told by Spartans in that battle
a) Get back with your shield, or on it. (᾿Ή τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς)
b) Then we will fight in the shade.
c) Come and get them. (Μολὼν λαβέ)
P.S.: Spartans didn't wore full armor because it was heavy and would make them move slow in the battle.. Also their swords, spears and shields where made from various alloys that made them very superior against other armies..
P.S.2: Leonidas didn't miss.. Remember, he said that until this battle ends, you'll see that even a God-King could bleed.. 😉
"Spartans are Descent of Hercules Himself". The necklace Queen Gorgo gave to Leonidas IS The Nemean Lion Claw.
He didn't miss..............He told him he would make the god bleed.
To prove he was only a man and not a god.
He did miss, by mere centimetres, but still.
@@alexkats30his goal was to make him bleed. He achieved it.
@@raydafuq3570 He did, but come on bro.
Don't tell me that he sacrificed himself to create a chance to throw a spear at Xerxes and instead of aiming to kill he aimed at a piercing.
@@alexkats30 you know how movies work. If they don't say it it's not their intention. Also if you think about it the Spartans are all about being killed by worthy opponents. Leonidas told Ephialtes he may live forever which is insulting for a Spartan. He probably rather humiliated Xerxes in front of his people instead of killing him.
@@raydafuq3570 Yeah, film logic is stupid.
By allowing him to live he gives him the chance to continue to march his army against his city and his beloved family. But by cutting the snake's head he could put a stop to that campaign right there. Why would he ever want to do that 🤔? Lol
I wouldn’t call this movie historical, it is based on historical events but first and foremost this is a comic book movie written and drawn by Frank Miller ( Sin City/ Daredevil). 90% of the shots in this movie are taken directly from the comics. I would definitely recommend learning about Sparta, it’s quite interesting, and in the modern city there is an actual statue of Leonidus
Back in these days, you might have noticed, that there were bakers, blacksmiths ECT. in Sparta, these were typically done by former Spartan soldiers who had at some point been injured in battle and for 1 reason or another, were no longer fit for combat anymore, at that point they would be taught how to contribute to Sparta in one way or another, weather it is building dwellings in the city, farming the land, raising animals, and everything that is needed for Sparta to be self sufficient, they were ALSO the LAST line of defense along with the Spartan Women, who were also trained to fight to defend Sparta if the army was away, now this particular movie is centered around the land battle of Thermopylae, which was the second MAJOR battle out of the 3 where the future of Greece hung in the balance, and during this battle, 300 Spartans, along with the Military King of Sparta, with help from about 6,000 other Greeks from several other Greek city states, but on the 3rd day of fighting, only the last of the 300 Spartans and a handful of others delayed the rest of the retreating Greek forces, BUT during those 3 days, 300 Spartans who did most of the fighting, and stood against more than 1,000,000 Persian soldiers, killed somewhere between 125,000 and 225,000 Persians, with the 300 Spartans who sacrificed themselves, inspired ALL of the Greek city States to band together, and put an end to the Persian Empire about a year later, the entire Spartan army, along with the other beat the Persian army at the battle of Plateaus, ending the Persian Empire's conquest forever.
If you pick up the 300 graphic novel, you would be amazed to see how accurate the movie was to the novel. The pages literally came to life.
thought historically inacurate, 300 suported by thousands of other greeks including athenians.
@@kvatchyobiv8540 Well...
At the beginning of the fight yes,it is calculated to 6.000-7.000 greeks against 350.000 Persians.
The last day of the battle everybody left, except Spartans,Thespians and few others, roughly 1.500 man in total.
@@thomasthomas8080 Yes, i knew they weren't alone, spartans at Termoplea had alot of help, besides they had a contract that invited Xerxes to atack Athens to help Spartan to increase its territory but when Sparta realized Xerxes would conquer them too decided to join is all in contract Between Spartans and Persians, my point was this battle was written by a spartan, that has given enphasis about his people, but in true, Sparta fought well as Athens, Thebs and any other major city aswell.
