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[THUNDER RUMBLING]
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[BABY COOS]
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DILIOS:
When the boy was born...
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... like all Spartans, he was inspected.
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If he'd been small or puny
or sickly or misshapen...
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... he would have been discarded.
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From the time he could stand,
he was baptized in the fire of combat.
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[GRUNTING]
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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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... was the greatest glory
he could achieve in his life.
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At age 7, as is customary in Sparta...
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... the boy was taken from his mother
and plunged into a world of violence.
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[GRUNTING]
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Manufactured by 300 years
of Spartan warrior society...
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... to create the finest soldiers
the world has ever known.
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The agoge, as it's called,
forces the boy to fight.
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Starves them, forces them 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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Constantly tested, tossed into the wild.
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Left to pit his wits and will
against nature's fury.
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It was his initiation...
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... his time in the wild...
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... for he would return to his people
a Spartan...
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... or not at all.
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[WOLF GROWLING]
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The wolf begins to circle the boy.
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Claws of black steel...
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... fur as dark night.
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Eyes glowing red...
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... 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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[SNARLING]
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[WOLF WHIMPERS]
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[WOLF HOWLING]
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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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Windswept pines
moving against the coming night.
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[HOWLING]
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His hands are steady.
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His form...
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... perfect.
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And so the boy, given up for dead...
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... returns to his people,
to sacred Sparta, a king!
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Our king, Leonidas!
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[SPARTANS CHANTING]
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It's been more than 30 years
since the wolf and the winter cold.
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And now, as then, a beast approaches.
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Patient and confident,
savoring the meal to come.
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But this beast
is made of men and horses...
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... swords and spears.
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An army of slaves, vast beyond imagining,
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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... and it was King Leonidas himself
who provoked it.
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[HORSE NEIGHING]
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LEONIDAS:
That's it.
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[PLEISTARCHOS GRUNTING]
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LEONIDAS: Now, the more you sweat
here, the less you'll bleed in battle.
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My father taught me...
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... that fear is always a constant.
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But accepting it...
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... makes you stronger.
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My queen.
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A Persian emissary awaits Leonidas.
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In the end...
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... a Spartan's true strength
is the warrior next to him.
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So give respect and honor to him,
and it will be returned to you.
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First...
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- ... you fight with your head.
- Then you fight with your heart.
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What is it?
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A Persian messenger awaits you.
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Do not forget today's lesson.
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- Respect and honor.
LEONIDAS: Respect and honor.
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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...
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... know that in Sparta everyone,
even a king's messenger...
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... is held accountable
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 among 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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Now, that's a bit of a problem.
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See, rumor has it...
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... the Athenians
have already turned you down.
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And if those philosophers and boy-lovers
have found that kind of nerve, then--
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- We must be diplomatic.
- 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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LEONIDAS:
"Earth and water."
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Madman. You"re a madman.
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Earth and water.
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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 the 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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[MESSENGER SCREAMING]
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[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
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[GRUNTING]
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[THUNDER RUMBLING]
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EPHOR 1:
Welcome, Leonidas.
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We have been expecting you.
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DILIOS:
The ephors, priests to the old gods.
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Inbred swine.
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More creature than man.
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Creatures whom even Leonidas
must bribe and beg.
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For no Spartan king has gone to war
without the ephors' blessing.
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LEONIDAS: The Persians claim
their forces number in the millions.
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I hope, for our sake, they exaggerate.
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But there's no question, we face
the most massive army ever assembled.
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Before your plan is heard...
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... what do you offer?
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We will use our superior fighting skills...
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... and the terrain of Greece herself
to destroy them.
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We will march north to the coast,
where I will make sure--
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It is August, Leonidas.
The full moon approaches.
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EPHOR 2:
The 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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Her men will die at arms...
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... and her 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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And from there, we will funnel them into
the mountain pass we call the Hot Gates.
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Now, in that narrow corridor,
their numbers will count for nothing.
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And wave after wave of Persian attack...
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... will 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...
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... 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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DILIOS:
Diseased old mystics.
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Worthless remnants of a time
before Sparta's ascent from darkness.
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Remnants of a senseless tradition.
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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,
man or woman...
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... 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 among 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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[ORACLE WHISPERING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
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EPHOR:
"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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DILIOS:
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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THERON: Truly, you"re
in the god-king's favor now...
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... O 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...
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... daily...
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... from every corner of the empire.
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[CHUCKLING]
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GORGO: Your lips can finish
what your fingers have started.
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Or has the oracle robbed you
of your desire as well?
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It would take more than the words
of a drunken adolescent girl...
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... to rob me of my desire for you.
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Then why so distant?
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Because it seems...
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... though a slave and captive
of lecherous old men...
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... the oracle's words
could set fire to all that I love.
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So that is why my king loses sleep
and is forced from the warmth of his bed?
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There's only one woman's words that
should affect the mood of my husband.
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Those are mine.
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[CHUCKLES]
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Then what must a king do
to save his world...
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... when the very laws he is 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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- Is this all of them?
- As you ordered. Three hundred.
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All with born sons to carry on their name.
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We are with you, sire.
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For Sparta. For freedom.
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To the death.
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LEONIDAS:
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.
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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COUNCILMAN:
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.
- 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.
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Where will you go?
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I hadn't really thought about it...
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... but now that you ask...
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... I suppose I'll head north.
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The Hot Gates?
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CAPTAIN:
Move out!
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Move out!
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What shall we do?
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What can we do?
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What can you do?
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Sparta will need sons.
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Spartan!
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Yes, milady?
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Come back with your shield...
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... or on it.
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Yes, milady.
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DILIOS:
"Goodbye, my love."
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He doesn't say it.
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There's no room for softness...
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00:26:28,878 --> 00:26:30,879
... not in Sparta.
253
00:26:31,047 --> 00:26:33,841
No place for weakness.
254
00:26:37,345 --> 00:26:41,515
Only the hard and strong
may call themselves Spartans.
255
00:26:42,350 --> 00:26:46,854
Only the hard. Only the strong.
256
00:27:15,342 --> 00:27:17,217
We march...
257
00:27:17,886 --> 00:27:23,390
... for our lands, for our families,
for our freedoms.
258
00:27:24,184 --> 00:27:26,352
We march.
259
00:27:28,063 --> 00:27:29,730
LEONIDAS:
Daxos.
260
00:27:29,898 --> 00:27:33,317
- What a pleasant surprise.
- This morning's full of surprises, Leonidas.
261
00:27:33,485 --> 00:27:35,903
- We've been tricked.
- Can't be more than a hundred.
262
00:27:36,071 --> 00:27:38,280
BAKER: This is a surprise.
DAXOS: Silence.
263
00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:40,699
ARCADIAN:
This isn't their army.
264
00:27:40,867 --> 00:27:45,037
We heard Sparta was on the warpath
and we were eager to join forces.
265
00:27:45,705 --> 00:27:49,792
If it is blood you seek,
you are welcome to join us.
266
00:27:50,126 --> 00:27:53,379
But you bring only this handful
of soldiers against Xerxes?
267
00:27:53,546 --> 00:27:57,132
I see I was wrong to expect Sparta's
commitment to at least match our own.
268
00:27:58,301 --> 00:28:00,135
Doesn't it?
269
00:28:01,596 --> 00:28:03,263
You, there.
270
00:28:03,765 --> 00:28:04,932
What is your profession?
271
00:28:05,475 --> 00:28:07,601
I"m a potter, sir.
272
00:28:08,770 --> 00:28:12,564
And you, Arcadian.
What is your profession?
273
00:28:12,941 --> 00:28:16,360
- Sculptor, sir.
- Sculptor.
274
00:28:16,736 --> 00:28:18,654
- And you?
- Blacksmith.
275
00:28:23,326 --> 00:28:26,620
Spartans! What is your profession?
276
00:28:27,122 --> 00:28:28,497
[SPARTANS CHANTING]
277
00:28:33,795 --> 00:28:35,754
You see, old friend?
278
00:28:35,922 --> 00:28:38,799
I brought more soldiers than you did.
279
00:28:48,768 --> 00:28:50,561
DILIOS:
No sleep tonight...
280
00:28:51,646 --> 00:28:54,106
... not for the king.
281
00:28:54,274 --> 00:28:56,483
All his 40 years
have been a straight road...
282
00:28:56,651 --> 00:29:00,237
... to this one gleaming moment
in destiny...
283
00:29:00,405 --> 00:29:03,157
... this one radiant clash
of shield and spear...
284
00:29:03,324 --> 00:29:06,952
... sword and bone, and flesh and blood.
285
00:29:08,663 --> 00:29:10,456
His only regret...
286
00:29:10,623 --> 00:29:14,334
... is that he has so few to sacrifice.
