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[THUNDER RUMBLING]
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[BABY COOS]
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DILIOS:
When the boy was bom...
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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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[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 gifts...
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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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SOLDIER:
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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...not in Sparta.
253
00:26:31,048 --> 00:26:33,836
No place for weakness.
254
00:26:37,346 --> 00:26:41,510
Only the hard and strong
may call themselves Spartans.
255
00:26:42,351 --> 00:26:46,845
Only the hard. Only the strong.
256
00:27:15,342 --> 00:27:17,208
We march...
257
00:27:17,886 --> 00:27:23,381
...for our lands, for our families,
for our freedoms.
258
00:27:24,184 --> 00:27:26,346
We march.
259
00:27:28,063 --> 00:27:29,724
LEONIDAS:
Daxos.
260
00:27:29,898 --> 00:27:33,311
- What a pleasant surprise.
- This morning's full of surprises, Leonidas.
261
00:27:33,485 --> 00:27:35,897
- We've been tricked.
- Can't be more than a hundred.
262
00:27:36,071 --> 00:27:38,278
BAKER: This is a surprise.
DAXOS: Silence.
263
00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:40,697
ARCADIAN:
This isn't their army.
264
00:27:40,868 --> 00:27:45,032
We heard Sparta was on the warpath
and we were eager to join forces.
265
00:27:45,706 --> 00:27:49,791
If it is blood you seek,
you are welcome to join us.
266
00:27:50,127 --> 00:27:53,370
But you bring only this handful
of soldiers against Xerxes?
267
00:27:53,547 --> 00:27:57,131
I see I was wrong to expect Sparta's
commitment to at least match our own.
268
00:27:58,302 --> 00:28:00,134
Doesn't it?
269
00:28:01,597 --> 00:28:03,258
You, there.
270
00:28:03,765 --> 00:28:04,926
What is your profession?
271
00:28:05,475 --> 00:28:07,591
I'm a potter, sir.
272
00:28:08,770 --> 00:28:12,559
And you, Arcadian.
What is your profession?
273
00:28:12,941 --> 00:28:16,354
- Sculptor, sir.
- Sculptor.
274
00:28:16,737 --> 00:28:18,648
- And you?
Blacksmith.
275
00:28:23,327 --> 00:28:26,615
Spartans! What is your profession?
276
00:28:27,122 --> 00:28:28,487
[SPARTANS CHANTING]
277
00:28:33,795 --> 00:28:35,752
You see, old friend?
278
00:28:35,923 --> 00:28:38,790
I brought more soldiers than you did.
279
00:28:48,769 --> 00:28:50,555
DILIOS:
No sleep tonight...
280
00:28:51,647 --> 00:28:54,105
...not for the king.
281
00:28:54,274 --> 00:28:56,481
All his 40 years
have been a straight road...
282
00:28:56,652 --> 00:29:00,236
...to this one gleaming moment
in destiny...
283
00:29:00,405 --> 00:29:03,147
...this one radiant clash
of shield and spear...
284
00:29:03,325 --> 00:29:06,943
...sword and bone, and flesh and blood.
285
00:29:08,664 --> 00:29:10,450
His only regret...
286
00:29:10,624 --> 00:29:14,333
...is that he has so few to sacrifice.
287
00:29:35,649 --> 00:29:37,640
We're being followed.
288
00:29:42,698 --> 00:29:44,860
It has followed us since Sparta.
289
00:29:49,830 --> 00:29:52,822
STELIOS:
My king! Look!
290
00:30:13,770 --> 00:30:15,226
STELIOS:
What happened here?
291
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,145
Where are all the people?
292
00:30:18,233 --> 00:30:19,940
Persians.
293
00:30:20,110 --> 00:30:21,896
I put their number at around 20.
294
00:30:24,281 --> 00:30:25,646
A scouting party.
295
00:30:29,036 --> 00:30:30,526
But these footprints...
296
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,331
[CLATTERING]
297
00:30:41,923 --> 00:30:43,379
STELIOS:
Behind us!
298
00:30:57,439 --> 00:30:58,645
Child!
299
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,348
CHILD [WHISPERING]:
It's quiet now.
300
00:31:34,810 --> 00:31:36,642
They....
