300 Movie Transcript
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When the boy was born
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like old Spartans
he was inspected.
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If he had been small
or puny or sickly or misshapen
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he would've been discarded.
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From the time he could stand, he was
baptized in the fire of combat.
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Taught never to retreat,
never to surrender,
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taught that death on the battlefield
in service to Sparta
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is the greatest glory he could
achieve in his life.
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At age seven, as
is customary in Sparta.
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the boy was taken from his mother
and plunged in a world of violence.
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Manufactured by 300 years,
a Spartan warrior society
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to create the finest soldiers
the world has ever known.
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The agoge is its goal.
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It forces the boy to fight,
starves him.
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It forces him to steal.
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And, if necessary,
to kill.
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By rod and lash,
the boy was punished.
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Taught to show no pain,
no mercy.
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Hunts to be tested,
tossed into the wild.
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Let to pit his wits and will
against nature's fury.
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It was his initiation.
His time in the wild.
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For he would return
to his people as Spartan
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or not at all.
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The wolf begins
to circle the boy.
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Claws of black steel
burned this dark night.
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Eyes glowing red,
jewels from the pit of hell itself.
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The giant wolf sniffing,
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savoring the scent
of the meal to come.
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It's not fear that grips him,
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only a heightened
sense of things.
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The cold air in his lungs.
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Winds swept pines,
moving against the coming night.
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His hands are steady.
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His form... perfect.
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And so the boy, given up for dead,
returns to his people.
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To sacred Sparta, a king.
Our king!
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Leonidas!
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It's been more than 30 years
since the wolf and the winter cold.
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Now, as then, a beast approaches.
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Patient and confident,
savoring the meal to come.
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This beast is made of men
and horses, swords and spears.
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An army of slaves,
vast beyond imagining,
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ready to devour tiny Greece.
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Ready to snuff out the world's
one hope for reason and justice.
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A beast approaches.
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It was King Leonidas himself
who provoked it.
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Subtitled by Mihai
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300- Heroes of Thermopylae
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My father taught me
that fear is always a constant.
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By accepting it,
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it makes you stronger.
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My queen.
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The Persian emissary
awaits Leonidas.
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In the end, the Spartan's true strength
is the warrior next to him.
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So give respect and honor to him.
It will be returned to you.
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First, you fight with your head.
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Then you fight with your heart.
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What is it?
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It's the Persian messenger.
He awaits you.
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Do not forget today's lesson.
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- Respect and honour.
- Respect and honour.
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Councilman Theron,
you found yourself needed for once.
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My king and queen,
I was just entertaining your guests.
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I'm sure.
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Before you speak, Persian,
know that in Sparta
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everyone, even a King's messenger,
is held accountable
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for the words of his voice.
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Now, what message
do you bring?
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Earth and water.
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You rode all the way from Persia
for earth and water?
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Do not be coy or stupid, Persian.
You can afford neither in Sparta.
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What makes this woman think
she can speak amongst men?
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Because only Spartan women
give birth to real men.
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Let us walk
to cool our tongues.
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If you value your lives
over your complete annihilation,
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listen carefully, Leonidas.
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Xerxes conquers and controls everything
he rests his eyes upon.
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He leads an army so massive
it shakes the ground with its march.
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So vast it drinks
the rivers dry.
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All the God-King Xerxes
requires is this.
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A simple offering of earth
and water.
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A token of Sparta's submission
to the will of Xerxes.
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Submission?
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Well, that's a bit of a problem.
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See, rumor has it the Athenians
have already turned you down.
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And if those philosophers and boy-lovers
have found that kind of nerve...
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We must be diplomatic.
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And of course, Spartans...
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...have their reputation
to consider.
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Choose your next words
carefully, Leonidas.
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They may be your last
as king.
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Earth and water.
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Madman.
You're a madman.
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Earth and water.
You'll find plenty of both down there.
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No man, Persian or Greek...
No man threatens a messenger.
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You bring your crowns and heads
of conquered kings to my city steps.
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You insult my queen.
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You threaten my people
with slavery and death.
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Oh, I've chosen my words
carefully, Persian.
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Perhaps you should
have done the same.
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This is blasphemy.
This is madness.
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Madness?
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This is Sparta!
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Welcome, Leonidas.
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We have been expecting you.
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The ephors.
Priests to the old gods.
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Inbred swine,
more creature than man.
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Creatures whom even Leonidas
must bribe and beg.
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No Spartan king has gone to war
without the ephors' blessing.
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The Persians claim their forces
number in the milions.
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I hope, for our sake,
they exaggerate.
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But there's no question we face
the most masive army ever assembled.
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Before your plan is heard,
what do you offer?
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We will use our superior
fighting skills,
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and the terrain of Greece itself
to destroy them.
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We will march north,
to the coast.
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- We'll make sure...
- It is august, Leonidas.
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The full moon approaches.
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Tha sacred and ancient festival.
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Sparta wages no war
at the time of the Carneia.
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Sparta will burn!
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Our men will die armed
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and your women
and children will be slaves or worse.
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Now, we will block
the Persian coastal assault,
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by rebuilding the great
Phocian wall.
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From now, we will funnel them
into the mountain pass
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we call The Hot Gates.
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Now, in that narrow corridor,
their numbers will count for nothing.
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Wave after wave of Persian attack
would smash against Spartan shields.
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Xerxes' losses will be so great,
his men so demoralized
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he will have no choice
but to abandon his campaign.
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We must consult the Oracle.
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Trust the gods, Leonidas.
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I'd prefer you trusted
your reason.
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Your blasphemies have cost us
quite enough already.
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Don't compound them.
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We will consult the Oracle.
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Diseased old mystics.
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Worthless remnants
of the time
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before Sparta's ascent
from darkness.
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Remnants of a senseless
tradition.
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A tradition even Leonidas
cannot defy.
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For he must respect
the word of the ephors.
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That is the law.
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And no Spartan,
subject or citizen,
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man or woman, slave or king
is above the law.
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The ephors choose only
the most beautiful Spartan girls
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to live amongst them
as oracles.
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Their beauty is their curse.
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For the old wretches
have the needs of men...
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...and souls as black as hell.
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Pray to the winds.
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Sparta will fall.
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All Greece will fall.
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Trust not in men.
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Honor the gods.
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Honor the Carneia.
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The king's climb down
is harder.
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Pompous, inbred swine.
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Worthless, diseased, rotten.
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Corrupt.
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Truly you're in the God King's
favor now.
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Oh, wise and holy men.
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Yes.
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And when Sparta burns,
you shall bathe in gold.
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Fresh oracles shall be delivered
to you daily,
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from every corner
of the Empire.
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Your lips gonna finish
what your fingers have started.
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Has the oracle rogued you
of your desire as well?
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It will take more than the words
of a drunken adolescent girl
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to rogue me of my desire
for you.
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Then why is it distant?
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Because it seems now
I'am a...
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...slave and captive
of luxurious old men.
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The oracle's words can set fire
to all that I love.
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So that is why my king
loses sleep
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and is forced from
the warmth of his bed?
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There's only
one woman's words
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that should affect
the mood of my husband.
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Those are mine.
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Then what must a king do
to save his world
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when the very laws he has sworn
to protect force him to do nothing.
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It is not a question of what
a Spartan citizen should do,
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nor a husband, nor a king.
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Instead ask yourself,
my dearest love:
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What should a free man do?
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- This is all of them?
- As you ordered. 300.
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All with born sons
to carry on their name.
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We are with you, sire.
For Sparta, for freedom.
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To the death.
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He is your son.
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He is too young
to have felt a woman's warmth.
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I have others to replace him.
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Astinos is as brave
and ready as any.
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No younger than we were the first time
you stood next to me in battle.
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You are a good friend.
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But a better captain...
There is none.
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My good king.
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My good king,
the oracle has spoken.
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The ephors have spoken.
There must be no march.
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It is the law, my lord.
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The Spartan army must
not go to war.
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Nor shall it.
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I've issued no such orders.
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I'm here just taking
a stroll, stretching my legs.
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These 300 men are
my personal bodyguard.
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- Our army will stay in Sparta.
- Where will you go?
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I hadn't really thought
about it, but I...
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...now that you ask,
I suppose I'll head north.
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The Hot Gates.
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Move out!
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Move out!
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What shall we do?
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- What can we do?
- What can you do?
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Sparta will need sons.
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Spartan!
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Yes, my lady?
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Come back with your shield
or on it.
