View Poll Results: 300: Greatness or Failure?
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Yes: Sparta or Death!
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No: Boo!!!
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Well,i just saw the movie & i also think it lived up to it's hype.
The only thing i didn't like was that in some parts it was as if we were watching LOTR 3,for instance the part with the 2 Spartans butchering & talking to each other.That was just like Legolas & Gimly.
Avtually,the answer was "Molon Lave" which is so much better to hear than come & get them.Just like that,the women of Sparta,not just the King's wife,always told the soldiers when they game them their sields "I tan,I epi tas" aka "with it or on it".The part where the blonde guy said that we'd fight in the shade was a good one too.That's accurate.
The thing is that in reallity,Spartans were even worse than what Hollywood made them look like.We're talking about the worst SOBs greece hwad given birth to.And,they killed more than shown in the movie,just because they were stronger than the Persians & they had an organized army,not like the Persian mercenairies.The Immorals were stong,but they weren't THAT much.They've shown at least double Immortals than they actually were.
Something exaggerating was what Sparta looked like.It wasn't that big & the structures were even more simple-lacedaimonians prefered simple things.At least,Thermolylae was quite good.It wasn't actually like that,but no matter that,it has been a good attempt.
In the ancient times intil today,there's this sayingm"to laconizin esti filosofin" which means (with a free translation) that "The laconian way is the philorophical way" not just with the way they spoke,with as few words as possible,but with the whole lifestyle,simple,something not to brag about.
For those who say that it's historically inaccurate,it's just innacurate because it's not based on history,but in FM's graphic novel,which is like that,full of sauce.Besides,it's Hollywood baby.
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