They probably met in Elysium and discussed that very thing

Not a king, but the President of Ukraine is staring an evil empire square and the face and saying "Russian invaders, go fuck yourselves"

@@davidanderson1376 Remember that 300 is historically inaccurate. The Greeks went to Thermopylae because it's a narrow passage that negates the Persian numerical advantage. That 40 mile convoy that went to Kyiv last night was basically sent to die, they can't go off road because tanks can barely move in the mud, so they're stuck moving in a very narrow formation that Ukranians with Javelins and Panzerfausts can just pick off one by one as they approach. After the traitor helped the Persians route the Greeks, Leonidas told the bulk of the Greek coalition to fall back. 1100 Greeks, among them the 300 Spartans, stayed at Thermopylae to buy the rest time to retreat and defend Greece, they knowingly went on a suicide mission. This is why we made a movie about them 2500 years later, and this is why everyone is shouting "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" outside every Russian embassy right now.

@@Kalahridudex Not to rain on everyone's parade but...the guys on Snake island? They surrendered and are alive in Russian hands

@@ceoofgrind8101 fake news

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How is that stoicism?

Wouldn't it be optimism?

@@tommy_noble do you not understand stoicism?

@@primalrising6877 guess not I'll open a book

Is he the guy who played Faramir in Lord of the Rings?

@Spirit of Fire that's awesome 😎

@@jchea1764 sad the real guy to leave the 300 was shamed by other spartans and killed himself.

@@craigvonkins7988 sad..😐🙁

Shanks be like💛

Facts!

It hasn't even been 15 years though

@@samuelh.2118 He meant: since the Battle of Thermopylae, you donut! XD

Facts!! Owww! Owww!! Owww!!

@@samuelh.2118 Awesome trolling.

In fact, you can tell Gerard Butler was playing him as being absolutely giddy that their situation required eternal glory by Spartan law. Replace "... and die" with "... and achieve immortality" and the words, as we would understand them, suddenly fits his demeanor (and manic look) perfectly. How often does anyone ever find that kind of clarity in life?

Same,it's so motivating how loyal they are.

as you're sitting on the couch watching the blu ray and stuffing your face with popcorn and soda lol ;) but this movie definitely has a lot of goosebump moments

Martin Kolev FOR THE MOST HIGH GOD TRINITY HOLY SPIRIT HOLY GHOST JESUS CHRIST.AMEN YEAH IM READY

spartan's will fight to the death like i will

Martin Kolev that's so foolish on so many levels.

pressure😂🔥

It’s true Leonidas is a fool throwing away soldiers. In the words of genghis khan “Only a fool, Fights a battle he knows he cannot win”

@@Jojosworld000 He could not take another decision and just return to Sparti. In addition his decision made all Greek cities unite their forces and push Persians back. If Leonidas had taken another decision, History would have been completely different...

One of the greatest lines

@@Jojosworld000 you dare call Leonidas a fool? Silence your nonsense. A king who fought and died in the frontlines along with his brothers in arms, to defend his home. And you call him a fool? You, judging him? You're not even worthy to clean off the dirt beneath his sandals. The nerve of some people.

is the name of deformed looking greek?

Ephialtis in greek litterally means nightmare.We use it

Yes correct

@@TheBlurryRainbow In this he's deformed, but there's no mention of him being deformed in the historical record, just him as a Greek traitor. He also wasn't a Spartan, but a Malian ie a local of the area around Thermopylae.

Wesley Molt it did say that he had some type of medical or physical that made him unable to participate in his City-States politics or join the army.And. If I’m correct,he betrayed Greece for those reasons

He didn't want to share.

There is also a pretty solid historical interpretation that his sacrifice was also to give the other Greeks fighting at Thermopylae enough time to retreat and reform to fight back elsewhere. The 300 who died may have saved as many as 3000 others.

Well he kinda did try and make him feel a certain way😂😂😂

@@checmatetv7179 i wouldn't call it belittlement. If anything it was encouragement

@@Elmasdrakosinfenixov Encouragement to stay a fight a loosing battle that death or slavery is certain? Where's the encouragement in that from a logical point of view? The mentality of Spartans yea I get that but the rest of everyone else think logically.I was basically calling dude a coward for not wanting to die

:D

Leonidas: (thinking to himself) Well, shit, now I have to tell him to go home to preserve this epic answer for immortality.