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Yes, my lady.
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Goodbye, my love.
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He doesn't say it.
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There's no room for softness,
not in Sparta.
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No place for weakness.
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Only the hard and strong
may call themselves Spartans.
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Only the hard, only the strong.
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We march.
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For our lands, for our families,
for our freedoms.
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We march.
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Daxos, what a pleasant surprise.
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This morning is full
of surprises, Leonidas.
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We've been tricked.
Can't be more than a few hundred.
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- This is a surprise.
- Silence!
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We heard Sparta
was on the warpath.
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We were eager to join forces.
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If it is blood you seek,
you're welcome to join us.
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But you bring only this handful
of soldiers against Xerxes?
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I see I was wrong to expect Sparta's
commitment to at least match our own.
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Doesn't it?
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You there.
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- What is your profession?
- I'm a potter, sir.
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And you, Arcadian, what
is your profession?
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- Sculptor, sir.
- Sculptor.
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- And you?
- Blacksmith.
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Spartans, what is your profession?
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See, old friend?
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I brought more soldiers
than you did.
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No sleep tonight.
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Not for the king.
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All his forty years
have been a straight road
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to this one gleaming
moment in destiny.
251
00:29:03,660 --> 00:29:06,866
This one radiant clash
of shield and spear,
252
00:29:06,866 --> 00:29:09,358
sword and boone
and flesh and blood.
253
00:29:12,345 --> 00:29:18,143
His only regret is that he has
so few to sacrifice.
254
00:29:38,826 --> 00:29:40,266
We're being followed.
255
00:29:46,338 --> 00:29:48,204
It has followed us since Sparta.
256
00:29:53,238 --> 00:29:55,447
My king, look!
257
00:30:17,539 --> 00:30:18,649
What happened here?
258
00:30:19,399 --> 00:30:20,572
Where are all the people?
259
00:30:21,385 --> 00:30:22,808
Persians.
260
00:30:23,811 --> 00:30:25,190
I put their number around 20.
261
00:30:27,762 --> 00:30:29,382
Scouted path.
262
00:30:31,989 --> 00:30:34,134
But these footprints.
263
00:30:45,739 --> 00:30:46,523
Leonidas.
264
00:31:01,084 --> 00:31:02,044
Child.
265
00:31:35,344 --> 00:31:37,573
It's quiet now.
266
00:31:38,542 --> 00:31:44,905
They came with mist
from the blackness.
267
00:31:46,311 --> 00:31:50,149
With their claws and fangs
they grabbed us.
268
00:31:51,963 --> 00:31:57,108
Everyone... but me.
269
00:32:09,521 --> 00:32:14,009
The villagers... They found them.
270
00:32:24,645 --> 00:32:26,589
Have the gods no mercy?
271
00:32:28,794 --> 00:32:29,594
We are doomed.
272
00:32:30,775 --> 00:32:32,639
Quiet yourself.
273
00:32:37,177 --> 00:32:39,160
The child speaks
of the Persian ghosts.
274
00:32:39,953 --> 00:32:41,107
Known from the ancient times.
275
00:32:43,334 --> 00:32:44,992
They are the hunters
of men souls.
276
00:32:46,874 --> 00:32:48,656
They cannot be killed
or defeated.
277
00:32:50,266 --> 00:32:51,365
Not this darkness.
278
00:32:52,110 --> 00:32:53,498
Not these Immortals.
279
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,707
Immortals?
280
00:32:58,860 --> 00:33:02,110
We'll put their name
to the test.
281
00:33:23,483 --> 00:33:26,378
Into the Hot Gates we march.
282
00:33:26,616 --> 00:33:29,927
Into that narrow corridor
we march.
283
00:33:29,927 --> 00:33:32,908
Where Xerxes' numbers
count for nothing.
284
00:33:33,972 --> 00:33:37,417
Spartans, citizen soldiers,
freed slaves.
285
00:33:37,417 --> 00:33:39,828
Brave Greeks all.
286
00:33:40,438 --> 00:33:43,691
Brothers, fathers, sons.
287
00:33:43,942 --> 00:33:45,283
We march.
288
00:33:47,005 --> 00:33:50,859
For honor's sake, for duty's sake,
for glory's sake, we march.
289
00:33:50,859 --> 00:33:52,018
Look!
290
00:33:52,267 --> 00:33:53,542
Persians.
291
00:33:59,204 --> 00:34:02,550
Into hell's mouth, we march.
292
00:34:12,156 --> 00:34:14,550
That's our seas,
motherless dogs,
293
00:34:14,550 --> 00:34:17,185
as they're embraced by the loving
arms of Greece itself.
294
00:34:17,642 --> 00:34:18,923
Come.
295
00:34:21,019 --> 00:34:22,452
True.
296
00:34:27,254 --> 00:34:29,420
It does look like rain.
297
00:34:32,688 --> 00:34:35,864
Zeus stabs the skies
with thunderbolts.
298
00:34:36,158 --> 00:34:40,317
And batters the Persian ships
with hurricane wind.
299
00:34:41,698 --> 00:34:43,893
Glorious.
300
00:34:56,275 --> 00:34:59,378
Only one amongst us
keeps his Spartan reserve.
301
00:35:05,102 --> 00:35:06,800
Only he.
302
00:35:07,020 --> 00:35:09,746
Only our king.
303
00:35:27,097 --> 00:35:28,445
My queen.
304
00:35:34,675 --> 00:35:38,700
My queen, the courtyard is
no fitting place for a married woman.
305
00:35:38,927 --> 00:35:42,970
I'm afraid gossip and protocol are
the least of my worries now, councilman.
306
00:35:45,796 --> 00:35:47,668
Such secrecy needed.
307
00:35:47,668 --> 00:35:49,986
How am I to trust
beyond the walls of my own home?
308
00:35:50,409 --> 00:35:54,020
Even here, Theron has eyes and ears
which fuel Sparta with doubt and fear.
309
00:35:54,315 --> 00:35:57,806
You speak as if all Sparta
conspires against you.
310
00:35:58,228 --> 00:36:00,886
I wish they were
only against me.
311
00:36:03,122 --> 00:36:06,414
Many on our council would vote
to give all we have
312
00:36:06,414 --> 00:36:08,527
and follow Leonidas.
313
00:36:08,794 --> 00:36:11,305
But you must show them favor.
314
00:36:13,028 --> 00:36:15,580
And you can arrange me
to speak to the council?
315
00:36:15,580 --> 00:36:17,842
If it is reason they want,
I will let them know.
316
00:36:18,418 --> 00:36:20,601
Know what, my queen?
317
00:36:20,601 --> 00:36:22,970
Freedom isn't free at all.
318
00:36:22,970 --> 00:36:25,226
That it comes with
the highest of costs.
319
00:36:25,226 --> 00:36:27,148
The cost of blood.
320
00:36:28,652 --> 00:36:31,503
I will do my best to gather
our council
321
00:36:31,818 --> 00:36:35,249
and its chambers shall be filled
with your voice.
322
00:36:35,922 --> 00:36:37,768
- I'm in your debt.
- Nope.
323
00:36:38,063 --> 00:36:41,391
Leonidas is my king
as well as yours.
324
00:37:07,086 --> 00:37:09,069
I saw those ships
smash on the rocks.
325
00:37:10,055 --> 00:37:11,536
How can this be?
326
00:37:11,536 --> 00:37:15,107
We saw but a fraction of the monster
that is Xerxes' army.
327
00:37:15,508 --> 00:37:17,436
There can be no victory here.
328
00:37:21,671 --> 00:37:23,331
Why do you smile?
329
00:37:25,249 --> 00:37:30,331
Arcadian, I've fought
countless times
330
00:37:30,331 --> 00:37:32,930
yet I've never met an adversary
that could offer me
331
00:37:32,930 --> 00:37:36,086
what we Spartans call
a beautiful death.
332
00:37:36,605 --> 00:37:38,038
I can only hope,
333
00:37:38,038 --> 00:37:41,229
with all the world's warriors
gathered against us,
334
00:37:41,229 --> 00:37:45,364
there might be one down there
who's up to the task.
335
00:37:56,365 --> 00:37:58,105
Move!
336
00:37:59,796 --> 00:38:01,707
Keep going, you dogs.
337
00:38:10,388 --> 00:38:12,047
Move!
338
00:38:14,003 --> 00:38:16,073
Forward I say.
339
00:38:18,989 --> 00:38:20,722
Stop here!