287
00:29:35,648 --> 00:29:37,649
We"re being followed.
288
00:29:42,697 --> 00:29:44,865
It has followed us since Sparta.
289
00:29:49,829 --> 00:29:52,831
STELIOS:
My king! Look!
290
00:30:13,770 --> 00:30:15,229
STELIOS:
What happened here?
291
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,147
Where are all the people?
292
00:30:18,233 --> 00:30:19,942
Persians.
293
00:30:20,109 --> 00:30:21,902
I put their number at around 20.
294
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,656
A scouting party.
295
00:30:29,035 --> 00:30:30,536
But these footprints... .
296
00:30:34,999 --> 00:30:36,333
[CLATTERING]
297
00:30:41,923 --> 00:30:43,382
STELIOS:
Behind us!
298
00:30:57,438 --> 00:30:58,647
Child!
299
00:31:31,639 --> 00:31:34,349
CHILD [WHISPERING]:
It's quiet now.
300
00:31:34,809 --> 00:31:36,643
They... .
301
00:31:36,978 --> 00:31:41,023
They came with beasts
from the blackness.
302
00:31:42,609 --> 00:31:44,860
With their claws and fangs...
303
00:31:45,028 --> 00:31:47,279
... they grabbed them.
304
00:31:48,156 --> 00:31:50,324
Everyone...
305
00:31:51,326 --> 00:31:53,410
... but me.
306
00:32:05,673 --> 00:32:07,215
DILIOS:
The villagers.
307
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:09,676
I found them.
308
00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:24,024
Have the gods no mercy?
309
00:32:25,193 --> 00:32:27,194
We are doomed.
310
00:32:27,362 --> 00:32:30,030
Quiet yourself.
311
00:32:33,409 --> 00:32:38,664
The child speaks of the Persian ghosts,
known from the ancient times.
312
00:32:39,540 --> 00:32:42,209
They are the hunters of men's souls.
313
00:32:43,252 --> 00:32:45,879
They cannot be killed or defeated.
314
00:32:46,506 --> 00:32:50,676
Not this darkness. Not these Immortals.
315
00:32:52,845 --> 00:32:55,055
Immortals?
316
00:32:55,348 --> 00:32:58,392
We'll put their name to the test.
317
00:33:20,456 --> 00:33:23,250
DILIOS:
Into the Hot Gates we march.
318
00:33:23,418 --> 00:33:26,712
Into that narrow corridor we march...
319
00:33:26,879 --> 00:33:29,131
... where Xerxes' numbers
count for nothing.
320
00:33:30,299 --> 00:33:34,261
Spartans, citizen-soldiers, freed slaves.
321
00:33:34,429 --> 00:33:36,304
Brave Greeks, all.
322
00:33:37,306 --> 00:33:40,434
Brothers, fathers, sons...
323
00:33:40,601 --> 00:33:42,602
... we march.
324
00:33:43,271 --> 00:33:47,441
For honor�s sake, for duty's sake,
for glory's sake, we march.
325
00:33:47,608 --> 00:33:50,736
Look! Persians.
326
00:33:55,867 --> 00:33:59,619
DILIOS:
Into hell's mouth we march.
327
00:34:06,127 --> 00:34:07,335
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
328
00:34:08,629 --> 00:34:10,714
Let's watch these motherless dogs...
329
00:34:10,965 --> 00:34:15,010
... as they"re embraced by the loving arms
of Greece herself. Come.
330
00:34:17,805 --> 00:34:19,514
True.
331
00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:26,188
It does look like rain.
332
00:34:29,484 --> 00:34:32,736
DILIOS:
Zeus stabs the sky with thunderbolts...
333
00:34:33,029 --> 00:34:37,074
... and batters the Persian ships
with hurricane wind.
334
00:34:38,201 --> 00:34:40,660
Glorious.
335
00:34:42,163 --> 00:34:43,830
[SHOUTING]
336
00:34:52,924 --> 00:34:55,801
DILIOS: Only one among us
keeps his Spartan reserve.
337
00:35:01,724 --> 00:35:03,683
Only he.
338
00:35:03,851 --> 00:35:06,311
Only our king.
339
00:35:23,704 --> 00:35:25,664
My queen?
340
00:35:30,837 --> 00:35:32,170
My queen...
341
00:35:32,338 --> 00:35:35,674
... the courtyard is a more fitting place
for a married woman.
342
00:35:35,842 --> 00:35:37,509
I"m afraid gossip and protocol...
343
00:35:37,677 --> 00:35:40,220
... are the least of my worries now,
councilman.
344
00:35:41,889 --> 00:35:43,723
Is such secrecy needed?
345
00:35:43,891 --> 00:35:46,560
How am I to trust beyond the walls
of my own home?
346
00:35:46,727 --> 00:35:50,438
Even here, Theron has eyes and ears
which fuel Sparta with doubt and fear.
347
00:35:50,857 --> 00:35:54,234
You speak as if all Sparta
conspires against you.
348
00:35:54,902 --> 00:35:56,945
I wish it were only against me.
349
00:35:59,574 --> 00:36:03,076
LOYALIST: Many on our council
would vote to give all we have...
350
00:36:03,244 --> 00:36:05,120
... and follow Leonidas...
351
00:36:05,454 --> 00:36:07,414
... but you must show them favor.
352
00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:12,210
And you can arrange for me
to speak to the council?
353
00:36:12,378 --> 00:36:14,796
If it is reason they want,
I will let them know.
354
00:36:14,964 --> 00:36:17,090
LOYALIST:
Know what, my queen?
355
00:36:17,466 --> 00:36:19,467
Freedom isn't free at all.
356
00:36:19,635 --> 00:36:22,971
That it comes with the highest of costs,
the cost of blood.
357
00:36:25,266 --> 00:36:27,893
I will do my best to gather our council.
358
00:36:28,311 --> 00:36:32,147
And its chamber
shall be filled with your voice.
359
00:36:32,481 --> 00:36:34,316
GORGO: I"m in your debt.
-No.
360
00:36:34,650 --> 00:36:38,820
Leonidas is my king as well as yours.
361
00:37:03,638 --> 00:37:05,472
I saw those ships smash on the rocks.
362
00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:07,974
How can this be?
363
00:37:08,142 --> 00:37:11,436
We saw but a fraction of the monster
that is Xerxes' army.
364
00:37:12,104 --> 00:37:14,481
DAXOS:
There can be no victory here.
365
00:37:18,444 --> 00:37:20,153
Why do you smile?
366
00:37:21,822 --> 00:37:23,782
Arcadian...
367
00:37:23,950 --> 00:37:26,993
... I have fought countless times...
368
00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:29,913
... yet I've never met an adversary
who could offer me...
369
00:37:30,081 --> 00:37:32,249
... what we Spartans
call "a beautiful death."
370
00:37:33,042 --> 00:37:34,709
I can only hope...
371
00:37:34,877 --> 00:37:37,629
... with all the world's warriors
gathered against us...
372
00:37:37,797 --> 00:37:41,466
... there might be one down there
who's up to the task.
373
00:37:45,012 --> 00:37:46,221
[LAUGHING]
374
00:37:52,895 --> 00:37:54,771
PERSIAN EMISSARY:
Move!
375
00:37:54,939 --> 00:37:55,981
[WHIP CRACKING]
376
00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:59,484
Keep going, you dogs!
377
00:38:07,159 --> 00:38:09,202
Move!
378
00:38:10,621 --> 00:38:13,206
Forward, I say!
379
00:38:15,543 --> 00:38:17,127
Stop here!
380
00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:20,130
Who commands here?
381
00:38:22,341 --> 00:38:25,010
I am the emissary...
382
00:38:25,177 --> 00:38:27,429
... to the ruler of all the world...
383
00:38:28,222 --> 00:38:32,142
... the god of gods, king of kings...
384
00:38:32,310 --> 00:38:33,893
... and by that authority...
385
00:38:34,061 --> 00:38:37,856
... I demand that someone
show me your commander.
386
00:38:41,610 --> 00:38:47,532
Listen. Do you think the paltry dozen
you slew scares us?
387
00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:51,202
These hills swarm with our scouts.
388
00:38:51,370 --> 00:38:56,082
And do you think your pathetic wall
will do anything...
389
00:38:56,250 --> 00:39:02,547
... except fall like a heap of dry leaves
in the face of... ?
390
00:39:14,268 --> 00:39:16,561
STELIOS:
Our ancestors built this wall...
391
00:39:17,271 --> 00:39:21,232
... using ancient stones
from the bosom of Greece herself.
392
00:39:21,650 --> 00:39:24,027
And with a little Spartan help...
