DISCLAIMER: If you haven’t seen 300 yet, the content in the movie is definitely not for children (or anyone for that matter) and not just because of the violence. And if you don’t 300 see it, check it out and maybe it’ll save you. But if you must know the end, everyone dies. If you don’t believe me, Google “Thermopyla” and read a little for yourself.
OK, first let me say that although I was very motivated, I thought the 300 was a terrible movie. Now let’s get into my mind before I avoid hating “greatest movies forever” or whatever they say. surrounded Take what I tell you about authority, that is, ‘I know what I speak.’ I am currently training to be a professional historian. I am present in the class that “The most ancient Greeks in Greeks” taught by Dr. Jane Bishop, who specializes in in Byzantine History (basically Greece under the Romans and then the Byzantine Empire, which was the eastern half after Rome. Rome fell) . To keep a firm hold on Byzantine history, let’s keep a firm buffer on Greek history. I am Mr. Epus. To give you an idea of Mr. Bishop’s brilliance, he usually sits in a chair at the front of the school and talks while I transcribe the pill to his brilliance. Although he sometimes looks down at the sheet, he has almost the whole of Greek history in his head, well organized and well articulated. I find myself amazed that I usually forget 90% of what we learn in history classes the week after I finish the course. So basically, Dr. Bishop knows his stuff. And I’m learning from Mr. Bishop that it means having a pretty good understanding of his protection (ok maybe I’m selling myself short, but what I’m trying to say is, even though I only got the light. what he knows is still a load of fun).
Where shall we begin? Let’s start from the beginning. Spartan tradition seeks to preserve only the strong and discard the weak. Well… the whole scene where the creepy guy is playing with the baby and putting him down, “King Rock Leo” above “wouldn’t have happened”. It is likely that it was done in a domestic setting. Also below the “Leon King Rock”, which I remind you was not in Sparta, was not a pile of bones. This the Lacedaemonians did, if a child was born to men, to leave them in the hills. They did not want to throw them to death; nay, indeed, they would live altogether, and leave whomsoever it was to die. On the other hand, there is always some child to come and take home. Who would do this? A Helot, as The Helots, a nation of those whom the Dorians, when they had invaded Greece, conquered Greece, the mixed nations abstained from the Helots, and made a servile race under their feet. The helots were more at home in Sparta than in Sparta, however, if you watch the movie watch, it shows accurately. by the fact that the Lacedaemonians were in control. This brings me to where there were no Helots in the film. For among four hundred other soldiers (not in the film) they were fighting among 300 Lacedaemonian Helots at Thermopylae.
In another way, the system of moving the whole discipline is discredited. There was definitely some truth in it, but a boy allegedly wearing a woolen Speedo in the snow hunting wolves barefoot? I had my cousins. But there was such a thing as a ‘crypt’ where the children of Lacedaemon, about the year 15, were sent into the hills to kill the Helots. This thing he prepared to kill, not only for the passage, but also for the battles, which would be much more terrible than to kill a slave. Moreover, the Lacedaemonians had the means of keeping the Helots on their toes, lest they should rise up against them.
I think also the Lacedaemonians. But this does not mean that the Spartans did not have as much, if not more, popular pride than some Americans. My thoughts were that this movie was more of an American kind of patriotism that involved freedom and other such sentiments… I remember carrying this movie with me from memory. Another thing about the women of Sparta. Spartan women were much freer than all the other Greeks. In Athens they generally gave birth to their children there and stayed the rest of the time from their journey. The Spartan queen addressing Gerousia (the council of elders 28) said that this did not happen. I found an anachronism in the film…the queen of Sparta reading something about the creepy Gerousia guy standing at Thermopylae in the ‘pages of history’. This is particularly interesting to me because the Greeks not only wrote in volumes (not pages), but history had not yet been discovered (in the conventional sense, that is). Herodotus, who is credited with discovering the history of the Persian War between 431 and 425 B.C. and the battle of Thermopylae took place in 480 B.C., which is 49 years later. Also, that creepy Gerousia member (the guy who stole the queen’s race but wasn’t really) was at least 60 above the precipitous set) do not 90 year old turds (just out of curiosity, if you really live on top of a high rock, why would you need gold, what would you spend it on? Oh? The whole thing with that solemnity, why they couldn’t send an army, was what happened in the battle of Marathon, just like the Lacedaemonians but the Athenians were kicked out of the Persians without the Lacedaemonians.