300 my favorite movies and I love the phase this is Sparta
An absolutely masterful rendition of a graphic novel in live action form (with serious CG additions).
Lena Headey played Sarah Connor in 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'.
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@flea1972 I'd say that more importantly and more noteworthy is that she played Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones.
@@Andres64B Never bothered with Game of Thrones. Prefer sci-fi to fantasy.
Every frame of the movie you just watched was filmed *_indoors_*. Epic reaction to an epic movie 🍿❤
It was filmed indoors because this was easier for the catering service.
Tom Cruise did a historical set move called "The Last Samurai". If you have not seen it I think you would enjoy that movie. While maybe not quite as epic as Gladiator it is close. IMHO (thank you for another great reaction)
Hildago is also pretty great too
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The “Phalanx” was like a turtle shell with spears and swords. Quite effective back then. Single unit. I love this movie.
I love your reaction on this movie🤘It was so epic when it came out🖤
I saw it in IMAX. It was awesome 😎
Obviously this was how a comic book artist imagined the Battle of Thermopile😅
While based on both the Battle of Thermopylae and Spartan culture. There are many truths. When the you boys where whipped. Their family would gather and yell at him."Don't you pass out" and "Don't you cry out"
Spartans started train at 7 and entered military service at 29. The women would tell their husbands and sons "Come back with this or On this" meaning come back victorious or dead.
The only members of Spartan society that had Marked graves were the Soldiers who died in battle and the women who died in childbirth. Both were honored for giving their lives for Sparta.
The Quote of "Then we'll fight in the shade" was said by a Spartan captain in response to the threat of blotting out the sun.
Another amazing reaction Elena ❤❤😀😀.
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@@Elena_Rea 🥰🥰🥰🥰.
Me encantó tu makeup. Buena reacción. Te quiero Elena !
After having conquered the Chaldean, Egyptian, and Lydian Empires, the Persians believed the squabbling Greek city-states to be easy pickings. Turns out, give the Greeks a common enemy, and they'll forget their animosity towards each other.
I love your sensitivity
In the actual battle, King Leonidas was killed early on. Decapitated. But there was a battle to reclaim his body, & the Persians paid dearly. But it was the Greek & Spartan Naval forces that kicked the shit out of the Persians, driving them back, saving early democracy.
2007's "Last Stand of the 300" is an excellent and very watchable documentary if you want to know the historical reality. There was a lot going on aside from 300 Spartans.
Wonderful reaction Elena!! I really enjoyed this movie and the sequel as well!! You are amazing, talented and beautiful!! I love your hair so much also!! Best wishes and much love always!! 😍❤
It comes down to "if 300 of us can do this" when the mass moves listen
"300 is a historical film" - not really, it's a film based on a comic book series. The original inspiration for the comics was a real battle, but this depiction of it is a live action retelling of a comic book, not a historical retelling of the events which inspired the story this movie is about. They had Frank Miller - the creator of the comics - as a consultant for the flim. They also had a historical consultant, whose opinion of the movie was that it was absolutely unrealistic, but in a way the ancient Greeks would have enjoyed! And your look here goes well with the movie too. Beautiful, historically inspired, and truly stylish!
With the disclaimer about the (lack of) historical accuracy out of the way, it's worth noting that some of the most epic lines are actually attested in real history, and a few of them were even more impressive in the real world. The line "only Spartan women give birth to real men" is a quote attributed to the wife of Leonidas, but was a reply to a woman from another Greek state, asking why the Spartans allow a woman to hold power over men, not something which was said to an envoy from the Persians like in this movie. And the line "come back with your shield, or on it" is known to have been common parting words from Spartan woman to their husbands before they went into battle. The only reason a Spartan would leave his shield behind after a battle is if he dropped it while fleeing the battle, to be able to run faster. If he stayed and fought, and died, his body would be carried home on the shield. Coming home dead, but honoured, is a much better fate for their people than living with the shame of having fled from a battle. The "what is your profession?" speech is similarly based on a story which was told about this battle, where Leonidas asked a random assortment of the other Greek forces what their jobs were, then turned to his accuser, pointed behind himself to his own force, and said "It looks like I brought more soldiers than any of you" (the war cries make it sound cooler for a movie though). That line about fighting in the shade? Also a real quote, but it wasn't said to an official representative of the Persian army. Some of the merchants who often tagged along beside large armies in ancient wars approached the Spartans to trade with them, and told them the story they get in this movie from a Persian who's demanding their surrender. The fact that they dismissed it the way they did was made more impressive by the fact that it wasn't even in the context of a "proper" battle of wills with their enemies.