340
00:38:21,059 --> 00:38:22,584
Who commands here?
341
00:38:25,724 --> 00:38:31,456
I am the emissary
to the ruler of all the world.
342
00:38:31,456 --> 00:38:33,847
The god of gods.
343
00:38:33,847 --> 00:38:35,789
King of kings.
344
00:38:35,789 --> 00:38:41,548
And by that authority, I demand that
someone show me your commander.
345
00:38:44,871 --> 00:38:50,873
Listen. Do you think the paltry
dozen you slew scares us?
346
00:38:50,873 --> 00:38:55,044
These hills swarm
with our scouts.
347
00:38:55,044 --> 00:38:58,231
And do you think your
pathetic wall
348
00:38:58,231 --> 00:39:00,852
will do anything except fall
349
00:39:00,852 --> 00:39:05,163
like a heap of dry leaves
in the face...
350
00:39:17,718 --> 00:39:20,572
Our ancestors built this wall,
351
00:39:20,572 --> 00:39:24,636
using ancient stones
from the bosom of Greece herself.
352
00:39:25,170 --> 00:39:27,679
And with a little Spartan help,
353
00:39:27,679 --> 00:39:30,424
your Persian scouts
supplied the mortar.
354
00:39:30,424 --> 00:39:35,157
You will pay for your
barbarism.
355
00:39:53,938 --> 00:39:55,079
My arm!
356
00:39:57,806 --> 00:40:00,151
It's not yours anymore.
357
00:40:00,151 --> 00:40:04,679
Go now. Run along and tell your
Xerxes he faces free men here.
358
00:40:04,679 --> 00:40:08,231
Not slaves.
Do it quickly.
359
00:40:08,231 --> 00:40:11,386
Before we decide to make our wall
just a little bit bigger.
360
00:40:11,612 --> 00:40:16,135
No, not slaves.
361
00:40:17,559 --> 00:40:21,162
Your women will be slaves.
362
00:40:21,162 --> 00:40:25,463
Your sons, your daughters,
your elders
363
00:40:25,463 --> 00:40:28,784
will be slaves, but not you.
364
00:40:29,959 --> 00:40:34,511
By noon this day,
you will be dead men.
365
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:40,477
A thousand nations of the
Persian Empire descend upon you.
366
00:40:41,586 --> 00:40:45,214
Our arrows will blot out the sun.
367
00:40:46,903 --> 00:40:49,357
Then we will fight in the shade.
368
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:52,605
The wall is solid.
369
00:40:53,118 --> 00:40:55,857
It'll do the job of funneling
the Persians into the Hot Gates.
370
00:40:56,496 --> 00:40:59,431
Captain, have the men found any route
through the hills to our back?
371
00:40:59,431 --> 00:41:01,248
None, sire.
372
00:41:01,928 --> 00:41:03,868
There is such a route,
good king.
373
00:41:04,150 --> 00:41:06,092
Just past that western ridge.
374
00:41:06,539 --> 00:41:08,291
It's an old goat path.
375
00:41:08,291 --> 00:41:10,823
The Persians could use it
to outflank us.
376
00:41:11,395 --> 00:41:13,645
Not one step closer.
377
00:41:14,340 --> 00:41:15,390
Monster!
378
00:41:16,336 --> 00:41:20,259
Wise king, I humbly request
an audience.
379
00:41:20,259 --> 00:41:21,885
I'll skewer you where
you stand.
380
00:41:21,885 --> 00:41:24,838
I gave no such order.
381
00:41:34,401 --> 00:41:37,918
Forgive the captain.
He's a good soldier.
382
00:41:38,284 --> 00:41:40,939
But a bit short on manners.
383
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,275
There is nothing
to forgive, brave king.
384
00:41:44,275 --> 00:41:45,667
I know what I look like.
385
00:41:45,667 --> 00:41:47,601
You wear the crimson of a Spartan.
386
00:41:47,986 --> 00:41:53,057
I am Ephialtes,
born of Sparta.
387
00:41:54,265 --> 00:41:58,447
My mother's love led
my parents to flee Sparta
388
00:41:58,447 --> 00:42:00,432
lest I be discarded.
389
00:42:00,815 --> 00:42:02,655
But your shield?
390
00:42:02,655 --> 00:42:04,171
And armor?
391
00:42:04,502 --> 00:42:06,435
My father's, sir.
392
00:42:07,572 --> 00:42:10,094
I beg you, bold king,
393
00:42:10,302 --> 00:42:14,419
to permit me to redeem
my father's name
394
00:42:14,419 --> 00:42:17,027
by serving you
in combat.
395
00:42:17,027 --> 00:42:20,259
My father trained me
to feel no fear.
396
00:42:20,259 --> 00:42:24,299
To make spear and shield
and sword as much a part of me
397
00:42:24,299 --> 00:42:26,176
as my own beating heart.
398
00:42:26,176 --> 00:42:29,460
I will earn my father's armor,
noble king,
399
00:42:29,665 --> 00:42:32,130
by serving you
in the battle.
400
00:42:37,110 --> 00:42:38,683
Fine thrust.
401
00:42:39,253 --> 00:42:41,771
I will kill many Persians.
402
00:42:46,815 --> 00:42:49,571
- Raise your shield.
- Sire?
403
00:42:49,807 --> 00:42:52,189
Raise your shield
as high as you can.
404
00:42:59,467 --> 00:43:03,218
Your father should have told you
how our phalanx works.
405
00:43:03,218 --> 00:43:08,231
We fight as a single,
impenetrable unit.
406
00:43:08,231 --> 00:43:11,315
That is the source
of our strength.
407
00:43:11,622 --> 00:43:15,147
Each Spartan protects
the man to his left,
408
00:43:15,506 --> 00:43:18,906
from thigh to neck,
with his shield.
409
00:43:19,290 --> 00:43:23,928
A single weakspot
and the phalanx shatters.
410
00:43:25,125 --> 00:43:29,016
From thigh to neck, Ephialtes.
411
00:43:30,335 --> 00:43:32,541
I am sorry, my friend.
412
00:43:32,541 --> 00:43:35,047
But not all of us are made
to be soldiers.
413
00:43:35,047 --> 00:43:35,726
But I...
414
00:43:35,726 --> 00:43:37,874
If you want to help
at a Spartan victory...
415
00:43:37,874 --> 00:43:39,943
- Yes?
- Clear the battlefield of the dead.
416
00:43:39,943 --> 00:43:42,181
Tend to wounded,
bring them water.
417
00:43:42,388 --> 00:43:44,003
Why?
418
00:43:44,003 --> 00:43:48,852
But as for the fight itself,
I cannot use you.
419
00:43:59,856 --> 00:44:04,434
Mother, father,
you were wrong.
420
00:44:07,081 --> 00:44:10,629
You are wrong, Leonidas.
421
00:44:11,428 --> 00:44:13,015
You are wrong.
422
00:44:14,184 --> 00:44:16,613
Dispatch the Phocians
to the goat path.
423
00:44:16,874 --> 00:44:20,755
Pray to the gods nobody
tells the Persians about it.
424
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,035
Earthquake.
425
00:44:28,909 --> 00:44:30,532
No, Captain.
426
00:44:31,458 --> 00:44:34,007
Battle formations.
427
00:44:57,726 --> 00:45:00,118
This is where we hold them.
428
00:45:00,922 --> 00:45:03,330
This is where we fight.
429
00:45:03,865 --> 00:45:06,176
This is where they die!
430
00:45:06,176 --> 00:45:08,894
On these shields, boys!
431
00:45:11,155 --> 00:45:13,623
Remember this day, men,
432
00:45:13,623 --> 00:45:17,125
for it will be yours
for all time.
433
00:45:28,780 --> 00:45:33,234
Spartans, lay down
your weapons!
434
00:45:49,484 --> 00:45:50,789
Persians!
435
00:45:52,441 --> 00:45:54,485
Come and get them!
436
00:46:16,056 --> 00:46:17,211
Hold!
437
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,312
Give them nothing.
438
00:46:22,312 --> 00:46:26,041
But take from them everything.
439
00:46:27,746 --> 00:46:29,020
Stay ready.
440
00:46:45,350 --> 00:46:47,736
That's the best you can do?
441
00:46:50,389 --> 00:46:52,947
Push!
442
00:47:02,423 --> 00:47:03,823
Now!
443
00:47:15,522 --> 00:47:16,882
Push!
444
00:48:00,595 --> 00:48:02,615
No prisoners!