His name in Dildos. One eye Dildos

Bruh 😂😂😂😂😂

Hahahaha epic.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Rene May 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Definitely warranted

Leonidas said no 3 time's to the Priesthood Government and Xersies supported by his Queen Epic

you know that's bullshit, right? The Spartans had a lower class of slavery. It was this class of slaves that spartans in training were supposed to kidnap and kill in order to prove themselves.

Yes, and also he was 65 years old that time, insane warrior

A true King 🤴

😂👍🏻

Karl Wilson I showed my 5 year old nephew this and his voice got deep.

so you retreated/surrendered, against spartan law, bc i cant imagine your wife letting you live for doing it while she was giving birth

🤣🤣🤣 🧔🏻 🧔🏻 This is Sparta!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they are just MIA

Die? Don't you know? Spartans never die.

Everyone dies

We just go missing in action

@@papaboyet6594 Save for Spartans, obviously...

when I say it is over*

This senior I once knew named Ernie told me that he had this Sargent in the army. One guy in formation questioned the orders of the Sargent and was told: “This is a one man’s army, I do the thinking and you carry out the orders. Yours is not to reason why yours is to do and die” lol That soldier was put straight in front of everyone and shut up real quick.

@@andrewjohn2124 it would take a lot of self confidence to say that

Soo eternally badass

Yes

Spartacus not to mention there fucking bravery lol what they done was all because of serious fucking balls man lol

More like a force divider.

*Thermopylae**

Yeah, it’s literally the most famous last stand in history.

Loses a bit of weight when you see how many times the Spartans surrendered and retreated IRL though lol

@@Cybermat47 really i honestly didn't know that lol... sucks to acquire the reality in knowledge!🙌🏻

That era? Over 2 millennia have passed. Around the world Spartan means ferocity and courage. Glory indeed, to have YOUR ACTIONS IN BATTLE taught at military academies throughout the world millennia after those deeds… MOLON LABE!

@@jimreilly917 Thank you for your kind words that honor my ancestors and my country.

@@spartanconscience2693 I’d say they earned it. You’re welcome.🇺🇸🇬🇷

@Marcus Middleton Non-verbal is usually the best from of communication. But not all of us speak it and few speak it fluently..

I dont think his look suggested that at all, the Arcadian wasn't even looking at leonidas when he supposedly made the gesture.

Excellent observation

1:13 Love the look on the guys face like... Glory?!?

glory? have you gone mad?

A Spartan warrior never let's his back hit the ground even in death a Spartan stands tall for battle

@@jumperthehedgehog2932 kratos

@@donandresiniesta824 yes

My man ducksauce?

Because according to Spartans, dying in battle was one of the greatest honors. That logic still stands today. To give your life for something greater by which you will be remembered by.

Indeed ! Freedom is a Double Edge Sword !

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This isn't bravery. Bravery requires fear. There's no fear here. This is suicidal thrill-seeking.

@@EmptyMan000 Courage requires fear not bravery.

Bro I was ready to ride into battle

Vice versa

True

really ? source ?

@@dreamtrayz I read it in a university book in greek, called "the high strategy of ancient Sparta". The book quoted other books as sources.

True. The Spartans rarely lost any battles on the field, but were sometimes out-manouevered in the field of politics. That is how they lost control of a lot of their satrophy's and client states around 370BC-ish. However, usually they fought the Athenians (when Persia invaded, it was one of the few times the two Cities, usually bickering foes, actually stood together) who were pretty poor when it came to fielding a decent field army (Marathon being one of the few notable exceptions), but had an excellent navy.

THEY WON IN THERMOPYLAE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@dimi3334ever They literally all died

We will defeat the evil democrat party and the communist scourge. Do not fear...Patriots have been preparing.

@Reinhard Gellen just remember Muslims have been trying to take Europe for over 600 years .

@@berrytharp1334 he meant Republicans who have surrendered to trump. Xerxes in the flesh.

@@75216garrison

@@berrytharp1334 lol I think you meant trump he services both Putin and China in his knees.

Heck it was ANZAC's there in 1941.

Nearby the statue of the King....we have erected a Statue of a Lion in honor of those bravo Thespians. In my research, I have found that 1,000 Thespian warriors fought alongside the Spartiates, though One Spartan woke up in the camp of the Persians ,,,the other.... sent back to Sparti to the humiliation of being branded..."The Trembler"... by all in the city. He died fighting at Platea a year later and was thusly honored.

