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Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite.
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"Zack Snyder fulfills the promise he showed in Dawn of the Dead with a vivid, colorful saga about the heroic Spartans that's just as visionary as Sin City and is also more engaging and entertaining." - Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.comSnyder perfectly captures the look and feel of Miller's original work with a movie that's fun, exciting and sick without ever losing sight of the story or characters. - Edward Douglas, comingsoon.net
Director Zack Snyder adapts Frank Miller's graphic novel with passion and creativity, proving that classical storytelling will never go out of style. - Todd Gilchrist, IGN Movies
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Gerard Butler ("Phantom of the Opera") is well cast as the charismatic Spartan leader Leonidas. A feared and revered military king, he rules with the guidance and support of his queen, Gorgo (Lena Headey). Leonidas and Gorgo watch each other's backs. She is a great contributor to his strategic thinking, and they seem to enjoy both emotional and intellectual partnership, one obviously tainted by a contemporary perspective.Under Leonidas' regime, Spartans are taught the values of endurance and fearlessness--to have no mercy for their opponents. A steeliness of character dominates their culture, from the way boys are trained to the way women must surrender their children in warfare. A strict code of honor and duty is ingrained in them, affecting how they breathe, act, and interact in their daily lives.
As an actress, Lena Headey possesses an innate grace that's essential to the role of Gorgo, which is not a prominent figure in Miller's tale. Gorgo has already lost her husband, but admitting that would be too much, so she fights with her heart in the political arena.
Plot gears into action, when a messenger rides into town with a warning that the army of a thousand conquered nations is marching towards Sparta. Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) has brought the ancient world to its knees through audacity. An enigmatic figure covered with exotic jewels, Xerxes is carried on a golden throne by slaves. A rich, arrogant megalomaniac, he behaves like a self-proclaimed God-King. His ambition for glory and victory is unlimited, but underneath, he's weak and insecure.
Leonidas reacts to the Persian threat by killing the messengers, but Sparta's politicians don't want to fight. Theron (Dominic West) represents a new kind of Spartan, one more interested in power negotiating than fighting for freedom. A dishonest politician (who gets the best lines of dialogue), Theorn has a dual nature, reflected in his treacherous appeasement of the Persians.
The Spartan Council sends Leonidas to consult the Oracle-a young woman corralled by Ephors, ancient men who interpret her signs. The council doesn't want to have a battle, using the Carneia celebration of the moon as an excuse not to go to war.
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Dilios, a Spartan warrior and storyteller (well played by Aussie actor David Wenham, best known for "Lord of the Rings" trilogy), is the key to Snyder's resolution as to how to unify the episodic, effects-driven saga. Having a narrator who tells the story allows Miller's fantasy world to come to life. Dilios' voice provides the movie's poetic flux--his version of events would become the narrative future generations will pass along. A writer who knows how not to ruin a good story with the truth, Dilios makes events bigger when they need to be bigger, do whatever it takes to motivate the Spartans.The trio leading the 300 Spartans consists of Leonidas, Dilios, and an enigmatic but intense warrior named the Captain (Vincent Regan). The Captain brings with him to battle his eldest son, Astinos (Tom Wisdom), thus making a great sacrifice because it's seen as a suicide mission. There are only 300 Spartans against a million soldiers of the Persian Empire. Astinos and Stelios (Michael Fassbender) represent the spontaneous enthusiasm of the young Spartan warriors.
But makes no mistake: Xerxes' army represents a worthy adversary. Xerxes has willed an exotic and extraordinary force comprised of physical oddities, brute strength, wild African animals, magic practitioners, and his elite guard called the Immortals, skilled and fierce-looking masked warriors.
Leonidas is the opposite of Xerxes, who sits up in his high tower, bribing, seducing, and killing his men to achieve victory. There's a poignant exchange when Xerxes says, "How can you ever stand against me, when I would gladly kill any one of my men for victory?" To which Leonidas notes, "And I would die for any one of mine."
Leonidas's plan is to use Greece's geography against the Persians, leading his men to the Hot Gates of Thermopylae-a narrow corridor between two towering rocks on the cliffs of the Adriatic. But it is not invulnerable, as Leonidas learns from a deformed onlooker, Ephialtes (Andrew Tiernan), who tells him of a hidden goat path behind the rocks. A tragic character, Ephialtes was outcast from Sparta at birth, and all he wants now is to be a Spartan.
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Who was historical Leonidas ?