445
00:48:03,447 --> 00:48:05,401
No mercy!
446
00:49:24,644 --> 00:49:26,014
They look thirsty.
447
00:49:27,747 --> 00:49:30,370
Well, let's give them
something to drink.
448
00:49:33,732 --> 00:49:35,957
To the cliffs.
449
00:50:00,032 --> 00:50:01,512
Hold!
450
00:50:04,006 --> 00:50:06,004
A hell of a good start!
451
00:50:28,948 --> 00:50:31,038
Tuck tail!
452
00:50:37,038 --> 00:50:38,855
Persian cowards.
453
00:50:46,465 --> 00:50:48,276
What the hell are you
laughing at?
454
00:50:48,283 --> 00:50:49,950
We had to say it.
455
00:50:49,963 --> 00:50:53,306
- What?
- We fight in the shade.
456
00:51:07,313 --> 00:51:08,567
Recover.
457
00:51:32,501 --> 00:51:36,240
Today, no Spartan dies.
458
00:52:00,186 --> 00:52:01,550
Easy, son.
459
00:52:28,022 --> 00:52:29,904
We do what we were
trained to do.
460
00:52:29,985 --> 00:52:34,673
What we were bred to do.
What we were born to do.
461
00:52:42,077 --> 00:52:44,674
No prisoners, no mercy.
462
00:52:45,348 --> 00:52:47,169
A good start.
463
00:53:56,316 --> 00:53:58,324
I was afraid you might
not come.
464
00:53:58,325 --> 00:54:01,764
- I'm sorry, my son is...
- Is doing what children do best.
465
00:54:01,765 --> 00:54:04,297
Please don't apologize.
466
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,099
Your son starts the agoge
next year.
467
00:54:08,746 --> 00:54:13,148
That is always a difficult
time for a Spartan mother.
468
00:54:13,582 --> 00:54:17,332
Yes, it will be hard
but also necessary.
469
00:54:20,897 --> 00:54:25,259
You will speak before
the council in two days time.
470
00:54:26,715 --> 00:54:29,260
My husband does not have
two days.
471
00:54:29,411 --> 00:54:31,920
Think of the two days
as a gift.
472
00:54:33,402 --> 00:54:34,783
It's no secret.
473
00:54:35,543 --> 00:54:41,212
Theron wants what you control.
It's his voice you must silence.
474
00:54:41,583 --> 00:54:46,171
Make him your ally
and you will have your victory.
475
00:54:47,199 --> 00:54:48,829
Thank you.
476
00:54:49,607 --> 00:54:52,042
You are wise as you are kind.
477
00:55:18,580 --> 00:55:20,110
Ah, there's your mother.
478
00:55:27,264 --> 00:55:29,858
You should keep a better eye
on him if he is to be king one day.
479
00:55:30,790 --> 00:55:32,788
It would be unfortunate
if anything were to happen to him.
480
00:55:34,713 --> 00:55:36,796
Or to his beautiful mother.
481
00:55:57,593 --> 00:56:02,394
Our Greek comrades are begging
for a crack at the Persians, sire.
482
00:56:03,036 --> 00:56:07,265
Good. I have something
I think they can handle.
483
00:56:07,969 --> 00:56:09,981
Tell Daxos I want him
484
00:56:09,981 --> 00:56:12,373
and 20 of his best,
eager, sober,
485
00:56:12,593 --> 00:56:14,365
ready for the next job.
486
00:56:14,365 --> 00:56:16,126
King Leonidas!
487
00:56:18,823 --> 00:56:22,162
- Stelios, catch your breath, boy.
- Yes, my lord.
488
00:56:23,322 --> 00:56:25,513
The Persians are approaching.
489
00:56:26,776 --> 00:56:29,899
A small contingent.
Too small for an attack.
490
00:56:34,452 --> 00:56:37,385
Captain, I'll leave you in charge.
491
00:56:37,385 --> 00:56:39,685
- But, sire...
- Relax, old friend.
492
00:56:39,717 --> 00:56:43,300
If they assasinate me,
all of Sparta goes to war.
493
00:56:45,211 --> 00:56:47,454
Pray they're that stupid.
494
00:56:48,765 --> 00:56:52,598
Pray... we're that lucky.
495
00:56:56,330 --> 00:56:57,734
Besides...
496
00:57:00,445 --> 00:57:03,136
...there's no reason
we can't be civil.
497
00:57:04,068 --> 00:57:05,459
Is there?
498
00:57:07,069 --> 00:57:08,772
None, sire.
499
00:57:27,364 --> 00:57:28,740
Let me guess.
500
00:57:30,121 --> 00:57:33,094
You must be Xerxes.
501
00:57:45,201 --> 00:57:47,006
Come, Leonidas.
502
00:57:48,637 --> 00:57:50,911
Let us reason together.
503
00:57:51,069 --> 00:57:52,900
It would be a regrettable waste.
504
00:57:53,151 --> 00:57:55,012
It would be nothing
short of madness,
505
00:57:55,012 --> 00:57:59,296
were you, brave king, and your
valiant troops to perish.
506
00:58:00,219 --> 00:58:02,859
All because of a simple
misunderstanding.
507
00:58:03,072 --> 00:58:05,104
There is much our cultures
could share.
508
00:58:05,104 --> 00:58:08,837
Haven't you noticed we've been sharing
our culture with you all morning?
509
00:58:09,067 --> 00:58:11,799
Yours is a fascinating tribe.
510
00:58:11,799 --> 00:58:15,815
Even now you are defiant,
in the face of annihilation.
511
00:58:15,815 --> 00:58:20,997
In the presence of the god, it isn't
wise to stand against me, Leonidas.
512
00:58:21,097 --> 00:58:23,377
Imagine what horrible fate
awaits my enemies
513
00:58:23,377 --> 00:58:26,461
when I will gladly kill
any one of my own men for victory.
514
00:58:26,461 --> 00:58:29,133
And I would die
for any one of mine.
515
00:58:29,133 --> 00:58:31,637
You Greeks take pride
in your logic.
516
00:58:31,637 --> 00:58:33,527
I suggest you employ it.
517
00:58:33,527 --> 00:58:36,691
Consider the beautiful lands
you so vigorously defend.
518
00:58:36,691 --> 00:58:39,923
Picture it reduced to ash
at my will.
519
00:58:39,923 --> 00:58:42,016
Consider the fate of your women.
520
00:58:42,016 --> 00:58:44,318
Clearly, you don't know our women.
521
00:58:44,318 --> 00:58:46,781
I might as well have marched
them up here,
522
00:58:46,781 --> 00:58:48,771
judging by what I've seen.
523
00:58:49,633 --> 00:58:52,333
You have many slaves,
Xerxes,
524
00:58:52,333 --> 00:58:54,927
but few warriors.
525
00:58:55,385 --> 00:58:58,786
It won't be long
before they fear my spears...
526
00:58:59,724 --> 00:59:01,916
...more than your whips.
527
00:59:06,143 --> 00:59:08,514
It's not the lash they fear.
528
00:59:11,691 --> 00:59:16,294
It is my divine power.
But I'm a generous god.
529
00:59:16,544 --> 00:59:18,905
I can make you rich beyond
all measure.
530
00:59:19,125 --> 00:59:21,648
I will make you warlord
of all Greece.
531
00:59:21,648 --> 00:59:25,540
You'll carry my battle standard
to the heart of Europa.
532
00:59:25,750 --> 00:59:30,906
Your Athenian rivals
will kneel at your feet.
533
00:59:31,527 --> 00:59:34,523
If you will but kneel at mine.
534
00:59:35,670 --> 00:59:37,682
You are generous...
535
00:59:38,384 --> 00:59:41,056
...as you are divine.
536
00:59:42,096 --> 00:59:47,230
King of kings. Such an offer
only a madman would refuse.
537
00:59:48,112 --> 00:59:49,703
But the...
538
00:59:50,766 --> 00:59:54,789
...the idea of kneeling it's...
you see...
539
00:59:55,001 --> 01:00:01,855
Slaughtering of all those men of yours
has left a nasty cramp in my legs.
540
01:00:01,855 --> 01:00:04,618
So kneeling will be hard
for me.
541
01:00:04,618 --> 01:00:07,911
There will be no glory
in your sacrifice.
542
01:00:08,162 --> 01:00:11,884
I will erase even the memory
of Sparta from the histories.