393
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,780
... your Persian scouts supplied the mortar.
394
00:39:27,406 --> 00:39:31,368
You will pay for your barbarism!
395
00:39:50,513 --> 00:39:52,097
My arm!
396
00:39:54,642 --> 00:39:56,518
STELIOS:
It's not yours anymore.
397
00:39:56,811 --> 00:40:01,439
Go now. Run along and tell your Xerxes
he faces free men here...
398
00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:03,149
... not slaves.
399
00:40:03,317 --> 00:40:04,567
Do it quickly...
400
00:40:04,819 --> 00:40:07,737
... before we decide to make our wall
just a little bit bigger.
401
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:09,823
No.
402
00:40:09,990 --> 00:40:12,033
Not slaves.
403
00:40:12,201 --> 00:40:13,368
[CHUCKLING]
404
00:40:14,245 --> 00:40:17,664
Your women will be slaves.
405
00:40:17,998 --> 00:40:20,834
Your sons, your daughters...
406
00:40:21,001 --> 00:40:23,336
... your elders will be slaves!
407
00:40:23,504 --> 00:40:26,297
But not you, no.
408
00:40:26,465 --> 00:40:30,510
By noon this day you will be dead men.
409
00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:37,684
A thousand nations of the Persian Empire
descend upon you.
410
00:40:38,102 --> 00:40:41,604
Our arrows will blot out the sun.
411
00:40:43,357 --> 00:40:46,067
Then we will fight in the shade.
412
00:40:47,611 --> 00:40:49,362
CAPTAIN:
The wall is solid.
413
00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:52,699
It'll do the job of funneling the Persians
into the Hot Gates.
414
00:40:53,033 --> 00:40:55,743
Have the men found any route
through the hills to our back?
415
00:40:56,245 --> 00:40:58,288
CAPTAIN:
None, sire.
416
00:40:58,539 --> 00:41:00,123
There is such a route, good king.
417
00:41:00,666 --> 00:41:02,375
Just pass that western ridge.
418
00:41:03,043 --> 00:41:04,752
It's an old goat path.
419
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,755
The Persians could use it to outflank us.
420
00:41:07,923 --> 00:41:11,676
Not one step closer, monster!
421
00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:16,890
Wise king, I humbly request an audience.
422
00:41:17,057 --> 00:41:20,435
- I'll skewer you where you stand.
- I gave no such order.
423
00:41:30,946 --> 00:41:32,197
Forgive the captain.
424
00:41:32,865 --> 00:41:34,365
He is a good soldier...
425
00:41:34,909 --> 00:41:37,577
... but a bit short on manners.
426
00:41:37,745 --> 00:41:41,789
There is nothing to forgive, brave king.
I know what I look like.
427
00:41:42,249 --> 00:41:44,250
You wear the crimson of a Spartan.
428
00:41:44,877 --> 00:41:50,507
I am Ephialtes, born of Sparta.
429
00:41:51,091 --> 00:41:55,178
My mother's love
led my parents to flee Sparta...
430
00:41:55,346 --> 00:41:56,804
... lest I be discarded.
431
00:41:57,348 --> 00:42:00,141
Your shield and armor?
432
00:42:01,060 --> 00:42:02,727
My father's, sir.
433
00:42:04,063 --> 00:42:08,107
I beg you, bold king,
to permit me...
434
00:42:08,275 --> 00:42:13,321
... to redeem my father's name
by serving you in combat.
435
00:42:13,614 --> 00:42:19,494
My father trained me to feel no fear,
to make spear and shield and sword...
436
00:42:19,662 --> 00:42:22,413
... as much a part of me
as my own beating heart.
437
00:42:22,831 --> 00:42:26,125
I will earn my father's armor, noble king...
438
00:42:26,293 --> 00:42:28,461
... by serving you in the battle.
439
00:42:28,879 --> 00:42:30,296
[GRUNTING]
440
00:42:33,634 --> 00:42:35,760
A fine thrust.
441
00:42:35,928 --> 00:42:37,512
I will kill many Persians.
442
00:42:43,394 --> 00:42:44,978
Raise your shield.
443
00:42:45,145 --> 00:42:47,814
- Sire?
- Raise your shield as high as you can.
444
00:42:51,735 --> 00:42:53,069
[GRUNTING]
445
00:42:56,073 --> 00:42:59,117
Your father should have taught you
how our phalanx works.
446
00:42:59,785 --> 00:43:01,077
We fight...
447
00:43:01,620 --> 00:43:04,497
... as a single, impenetrable unit.
448
00:43:04,665 --> 00:43:07,625
That is the source of our strength.
449
00:43:08,460 --> 00:43:12,088
Each Spartan protects the man
to his left...
450
00:43:12,256 --> 00:43:15,466
... from thigh to neck with his shield.
451
00:43:15,634 --> 00:43:20,305
A single weak spot
and the phalanx shatters.
452
00:43:21,682 --> 00:43:24,934
From thigh to neck, Ephialtes.
453
00:43:26,979 --> 00:43:29,355
I am sorry, my friend.
454
00:43:29,523 --> 00:43:32,150
- But not all of us were made to be soldiers.
- But I--
455
00:43:32,318 --> 00:43:34,736
- If you want to help in a Spartan victory...
- Yes.
456
00:43:34,903 --> 00:43:40,074
... clear the battlefield of the dead,
tend the wounded, bring them water...
457
00:43:40,242 --> 00:43:41,868
... but as for the fight itself...
458
00:43:43,245 --> 00:43:45,163
... I cannot use you.
459
00:43:46,999 --> 00:43:48,416
EPHIALTES:
You... .
460
00:43:49,460 --> 00:43:51,294
[CRIES]
461
00:43:53,255 --> 00:43:54,547
[GRUNTING]
462
00:43:56,300 --> 00:44:00,386
Mother! Father! You were wrong!
463
00:44:03,682 --> 00:44:05,433
You are wrong!
464
00:44:05,601 --> 00:44:10,146
Leonidas! You are wrong!
465
00:44:10,606 --> 00:44:13,066
Dispatch the Phocians to the goat path...
466
00:44:13,233 --> 00:44:17,779
... and pray to the gods
nobody tells the Persians about it.
467
00:44:17,946 --> 00:44:19,238
[RUMBLING]
468
00:44:23,494 --> 00:44:25,078
Earthquake.
469
00:44:25,579 --> 00:44:26,829
LEONIDAS:
No, captain.
470
00:44:28,415 --> 00:44:30,375
Battle formations.
471
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,101
[SHOUTING AND GRUNTING]
472
00:44:54,274 --> 00:44:57,443
This is where we hold them.
473
00:44:57,611 --> 00:44:59,904
This is where we fight!
474
00:45:00,447 --> 00:45:02,699
This is where they die!
475
00:45:03,033 --> 00:45:04,909
Earn these shields, boys!
476
00:45:05,411 --> 00:45:06,994
[SPARTANS CHANT]
477
00:45:07,621 --> 00:45:10,123
Remember this day, men...
478
00:45:10,290 --> 00:45:14,043
... for it will be yours for all time.
479
00:45:25,139 --> 00:45:26,931
Spartans!
480
00:45:27,099 --> 00:45:29,225
Lay down your weapons!
481
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:44,490
[HORSE NEIGHS]
482
00:45:46,118 --> 00:45:48,369
Persians!
483
00:45:48,954 --> 00:45:50,997
Come and get them!
484
00:45:51,540 --> 00:45:52,665
[HORN BLOWING]
485
00:45:54,334 --> 00:45:55,376
[PERSIANS SHOUTING]
486
00:46:12,519 --> 00:46:14,145
Hold!
487
00:46:16,982 --> 00:46:18,524
Give them nothing...
488
00:46:18,984 --> 00:46:22,570
... but take from them everything!
489
00:46:24,281 --> 00:46:26,032
Steady!
490
00:46:27,868 --> 00:46:29,827
[SHOUTING AND GRUNTING]
491
00:46:36,794 --> 00:46:38,336
Push!
492
00:46:42,174 --> 00:46:44,550
Is that the best you can do?
493
00:46:46,762 --> 00:46:48,763
Push! Push!
494
00:46:51,642 --> 00:46:52,809
[GRUNTING IN PAIN]
495
00:46:58,857 --> 00:47:00,399
Now!
496
00:47:12,204 --> 00:47:13,704
Push!
497
00:47:57,249 --> 00:47:59,834
No prisoners!
498
00:48:00,168 --> 00:48:01,919
No mercy!
499
00:49:21,208 --> 00:49:23,376
They look thirsty.
500
00:49:24,461 --> 00:49:27,380
Well, let's give them something to drink.
501
00:49:30,300 --> 00:49:32,969
To the cliffs.