Leonidas was a 5th century B.C. Spartan military king who bravely led a small force of Greeks -- mostly Spartan (the famous 300), but also Thespians and Thebans -- against the much larger Persian army of Xerxes, at the pass of Thermopylae, in 480 B.C. during the Persian Wars. According to Herodotus, Leonidas had been warned by the Delphic oracle that either Sparta would be destroyed or their king would lose his life. Leonidas chose the second alternative.All the Spartans and Thespians died, including Leonidas, although Herodotus says the Thebans had never wanted to be there and surrendered when Leonidas was killed. The Persians mangled the corpse of Leonidas.
Leonidas was the half-brother of King Cleomenes I of Sparta. After Cleomenes' suicide, Leonidas was made king because Cleomenes had died without a son or other closer male relative.
Leonidas was also married to Cleomenes' only child and heir, Gorgo. Herodotus says this was part of the reason he became king. Since they were kings from the Agiad line, both Cleomenes and Leonidas claimed Heracles (Hercules) as ancestor.
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About the battle at Thermopylae - 480 B.C.
What Was the Battle at Thermopylae?Thermopylae was a pass that the Greeks tried unsuccessfully to defend in battle against the Persians led by Xerxes in 480 B.C. Although the Spartans who led the defense were all killed (and may have known in advance that they would be), their courage provided inspiration to the Greeks, many of whom otherwise might have willingly become part of the Persian Empire (the relevant verb is "medize" from the word Mede). The following year the Greeks did win battles agains the Persians.
Persians Attack the Greeks at Thermopylae:
Xerxes' fleet of Persian ships had sailed along the coastline from northern Greece into the Gulf of Malia on the eastern Aegean Sea towards the mountains at Thermopylae. The Greeks faced the Persian army at a narrow pass there that controlled the only road between Thessaly and Central Greece. The Spartan general and king Leonidas was in charge of the Greek forces that tried to restrain the vast Persian army and keep them from attacking the rear of the Greek navy (under Athenian control). Leonidas may have hoped to block them long enough that Xerxes would have to sail away for food and water.
Ephialtes and Anopaia:
Unfortunately for Leonidas, after a couple of days, a medizing traitor named Ephialtes led the Persians around the pass behind the Greek army. The name of Ephialtes' path behind the pass at Thermopylae (which means "hot gates") is Anopaea (or Anopaia); its exact location is debated.
Leonidas sent away most of the amassed troops.
Greeks Fight the Immortals:
On the third day, Leonidas led his 300 Spartan hoplites (elite troops selected because they had living sons back home) plus the allied Thespians and Thebans against Xerxes and his army of "10,000 Immortals." The Spartan-led forces fought this unstoppable Persian force to their deaths in order to block the pass long enough to keep Xerxes and his army occupied while the rest of the Greek army escaped.
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Historical characters and interesting facts
The Aristeia of Dieneces:According to Cartledge, the Spartan Dieneces was so virtuous (aristeia relates to virtue and to the reward given the most honored soldier, which in this battle was Dieneces) that when he was told that there were so many Persian archers that the sky would grow dark with the flying missiles, his laconic reply was: "So much the better -- we shall fight them in the shade." Spartan boys were trained in night raids, so although this was a show of bravery, there was more to it.
A Bit About Themistocles:
Themistocles was the Athenian in charge of the Athenian naval fleet that in name was under the Spartan Eurybiades. Themistocles had persuaded the Greeks to use the bounty from a newly found vein or silver at its mines at Laurium to build the naval fleet of 200 triremes. When some of the Greek leaders wanted to leave Artemisium before the battle with the Persians, Themistocles bribed and bullied them into staying. Some years later Themistocles was ostracized by the Athenians.
The Corpse of Leonidas:
After Leonidas died, there is a story that the Greeks tried to retrieve the corpse in a gesture worthy of the Myrmidons trying to rescue Patroclus in the Iliad XVII, but to no avail. The Thebans surrendered, the Spartans and Thespians retreated and were shot by Persian archers. The body of Leonidas may have been crucified or beheaded on Xerxes' orders. It was retrieved about 40 years later.
Aftermath:
Persians, whose naval fleet had already suffered seriously from storm damage, then (or simultaneously) attacked the Greek fleet at Artemisium, with both sides suffering heavy losses. According to Peter Green, the Spartan Demaratus (on Xerxes staff) recommended splitting the navy and sending part to Sparta, but the Persian navy had been too heavily damaged to do so -- fortunately for the Greeks.
In September of 480, aided by northern Greeks, the Persians marched on Athens and burned it to the ground, but it had been evacuated.
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