543
01:00:12,294 --> 01:00:15,709
Every piece of Greek parchment
shall be burned.
544
01:00:15,709 --> 01:00:18,039
Every Greek historian
and every scribe
545
01:00:18,039 --> 01:00:21,092
shall have their eyes spun out
and their tongues cut from their mouths
546
01:00:21,363 --> 01:00:26,678
whilst honoring the very name of Sparta
or Leonidas will be punishable by death.
547
01:00:28,229 --> 01:00:30,870
The world will never know
you existed at all.
548
01:00:33,696 --> 01:00:38,370
The world will know that free men
stood against a tyrrant.
549
01:00:38,370 --> 01:00:41,705
That few stood against many.
550
01:00:41,705 --> 01:00:48,670
And before this battle was over,
that even a God King can bleed.
551
01:00:55,845 --> 01:00:57,507
You fought well today.
552
01:00:59,689 --> 01:01:01,359
For a woman.
553
01:01:02,321 --> 01:01:04,099
As did you.
554
01:01:04,228 --> 01:01:06,670
Maybe you've been injured,
you weren't able to keep up with me.
555
01:01:07,910 --> 01:01:12,060
Perhaps I was so far ahead,
you couldn't see me.
556
01:01:13,434 --> 01:01:16,087
Or were you offering
your backside to the Thespians.
557
01:01:17,608 --> 01:01:19,021
Jealousy...
558
01:01:19,405 --> 01:01:20,990
...is not becoming my friend.
559
01:01:24,650 --> 01:01:26,119
Move it, men!
560
01:01:28,830 --> 01:01:31,527
Pile those Persians high.
561
01:01:34,458 --> 01:01:36,751
For unless I miss my guess...
562
01:01:37,894 --> 01:01:40,522
...we're in for one wild night.
563
01:02:04,787 --> 01:02:09,618
They have served the dark will
of Persian kings for 500 years.
564
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,543
Eyes as dark as night.
565
01:02:12,544 --> 01:02:15,165
Teeth filed to fangs.
566
01:02:16,776 --> 01:02:18,490
Soulless.
567
01:02:26,323 --> 01:02:28,687
The personal guard
to king Xerses himself.
568
01:02:28,688 --> 01:02:31,023
The Persian warrior elite.
569
01:02:32,969 --> 01:02:35,485
The deadliest fighting
force in all of Asia.
570
01:02:36,713 --> 01:02:38,764
The Immortals.
571
01:02:47,152 --> 01:02:50,160
The God King has betrayed
a fatal flaw.
572
01:02:51,019 --> 01:02:52,482
Hybris.
573
01:02:54,997 --> 01:02:57,594
Easy to taunt.
Easy to trick.
574
01:02:58,483 --> 01:03:00,944
Before wounds and weariness
have taken their toll,
575
01:03:00,945 --> 01:03:03,753
the mad king throws
the best he has at us.
576
01:03:05,133 --> 01:03:06,782
Xerxes has taken the bait.
577
01:03:06,783 --> 01:03:09,337
Spartans, push!
578
01:03:19,506 --> 01:03:21,018
Immortals.
579
01:03:21,467 --> 01:03:24,065
They put their name
to the test.
580
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,035
Father!
581
01:05:55,626 --> 01:05:57,214
My king!
582
01:07:09,687 --> 01:07:12,242
Arcadians, now!
583
01:07:13,930 --> 01:07:15,034
Go!
584
01:07:15,035 --> 01:07:17,090
Let's show the Spartans
what we can do.
585
01:07:17,437 --> 01:07:18,817
Go!
586
01:07:28,363 --> 01:07:31,638
They shout and curse,
stabbing wildly,
587
01:07:31,639 --> 01:07:34,048
more brawlers
than warriors.
588
01:07:34,644 --> 01:07:36,981
They make a wondrous
mess of things.
589
01:07:38,264 --> 01:07:40,685
Brave amateurs.
They do their part.
590
01:08:28,608 --> 01:08:30,223
Immortals.
591
01:08:30,703 --> 01:08:33,260
They failed our kings' test.
592
01:08:33,261 --> 01:08:36,695
And a man who fancies
himself a god...
593
01:08:37,212 --> 01:08:41,796
...feels a very human chill
crawl up his spine.
594
01:08:49,110 --> 01:08:50,352
For our king!
595
01:08:51,553 --> 01:08:53,854
And our honored dead!
596
01:08:53,855 --> 01:08:56,063
Whom will Xerxes dare
to send next?
597
01:08:56,988 --> 01:08:58,837
There's nothing
that can stop us now.
598
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:04,252
Even the king allows himself
to hope for more than glory.
599
01:09:04,253 --> 01:09:07,803
Such mad hope.
But there it is.
600
01:09:08,090 --> 01:09:12,373
Against Asian endless hordes,
against all odds,
601
01:09:12,374 --> 01:09:15,769
we can do it,
we can hold the Hot Gates.
602
01:09:16,534 --> 01:09:18,479
We can win.
603
01:09:26,191 --> 01:09:27,697
Dawn.
604
01:09:28,542 --> 01:09:30,403
Whips crack.
605
01:09:30,500 --> 01:09:32,350
Barbarians howl.
606
01:09:32,779 --> 01:09:36,252
Those behind cry: "Forward"!
607
01:09:38,606 --> 01:09:42,413
Those in front cry:
"Back".
608
01:09:48,425 --> 01:09:51,185
Our eyes bear witness
to the grotesque spectacle
609
01:09:51,186 --> 01:09:54,357
called forth from the darkest
corners of Xerxes' Empire.
610
01:10:45,517 --> 01:10:49,526
When muscles failed,
they turned to their magic.
611
01:10:51,156 --> 01:10:53,705
One hundred nations
descend upon us.
612
01:10:53,706 --> 01:10:56,178
The armies of all Asia.
613
01:10:56,179 --> 01:10:58,255
Funneled into this narrow corridor,
614
01:10:58,256 --> 01:11:01,033
their numbers count
for nothing.
615
01:11:34,993 --> 01:11:36,772
They fall by the hundreds.
616
01:11:36,873 --> 01:11:39,884
We send the severed bodies
and the fragile hearts
617
01:11:39,885 --> 01:11:42,368
back to Xerxes' feet.
618
01:11:59,390 --> 01:12:02,652
King Xerxes is displeased
with his generals.
619
01:12:03,652 --> 01:12:06,200
He disciplines them.
620
01:12:23,051 --> 01:12:26,491
Xerxes dispatches his monsters
from half a world away.
621
01:12:38,542 --> 01:12:40,506
They're clumsy beasts.
622
01:12:40,812 --> 01:12:43,745
And the pile of Persian dead
is slippery.
623
01:13:19,561 --> 01:13:21,915
- You still here?
- Someone is got to watch your back.
624
01:13:21,916 --> 01:13:23,612
Well, now, I'm a little busy.
625
01:14:03,910 --> 01:14:06,056
Regroup!
626
01:14:09,791 --> 01:14:12,642
Astinos, my son!
627
01:14:22,288 --> 01:14:23,680
Astinos!
628
01:14:23,997 --> 01:14:26,811
No!
629
01:14:50,007 --> 01:14:51,790
The day wears on.
630
01:14:52,567 --> 01:14:54,377
We lose few...
631
01:14:54,976 --> 01:14:58,922
...but each felled is a friend
or dearest blood.
632
01:15:00,315 --> 01:15:03,778
And upon seeing the headless
body of his own young son,
633
01:15:04,337 --> 01:15:06,554
the captain breaks rank.
634
01:15:06,555 --> 01:15:09,196
He goes wild, blood drunk.
635
01:15:34,349 --> 01:15:36,742
Captain's cries of pain
at the loss of his son
636
01:15:36,743 --> 01:15:40,550
are more frightening to the enemy
than the deepest battle drums.
637
01:15:41,117 --> 01:15:42,731
It takes three men
to restrain him
638
01:15:42,732 --> 01:15:44,793
and bring him back
to our own.
639
01:15:45,350 --> 01:15:47,232
The day is ours.
640
01:15:48,131 --> 01:15:50,657
No songs are sung.
641
01:16:30,889 --> 01:16:34,776
Your gods were cruel
to shape you so, friend Ephialtes.
642
01:16:37,929 --> 01:16:42,306
The Spartans, too,
were cruel to reject you.
643
01:16:45,758 --> 01:16:47,651
But I am kind.
644
01:16:54,434 --> 01:16:56,891
Everything you could
ever desire.