As well as a few hundred Thebans. Arguably the bravest moves of the day. Spartans expected death in battle. Everyone else gave up families to hold back Persia just a bit longer

That’s fucking sick. That would definitely get me pumped

seductivesnake1 what unit were you ? I was 1/5

And people wonder why the other branches call the Jarheads crazy.

Semper Fi Marine 🇺🇸

@@User-ws3jl for real

What does being american have to do with it?

Haha patriotism is such a modern marble. Spartans and americans have nothing in common, whatsoever!

The reason the battles of Thermopylae and the battle of Artemisium are so popular even today is because the Greeks were so out numbered and out gunned that victory was all but impossible, and the only reason the greeks won was because of strategy and the love for their land. America hasn't been truly victorious since ww2, much smaller enemies have embarrassed them time and time again. Thats the exact opposite of the greeks and spartans.

The thing is, the country doesn't choose its wars, the government does. And,sadly, most of its wars are for monetary gain or expantion, not for the protection of the country itself.

But you're eager to die for that government? Fighting people who are for the most part defending their homeland from invaders.

*a spare

saw* fit

You get sniped from across the map

You got the military

AMEN ‼️‼️‼️‼️

Scream " *THIS!! IS!! SPARTA!!* " on climax

goldenapple saga no retreat no surrender.

VERY UNDERRATED COMMENT.

@@goldenapplesaga5446 😂😂

Prepare for glory!!

Damn.....

🤣🤣

alavisie the funny thing is if you watch any post apocalyptic movies or shows, the writers seem to universally understand that in the absence of our modern government, people go right back to treating eachother just like those 2.5k years ago. IMHO only a fool really believes we're evolving. We aren't. We never will. Why do people refuse to accept that I'll never understand.

Persia didnt have slaves

The funny part is that the very persian empire they are fighting and that is viewed as the tyrants didn’t have slaves

See that is debatable. There are written records which are basically what we would call a sale contract concerning the buying and selling of other humans and Persian records that state the "Branding of the Hand with Persian letters" was used upon these people and Greek Prisoners of War. It was also sporadic in the sense that only certain parts, but still a large amount, of the Persian Empire had slaves (based on records) whilst other parts did not.

Well, yeah. But I still find it funny that the Spartans fighting for "freedom" against Persia literally had a Helot (slave) to citizen ration of *at least* 7:1. They had far more than any other Greek city-state, or obviously the Persians (who as a whole didn't practice slavery on a national level - that is a fact). And actually, Leonidas's sacrifice was completely wasted historically, because Spartans were the first of the Greek city states to sell out. The whole movie's plot is hilariously ironic lmao

Oh yeah, I suppose 600,000 Americans DIDN'T die in 4 years to abolish slavery.

***** no many died too keep it in place

WHY do people always associate slavery with America? it wasn't a strange thing, Sparta and America wasn't the only one's who had slaves, other Greeks had slaves, just didn't generally enslave fellow Greeks like the Spartans had done to the Mycenaean's. Rome had a unfathomable amount of slaves.

Lol seems about right for any powerful country. Realistically it happens all the time, British Empire, Roman Empire, Mongol Empire, etc. The world is not a peaceful place. Anyways im done since i feel like i have just fallen into a troll trap, gg.

Taj B If you truly now why the persians wars were fought and what was the concept of freedoom for the ancient greeks and the persians you will be seriously surprised. At that time the persian empire was much more modern style rights anf duties that most of the world, despite wha tmany will think

What about freedom to live in whatever country you want?

fuck no.

The persians, both in movie and reality, had no intention of integrating into the Brutish and undemocratic society of the Spartans. The Spartans were weak, and the weak are to be dominated. This has been done by almost every single empire on earth.It is good to reject facts and twist history to fit your world of fantasy, but only when kept within that delusional mind of yours.

Zarif Safwan Hoque What do you expect from a racist guy..

@@zarifsafwanhoque4127 um you too are rejecting facts, the Persian empire was created because their way of life was about a cycle of peace and harmony. Their Empire was created to unite the world and bring peace to all as was their philosophy. They wanted to integrate the Greeks into their Empire to spread the word but the Greeks were culturally different and views the Persian emissaries as threatening causing the Persian to believe the Greeks were intentionally against them and therefore against peace and harmony. The Persians wanted to integrate Greece but the Greeks misunderstood and attacked the Persians instead

Dats a easy choice for us Arcadian !

timothy her 😂😂😂

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Joshua Singh yadav the Gods graced him with a spare, so it's all good 😂... jokes aside men back then had balls!

insaaane

would need a 10hours loop of it walking and smiling like that