They did look at the little ones, but there was nothing particularly mystical about them (why would you touch your leper son?). That whole porn type scene with the oracle (pretty Lacon girl who went nuts when Ephori opened her mini cover -barbecue) doesn’t It happened to Sparta. Almost all the Lacedaemonians went to the oracle of Delphi, who had to have something decent. Moreover, the Delphic oracle was not like some Spartan captive, who was forced to prophesy. The Delphic oracle was a noble priest who spoke for one certain god, not gods. It is not known whether the oracle spoke for a male god, but the Delphic oracle was the only female oracle who spoke for a male god. And yet another type of state… Lacedaemon had 2 kings. It was more of an oligarchy than an autocracy… The film flew by as one king, Leonidas, happened to be the king who went to battle while the other stayed at home.
The war story though… we could have held Sparta itself, but it’s much more that you rubbed me the wrong way in this movie than that. Apart from the excessive CGI blood that is shot every time someone falls, apart from the few times someone gets decapitated, in which case no blood is shot from the carotid arteries until the head is the obvious way of the body… I guess. the action of the body’s adrenaline and prolonged exertion is not enough to pressurize the two major blood channels in the body. My bad, to fight! First, they got the story right.
It was narrow (perhaps not very dramatic as it appeared, but still about five hundred and fifty men), they held out for a few days, and finally they were betrayed by a certain Greek (not the traitorous Lacedaemonian before Quasimodo. like the film boards) who showed them a narrow path around the narrows, which the Persians they seized and slaughtered the Spartans from behind (not dominated by archery stones as depicted in the film). Each battle was fought, but the Phalanx was generally more disciplined than it appeared in the film. The phalanx looked on in the first Persian attack, but after that the Persian attack broke ranks, they fought undisciplined ninja-like. Not so sure it’s accurate.
It was a force to unite the forces in the Phalanx. He did not allow Leonidas to fight in the Phalanx as it were, because the shield could not be protected high enough, whoever was next. in the movie As if it were suitable. One thing that was really wrong with the movie was that they were portraying the Arcades, who were really just a division of a few Greek states that sent the people. Lovers of arcades make a formidable figure who has never before engaged in battle. All the Greeks were skilled in military affairs; The Spartans were soon besieged. The Athenian phalanx was just as much as the other phalanx, although the force itself was in the fleet. Don’t be afraid of arcades; yet some of their number remained, such as the Thebans, who were unwillingly held. The purpose of this whole stand of Thermopylae was to buy a sacrifice time to defend the country to the Athenians and prepare the naval battle at Salamis. Part of the cause of Thermopylae was developed because the Athenians with their fleet stopped the Persians from going to sea. But certainly, the other groups knew how to rule the Phalanx as well as anyone else, the Lacedaemonians
Sorry girls, but the Spartans weren’t that good looking (I certainly don’t think so). Muscle, probably… a six pack cut? which I doubt. The diet of the Lacedaemonians consisted of some sort of dirty stuff, especially a bitter black soup, which was the object of a lesson in the perception of the food which the farmers stole in their forage. It probably wasn’t even pretty. The Spartans used to breed only with the Spartans…Spain also has this problem…what? Everyone in Spain looks the same… But this argument is trivial. One thing that ticked me off was the arms. I don’t believe the Spartans took Orc swords to the Lord of the Rings… but that’s just me. I do not believe that the Spartans drew their shields out of thin air. for they had only metal targets. The rim was metal and the center was metal… the rest was made of several layers of leather and wood, really too hard, I think. I noticed one guy’s metal helmet flexing like rubber when he took it off, but that’s just cheap. The red cape was accurate, but the lack of weapons was not.