301
00:31:36,978 --> 00:31:41,017
They came with beasts
from the blackness.
302
00:31:42,609 --> 00:31:44,850
With their claws and fangs...
303
00:31:45,028 --> 00:31:47,269
...they grabbed them.
304
00:31:48,156 --> 00:31:50,318
Everyone...
305
00:31:51,326 --> 00:31:53,408
...but me.
306
00:32:05,674 --> 00:32:07,210
DILIOS:
The villagers.
307
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:09,670
I found them.
308
00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:24,022
Have the gods no mercy?
309
00:32:25,193 --> 00:32:27,184
We are doomed.
310
00:32:27,362 --> 00:32:30,024
Quiet yourself.
311
00:32:33,410 --> 00:32:38,655
The child speaks of the Persian ghosts,
known from the ancient times.
312
00:32:39,541 --> 00:32:42,203
They are the hunters of men's souls.
313
00:32:43,253 --> 00:32:45,870
They cannot be killed or defeated.
314
00:32:46,506 --> 00:32:50,670
Not this darkness. Not these Immortals.
315
00:32:52,846 --> 00:32:55,053
Immortals?
316
00:32:55,348 --> 00:32:58,386
We'll put their name to the test.
317
00:33:20,457 --> 00:33:23,245
DILIOS:
Into the Hot Gates we march.
318
00:33:23,418 --> 00:33:26,706
Into that narrow corridor we march...
319
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,121
...where Xerxes' numbers
count for nothing.
320
00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:34,259
Spartans, citizen-soldiers, freed slaves.
321
00:33:34,429 --> 00:33:36,295
Brave Greeks, all.
322
00:33:37,307 --> 00:33:40,425
Brothers, fathers, sons...
323
00:33:40,602 --> 00:33:42,593
...We march.
324
00:33:43,271 --> 00:33:47,435
For honor's sake, for duty's sake,
for glory's sake, we march.
325
00:33:47,609 --> 00:33:50,727
Look! Persians.
326
00:33:55,867 --> 00:33:59,610
DILIOS:
Into hell's mouth we march.
327
00:34:06,127 --> 00:34:07,333
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
328
00:34:08,630 --> 00:34:10,712
Let's watch these motherless dogs...
329
00:34:10,966 --> 00:34:15,005
...as they're embraced by the loving arms
of Greece herself. Come.
330
00:34:17,806 --> 00:34:19,513
True.
331
00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:26,186
It does look like rain.
332
00:34:29,484 --> 00:34:32,727
DILIOS:
Zeus stabs the sky with thunderbolts...
333
00:34:33,029 --> 00:34:37,068
...and batters the Persian ships
with hurricane wind.
334
00:34:38,201 --> 00:34:40,659
Glorious.
335
00:34:42,163 --> 00:34:43,824
[SHOUTING]
336
00:34:52,924 --> 00:34:55,791
DILIOS: Only one among us
keeps his Spartan reserve.
337
00:35:01,725 --> 00:35:03,682
Only he.
338
00:35:03,852 --> 00:35:06,310
Only our king.
339
00:35:23,705 --> 00:35:25,662
My queen?
340
00:35:30,837 --> 00:35:32,168
My queen...
341
00:35:32,339 --> 00:35:35,673
...the courtyard is a more fitting place
for a married woman.
342
00:35:35,842 --> 00:35:37,503
I'm afraid gossip and protocol...
343
00:35:37,677 --> 00:35:40,214
...are the least of my worries now,
councilman.
344
00:35:41,890 --> 00:35:43,722
Is such secrecy needed?
345
00:35:43,892 --> 00:35:46,554
How am I to trust beyond the walls
of my own home?
346
00:35:46,728 --> 00:35:50,437
Even here, Theron has eyes and ears
which fuel Sparta with doubt and fear.
347
00:35:50,857 --> 00:35:54,225
You speak as if all Sparta
conspires against you.
348
00:35:54,903 --> 00:35:56,940
I wish it were only against me.
349
00:35:59,574 --> 00:36:03,067
LOYALIST: Many on our council
would vote to give all we have...
350
00:36:03,244 --> 00:36:05,110
...and follow Leonidas...
351
00:36:05,455 --> 00:36:07,412
...but you must show them favor.