As for the Persian forces, they're generally believed to have numbered in the hundreds of thousands (typically around 300,000 or so), but there are stories which suggest that the army may have been as large as 4 million men. It's quite likely those are extreme exaggerations, but even 300,000 is a pretty insane number to be stalled for as long as the Spartans held out in the real battle of Thermopylae. But it's worth noting that "300 Spartan soldiers" is actually a force of around 1,000 men, because Spartans were actually outnumbered around 7:1 by their slaves, and many of them brought several slaves into battle alongside them. Those slaves were often involved as skirmishers or archers alongside the main force, or doing other supporting duties like taking the role of medics and cooks and other personnel who are needed to keep an army going.
I think my favourite stupid moment in the movie is that Leonidas rejected the hunchbacked guy because he can't fight in their formation, but throughout the movie, they almost never actually use that formation once the fighting starts anyway, so he wouldn't have been the liability the king claimed. He should have been allowed to stay, and even if he got himself killed, he wasn't putting anyone else at risk and would have at worst been a distraction for the enemies for a second or two. The reason he was refused a place in the army would only have been valid if the combat was handled realistically.
Going back to the topic of other movies though... Gladiator is a fictional story in a historical setting, but it's very grounded and real in its feeling. This movie is a very fictionalised retelling of a true story, so they're kind of opposite ends of where you put the fiction and where you put the facts. Another one which might be interesting, if you're up for something that's more historical - still with some fictional elements added, but far less than either Gladiator or this - would be Kingdom Of Heaven. It's an incredible movie, and it stays a lot truer to history's record of events than this one does, while also being beautifully made and telling an epic story.
The Sequel “300: Rise of an Empire” is just as Epic 🏆👍 Thanks
The Queen , wife of Leonidas, was called Gorgό (Γοργώ), which means awesome, indomitable.
10:40 “What is your profession?” Greek hoplites were citizen-soldiers, when they weren’t ate war they doing day jobs such as smithing, pottery, sculpting, when war came around they put down their tools and took up arms. The Spartans however were different, when was there was peace they were drilling when they weren’t doing that, they were chilling with the friends in their local syssitia (mess hall)
Leonidas was about 55-65 when he accomplished this. The orator is slso in Lord of the rings and Van Helsing! There's a Bible tie in here. When Greece messed up the Persians and the Bible woman Ruth caught the eye and ear of king Xerxes, she started pecking them down from the inside, it was over for Persia! Type in here Jamie Foxx talks about 300 and Gerard Butler! The saying come and take them! In Greek is Molon Labe' if u see a shirt or cap with a Spartan helmet and that saying over it, now you know! 2000 years later, battle of Gonzales, the Mexican army came to town, demanding their cannon back. The texxans told them, come and take it! If u see a shirt cap or flag, yellow or white background, black sidee cannon, black star over it, with that saying, now you know! I have the cannon and star tatted on each pec, molon Labe' over one, come and take it, over the other, cuz I'm Texxan like that! Michael fassbender also played young Magneto and did the assassin's Creed mivie, and inglorious basterds! The movies, the watchmen and sin City, were much like this!