502
00:49:51,905 --> 00:49:53,239
[SCREAMING]
503
00:49:56,576 --> 00:49:58,744
Halt.
504
00:50:00,872 --> 00:50:02,957
Hell of a good start.
505
00:50:03,834 --> 00:50:05,292
[CHANTING]
506
00:50:25,605 --> 00:50:28,107
Tuck tail!
507
00:50:33,572 --> 00:50:35,114
Persian cowards.
508
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:40,870
[LAUGHING]
509
00:50:42,914 --> 00:50:45,833
- What the hell are you laughing at?
- Well, you had to say it.
510
00:50:46,626 --> 00:50:50,296
- What?
- "Fight in the shade."
511
00:50:50,630 --> 00:50:51,922
[LAUGHING]
512
00:51:03,810 --> 00:51:05,770
LEONIDAS:
Recover.
513
00:51:29,044 --> 00:51:31,670
Today no Spartan dies.
514
00:51:56,822 --> 00:51:58,239
Easy, son.
515
00:51:58,990 --> 00:52:00,199
[HORSES NEIGHING]
516
00:52:06,039 --> 00:52:07,289
[GRUNTING]
517
00:52:24,474 --> 00:52:26,433
DILIOS:
We do what we were trained to do...
518
00:52:26,601 --> 00:52:28,060
... what we were bred to do...
519
00:52:28,228 --> 00:52:31,230
... what we were born to do.
520
00:52:38,613 --> 00:52:41,615
No prisoners. No mercy.
521
00:52:41,783 --> 00:52:43,242
A good start.
522
00:53:52,729 --> 00:53:54,605
LOYALIST:
I was afraid you might not come.
523
00:53:54,773 --> 00:53:55,981
GORGO:
I"m sorry, my son is--
524
00:53:56,149 --> 00:54:01,779
Is doing what children do best.
Please, don't apologize.
525
00:54:02,781 --> 00:54:04,907
Your son starts the agoge next year.
526
00:54:05,492 --> 00:54:09,495
That is always a difficult time
for a Spartan mother.
527
00:54:10,622 --> 00:54:15,167
Yes, it will be hard. But also necessary.
528
00:54:17,629 --> 00:54:21,840
You will speak before the council
in two days' time.
529
00:54:23,718 --> 00:54:25,761
My husband does not have two days.
530
00:54:26,179 --> 00:54:28,138
Think of the two days as a gift.
531
00:54:30,183 --> 00:54:32,226
It's no secret...
532
00:54:32,394 --> 00:54:35,271
... Theron wants what you control.
533
00:54:35,438 --> 00:54:38,274
It's his voice you must silence.
534
00:54:38,441 --> 00:54:40,526
Make him your ally...
535
00:54:40,860 --> 00:54:43,404
... and you will have your victory.
536
00:54:44,197 --> 00:54:45,990
Thank you.
537
00:54:46,324 --> 00:54:48,701
You are wise as you are kind.
538
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,563
THERON:
Ah, there's your mother.
539
00:55:24,029 --> 00:55:27,448
You should keep a better eye on him
if he's to be king one day.
540
00:55:27,657 --> 00:55:30,117
Be unfortunate if anything
were to happen to him.
541
00:55:31,619 --> 00:55:33,495
Or to his beautiful mother.
542
00:55:49,554 --> 00:55:51,055
PERSIAN:
No! Ahh!
543
00:55:54,267 --> 00:55:59,730
Our Greek comrades are begging
for a crack at the Persians, sire.
544
00:56:00,023 --> 00:56:01,357
Good.
545
00:56:01,524 --> 00:56:04,276
I've got something
I think they can handle.
546
00:56:04,778 --> 00:56:06,487
Tell Daxos that I want him...
547
00:56:06,654 --> 00:56:11,200
... and 20 of his best eager, sober
and ready for the next charge.
548
00:56:11,368 --> 00:56:13,202
King Leonidas.
549
00:56:15,705 --> 00:56:19,500
- Stelios, catch your breath, boy.
- Yes, milord.
550
00:56:20,126 --> 00:56:22,294
The Persians are approaching.
551
00:56:23,630 --> 00:56:27,508
A small contingent.
Too small for an attack.
552
00:56:31,262 --> 00:56:34,807
LEONIDAS: Captain, I leave you in charge.
CAPTAIN: But sire--
553
00:56:34,974 --> 00:56:36,225
LEONIDAS:
Relax, old friend.
554
00:56:36,393 --> 00:56:40,979
If they assassinate me,
all of Sparta goes to war.
555
00:56:41,898 --> 00:56:44,483
Pray they"re that stupid.
556
00:56:45,610 --> 00:56:47,319
Pray...
557
00:56:47,821 --> 00:56:50,030
... we"re that lucky.
558
00:56:53,159 --> 00:56:54,952
Besides...
559
00:56:57,205 --> 00:57:00,541
... there's no reason we can't be civil...
560
00:57:00,834 --> 00:57:02,459
... is there?
561
00:57:02,877 --> 00:57:03,877
[PERSIAN GRUNTS IN PAIN]
562
00:57:04,045 --> 00:57:05,546
None, sire.
563
00:57:24,190 --> 00:57:26,400
Let me guess.
564
00:57:27,152 --> 00:57:30,154
You must be Xerxes.
565
00:57:42,167 --> 00:57:44,376
Come, Leonidas.
566
00:57:45,795 --> 00:57:47,546
Let us reason together.
567
00:57:47,839 --> 00:57:49,798
It would be a regrettable waste...
568
00:57:50,216 --> 00:57:53,385
... it would be nothing short of madness
were you, brave king...
569
00:57:53,553 --> 00:57:56,763
... and your valiant troops to perish...
570
00:57:57,390 --> 00:57:59,475
... all because of a simple
misunderstanding.
571
00:58:00,059 --> 00:58:02,895
- There's much our cultures could share.
- Haven't you noticed?
572
00:58:03,062 --> 00:58:05,481
We've been sharing our culture
with you all morning.
573
00:58:06,065 --> 00:58:08,358
Yours is a fascinating tribe.
574
00:58:08,526 --> 00:58:10,694
Even now you are defiant...
575
00:58:10,862 --> 00:58:14,990
... in the face of annihilation
and the presence of a god.
576
00:58:15,158 --> 00:58:17,201
It isn't wise to stand against me,
Leonidas.
577
00:58:17,869 --> 00:58:20,078
Imagine what a horrible fate
awaits my enemies...
578
00:58:20,246 --> 00:58:23,165
... when I would gladly kill
any of my own men for victory.
579
00:58:23,333 --> 00:58:25,959
And I would die for any one of mine.
580
00:58:26,127 --> 00:58:30,380
You Greeks take pride in your logic.
I suggest you employ it.
581
00:58:30,548 --> 00:58:34,092
Consider the beautiful land
you so vigorously defend.
582
00:58:34,260 --> 00:58:36,762
Picture it reduced to ash at my whim.
583
00:58:37,013 --> 00:58:38,472
Consider the fate of your women.
584
00:58:39,098 --> 00:58:41,600
Clearly you don't know our women.
585
00:58:41,768 --> 00:58:45,312
I might as well have marched them up here,
judging by what I've seen.
586
00:58:46,439 --> 00:58:48,941
You have many slaves, Xerxes...
587
00:58:49,901 --> 00:58:52,194
... but few warriors.
588
00:58:52,362 --> 00:58:56,281
It won't be long
before they fear my spears...
589
00:58:56,699 --> 00:58:59,117
... more than your whips.
590
00:59:02,956 --> 00:59:05,832
It's not the lash they fear...
591
00:59:08,586 --> 00:59:10,254
... it is my divine power.
592
00:59:10,964 --> 00:59:15,467
But I am a generous god.
I can make you rich beyond all measure.
593
00:59:15,927 --> 00:59:18,303
I will make you warlord of all Greece.
594
00:59:18,972 --> 00:59:22,849
You will carry my battle standard
to the heart of Europa.
595
00:59:23,017 --> 00:59:25,644
Your Athenian rivals...
596
00:59:25,937 --> 00:59:28,105
... will kneel at your feet...
597
00:59:28,815 --> 00:59:31,608
... if you will but kneel at mine.
598
00:59:32,443 --> 00:59:34,695
You are generous...
599
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,656
... as you are divine...
600
00:59:38,408 --> 00:59:40,033
... O king of kings.
601
00:59:40,201 --> 00:59:44,121
Such an offer
only a madman would refuse.
602
00:59:44,706 --> 00:59:46,707
But the... .
603
00:59:47,625 --> 00:59:50,460
The idea of kneeling, it's... .
604
00:59:50,628 --> 00:59:55,173
You see, slaughtering
all those men of yours has... .