Although Renaissance artists could paint Greeks, they were generally not nudes. Spartan soldiers, though not nudists, sported uncomfortable Speedos, perhaps wool or leather, but all were equal. Spartan soldiers were known as “Hoplites” (Hop-Lee-Tehs…not Hop-Lights), which turned a man into maker in war You cannot wear armor like a hoplite (a full armor consisting of a spear, a shield, a metal studded breastplate, a helmet, and a pair of greaves). if you didn’t have armor, you couldn’t fight in the Phalanx. Yes, the Greeks are going to fight. Another thing is that the archpriests’ shields were characteristic of Sparta in the year 380. 360 years later, this is a scene where the Greeks charged the Phalanx. He held the gaps in the shields. But much more…
Another thing that blew me away in this movie was their portrayal of the Persians. It is true that the Persians beat their men into battle, yet they themselves advance in battle. They had a reason for war. Dealing with infinite arrows is probably overkill, although semi-probable. In fact, the authority of the Persians shot so many arrows that they block the sun and told the Spartans. in the shadow they will soon fight then is a historical quote. For example, there is what is called “laconic genius”, but we will not go into that, because it is a paragraph in itself. The Persians, having driven their ships by storm, were driven away, although part of the Persian fleet was wrecked on the coast of Euboea near Euboea, which was a stranger to the battle. Indeed, the Persian army led to the sea coast by a more amphibious crossing. They made landfall on the coast when they invaded Greece years before the Marathon war. I don’t believe the Persians had war elephants as gargantuan as Lord of the Rings, if they carried elephants at all. Here, if I am not mistaken, was Hannibal, who broke the bad boys from Africa, whom he took across the Alps, and who terrorized Rome for several years during the second Punic war… or was it the first? Nah second… who cares? A huge deal is a stupid rhinoceros.
I don’t believe that Xerxes was really a huge version of Dennis Rodman with the voice of James Earl Jones, although I think I got a sense of his personality (or at least what I think it is… how the Bible describes the Persians. and kings in general from that part of the world, as well as their foreign policies. The thing with huge thrones carried by countless people is kind of obscene, especially since Xerxes is without any significant guard. Leonidas and Xerxes never had a little chat between they had the following of the fight. Even the most famous unit of the Persians, the ‘Immortals,’ were not Guy Fawkes’s look-alikes. which affirms that they were made of horsemen.) I am not mistaken, that the Persians were distinguished by their cavalry, and their armies were very good. This is a picture of the rendition of the immortals…weeping! Although they were very pleased with the movie.
“Epitas E Epitan” My favorite Spartan quote, was one of the few things they really did right. Epitas E Epitan means: Go there or in that, or return with a shield in general (omitting the shield of cowardice and flight of the Phalanx… you would live shamefully for Sparta if you did that) or you would come. they carried the back over your shield (shields were used as litters to carry dead warriors home). Lacaena, the mothers, I think, said this to their sons before they went to war… maybe it was his wife. Farewell to private doubts, to set out troops, who knows not? They did this in the movie, here is a shot of the scene where they say goodbye:
Finally, I didn’t just find the film disgusting historically. I’m also tired of frequent gratuitous pornographic scenes. There was no need for the oracle’s fruitful exposure. There was no need for sex between Leonidas and the queen, which was worse than the oracle. And there was even less work, although more plot twists this time around, which involved Xerxes suggesting many of his obviously bisexual “ho’s” to the sort-of-looking guy. I honestly don’t see this movie being suitable for anyone other than a pervert, unless maybe those scenes were cut (which really could be cut without harming the film). I am morally and historically offended by this film. But again, I mean motivation. It was much truer to the movie than meets the eye, but also had to clean up a ton of mistakes. Terrible movie, don’t watch it.