645
01:16:58,050 --> 01:17:00,206
Every happiness you can imagine.
646
01:17:02,052 --> 01:17:06,553
Every pleasure your fellow Greeks
and your false gods have denied you.
647
01:17:07,420 --> 01:17:09,858
I will grant you.
648
01:17:10,789 --> 01:17:13,092
For I am kind.
649
01:17:27,286 --> 01:17:30,269
Embrace me as your king
and as your god.
650
01:17:31,701 --> 01:17:33,179
Yes!
651
01:17:34,818 --> 01:17:37,139
Lead my soldiers
to the hidden path
652
01:17:37,140 --> 01:17:39,799
that empties behind
the cursed Spartans,
653
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:42,041
and your joys will be endless.
654
01:17:50,583 --> 01:17:52,926
Yes, I want it all.
655
01:17:54,164 --> 01:17:57,692
Wealth, women.
656
01:17:59,638 --> 01:18:01,557
And one more thing.
657
01:18:05,104 --> 01:18:07,425
I want an uniform.
658
01:18:12,178 --> 01:18:13,928
Done.
659
01:18:15,675 --> 01:18:19,595
You will find
that I am kind.
660
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:24,668
Unlike the cruel Leonidas
that demanded that you stand,
661
01:18:27,338 --> 01:18:31,432
I require only that you kneel.
662
01:18:58,961 --> 01:19:00,645
Beautiful night.
663
01:19:02,373 --> 01:19:05,495
Yes, but I did not ask you here
for small talk, Theron.
664
01:19:06,901 --> 01:19:08,284
I'm assured of that.
665
01:19:10,356 --> 01:19:12,363
You've never spared
words with me.
666
01:19:13,793 --> 01:19:16,570
Can I offer you something?
A drink perhaps?
667
01:19:17,163 --> 01:19:18,451
Is it poison?
668
01:19:19,298 --> 01:19:21,616
Sorry to disappoint you,
it's only water.
669
01:19:31,899 --> 01:19:34,823
I'm told it's been arranged
for you to go before the council.
670
01:19:35,763 --> 01:19:37,390
Yes.
671
01:19:37,712 --> 01:19:38,697
I need your help
672
01:19:38,698 --> 01:19:41,642
in winning votes to send
the army north to our king.
673
01:19:41,643 --> 01:19:42,644
Yes.
674
01:19:43,889 --> 01:19:46,454
I can see the two of us
standing together.
675
01:19:46,455 --> 01:19:50,631
Me, politician, thou, warrior.
Our voices as one.
676
01:19:52,433 --> 01:19:54,226
But why would I want
to do that?
677
01:19:54,826 --> 01:19:56,425
It proves you care
for a king
678
01:19:56,426 --> 01:19:58,872
who, right now, fights
for the very water we drink.
679
01:19:59,166 --> 01:20:00,362
True.
680
01:20:00,838 --> 01:20:03,164
But this is politics,
not war.
681
01:20:03,799 --> 01:20:07,535
- Leonidas is an idealist.
- I know your kind too well.
682
01:20:08,109 --> 01:20:09,975
You send men to slaughter
for your own gain.
683
01:20:09,976 --> 01:20:14,781
Your husband, our king, has taken
300 of our finest to slaughter.
684
01:20:14,782 --> 01:20:19,661
He's broken our laws and left
without the council's consent.
685
01:20:20,149 --> 01:20:23,185
- I'm simply a realist.
- You're an opportunist.
686
01:20:24,058 --> 01:20:25,390
You're as foolish as Leonidas
687
01:20:25,391 --> 01:20:27,807
if you think men
don't have a price in this world.
688
01:20:28,314 --> 01:20:32,277
All men are not created equal.
That's the Spartan code, my little queen.
689
01:20:36,697 --> 01:20:38,581
I admire your passion.
690
01:20:40,301 --> 01:20:45,251
But don't think that you,
a woman, even a queen,
691
01:20:45,252 --> 01:20:48,200
can walk into the council's chamber
and sway the minds of men.
692
01:20:49,242 --> 01:20:51,396
I own that chamber.
693
01:20:51,988 --> 01:20:54,327
As if it were built
with these hands.
694
01:20:58,487 --> 01:21:01,096
I could crush the life
out of you right now.
695
01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:06,670
You will go before the council
but your words will fall in deaf ears.
696
01:21:07,032 --> 01:21:09,842
Leonidas will receive
no reinforcements,
697
01:21:09,843 --> 01:21:14,714
and if he returns, without my help,
he would go to jail or worse.
698
01:21:19,524 --> 01:21:22,284
- Do you love your Sparta?
- Yes.
699
01:21:23,367 --> 01:21:25,952
- And your king?
- I do.
700
01:21:31,453 --> 01:21:33,857
Your husband fights
for his land,
701
01:21:33,858 --> 01:21:35,019
and his love.
702
01:21:35,912 --> 01:21:38,264
What do you have to offer?
703
01:21:39,051 --> 01:21:42,184
In return for my word that
I'll help you send our army north.
704
01:21:45,650 --> 01:21:48,819
What does a realist
want from his queen?
705
01:21:53,234 --> 01:21:54,758
I think you know.
706
01:22:09,435 --> 01:22:11,308
This will not be over quickly.
707
01:22:13,181 --> 01:22:15,511
You will not enjoy this.
708
01:22:16,157 --> 01:22:18,387
I am not your king.
709
01:22:43,186 --> 01:22:44,282
Dilios!
710
01:22:46,925 --> 01:22:50,565
I trust that scracth
hasn't made you useless.
711
01:22:51,344 --> 01:22:53,959
Hardly, my lord.
It's just an eye.
712
01:22:54,426 --> 01:22:56,927
The gods saw fit
to grace me with a spare.
713
01:22:59,525 --> 01:23:01,392
And the captain?
714
01:23:02,728 --> 01:23:06,772
Curses the gods
and mourns alone.
715
01:23:08,483 --> 01:23:10,150
Leonidas!
716
01:23:11,402 --> 01:23:14,071
We are undone.
Undone I tell you.
717
01:23:14,238 --> 01:23:16,340
- Destroyed.
- Daxos, calm yourself!
718
01:23:16,440 --> 01:23:18,327
A hunchback traitor has led
Xerxes' Immortals
719
01:23:18,328 --> 01:23:19,829
to the hidden goat path
behind us.
720
01:23:19,909 --> 01:23:23,329
The Phocians you posted there
were scattered without a fight.
721
01:23:23,480 --> 01:23:25,314
This battle is over, Leonidas!
722
01:23:25,314 --> 01:23:28,751
This battle is over
when I say it is over!
723
01:23:28,751 --> 01:23:30,836
By morning, the Immortals
will surround us.
724
01:23:30,919 --> 01:23:32,671
The Hot Gates will fall.
725
01:23:33,881 --> 01:23:35,758
Spartans!
726
01:23:36,008 --> 01:23:38,426
Prepare for glory!
727
01:23:38,551 --> 01:23:39,677
Glory?
728
01:23:39,677 --> 01:23:41,346
Have you gone mad?
729
01:23:41,846 --> 01:23:43,806
There is no glory to be had now.
730
01:23:44,015 --> 01:23:47,347
Only retreat or surrender
or death.
731
01:23:47,382 --> 01:23:50,883
That is an easy choice for us,
Arcadian.
732
01:23:50,918 --> 01:23:56,026
Spartans never retreat.
Spartans never surrender.
733
01:23:57,027 --> 01:23:59,112
Go. Spread the word.
734
01:23:59,613 --> 01:24:03,366
Let every Greek assembled
know the truth of this.
735
01:24:03,366 --> 01:24:06,536
Let each amongst them
search his own soul.
736
01:24:07,953 --> 01:24:09,705
And while you're at it,
737
01:24:09,955 --> 01:24:11,791
search your own.
738
01:24:19,548 --> 01:24:21,550
My men will leave with me.
739
01:24:27,221 --> 01:24:28,889
Godspeed, Leonidas.
740
01:24:35,646 --> 01:24:39,899
Children! Children!
741
01:24:40,650 --> 01:24:42,402
Gather round.
742
01:24:44,236 --> 01:24:48,040
No retreat.
No surrender.
743
01:24:48,074 --> 01:24:51,243
That is Spartan law.
744
01:24:51,994 --> 01:24:56,498
And by Spartan law,
we will stand and fight.
745
01:24:57,248 --> 01:24:59,500
And die.