352
00:36:09,751 --> 00:36:12,209
And you can arrange for me
to speak to the council?
353
00:36:12,379 --> 00:36:14,791
If it is reason they want,
I will let them know.
354
00:36:14,964 --> 00:36:17,080
LOYALIST:
Know what, my queen?
355
00:36:17,467 --> 00:36:19,458
Freedom isn't free at all.
356
00:36:19,636 --> 00:36:22,970
That it comes with the highest of costs,
the cost of blood.
357
00:36:25,266 --> 00:36:27,883
I will do my best to gather our council.
358
00:36:28,311 --> 00:36:32,145
And its chamber
shall be filled with your voice.
359
00:36:32,482 --> 00:36:34,314
GORGO: I'm in your debt.
- No.
360
00:36:34,651 --> 00:36:38,815
Leonidas is my king as well as yours.
361
00:37:03,638 --> 00:37:05,470
I saw those ships smash on the rocks.
362
00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:07,964
How can this be?
363
00:37:08,143 --> 00:37:11,431
We saw but a fraction of the monster
that is Xerxes' army.
364
00:37:12,105 --> 00:37:14,472
DAXOS:
There can be no victory here.
365
00:37:18,445 --> 00:37:20,152
Why do you smile?
366
00:37:21,823 --> 00:37:23,780
Arcadian...
367
00:37:23,950 --> 00:37:26,988
...I have fought countless times...
368
00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:29,907
...yet I've never met an adversary
who could offer me...
369
00:37:30,081 --> 00:37:32,243
...what we Spartans
call "a beautiful death."
370
00:37:33,042 --> 00:37:34,703
I can only hope...
371
00:37:34,878 --> 00:37:37,620
...with all the world's warriors
gathered against us...
372
00:37:37,797 --> 00:37:41,461
...there might be one down there
who's up to the task.
373
00:37:45,013 --> 00:37:46,219
[LAUGHING]
374
00:37:52,896 --> 00:37:54,762
PERSIAN EMISSARY:
Move!
375
00:37:54,939 --> 00:37:55,974
[WHIP CRACKING]
376
00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:59,482
Keep going, you dogs!
377
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,197
Move!
378
00:38:10,622 --> 00:38:13,205
Forward, I say!
379
00:38:15,543 --> 00:38:17,125
Stop here!
380
00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:20,124
Who commands here?
381
00:38:22,342 --> 00:38:25,004
I am the emissary...
382
00:38:25,178 --> 00:38:27,419
...to the ruler of all the world...
383
00:38:28,223 --> 00:38:32,137
...the god of gods, king of kings...
384
00:38:32,310 --> 00:38:33,892
...and by that authority...
385
00:38:34,062 --> 00:38:37,851
...I demand that someone
show me your commander.
386
00:38:41,611 --> 00:38:47,527
Listen. Do you think the paltry dozen
you slew scares us?
387
00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:51,193
These hills swarm with our scouts.
388
00:38:51,371 --> 00:38:56,081
And do you think your pathetic wall
will do anything...
389
00:38:56,251 --> 00:39:02,543
...except fall like a heap of dry leaves
in the face of...?
390
00:39:14,269 --> 00:39:16,556
STELIOS:
Our ancestors built this wall...
391
00:39:17,272 --> 00:39:21,231
...using ancient stones
from the bosom of Greece herself.
392
00:39:21,651 --> 00:39:24,018
And with a little Spartan help...
393
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,778
...your Persian scouts supplied the mortar.
394
00:39:27,407 --> 00:39:31,366
You will pay for your barbarism!
395
00:39:50,513 --> 00:39:52,095
My arm!
396
00:39:54,642 --> 00:39:56,508
STELIOS:
It's not yours anymore.
397
00:39:56,811 --> 00:40:01,430
Go now. Run along and tell your Xerxes
he faces free men here...
398
00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:03,147
...not slaves.
399
00:40:03,318 --> 00:40:04,558
Do it quickly...
400
00:40:04,819 --> 00:40:07,732
...before we decide to make our wall
just a little bit bigger.
401
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:09,821
No.
402
00:40:09,991 --> 00:40:12,028
Not slaves.
403
00:40:12,201 --> 00:40:13,362
[CHUCKLING]
404
00:40:14,245 --> 00:40:17,658
Your women will be slaves.
