Eye-candy treat !!!
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That's a great movie. So over the top, but still realistic in a way.
We both love it (Hubby & me), completely OTT and yet it gets right to the spirit of Thermopylae and Sparta. I always feel really sorry for the elephants though
. Whatever ... just about to make the chocolate and popcorn 
Oh and I love the monster-beast-jackal he kills at the beginning.
And of course Leonidas in history had the right two word answer to arms control
μολὼν λαβέ
μολὼν λαβέ
Tricky when the pointy bit is pointed at you.
I read recently that a sequel is planned, same director/cinematographer and covering the sea battles against the Persians.
an exemplary use of a laconic phrase
and we just done "fight in the shade" ... and we've jst got to the elephants, for whom I feel very sorry!Go tell the Spartans, passerby:
That here, by Spartan law, we lie.
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One of my faves is: - Philip II of Macedon proclaims: "You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city." According to accounts, the Spartan ephors sent back a one word reply: "If." Subsequently both Philip and Alexander avoided Sparta entirely." A bit like General Anthony Clement McAuliffe, who was the acting division commander of the 101st Airborne Division troops defending Bastogne, Belgium during World War II's Battle of the Bulge. He is famous for his single-word reply of "Nuts!" in response to a German surrender ultimatum.
Not as good as this one...
[video=youtube;-Li65P_3lvM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Li65P_3lvM[/video]
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Was that Mr Bean dressed as a German Stormtrooper?
Love that scene, thanks for the Monday morning chuckle.
Oh and Goatboy, your video did indeed wake me up. Thanks!
Incidently I don't have a TV so I missed out on watching 300 last night, so I rectified that by watching it on DVD before going to sleep, a decadent indulgence but what the hell eh?
Love that scene, thanks for the Monday morning chuckle.
Oh and Goatboy, your video did indeed wake me up. Thanks!
Incidently I don't have a TV so I missed out on watching 300 last night, so I rectified that by watching it on DVD before going to sleep, a decadent indulgence but what the hell eh?
I prefer the 1962 film 300 Spartans http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055719/ but it really gets me that in some shots the Persians are marching the wrong way in relation to the seashore.
Not as good as this one...
[video=youtube;-Li65P_3lvM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Li65P_3lvM[/video]
There's also the "Come and take it" when asked of the Fort Alamo bunch by the Mexicans to return their cannon. Though this is paraphrasing King Leonidas again. A good list of laconic replies HERE.
At a dinner in the late 1940's Lord Beaverbrook, the newspaper magnate, was sitting next to labour minister Ernest Bevin who said at one point "I've got an 'ell of an 'eadache." Beaverbrook's reply was "Why not try an aspirate."
Love it! and "Nuts" is one of the fave responses in this household ... specially as the Germans didn't understand what he meant at first
Tricky when the pointy bit is pointed at you.
I read recently that a sequel is planned, same director/cinematographer and covering the sea battles against the Persians.
Really? Salamis ? Nice to see the triremes go.
Indeed.
300: Rise of an Empire
The Greek general Themistocles battles an invading army of Persians under the mortal-turned-god, Xerxes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1253863/
Eva Green plays Artemesia, so we can expect it to be a very accurate portrayal of historic events.