605
00:59:55,341 --> 00:59:59,177
Well, it's left a nasty cramp in my leg...
606
00:59:59,345 --> 01:00:01,430
... so kneeling will be hard for me.
607
01:00:01,681 --> 01:00:05,058
There will be no glory in your sacrifice.
608
01:00:05,226 --> 01:00:08,854
I will erase even the memory of Sparta
from the histories.
609
01:00:09,022 --> 01:00:12,190
Every piece of Greek parchment
shall be burned.
610
01:00:12,358 --> 01:00:15,694
Every Greek historian and every scribe
shall have their eyes put out...
611
01:00:15,862 --> 01:00:18,155
... and their tongues
cut from their mouths.
612
01:00:18,323 --> 01:00:24,328
Why, uttering the very name of Sparta
or Leonidas will be punishable by death.
613
01:00:24,954 --> 01:00:28,206
The world will never know
you existed at all.
614
01:00:30,376 --> 01:00:34,963
The world will know
that free men stood against a tyrant.
615
01:00:35,173 --> 01:00:38,675
That few stood against many.
616
01:00:39,052 --> 01:00:42,220
And before this battle was over...
617
01:00:42,472 --> 01:00:45,432
... that even a god-king can bleed.
618
01:00:52,815 --> 01:00:55,025
You fought well today...
619
01:00:56,361 --> 01:00:58,236
... for a woman.
620
01:00:59,405 --> 01:01:01,073
As did you.
621
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:04,368
Maybe if I"m injured,
you'll be able to keep up with me.
622
01:01:04,869 --> 01:01:09,831
STELIOS: Perhaps I was so
far ahead you couldn't see me.
623
01:01:10,416 --> 01:01:13,627
More likely offering your backside
to the Thespians.
624
01:01:14,587 --> 01:01:16,213
Jealousy...
625
01:01:16,381 --> 01:01:18,882
... does not become you, my friend.
626
01:01:21,594 --> 01:01:23,929
Move it, men!
627
01:01:26,057 --> 01:01:28,266
Pile those Persians high.
628
01:01:31,437 --> 01:01:34,231
For unless I miss my guess...
629
01:01:34,774 --> 01:01:37,776
... we"re in for one wild night.
630
01:01:56,629 --> 01:01:58,296
[BIRD CRYING]
631
01:02:01,718 --> 01:02:06,888
DILIOS: They have served the dark
will of Persian kings for 500 years.
632
01:02:07,056 --> 01:02:09,391
Eyes as dark as night.
633
01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:11,560
Teeth filed to fangs.
634
01:02:13,646 --> 01:02:15,939
Soulless.
635
01:02:23,322 --> 01:02:28,118
The personal guard to King Xerxes himself.
The Persian warrior elite.
636
01:02:29,912 --> 01:02:32,998
The deadliest fighting force in all of Asia:
637
01:02:33,791 --> 01:02:35,834
The Immortals.
638
01:02:44,051 --> 01:02:47,471
The god-king has betrayed a fatal flaw:
639
01:02:47,972 --> 01:02:49,723
Hubris.
640
01:02:51,976 --> 01:02:54,728
Easy to taunt, easy to trick.
641
01:02:55,396 --> 01:02:57,856
Before wounds and weariness
have taken their toll...
642
01:02:58,024 --> 01:03:01,526
... the mad king
throws the best he has at us.
643
01:03:02,028 --> 01:03:03,737
Xerxes has taken the bait.
644
01:03:03,905 --> 01:03:05,697
Spartans, push!
645
01:03:06,699 --> 01:03:08,408
[GRUNTING]
646
01:03:16,375 --> 01:03:18,001
DILIOS:
Immortals.
647
01:03:18,461 --> 01:03:21,421
We put their name to the test.
648
01:03:23,007 --> 01:03:24,424
[GRUNTING]
649
01:03:48,032 --> 01:03:49,699
[IMMORTAL GROWLING]
650
01:04:05,591 --> 01:04:07,050
STELIOS:
Father!
651
01:04:16,185 --> 01:04:17,602
[IMMORTAL GROWLING]
652
01:05:39,977 --> 01:05:41,436
[SNARLING]
653
01:05:52,698 --> 01:05:53,990
SPARTAN:
My king!
654
01:06:37,326 --> 01:06:38,868
[SNARLING]
655
01:06:51,424 --> 01:06:52,924
[GRUNTING]
656
01:07:06,772 --> 01:07:08,732
Arcadians, now!
657
01:07:11,027 --> 01:07:13,778
Go! Show the Spartans what we can do.
658
01:07:14,405 --> 01:07:15,822
Go!
659
01:07:15,990 --> 01:07:17,282
[ARCADIANS SHOUTING
AND GRUNTING]
660
01:07:25,249 --> 01:07:27,125
DILIOS:
They shout and curse...
661
01:07:27,293 --> 01:07:30,503
... stabbing wildly,
more brawlers than warriors.
662
01:07:31,630 --> 01:07:34,215
They make a wondrous mess of things.
663
01:07:35,259 --> 01:07:38,011
Brave amateurs, they do their part.
664
01:08:25,643 --> 01:08:27,519
Immortals.
665
01:08:27,686 --> 01:08:30,271
They fail our king's test.
666
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:33,358
And a man who fancies himself a god...
667
01:08:34,110 --> 01:08:39,030
... feels a very human chill
crawl up his spine.
668
01:08:46,163 --> 01:08:48,289
To our king!
669
01:08:48,666 --> 01:08:50,667
And our honored dead.
670
01:08:50,835 --> 01:08:53,628
Whom will Xerxes dare to send next?
Whom?!
671
01:08:53,963 --> 01:08:56,673
There's nothing that can stop us now!
672
01:08:57,550 --> 01:09:01,052
Even the king allows himself
to hope for more than glory.
673
01:09:01,220 --> 01:09:04,556
Such mad hope, but there it is:
674
01:09:05,015 --> 01:09:10,395
"Against Asia's endless hordes,
against all odds, we can do it.
675
01:09:10,563 --> 01:09:13,314
We can hold the Hot Gates.
676
01:09:13,482 --> 01:09:15,608
We can win."
677
01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:24,951
Dawn.
678
01:09:25,578 --> 01:09:29,581
Whips crack. Barbarians howl.
679
01:09:29,748 --> 01:09:33,668
Those behind cry, '"Forward!'"
680
01:09:35,546 --> 01:09:39,340
Those in front cry, "Back!"
681
01:09:45,431 --> 01:09:47,974
Our eyes bear witness
to the grotesque spectacle...
682
01:09:48,142 --> 01:09:52,270
... coughed forth from the darkest corner
of Xerxes' empire.
683
01:10:42,488 --> 01:10:43,988
When muscle failed...
684
01:10:44,448 --> 01:10:47,116
... they turned to their magic.
685
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:52,956
One hundred nations descend upon us,
the armies of all Asia.
686
01:10:53,123 --> 01:10:57,585
Funneled into this narrow corridor,
their numbers count for nothing.
687
01:11:31,954 --> 01:11:33,913
They fall by the hundreds.
688
01:11:34,081 --> 01:11:39,711
We send the severed bodies
and the fragile hearts back to Xerxes' feet.
689
01:11:56,312 --> 01:12:00,481
King Xerxes is displeased
with his generals.
690
01:12:00,649 --> 01:12:03,234
He disciplines them.
691
01:12:20,085 --> 01:12:24,505
Xerxes dispatches his monsters
from half the world away.
692
01:12:35,476 --> 01:12:37,602
They"re clumsy beasts...
693
01:12:37,770 --> 01:12:40,104
... and the piled Persian dead are slippery.
694
01:13:16,558 --> 01:13:18,976
- You still here?
- Somebody's gotta watch your back.
695
01:13:19,144 --> 01:13:20,770
Not now, I"m a little busy.
696
01:14:01,019 --> 01:14:03,563
Regroup!
697
01:14:06,775 --> 01:14:08,401
Astinos!
698
01:14:08,610 --> 01:14:10,319
My son!
699
01:14:19,246 --> 01:14:20,872
Astinos!
700
01:14:21,039 --> 01:14:23,833
No!
701
01:14:47,065 --> 01:14:49,233
Day wears on.
702
01:14:49,568 --> 01:14:51,736
We lose few...
703
01:14:51,904 --> 01:14:55,114
... but each felled is a friend,
or dearest blood.
704
01:14:57,326 --> 01:15:01,245
And upon seeing the headless body
of his own young son...
705
01:15:01,413 --> 01:15:03,247
... the captain breaks rank.
706
01:15:03,415 --> 01:15:06,876
He goes wild, blood-drunk.