405
00:40:17,999 --> 00:40:20,832
Your sons, your daughters...
406
00:40:21,002 --> 00:40:23,334
...your elders will be slaves!
407
00:40:23,504 --> 00:40:26,292
But not you, no.
408
00:40:26,466 --> 00:40:30,505
By noon this day you will be dead men.
409
00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:37,675
A thousand nations of the Persian Empire
descend upon you.
410
00:40:38,102 --> 00:40:41,595
Our arrows will blot out the sun.
411
00:40:43,358 --> 00:40:46,066
Then we will fight in the shade.
412
00:40:47,612 --> 00:40:49,353
CAPTAIN:
The wall is solid.
413
00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:52,693
It'll do the job of funneling the Persians
into the Hot Gates.
414
00:40:53,034 --> 00:40:55,742
Have the men found any route
through the hills to our back?
415
00:40:56,245 --> 00:40:58,282
CAPTAIN:
None, sire.
416
00:40:58,539 --> 00:41:00,121
There is such a route, good king.
417
00:41:00,667 --> 00:41:02,374
Just pass that western ridge.
418
00:41:03,044 --> 00:41:04,751
It's an old goat path.
419
00:41:04,921 --> 00:41:07,754
The Persians could use it to outflank us.
420
00:41:07,924 --> 00:41:11,667
Not one step closer, monster!
421
00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:16,888
Wise king, I humbly request an audience.
422
00:41:17,058 --> 00:41:20,426
- I'll skewer you where you stand.
- I gave no such order.
423
00:41:30,947 --> 00:41:32,187
Forgive the captain.
424
00:41:32,865 --> 00:41:34,355
He is a good soldier...
425
00:41:34,909 --> 00:41:37,571
...but a bit short on manners.
426
00:41:37,745 --> 00:41:41,784
There is nothing to forgive, brave king.
I know what I look like.
427
00:41:42,250 --> 00:41:44,241
You wear the crimson of a Spartan.
428
00:41:44,877 --> 00:41:50,498
I am Ephialtes, born of Sparta.
429
00:41:51,092 --> 00:41:55,177
My mother's love
led my parents to flee Sparta...
430
00:41:55,346 --> 00:41:56,802
...lest I be discarded.
431
00:41:57,348 --> 00:42:00,136
Your shield and armor?
432
00:42:01,060 --> 00:42:02,721
My father's, sir.
433
00:42:04,063 --> 00:42:08,102
I beg you, bold king,
to permit me...
434
00:42:08,276 --> 00:42:13,316
...to redeem my father's name
by serving you in combat.
435
00:42:13,614 --> 00:42:19,485
My father trained me to feel no fear,
to make spear and shield and sword...
436
00:42:19,662 --> 00:42:22,404
...as much a part of me
as my own beating heart.
437
00:42:22,832 --> 00:42:26,120
I will earn my father's armor, noble king...
438
00:42:26,294 --> 00:42:28,456
...by serving you in the battle.
439
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,291
[GRUNTING]
440
00:42:33,634 --> 00:42:35,750
A fine thrust.
441
00:42:35,928 --> 00:42:37,510
I will kill many Persians.
442
00:42:43,394 --> 00:42:44,976
Raise your shield.
443
00:42:45,146 --> 00:42:47,808
- Sire?
- Raise your shield as high as you can.
444
00:42:51,736 --> 00:42:53,067
[GRUNTING]
445
00:42:56,074 --> 00:42:59,112
Your father should have taught you
how our phalanx works.
446
00:42:59,786 --> 00:43:01,072
We fight...
447
00:43:01,621 --> 00:43:04,488
...as a single, impenetrable unit.
448
00:43:04,665 --> 00:43:07,623
That is the source of our strength.
449
00:43:08,461 --> 00:43:12,079
Each Spartan protects the man
to his left...
450
00:43:12,256 --> 00:43:15,465
...from thigh to neck with his shield.
451
00:43:15,635 --> 00:43:20,300
A single weak spot
and the phalanx shatters.
452
00:43:21,682 --> 00:43:24,925
From thigh to neck, Ephialtes.
453
00:43:26,979 --> 00:43:29,346
I am sorry, my friend.