One of best movies ever made❤
Although I did enjoy watching the movie🎥300 in the Theater when it came out, I did understand that the movie maker's took a lot of liberties with the actual facts of the history of Leonidas, Xerxes and the actual battle of Thermopolyie!🏛 Actually it was Xerxes, as a young Prince, that had to fight a Lion🦁 in a cell with a Spear, in order to pass his Manhood test to become a King of Persia! Leonidas became the King of Sparta by marrying the Kings daughter! Also the brave, fierce 300 Spartans were only able to make their legendary and glorious last stand at Thermopolyie, because of the success and ingenuity of the Greek Navel Commander Themystacles, who through his navel victories over the Persians, allowed for Leonidas and his 300 Spartans to amass at Thermopolyie without Persian blockades enroute!
Should check out the lord of the rings trilogy if you haven’t already
I haven't seen LOTR) soon...😉
Elena, you have a great heart.❤
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Next Reaction film Troy (2004) Spartan vs Troy 👍👍
a visual masterpiece. since its appearance it has set the standards in the genre. I don't think that without it they would have made the series about Spartak, which were similar in many ways..(rest in peace,andy whitfield!) the movie also has a sequel, but I don't advise you to watch it. It only has battle scenes and endless talk about freedom, in the American style. 😊
They are in more than 2 rows for a reason its callad ccombined mass. Being against so many they needed to be able to stop persian formations momentum, so they can counter attack
Real battle yes, but this movie took a lot of artistic license.
He didn't miss. His mission was to prove that "Even a God-King can bleed."
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31:24 he did not miss...
he made the self proclaimed god bleed...
in front of all his army...
Leonidas made the god bleed....
what does that, to the minds of those, that believe, that xerxes is an invincible, immortal god....
Hi flower, there is a Brazilian actor in this film, His name is Rodrigo Santoro, I always see your reactions.... Kisses flower...😘😘😘🇧🇷
7000 Greeks vs more than 300,000 Persians. the first wave of Persians was 130,000 and was defeated by 300 Spartans while defending the road to Greece while the other Greek states were fighting the Persians by sea or trying to hold other territories. the reason why they are called the 300 is that not one spartan fell till the last wave when they got surrounded by the Persian army and were told to give up King Leonidas and join the Perian military or they would release all the arrows on them to the point the sky would be darkened by the volley of Persian arrows on them and one of the closest friends to king Leonidas said then we will fight under a shade and all the spartans started laughing at the Persian army. while the arrows were falling. and because of King Leonidas and his 300 Greece survived
The sequel "300- Rise of Empire" continues the story.
If you like 300 then Troy starring Brad Pitt as Achilles is a must
Although it does embellish a bit, the movie is a part of history.
Benefits of a classical Naval warfare education.
I'd like to believe this battle was as epic as this.. movie battle really hypes it up. They probably held their own for a bit..but the numbers game always wins in the end. You can have 100 muscle bound men..but 1000 pee wee hermans will eventually getcha...lol🤣🤣
This movie is kind of neccesary nowadays... Zack Snyder is a very interesting director, you should try another movies of him.
Nice reactions! Keep it up. Could you react to "Poseidon" 2006 in your next movie reactions please?. It would be really amazing. Few people have reacted to it 😃. I'm leaving my like.
This was about the Battle of Thermopylae
17:00 - "It's a massacre!" - well...yes...but not how you think :P
The Battle of the Themophyles did not take place as shown in the film 300. There were an estimated 30,000 Greeks, the number of Persians fluctuated between 100,000 and 500,000, with 500,000 being more than unrealistic for an army that landed by sea. The fact is that the Greeks held the pass for several days until they were outflanked and threatened in the rear. In order to enable the Greeks to withdraw, around 300 in fact remained; some sources also speak of 3,000 spatiates to cover the retreat. The fact that 300 Spartans bore the brunt of the fighting for several days is completely false.
But in historical battle 300 spartan with 7000 other greek state as well if i remember correctly this movie which i still love it based on the book novel
Part 2 please
I can't believe you've never seen 300. There's beefcake. you'll like it
Ohh loved you makeup and and outfit.
Thank you😊🌼
I recently found your channel. I really enjoyed the reaction to the videos I have seen. I looked at your reactions and saw you haven't reacted to The Last Samurai or any of the John Wick movies. I am pretty sure you will love them.