707
01:15:31,485 --> 01:15:33,986
The captain's cries of pain
at the loss of his son...
708
01:15:34,154 --> 01:15:37,907
... are more frightening to the enemy
than the deepest battle drums.
709
01:15:38,075 --> 01:15:42,078
It takes three men to restrain him
and bring him back to our own.
710
01:15:42,412 --> 01:15:44,747
The day is ours.
711
01:15:45,123 --> 01:15:47,792
No songs are sung.
712
01:16:27,916 --> 01:16:32,503
Your gods were cruel to shape you so,
friend Ephialtes.
713
01:16:34,923 --> 01:16:36,215
The Spartans, too...
714
01:16:36,967 --> 01:16:39,844
... were cruel to reject you.
715
01:16:42,681 --> 01:16:45,141
But I am kind.
716
01:16:51,648 --> 01:16:53,774
Everything you could ever desire...
717
01:16:55,027 --> 01:16:56,777
... every happiness you can imagine...
718
01:16:58,989 --> 01:17:03,576
... every pleasure your fellow Greeks
and your false gods have denied you...
719
01:17:04,369 --> 01:17:06,662
... I will grant you.
720
01:17:07,914 --> 01:17:10,333
For I am kind.
721
01:17:24,264 --> 01:17:27,558
Embrace me as your king
and as your god.
722
01:17:28,727 --> 01:17:30,394
Yes.
723
01:17:31,897 --> 01:17:36,692
Lead my soldiers to the hidden path
that empties behind the cursed Spartans...
724
01:17:36,860 --> 01:17:39,111
... and your joys will be endless.
725
01:17:47,579 --> 01:17:50,748
Yes! I want it all.
726
01:17:51,166 --> 01:17:54,752
Wealth. Women.
727
01:17:56,755 --> 01:17:58,422
And one more thing...
728
01:18:01,593 --> 01:18:04,261
... I want a uniform.
729
01:18:08,767 --> 01:18:10,476
Done.
730
01:18:12,104 --> 01:18:13,813
You will find...
731
01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:16,357
... I am kind.
732
01:18:17,484 --> 01:18:21,737
Unlike the cruel Leonidas,
who demanded that you stand...
733
01:18:23,824 --> 01:18:25,533
... I require only...
734
01:18:26,284 --> 01:18:27,702
... that you kneel.
735
01:18:55,355 --> 01:18:57,314
Beautiful night.
736
01:18:58,734 --> 01:19:02,737
Yes, but I did not ask you here
for small talk, Theron.
737
01:19:03,363 --> 01:19:05,489
You can be sure of that.
738
01:19:06,867 --> 01:19:09,535
You never spared words with me.
739
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:13,372
Can I offer you something?
A drink, perhaps?
740
01:19:13,540 --> 01:19:15,374
Is it poison?
741
01:19:15,792 --> 01:19:18,544
I"m sorry to disappoint you,
it's only water.
742
01:19:28,346 --> 01:19:31,515
I"m told it's been arranged for you
to go before the council.
743
01:19:32,184 --> 01:19:33,893
Yes.
744
01:19:34,102 --> 01:19:37,438
I need your help in winning votes
to send the army north to our king.
745
01:19:38,023 --> 01:19:39,648
Yes.
746
01:19:40,317 --> 01:19:42,860
I can see it,
the two of us standing together.
747
01:19:43,028 --> 01:19:47,406
Me, politician. You, warrior.
Our voices as one.
748
01:19:48,742 --> 01:19:50,201
But why would I want to do that?
749
01:19:51,203 --> 01:19:55,164
It proves you care for a king who right now
fights for the very water we drink.
750
01:19:55,499 --> 01:19:57,082
True.
751
01:19:57,459 --> 01:20:00,085
But this is politics, not war.
752
01:20:00,378 --> 01:20:01,921
Leonidas is an idealist.
753
01:20:02,339 --> 01:20:06,258
I know your kind too well. You send men
to slaughter for your own gain.
754
01:20:06,426 --> 01:20:11,347
Your husband, our king,
has taken 300 of our finest to slaughter.
755
01:20:11,515 --> 01:20:16,143
He's broken our laws
and left without the council's consent.
756
01:20:16,645 --> 01:20:19,647
- I"m simply a realist.
- You"re an opportunist.
757
01:20:20,607 --> 01:20:24,902
You"re as foolish as Leonidas if you think
men don't have a price in this world.
758
01:20:25,070 --> 01:20:29,657
All men are not created equal.
That's the Spartan code, my little queen.
759
01:20:33,328 --> 01:20:35,746
I admire your passion.
760
01:20:37,082 --> 01:20:38,791
But don't think that you...
761
01:20:39,251 --> 01:20:41,585
... a woman, even a queen...
762
01:20:41,753 --> 01:20:45,673
... can walk into the council chamber
and sway the minds of men.
763
01:20:45,841 --> 01:20:48,259
I own that chamber...
764
01:20:48,426 --> 01:20:50,511
... as if it were built with these hands.
765
01:20:54,975 --> 01:20:58,519
I could crush
the life out of you right now.
766
01:20:59,604 --> 01:21:03,274
You will go before the council,
but your words will fall on deaf ears.
767
01:21:03,441 --> 01:21:09,196
Leonidas will receive no reinforcements,
and if he returns, without my help...
768
01:21:09,364 --> 01:21:12,324
... he will go to jail or worse.
769
01:21:16,079 --> 01:21:17,538
Do you love your Sparta?
770
01:21:18,039 --> 01:21:19,748
Yes.
771
01:21:19,916 --> 01:21:22,167
- And your king?
- I do.
772
01:21:28,008 --> 01:21:31,719
Your husband fights for his land
and his love.
773
01:21:32,387 --> 01:21:34,680
What do you have to offer...
774
01:21:35,473 --> 01:21:38,434
... in return for my word
that I'll help you send our army north?
775
01:21:42,397 --> 01:21:45,065
What does a realist want with his queen?
776
01:21:49,654 --> 01:21:51,405
I think you know.
777
01:22:05,837 --> 01:22:08,547
This will not be over quickly.
778
01:22:09,591 --> 01:22:12,092
You will not enjoy this.
779
01:22:12,636 --> 01:22:14,887
I"m not your king.
780
01:22:39,704 --> 01:22:41,497
Dilios.
781
01:22:43,500 --> 01:22:47,544
I trust that scratch
hasn't made you useless?
782
01:22:47,712 --> 01:22:50,714
Hardly, my lord. It's just an eye.
783
01:22:50,882 --> 01:22:54,093
The gods saw fit to grace me
with a spare.
784
01:22:55,971 --> 01:22:57,888
My captain?
785
01:22:59,224 --> 01:23:03,018
Curses the gods and mourns alone.
786
01:23:04,980 --> 01:23:06,939
Leonidas!
787
01:23:08,149 --> 01:23:11,151
We are undone.
Undone, I tell you. Destroyed.
788
01:23:11,319 --> 01:23:12,736
Daxos, calm yourself.
789
01:23:12,904 --> 01:23:16,532
Our hunchback traitor led Xerxes' Immortals
to the hidden goat path behind us.
790
01:23:16,908 --> 01:23:19,743
The Phocians you posted there
were scattered without a fight.
791
01:23:19,911 --> 01:23:25,165
- This battle is over, Leonidas.
- This battle is over when I say it is over.
792
01:23:25,333 --> 01:23:29,712
By morning, the Immortals will surround us.
The Hot Gates will fall.
793
01:23:30,338 --> 01:23:34,717
Spartans! Prepare for glory!
794
01:23:34,884 --> 01:23:38,095
Glory? Have you gone mad?
795
01:23:38,263 --> 01:23:39,805
There is no glory to be had now.
796
01:23:40,432 --> 01:23:44,018
Only retreat or surrender. Or death.
797
01:23:44,185 --> 01:23:47,354
Well, that's an easy choice
for us, Arcadian.
798
01:23:47,522 --> 01:23:53,027
Spartans never retreat.
Spartans never surrender.
799
01:23:53,611 --> 01:23:55,738
Go spread the word.
800
01:23:55,947 --> 01:23:59,616
Let every Greek assembled
know the truth of this.
801
01:23:59,784 --> 01:24:02,619
Let each among them
search his own soul.
802
01:24:04,330 --> 01:24:08,459
And while you"re at it, search your own.
803
01:24:15,967 --> 01:24:18,260
My men will leave with me.
804
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:25,809
Godspeed, Leonidas.
805
01:24:32,150 --> 01:24:33,734
Children!
806
01:24:34,694 --> 01:24:36,028
Children.
807
01:24:37,072 --> 01:24:39,073
Gather round.
808
01:24:40,950 --> 01:24:44,203
No retreat, no surrender.