454
00:43:29,524 --> 00:43:32,141
- But not all of us were made to be soldiers.
- But I-
455
00:43:32,318 --> 00:43:34,730
- If you want to help in a Spartan victory...
- Yes.
456
00:43:34,904 --> 00:43:40,070
...clear the battlefield of the dead,
tend the wounded, bring them water...
457
00:43:40,243 --> 00:43:41,859
...but as for the fight itself...
458
00:43:43,246 --> 00:43:45,157
...I cannot use you.
459
00:43:46,999 --> 00:43:48,410
EPHIALTES:
You...
460
00:43:49,460 --> 00:43:51,292
[CRIES]
461
00:43:53,256 --> 00:43:54,542
[GRUNTING]
462
00:43:56,300 --> 00:44:00,385
Mother! Father! You were wrong!
463
00:44:03,683 --> 00:44:05,424
You are wrong!
464
00:44:05,601 --> 00:44:10,141
Leonidas! You are wrong!
465
00:44:10,606 --> 00:44:13,064
Dispatch the Phocians to the goat path...
466
00:44:13,234 --> 00:44:17,774
...and pray to the gods
nobody tells the Persians about it.
467
00:44:17,947 --> 00:44:19,233
[RUMBLING]
468
00:44:23,494 --> 00:44:25,076
Earthquake.
469
00:44:25,580 --> 00:44:26,820
LEONIDAS:
No, captain.
470
00:44:28,416 --> 00:44:30,373
Battle formations.
471
00:44:46,601 --> 00:44:48,091
[SHOUTING AND GRUNTING]
472
00:44:48,269 --> 00:44:50,260
[HORSE NEIGHING]
473
00:44:54,275 --> 00:44:57,438
This is where we hold them.
474
00:44:57,612 --> 00:44:59,899
This is where we fight!
475
00:45:00,448 --> 00:45:02,689
This is where they die!
476
00:45:03,034 --> 00:45:04,900
Earn these shields, boys!
477
00:45:05,411 --> 00:45:06,993
[SPARTANS CHANT]
478
00:45:07,622 --> 00:45:10,114
Remember this day, men...
479
00:45:10,291 --> 00:45:14,034
...for it will be yours for all time.
480
00:45:25,139 --> 00:45:26,925
Spartans!
481
00:45:27,099 --> 00:45:29,215
Lay down your weapons!
482
00:45:43,241 --> 00:45:44,481
[HORSE NEIGHS]
483
00:45:46,118 --> 00:45:48,359
Persians!
484
00:45:48,955 --> 00:45:50,992
Come and get them!
485
00:45:51,540 --> 00:45:52,655
[HORN BLOWING]
486
00:45:54,335 --> 00:45:55,370
[PERSIANS SHOUTING]
487
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:14,136
Hold!
488
00:46:16,983 --> 00:46:18,519
Give them nothing...
489
00:46:18,985 --> 00:46:22,569
...but take from them everything!
490
00:46:24,282 --> 00:46:26,023
Steady!
491
00:46:27,868 --> 00:46:29,825
[SHOUTING AND GRUNTING]
492
00:46:36,794 --> 00:46:38,330
Push!
493
00:46:42,174 --> 00:46:44,541
Is that the best you can do?
494
00:46:46,762 --> 00:46:48,753
Push! Push!
495
00:46:51,642 --> 00:46:52,803
[GRUNTING IN PAIN]
496
00:46:58,858 --> 00:47:00,394
Now!
497
00:47:12,204 --> 00:47:13,694
Push!
498
00:47:57,249 --> 00:47:59,832
No prisoners!
499
00:48:00,169 --> 00:48:01,910
No mercy!
500
00:48:51,095 --> 00:48:53,086
[GROANING]
501
00:49:21,208 --> 00:49:23,370
They look thirsty.
502
00:49:24,462 --> 00:49:27,375
Well, let's give them something to drink.
503
00:49:30,301 --> 00:49:32,963
To the cliffs.
504
00:49:51,906 --> 00:49:53,237
[SCREAMING]
505
00:49:56,577 --> 00:49:58,739
Halt.
506
00:50:00,873 --> 00:50:02,955
Hell of a good start.
507
00:50:03,834 --> 00:50:05,290
[CHANTING]
508
00:50:25,606 --> 00:50:28,098
Tuck tail!