Only slaves and those too weak to fight follow unjust rules.
Obviously this is a movie based on a comic book which is loosely based on a historical event. But what is true is that 300, plus a few thousand others and the Athenian Fleet, stood against the largest imperial army and fleet assembled up to that time. The series of battles that followed assured a Western civilization versus Eastern survived long enough for Alexander the Great to reverse imperialism. The 300 saved the Grecian later Roman later European ideal of the noble individual and freedom, with all its brutal perversions to the contrary.
Spartan Society was a warped truly toxic masculine society so homosexual that soldiers were required to marry and reproduce. Even so between low birth rates, constant wars and slave revolts the Spartans literally disappeared even though their city remained. And as hard as it is for modern Westerners to understand, slaves were the economic engine in every civilization no matter how “free” and Democratic. Spartan women were also legendarily athletic, not to give birth to real men, but to suppress the largest slave versus citizen ratio in Greece.
This movies might be epic but not historically accurate, starting spartans hand chest armor, persians were highly disciplined soldiers not dumb soldiers charging the battlefield they walked and not run if they came closer to the enemy were already dead by tiring, and mutch more the propaganda of being invincible, was so fake, thebes when won against sparta let the corpses rot in battlefield to every soul that came to pass to see they were dead, also was the only greek city state known to make another greeks slaves.
A Persian excited for spartans 😮
Great movie!
Bravo.
Next great reaction😊 And your makeup was cool and... sexy😁 Greetings from Poland
He didn't miss it was his plan to make Xerxes bleed! not kill him.
That look really suits you, amazing
With all the testosterone in this movie you are now pregnant with a Spartan King. He will be born with a full beard, six packs abs, and a Spartan sword covered in blood yelling in victory, HOO HOO HOOOOO.
These men and this battle is 480 years older then Yushua/Jesus. Like 2600/2700 years ago. Zaxis zurichies went back home and was killed by his bodyguard. Not very long after this battle.
Solo los 300 derrotaron a miles en la historia real. Y sino no los traicionan dándoles a los Persas la información del paso de las Termopilas, los hubieran derrotado a todos. De los mejores guerreros de la historia!. Espartanos
this is such a bad ass film and when your GF loves it to you've done well
23:16 lol you actually said it with the greek pronunciation.
Hello from
Sparta
yes it was a real battle during the second persian invasion on greece
the invasion ended with a persian defeat on battle of platea
King Leonidas and his wife Queen Gorgo were Uncle and Niece
Really?😶
@@Elena_Rea it is a fact, but of course it was not uncommon at the time
Yes, 300 was based on an actual battle. No it is not historicaly accurate. This movie is based on a graphic novel that was based on a movie from the 1960's called 300 Spartans. So you are watching a movie based on comic book that was based on another movie. Pretty much everything in the movie is made up accept for the location and the names of Leonidas and Xerxes.
Is real check also battle of marathon and battle of salamis
This movie is definitely NOT for you and your sensitivity!!!
Посмотри 300 Спартанцев Рассвет империи!
He missed the shot on a purpose just to show the world that even god can bleed
He didn’t Miss remember his said when it’s all said and done 300 men stood too a tyrant and he would show him a god king could bleed and the god king saw his blood
I think you need to give a little more time in the acting ..there is more than just an epic movie
Привет I like your reactions
my wife and i think you have a beautiful accent. do you mind if i ask what your ethnic background is or where you are from or what culture you represent? love your reactions so far! much aloha from Maui!!!
Hey, and thank you so much! 😉 I have Greek, Russian, Ukrainian roots
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You are scary women, you were to happy when they kicked the messenger down the well. 😳
That V neck.......