809
01:24:44,370 --> 01:24:48,248
That is Spartan law.
810
01:24:48,500 --> 01:24:53,545
And by Spartan law,
we will stand and fight...
811
01:24:53,713 --> 01:24:55,714
... and die.
812
01:24:59,177 --> 01:25:02,679
A new age has begun.
813
01:25:04,390 --> 01:25:07,518
An age of freedom.
814
01:25:08,603 --> 01:25:12,272
And all will know that 300 Spartans...
815
01:25:12,440 --> 01:25:15,692
... gave their last breath to defend it.
816
01:25:36,005 --> 01:25:37,756
My friend.
817
01:25:41,302 --> 01:25:46,890
I have lived my entire life
without regret until now.
818
01:25:50,228 --> 01:25:56,191
It's not that my son
gave up his life for his country.
819
01:25:58,069 --> 01:26:01,947
It's just that I never told him
that I loved him the most.
820
01:26:03,575 --> 01:26:06,410
That he stood by me with honor.
821
01:26:07,871 --> 01:26:10,789
That he was all that was best in me.
822
01:26:19,924 --> 01:26:22,426
My heart is broken for your loss.
823
01:26:23,178 --> 01:26:24,887
Heart?
824
01:26:29,934 --> 01:26:33,061
I have filled my heart...
825
01:26:33,229 --> 01:26:34,938
... with hate.
826
01:26:39,110 --> 01:26:40,777
Good.
827
01:26:49,913 --> 01:26:51,747
Dilios...
828
01:26:53,458 --> 01:26:55,584
... let's take a walk.
829
01:26:57,045 --> 01:26:59,129
Yes, my lord.
830
01:27:01,507 --> 01:27:04,176
But, sire, I am fit and ready for battle.
831
01:27:04,344 --> 01:27:07,471
That you are, one of the finest.
832
01:27:07,805 --> 01:27:11,391
But you have another talent
unlike any other Spartan.
833
01:27:14,103 --> 01:27:17,522
You will deliver my final orders
to the council...
834
01:27:17,690 --> 01:27:20,192
... with force and verve.
835
01:27:22,695 --> 01:27:24,988
Tell them our story.
836
01:27:25,156 --> 01:27:29,660
Make every Greek know
what happened here.
837
01:27:30,495 --> 01:27:33,163
You'll have a grand tale to tell.
838
01:27:34,958 --> 01:27:36,667
A tale of victory.
839
01:27:37,335 --> 01:27:38,877
Victory.
840
01:27:42,924 --> 01:27:44,925
Yes, my lord.
841
01:27:50,598 --> 01:27:52,975
Sire, any message... ?
842
01:27:55,853 --> 01:27:57,187
For the queen?
843
01:28:19,669 --> 01:28:22,087
None that need be spoken.
844
01:28:37,228 --> 01:28:39,604
Hundreds leave.
845
01:28:40,231 --> 01:28:42,691
A handful stay.
846
01:28:47,864 --> 01:28:50,490
Only one looks back.
847
01:29:00,793 --> 01:29:03,003
Spartans!
848
01:29:04,088 --> 01:29:07,257
Ready your breakfast and eat hearty...
849
01:29:07,425 --> 01:29:11,345
... for tonight we dine in hell!
850
01:29:20,229 --> 01:29:22,898
May I give the floor now...
851
01:29:23,066 --> 01:29:27,486
... to the wife of Leonidas
and queen of Sparta.
852
01:29:39,207 --> 01:29:40,957
- What's this?
- This is nothing.
853
01:29:41,125 --> 01:29:42,959
Councilmen...
854
01:29:43,127 --> 01:29:46,880
... I stand before you
not only as your queen.
855
01:29:47,757 --> 01:29:50,467
I come to you as a mother.
856
01:29:51,761 --> 01:29:54,137
I come to you as a wife.
857
01:29:55,973 --> 01:29:58,475
I come to you as a Spartan woman.
858
01:30:03,481 --> 01:30:06,608
I come to you with great humility.
859
01:30:10,029 --> 01:30:12,447
I am not here to represent Leonidas.
860
01:30:12,615 --> 01:30:15,367
His actions speak louder
than my words ever could.
861
01:30:15,701 --> 01:30:18,120
I am here for all those voices
which cannot be heard.
862
01:30:18,287 --> 01:30:20,831
Mothers, daughters, fathers, sons.
863
01:30:20,998 --> 01:30:23,959
Three hundred families
that bleed for our rights...
864
01:30:24,377 --> 01:30:27,587
... and for the very principles
this room was built upon.
865
01:30:28,172 --> 01:30:30,298
We are at war, gentlemen.
866
01:30:30,716 --> 01:30:33,260
We must send the entire Spartan army
to aid our king...
867
01:30:33,428 --> 01:30:36,513
... in the preservation of not just ourselves,
but of our children.
868
01:30:37,098 --> 01:30:40,225
Send the army
for the preservation of liberty.
869
01:30:40,393 --> 01:30:42,727
Send it for justice.
870
01:30:42,895 --> 01:30:44,521
Send it for law and order.
871
01:30:45,064 --> 01:30:47,274
Send it for reason.
872
01:30:47,442 --> 01:30:51,528
But most importantly,
send our army for hope.
873
01:30:51,696 --> 01:30:55,282
Hope that a king and his men have not
been wasted to the pages of history.
874
01:30:56,117 --> 01:30:59,536
That their courage bonds us together.
875
01:30:59,871 --> 01:31:03,039
That we are made stronger
by their actions...
876
01:31:04,041 --> 01:31:08,170
... and that your choices today
reflect their bravery.
877
01:31:10,089 --> 01:31:11,756
Three hundred.
878
01:31:14,093 --> 01:31:15,927
We must send them.
879
01:31:19,724 --> 01:31:21,558
Moving...
880
01:31:21,893 --> 01:31:24,769
... eloquent, passionate.
881
01:31:25,188 --> 01:31:29,357
But it doesn't change the fact
that your husband has brought war upon us.
882
01:31:29,525 --> 01:31:31,943
You are wrong.
Xerxes brought it forth...
883
01:31:32,111 --> 01:31:34,571
... and before that,
his father Darius at Marathon.
884
01:31:34,739 --> 01:31:36,490
The Persians will not stop...
885
01:31:36,657 --> 01:31:40,035
... until the only shelter we will find
is rubble and chaos.
886
01:31:40,411 --> 01:31:44,164
This chamber needs no
history lesson, my queen.
887
01:31:44,665 --> 01:31:46,875
Then what is the lesson
you would like to leave?
888
01:31:47,043 --> 01:31:49,127
Shall I begin to enumerate all of them?
889
01:31:49,545 --> 01:31:52,964
Honor. Duty. Glory.
890
01:31:53,257 --> 01:31:58,261
You speak of honor, duty and glory?
891
01:31:59,597 --> 01:32:00,805
But what of adultery?
892
01:32:00,973 --> 01:32:03,433
- How dare you.
- How dare l?
893
01:32:03,893 --> 01:32:06,895
Watch her carefully.
894
01:32:07,063 --> 01:32:10,023
She is a trickster in true form.
895
01:32:10,191 --> 01:32:13,360
Do not play with the members
of this sacred chamber, my queen.
896
01:32:13,528 --> 01:32:16,613
Just hours ago,
you offered yourself to me.
897
01:32:16,781 --> 01:32:21,243
Were I a weaker man,
I would have her scent on me still.
898
01:32:21,410 --> 01:32:24,412
- This is outrage.
- Oh, the hypocrite speaks!
899
01:32:24,580 --> 01:32:27,582
Did you not receive a similar payment,
which you took...
900
01:32:27,750 --> 01:32:30,961
... in exchange for her having an audience
with these noble men?
901
01:32:31,128 --> 01:32:32,921
- That is a lie.
- Is it?
902
01:32:33,089 --> 01:32:36,841
Was he not, by your invitation,
asked to come to the king's bedchamber?
903
01:32:37,385 --> 01:32:42,013
The very bed where you attempted
to negotiate with me so vigorously?
904
01:32:44,642 --> 01:32:48,144
You look shocked.
A bribe of the flesh, gentlemen...
905
01:32:48,312 --> 01:32:51,606
... while her husband
promotes anarchy and war.
906
01:32:54,527 --> 01:32:55,735
He speaks truth.
907
01:32:56,320 --> 01:32:59,531
Words escape
even the most cunning tongue...
908
01:32:59,699 --> 01:33:01,783
... my little whore queen.
909
01:33:06,497 --> 01:33:08,331
What queen-like behavior.
910
01:33:10,042 --> 01:33:13,169
Remove her from this chamber
before she infects us further...