746
01:25:02,753 --> 01:25:05,631
A new age has begun.
747
01:25:07,925 --> 01:25:10,427
An age of freedom.
748
01:25:12,096 --> 01:25:15,849
And all will know that
three hundred Spartans
749
01:25:15,849 --> 01:25:19,603
gave their last breath
to defend it!
750
01:25:39,454 --> 01:25:41,373
My friend.
751
01:25:44,751 --> 01:25:49,646
I have lived my entire life
without regret until now.
752
01:25:53,717 --> 01:25:59,072
It's not that my son gave up
his life for his country.
753
01:26:01,432 --> 01:26:04,810
It's just that I never told him
I loved him the most.
754
01:26:07,062 --> 01:26:09,189
That he stood by me
with honor.
755
01:26:11,358 --> 01:26:13,902
That he was all that
was best in me.
756
01:26:23,327 --> 01:26:26,247
My heart is broken
for your loss.
757
01:26:26,248 --> 01:26:27,942
Heart?
758
01:26:33,503 --> 01:26:38,508
I have filled my heart
with hate.
759
01:26:42,637 --> 01:26:44,346
Good.
760
01:26:53,354 --> 01:26:56,024
Dilios!
761
01:26:56,858 --> 01:26:58,609
Let's take a walk.
762
01:27:00,611 --> 01:27:02,613
Yes, my lord.
763
01:27:04,949 --> 01:27:07,868
But, sire, I'm fit.
I'm ready for battle.
764
01:27:07,868 --> 01:27:10,204
That you are
one of the finest.
765
01:27:11,121 --> 01:27:14,040
But you have another talent
unlike any other Spartan.
766
01:27:17,376 --> 01:27:20,880
You will deliver
my final orders to the council
767
01:27:21,172 --> 01:27:23,466
with force and verve.
768
01:27:26,134 --> 01:27:27,970
Tell them my story.
769
01:27:28,721 --> 01:27:32,758
Make every Greek know
what happened here.
770
01:27:33,808 --> 01:27:36,144
You'll have a grand
tale to tell.
771
01:27:38,313 --> 01:27:40,440
A tale of victory.
772
01:27:40,732 --> 01:27:42,399
Victory.
773
01:27:46,195 --> 01:27:47,988
Yes, my lord.
774
01:27:53,994 --> 01:27:57,998
Sire, any message...?
775
01:27:59,249 --> 01:28:01,167
...for the queen?
776
01:28:23,020 --> 01:28:25,439
None that need be spoken.
777
01:28:40,452 --> 01:28:43,039
Hundreds leave.
778
01:28:43,539 --> 01:28:45,957
A handful stay.
779
01:28:51,296 --> 01:28:53,423
Only one looks back.
780
01:29:03,849 --> 01:29:05,810
Spartans!
781
01:29:07,394 --> 01:29:10,480
Ready your breakfast
and eat hearty.
782
01:29:10,480 --> 01:29:14,484
For tonight we dine in Hell!
783
01:29:23,604 --> 01:29:29,915
May I give the floor now to the wife
of Leonidas and queen of Sparta.
784
01:29:44,595 --> 01:29:46,263
Councilmen.
785
01:29:46,597 --> 01:29:50,100
I stand before you
not only as your queen.
786
01:29:51,434 --> 01:29:53,812
I come to you as a mother.
787
01:29:55,271 --> 01:29:57,607
I come to you as a wife.
788
01:29:59,609 --> 01:30:02,236
I come to you
as a Spartan woman.
789
01:30:07,166 --> 01:30:09,701
I come to you
with great humility.
790
01:30:13,488 --> 01:30:15,970
I am not here to represent
Leonidas.
791
01:30:16,057 --> 01:30:19,193
His actions speak louder
than my words ever could.
792
01:30:19,293 --> 01:30:21,658
I am here for all those voices
which cannot be heard.
793
01:30:21,729 --> 01:30:24,093
Mothers, daughters, fathers, sons.
794
01:30:24,172 --> 01:30:28,051
Three hundred families
that bleed for our rights
795
01:30:28,051 --> 01:30:31,221
and for the very principles
this room is built upon.
796
01:30:31,788 --> 01:30:34,307
We're at war, gentlemen.
797
01:30:34,307 --> 01:30:36,957
We must send the entire spartan
army to aid our king
798
01:30:36,958 --> 01:30:40,592
in the preservation of not just
ourselves but of our children.
799
01:30:40,646 --> 01:30:43,808
Send the army for
the preservation of liberty.
800
01:30:43,899 --> 01:30:45,984
Send it for justice.
801
01:30:46,402 --> 01:30:48,737
Send it for law and order.
802
01:30:48,737 --> 01:30:50,789
Send it for reason.
803
01:30:50,872 --> 01:30:54,575
But, most importantly,
send our army for hope.
804
01:30:55,243 --> 01:30:59,079
Hope that the king and his men have
not been wasted in the pages of history.
805
01:30:59,714 --> 01:31:02,833
That their courage
bonds us together.
806
01:31:03,333 --> 01:31:06,378
That we are made stronger
by their actions.
807
01:31:07,571 --> 01:31:11,550
And that your choices today
reflect their bravery.
808
01:31:13,438 --> 01:31:15,024
Three hundred.
809
01:31:23,135 --> 01:31:25,020
Moving.
810
01:31:25,145 --> 01:31:28,440
Eloquent, passionate.
811
01:31:28,523 --> 01:31:32,627
But it doesn't change the fact
that your husband has brought war upon us.
812
01:31:32,694 --> 01:31:34,195
You are wrong.
813
01:31:34,195 --> 01:31:35,575
Xerxes brought it forth
814
01:31:35,597 --> 01:31:38,208
and before that,
his father, Darius, at Marathon.
815
01:31:38,215 --> 01:31:41,993
The Persians will not stop until
the only shelter we will find
816
01:31:41,994 --> 01:31:43,844
is rubble and chaos.
817
01:31:43,854 --> 01:31:48,041
This chamber needs
no history lesson, my queen.
818
01:31:48,208 --> 01:31:50,543
Then what is the lesson
you would like to leave?
819
01:31:50,626 --> 01:31:52,962
Shall I begin to enumerate
all of them?
820
01:31:52,962 --> 01:31:56,582
Honor, duty, glory.
821
01:31:56,632 --> 01:31:58,634
You speak of honor?
822
01:31:58,634 --> 01:32:01,921
Duty? Glory?
823
01:32:02,972 --> 01:32:04,606
But what of adultery?
824
01:32:04,706 --> 01:32:07,326
- How dare you?
- How dare I?
825
01:32:07,392 --> 01:32:10,428
Watch her, carefully.
826
01:32:10,478 --> 01:32:13,647
She is a trickster
in true form.
827
01:32:13,647 --> 01:32:17,151
Do not play with the members
of this sacred chambers, my queen.
828
01:32:17,151 --> 01:32:20,320
Just hours ago, you offered
yourself to me.
829
01:32:20,320 --> 01:32:24,693
Were I a weaker man,
I'd have her scent on me still.
830
01:32:24,792 --> 01:32:28,045
- This is outrage.
- Ah, the hypocrite speaks.
831
01:32:28,078 --> 01:32:30,053
Did you not receive
a similar payment?
832
01:32:30,129 --> 01:32:34,616
Which you took in exchange for her
having an audience with these noble men.
833
01:32:34,667 --> 01:32:36,485
- That is a lie.
- Is it?
834
01:32:36,502 --> 01:32:40,703
Was he not, by your invitation, asked
to come the king's bedchamber?
835
01:32:40,789 --> 01:32:43,693
The very bed where you attempted
to negotiate with me
836
01:32:43,694 --> 01:32:46,396
so vigorously.
837
01:32:48,229 --> 01:32:49,931
You look shocked.
838
01:32:49,931 --> 01:32:51,653
A bribe of the flesh,
gentlemen,
839
01:32:51,688 --> 01:32:55,520
whilst her husband
promotes anarchy and war.
840
01:32:59,689 --> 01:33:02,859
Words escape even
the most cunning tongues.
841
01:33:03,360 --> 01:33:05,862
My little whore queen.
842
01:33:10,066 --> 01:33:12,701
What queen-like behaviour!
843
01:33:13,452 --> 01:33:16,772
Remove her from this chamber
before she infects us further
844
01:33:16,772 --> 01:33:20,375
with her inglorious
and filthy self.
845
01:33:26,214 --> 01:33:28,966
This will not be over quickly.