509
00:50:33,572 --> 00:50:35,108
Persian cowards.
510
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:40,868
[LAUGHING]
511
00:50:42,915 --> 00:50:45,828
- What the hell are you laughing at?
- Well, you had to say it.
512
00:50:46,627 --> 00:50:50,291
- What?
-"Fight in the shade."
513
00:50:50,631 --> 00:50:51,917
[LAUGHING]
514
00:51:03,811 --> 00:51:05,768
LEONIDAS:
Recover.
515
00:51:29,044 --> 00:51:31,661
Today no Spartan dies.
516
00:51:56,822 --> 00:51:58,233
Easy, son.
517
00:51:58,991 --> 00:52:00,197
[HORSES NEIGHING]
518
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:07,280
[GRUNTING]
519
00:52:24,475 --> 00:52:26,432
DILIOS:
We do what we were trained to do...
520
00:52:26,602 --> 00:52:28,058
...What we were bred to do...
521
00:52:28,228 --> 00:52:31,220
...What we were born to do.
522
00:52:38,614 --> 00:52:41,606
No prisoners. No mercy.
523
00:52:41,784 --> 00:52:43,240
A good start.
524
00:53:52,730 --> 00:53:54,596
LOYALIST:
I was afraid you might not come.
525
00:53:54,773 --> 00:53:55,979
GORGO:
I'm sorry, my son is-
526
00:53:56,150 --> 00:54:01,771
Is doing what children do best.
Please, don't apologize.
527
00:54:02,781 --> 00:54:04,897
Your son starts the agoge next year.
528
00:54:05,492 --> 00:54:09,486
That is always a difficult time
for a Spartan mother.
529
00:54:10,622 --> 00:54:15,162
Yes, it will be hard. But also necessary.
530
00:54:17,629 --> 00:54:21,839
You will speak before the council
in two days' time.
531
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,756
My husband does not have two days.
532
00:54:26,180 --> 00:54:28,137
Think of the two days as a gift.
533
00:54:30,184 --> 00:54:32,221
It's no secret...
534
00:54:32,394 --> 00:54:35,261
...Theron wants what you control.
535
00:54:35,439 --> 00:54:38,272
It's his voice you must silence.
536
00:54:38,442 --> 00:54:40,524
Make him your ally...
537
00:54:40,861 --> 00:54:43,398
...and you will have your victory.
538
00:54:44,198 --> 00:54:45,984
Thank you.
539
00:54:46,325 --> 00:54:48,692
You are wise as you are kind.
540
00:55:15,521 --> 00:55:17,558
THERON:
Ah, there's your mother.
541
00:55:24,029 --> 00:55:27,442
You should keep a better eye on him
if he's to be king one day.
542
00:55:27,658 --> 00:55:30,116
Be unfortunate if anything
were to happen to him.
543
00:55:31,620 --> 00:55:33,486
Or to his beautiful mother.
544
00:55:49,555 --> 00:55:51,045
PERSIAN:
No! Ahh!
545
00:55:53,016 --> 00:55:54,097
[FLIES BUZZING]
546
00:55:54,268 --> 00:55:59,729
Our Greek comrades are begging
for a crack at the Persians, sire.
547
00:56:00,023 --> 00:56:01,354
Good.
548
00:56:01,525 --> 00:56:04,267
I've got something
I think they can handle.
549
00:56:04,778 --> 00:56:06,485
Tell Daxos that I want him...
550
00:56:06,655 --> 00:56:11,195
...and 20 of his best eager, sober
and ready for the next charge.
551
00:56:11,368 --> 00:56:13,200
King Leonidas.
552
00:56:15,706 --> 00:56:19,495
- Stelios, catch your breath, boy.
- Yes, milord.
553
00:56:20,127 --> 00:56:22,289
The Persians are approaching.
554
00:56:23,630 --> 00:56:27,498
A small contingent.
Too small for an attack.
555
00:56:31,263 --> 00:56:34,801
LEONIDAS: Captain, I leave you in charge.
CAPTAIN: But sire-
556
00:56:34,975 --> 00:56:36,215
LEONIDAS:
Relax, old friend.