911
01:33:13,337 --> 01:33:16,339
... with her inglorious and shabby self.
912
01:33:23,180 --> 01:33:24,764
This will not be over quickly.
913
01:33:26,100 --> 01:33:29,644
You will not enjoy this.
I am not your queen.
914
01:33:51,792 --> 01:33:53,710
Traitor.
915
01:33:54,253 --> 01:33:59,049
Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!
916
01:33:59,342 --> 01:34:01,593
Traitor!
917
01:34:38,631 --> 01:34:44,636
Leonidas, my compliments
and congratulations.
918
01:34:44,804 --> 01:34:48,473
You surely have turned calamity
into victory.
919
01:34:48,641 --> 01:34:51,643
Despite your insufferable arrogance...
920
01:34:51,811 --> 01:34:55,980
... the god-king has come
to admire Spartan valor and fighting skill.
921
01:34:56,732 --> 01:34:58,108
You will make a mighty ally.
922
01:34:58,275 --> 01:34:59,984
Yield, Leonidas.
923
01:35:01,153 --> 01:35:04,030
Use your reason. Think of your men.
924
01:35:06,867 --> 01:35:08,493
I beg you.
925
01:35:09,078 --> 01:35:11,037
Listen to your fellow Greek.
926
01:35:11,205 --> 01:35:14,916
He can attest
to the divine one's generosity.
927
01:35:15,084 --> 01:35:19,546
Despite your several insults,
despite your horrid blasphemies...
928
01:35:20,464 --> 01:35:23,633
... the lord of hosts
is prepared to forgive all...
929
01:35:23,884 --> 01:35:26,928
... and more, to reward your service.
930
01:35:27,179 --> 01:35:28,513
You fight for your lands.
931
01:35:29,223 --> 01:35:31,057
Keep them.
932
01:35:31,767 --> 01:35:33,727
You fight for Sparta.
933
01:35:33,894 --> 01:35:37,897
She will be wealthier and more powerful
than ever before.
934
01:35:38,107 --> 01:35:40,024
You fight for your kingship.
935
01:35:40,943 --> 01:35:43,903
You will be proclaimed warlord
of all Greece...
936
01:35:44,071 --> 01:35:48,366
... answerable only
to the one true master of the world.
937
01:35:48,743 --> 01:35:53,496
Leonidas, your victory will be complete...
938
01:35:53,664 --> 01:35:56,249
... if you but lay down your arms...
939
01:35:56,417 --> 01:35:59,586
... and kneel to holy Xerxes.
940
01:36:30,075 --> 01:36:35,038
It's been more than 30 years
since the wolf in the winter cold.
941
01:36:35,206 --> 01:36:39,751
And now, as then,
it's not fear that grips him...
942
01:36:39,919 --> 01:36:45,089
... only restlessness.
A heightened sense of things.
943
01:36:45,883 --> 01:36:50,678
The seaborne breeze coolly kissing
the sweat at his chest and neck.
944
01:36:50,846 --> 01:36:52,347
Gulls cawing...
945
01:36:52,515 --> 01:36:56,726
... complaining even as they feast
on the thousands of floating dead.
946
01:36:58,354 --> 01:37:03,399
The steady breathing
of the 300 at his back...
947
01:37:04,193 --> 01:37:07,654
... ready to die for him
without a moment's pause.
948
01:37:10,241 --> 01:37:11,616
Every one of them...
949
01:37:13,077 --> 01:37:15,036
... ready to die.
950
01:37:30,553 --> 01:37:33,471
His helmet is stifling.
951
01:37:54,159 --> 01:37:56,995
His shield is heavy.
952
01:38:04,628 --> 01:38:05,962
Your spear.
953
01:38:14,805 --> 01:38:16,222
You there...
954
01:38:16,640 --> 01:38:18,641
... Ephialtes.
955
01:38:23,772 --> 01:38:26,024
May you live forever.
956
01:38:33,449 --> 01:38:35,742
Leonidas, your spear.
957
01:39:42,977 --> 01:39:44,560
Stelios!
958
01:39:54,571 --> 01:39:56,197
Slaughter them!
959
01:39:59,576 --> 01:40:01,160
His helmet was stifling.
960
01:40:01,328 --> 01:40:04,455
It narrowed his vision,
and he must see far.
961
01:40:05,749 --> 01:40:09,627
His shield was heavy.
It threw him off balance...
962
01:40:09,795 --> 01:40:13,464
... and his target is far away.
963
01:41:18,030 --> 01:41:22,617
The old ones say we Spartans
are descended from Hercules himself.
964
01:41:24,078 --> 01:41:28,414
Bold Leonidas gives testament
to our bloodline.
965
01:41:28,582 --> 01:41:32,710
His roar is long and loud.
966
01:42:02,825 --> 01:42:04,408
My king.
967
01:42:16,672 --> 01:42:20,299
It's an honor to die at your side.
968
01:42:21,885 --> 01:42:26,389
It's an honor to have lived at yours.
969
01:42:47,286 --> 01:42:49,412
My queen!
970
01:42:57,629 --> 01:42:59,380
My wife.
971
01:43:10,809 --> 01:43:12,602
My love.
972
01:45:39,041 --> 01:45:41,167
"Remember us."
973
01:45:42,836 --> 01:45:46,255
As simple an order as a king can give.
974
01:45:47,841 --> 01:45:51,052
"Remember why we died."
975
01:45:53,055 --> 01:45:57,099
For he did not wish tribute or song...
976
01:45:58,935 --> 01:46:03,105
... nor monuments,
nor poems of war and valor.
977
01:46:05,984 --> 01:46:08,277
His wish was simple.
978
01:46:13,658 --> 01:46:15,743
"Remember us"...
979
01:46:16,787 --> 01:46:18,496
... he said to me.
980
01:46:20,165 --> 01:46:22,375
That was his hope.
981
01:46:22,584 --> 01:46:26,295
Should any free soul
come across that place...
982
01:46:27,089 --> 01:46:30,424
... in all the countless
centuries yet to be...
983
01:46:30,842 --> 01:46:33,427
... may all our voices...
984
01:46:33,595 --> 01:46:37,640
... whisper to you
from the ageless stones.
985
01:46:38,642 --> 01:46:42,269
Go tell the Spartans, passerby...
986
01:46:42,604 --> 01:46:48,484
... that here, by Spartan law, we lie.
987
01:46:51,238 --> 01:46:53,948
And so my king died...
988
01:46:54,825 --> 01:46:57,451
... and my brothers died...
989
01:46:59,830 --> 01:47:02,289
... barely a year ago.
990
01:47:06,211 --> 01:47:11,465
Long I pondered my king's
cryptic talk of victory.
991
01:47:11,675 --> 01:47:14,343
Time has proven him wise.
992
01:47:15,220 --> 01:47:18,264
For from free Greek to free Greek...
993
01:47:18,432 --> 01:47:23,018
... the word was spread
that bold Leonidas and his 300...
994
01:47:23,186 --> 01:47:25,187
... so far from home...
995
01:47:25,355 --> 01:47:28,774
... laid down their lives
not just for Sparta...
996
01:47:28,942 --> 01:47:32,736
... but for all Greece
and the promise this country holds.
997
01:47:33,655 --> 01:47:38,701
Now, here on this rugged patch of earth
called Plataea...
998
01:47:38,869 --> 01:47:43,873
... Xerxes' hordes face obliteration!
999
01:47:45,542 --> 01:47:48,961
Just there the barbarians huddle...
1000
01:47:49,129 --> 01:47:54,008
... sheer terror gripping tight their hearts...
1001
01:47:54,176 --> 01:47:56,051
... with icy fingers...
1002
01:47:56,219 --> 01:47:59,472
... knowing full well
what merciless horrors they suffered...
1003
01:47:59,639 --> 01:48:02,183
... at the swords and spears of 300.
1004
01:48:03,560 --> 01:48:09,148
Yet they stare now across the plain
at 10,000 Spartans...
1005
01:48:09,316 --> 01:48:12,610
... commanding 30,000 free Greeks!
1006
01:48:19,409 --> 01:48:23,329
The enemy outnumber us
a paltry three to one.
1007
01:48:23,622 --> 01:48:25,623
Good odds for any Greek.
1008
01:48:26,333 --> 01:48:31,045
This day, we rescue a world
from mysticism and tyranny...
1009
01:48:31,213 --> 01:48:35,591
... and usher in a future
brighter than anything we can imagine.
1010
01:48:40,013 --> 01:48:41,514
Give thanks, men...
1011
01:48:42,224 --> 01:48:45,976
... to Leonidas and the brave 300.
1012
01:48:46,144 --> 01:48:48,896
To victory!
1013
01:56:26,062 --> 01:56:28,063
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