As a dumb, fun action movie this is a good one, but if you know about actual Spartan society it's just silly. First off, their whole culture was built on owning massive amounts of slaves. It's how the warrior class could focus solely on being soliders: they had hundreds of thousands of slaves doing all their labor for them. So this whole "we hate slavery and love freedom" thing is just pure nonsense. Also they wore full armour, Leonidas died early on in the battle, and the Arcadian Greeks had some pretty strong armies. Also the Persians were pretty cool for the times they lived in. They were imperliasts, but they were very good to the people they conquered when compared to other invading armies of the day. The tithes they took were actually pretty reasonable, they didn't massacre entire civilian populations when they took cities and they allowed people from outside of Persia to retain their own religions and cultures. That's why the early Jews saw them as liberators. Next to the Babylonians and Assyrians that they were used to being invaded by the Persians were wonderful.
Does that symbol on your forehead have any meaning to it?
Nope) It's just art☺
Her hairs minted
Even thousands of years ago proto-fascism and barely repressed (in the film, not at all in the historical Sparta) homosexuality went hand in hand! Zack Snyder makes good looking bad movies.
Ract LOTR
thats fantasy movie, not historical..,
Bravo, finally there is people who knows the true about this movie. and others aswell when says based on history.
V neck
Don't be delusional
This movie is a lie and has no truth
Iranians and Xerxes were not and are not like this
We conquered Greece easily and you are still under delusion😅
SORRY BUT WHAT DID YOU LEARN IN " SCHOOL " THAT YOU DIDNT KNOW OF THAT WAR ?? EVER HEARD OF " MARATHON " I PERSUME ONLY FROM THE LONGEST RUN ??? BUT WERE DID THE NAME FOR THAT SPORT CAMME FROM BO CLUE , WELL ALSO A BATTLE AGAINST THE PERSIANS BY THE GREEKS . THERE IS A SAYING IF YOU DONT KNOW HISTORY YOU WONT UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE
this movie about 300 is historically inaccurate.
@@kvatchyobiv8540 DO YOU WANT TO SAY THAT THE BATTLE NEVER TOOK PLACE ???
@@mjgFlati Nope, i just want to tell that don't romantize movies inspired in history, confunding with actual history, the story told in actual book before this movie, was inspired in the cronicles of the 300 ancient greeks but has a detail, was written by an spartan, Leonidas allied first to Xerxes to atack the Athenians and his allies in exchange Xerxes would give Leonidas all Greece, when Xerxes didn't wanted to give Leonidas Athens after burning the city Sparta took the side of the other greeks, before the excuse was like in the movie, "the oracle says not the time to go to war or festivities to the gods are taken place".
Borth Sparta and the Persia were autocratic politics no freedom how can a city state defend freedom where was the only one to make other greeks slaves?
The battle took place and for 2 times sparta asked athens to switch the formation with them to be called by Xerxes as cowards, 300 really died but was too mutch romantization about what really was sparta.
@@mjgFlati Another example of the innacurate history in this movie, the kids when agoge was made as training was no other diferent of other greek in terms of kids wandering few clothing and bare feet to develop natural defenses and skills, aswell agoge was said if necessary to kill, the killing refered was an elite of kids sent in secret just to kill slaves from the surrounding enemy cities to instigate fear, killing unharmed people including woman and children, in the battle they wore armor not bare chest as it is so bad, all greeks had chesplate armor, any good soldier of that time can't only rely on shield for his survival, because was good before coming close to body but was easly broken due to low quality metal in that era remembering was during the bronze age when this metal was very brittle.
I'M TALKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPEND AND YOU ARE TALKING IF IT IS ACCURATE WHAT THEY WERE WEARING IN THE MOVIE . I'M SAYING THAT THIS REALY TOOK PLACE AND YOU TALK ABOUT ARMOR , ARE YOU SAIN ?? OR DONT YOU STILL UNDERSTAND ?????
It's a nonsense fantasy movie, not historical at all, the battles actually happened but this movie is just a nonsense based on history
If you’re going to skip all the best scenes, then don’t bother making a video
All the best scenes are in the full movie
This was one of the worse "reaction" videos I've seen of this great movie. So disapointed how you blurred out multiple scenes. I had to tune out.