846
01:33:29,434 --> 01:33:31,886
You will not enjoy this.
847
01:33:31,886 --> 01:33:34,055
I am not your queen.
848
01:33:55,491 --> 01:33:57,076
Traitor.
849
01:33:57,910 --> 01:34:00,079
Traitor, traitor, traitor.
850
01:34:41,950 --> 01:34:45,536
Leonidas.
My compliments.
851
01:34:45,620 --> 01:34:47,955
And congratulations.
852
01:34:48,206 --> 01:34:51,959
You surely have turned calamity
to victory.
853
01:34:51,959 --> 01:34:55,379
Despite your insufferable
arrogance,
854
01:34:55,379 --> 01:34:58,698
the God King has come to admire
Spartan valor
855
01:34:58,698 --> 01:35:00,300
and fighting skills.
856
01:35:00,300 --> 01:35:01,448
You will make a mighty ally.
857
01:35:01,485 --> 01:35:03,803
Yield, Leonidas.
858
01:35:04,220 --> 01:35:08,307
Use your reason.
Think of your men.
859
01:35:10,476 --> 01:35:12,311
I beg you.
860
01:35:12,478 --> 01:35:14,346
Listen to your fellow Greek.
861
01:35:14,430 --> 01:35:18,400
He can attest to the divine
one's generosity.
862
01:35:18,516 --> 01:35:21,153
Despite your several insults,
863
01:35:21,153 --> 01:35:23,821
despite your horrid
blasphemies,
864
01:35:23,821 --> 01:35:27,375
the lord of hosts is prepared
to forgive all.
865
01:35:27,409 --> 01:35:30,427
And more: to reward
your service.
866
01:35:30,411 --> 01:35:34,115
You fight for your lands.
Keep them.
867
01:35:34,999 --> 01:35:37,251
You fight for Sparta.
868
01:35:37,251 --> 01:35:41,004
She will be wealthier and more
powerful than ever before.
869
01:35:41,454 --> 01:35:44,174
You fight for your kingship.
870
01:35:44,174 --> 01:35:47,260
You will be proclaimed warlord
of all Greece.
871
01:35:47,260 --> 01:35:51,847
Answerable only to the one
true master of the world.
872
01:35:51,847 --> 01:35:56,735
Leonidas. Your victory
will be complete.
873
01:35:56,768 --> 01:36:02,757
If you but lay down your arms
and kneel to holy Xerxes.
874
01:36:33,352 --> 01:36:38,223
It's been more than 30 years
since the wind and the winter cold.
875
01:36:38,323 --> 01:36:43,311
And now, as then, it's not
fear that grips him.
876
01:36:43,311 --> 01:36:45,118
Only restlesness.
877
01:36:45,213 --> 01:36:48,733
A heightened sense of things.
878
01:36:49,316 --> 01:36:54,321
The seaborne breeze cooly kissing
the sweat on his chest and neck.
879
01:36:54,322 --> 01:36:55,826
Gulls cawing,
880
01:36:55,923 --> 01:37:00,243
complaining even as they feast
on thousands of floating dead.
881
01:37:01,645 --> 01:37:06,175
The steady breathing
of the 300 at his back.
882
01:37:07,616 --> 01:37:11,587
Ready to die for him,
without a moment's pause.
883
01:37:13,772 --> 01:37:19,261
Every one of them
ready to die.
884
01:37:34,040 --> 01:37:37,193
His helmet is stifling.
885
01:37:57,396 --> 01:38:00,381
His shield is heavy.
886
01:38:07,638 --> 01:38:10,057
Your spear.
887
01:38:18,281 --> 01:38:20,066
You there.
888
01:38:20,067 --> 01:38:22,413
Ephialtes.
889
01:38:27,206 --> 01:38:29,658
May you live forever.
890
01:38:36,965 --> 01:38:39,584
Leonidas, your spear.
891
01:39:45,928 --> 01:39:49,064
Stelios!
892
01:39:57,906 --> 01:40:00,074
Slaughter them!
893
01:40:02,743 --> 01:40:06,447
His helmet was stifling.
It narrowed his vision.
894
01:40:06,530 --> 01:40:08,965
And he must see far.
895
01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:12,836
His shield was heavy.
It threw him off balance.
896
01:40:13,253 --> 01:40:17,174
And his target is far away.
897
01:41:21,515 --> 01:41:25,819
The old ones say we Spartans
have descended from Hercules himself.
898
01:41:27,596 --> 01:41:31,157
Bold Leonidas gives testament
to our bloodline.
899
01:41:31,990 --> 01:41:36,746
His roar is long and loud.
900
01:42:06,237 --> 01:42:07,608
My king.
901
01:42:20,202 --> 01:42:24,623
It's an honor to die at your side.
902
01:42:25,374 --> 01:42:29,461
It's an honor to have lived
at yours.
903
01:42:50,814 --> 01:42:53,232
My queen.
904
01:43:00,823 --> 01:43:03,075
My wife.
905
01:43:14,386 --> 01:43:16,554
My love.
906
01:45:42,444 --> 01:45:44,375
Remember us.
907
01:45:46,144 --> 01:45:49,287
As simple an order
as a king can give.
908
01:45:51,262 --> 01:45:54,482
Remember why we died.
909
01:45:56,267 --> 01:46:00,070
For he did not wish tribute
or song.
910
01:46:02,072 --> 01:46:06,409
No monuments, no poems
of war and valor.
911
01:46:09,329 --> 01:46:11,664
His wish was simple.
912
01:46:17,036 --> 01:46:19,338
Remember us.
913
01:46:20,105 --> 01:46:22,424
He said to me.
914
01:46:23,542 --> 01:46:25,927
That was his hope.
915
01:46:25,961 --> 01:46:30,331
Should any free soul
come across that place
916
01:46:30,431 --> 01:46:34,284
in all the countless
centuries yet to be,
917
01:46:34,351 --> 01:46:40,539
may all our voices whisper to you
from the ageless stones.
918
01:46:41,608 --> 01:46:45,362
Go tell the Spartans,
passerby,
919
01:46:45,895 --> 01:46:51,867
that here, by Spartan law,
we lie.
920
01:46:54,703 --> 01:46:57,289
So my king died...
921
01:46:58,123 --> 01:47:00,793
And my brothers died.
922
01:47:02,460 --> 01:47:05,630
Barely a year ago.
923
01:47:09,701 --> 01:47:15,059
Long I pondered my king's
cryptic talk of victory
924
01:47:15,094 --> 01:47:17,596
and the time has proven
him wise.
925
01:47:18,653 --> 01:47:21,862
For from Greek to free Greek
926
01:47:21,928 --> 01:47:26,431
the word was spread that bold
Leonidas and his 300,
927
01:47:26,499 --> 01:47:28,734
so far from home,
928
01:47:28,801 --> 01:47:32,107
laid down their lives,
not just for Sparta,
929
01:47:32,137 --> 01:47:36,662
but for all Greece and the promise
this country holds.
930
01:47:37,025 --> 01:47:42,063
And now, here on this ragged
patch of earth called Platea,
931
01:47:42,213 --> 01:47:46,835
Xerxes' hordes face obliteration.
932
01:47:48,953 --> 01:47:52,256
Just there, the barbarians huddle.
933
01:47:52,673 --> 01:47:55,759
Sheer terror gripping tight
934
01:47:56,126 --> 01:47:59,644
their hearts with icy fingers.
935
01:47:59,730 --> 01:48:02,965
knowing full well what merciless
horrors they suffered
936
01:48:03,050 --> 01:48:06,185
at the swords and spears
of three hundred.
937
01:48:06,991 --> 01:48:10,286
Yet they stare now,
across the plain,
938
01:48:10,321 --> 01:48:15,230
at 10.000 Spartans,
commanding 30.000 free Greeks.
939
01:48:22,918 --> 01:48:26,787
The enemy outnumbers us
a paltry three to one.
940
01:48:26,987 --> 01:48:29,540
Good odds for any Greek.
941
01:48:29,924 --> 01:48:34,544
This day we rescue a world
from mysticism and tyranny
942
01:48:34,628 --> 01:48:38,298
and usher in a future brighter
that anything we can imagine.
943
01:48:43,369 --> 01:48:45,471
Give thanks, men...
944
01:48:45,521 --> 01:48:48,891
to Leonidas and the
brave three hundred.
945
01:48:49,475 --> 01:48:52,817
To victory!
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