557
00:56:36,393 --> 00:56:40,978
If they assassinate me,
all of Sparta goes to war.
558
00:56:41,899 --> 00:56:44,482
Pray they're that stupid.
559
00:56:45,611 --> 00:56:47,318
Pray...
560
00:56:47,821 --> 00:56:50,028
...we're that lucky.
561
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:54,946
Besides...
562
00:56:57,205 --> 00:57:00,539
...there's no reason we can't be civil...
563
00:57:00,834 --> 00:57:02,450
...is there?
564
00:57:02,628 --> 00:57:03,618
[PERSIAN GRUNTS IN PAIN]
565
00:57:03,795 --> 00:57:04,785
None, sire.
566
00:57:24,191 --> 00:57:26,398
Let me guess.
567
00:57:27,152 --> 00:57:30,144
You must be Xerxes.
568
00:57:42,167 --> 00:57:44,374
Come, Leonidas.
569
00:57:45,796 --> 00:57:47,537
Let us reason together.
570
00:57:47,839 --> 00:57:49,796
It would be a regrettable waste...
571
00:57:50,217 --> 00:57:53,380
...it would be nothing short of madness
were you, brave king...
572
00:57:53,553 --> 00:57:56,762
...and your valiant troops to perish...
573
00:57:57,391 --> 00:57:59,473
...all because of a simple
misunderstanding.
574
00:58:00,060 --> 00:58:02,893
- There's much our cultures could share.
- Haven't you noticed?
575
00:58:03,063 --> 00:58:05,475
We've been sharing our culture
with you all morning.
576
00:58:06,066 --> 00:58:08,353
Yours is a fascinating tribe.
577
00:58:08,527 --> 00:58:10,689
Even now you are defiant...
578
00:58:10,862 --> 00:58:14,981
...in the face of annihilation
and the presence of a god.
579
00:58:15,158 --> 00:58:17,195
It isn't wise to stand against me,
Leonidas.
580
00:58:17,869 --> 00:58:20,076
Imagine what a horrible fate
awaits my enemies...
581
00:58:20,247 --> 00:58:23,160
...when I would gladly kill
any of my own men for victory.
582
00:58:23,333 --> 00:58:25,950
And I would die for any one of mine.
583
00:58:26,128 --> 00:58:30,372
You Greeks take pride in your logic.
I suggest you employ it.
584
00:58:30,549 --> 00:58:34,087
Consider the beautiful land
you so vigorously defend.
585
00:58:34,261 --> 00:58:36,753
Picture it reduced to ash at my whim.
586
00:58:37,014 --> 00:58:38,470
Consider the fate of your women.
587
00:58:39,099 --> 00:58:41,591
Clearly you don't know our women.
588
00:58:41,768 --> 00:58:45,306
I might as well have marched them up here,
judging by what I've seen.
589
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:48,932
You have many slaves, Xerxes...
590
00:58:49,901 --> 00:58:52,188
...but few warriors.
591
00:58:52,362 --> 00:58:56,276
It won't be long
before they fear my spears...
592
00:58:56,700 --> 00:58:59,112
...more than your whips.
593
00:59:02,956 --> 00:59:05,823
It's not the lash they fear...
594
00:59:08,587 --> 00:59:10,248
...it is my divine power.
595
00:59:10,964 --> 00:59:15,458
But I am a generous god.
I can make you rich beyond all measure.
596
00:59:15,927 --> 00:59:18,294
I will make you warlord of all Greece.
597
00:59:18,972 --> 00:59:22,840
You will carry my battle standard
to the heart of Europa.
598
00:59:23,018 --> 00:59:25,635
Your Athenian rivals...
599
00:59:25,937 --> 00:59:28,099
...will kneel at your feet...
600
00:59:28,815 --> 00:59:31,603
...if you will but kneel at mine.
601
00:59:32,444 --> 00:59:34,685
You are generous...
602
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,647
...as you are divine...
603
00:59:38,408 --> 00:59:40,024
...0 king of kings.
604
00:59:40,202 --> 00:59:44,116
Such an offer
only a madman would refuse.
605
00:59:44,706 --> 00:59:46,697
But the...
606
00:59:47,626 --> 00:59:50,459
The idea of kneeling, it's...
607
00:59:50,629 --> 00:59:55,169
You see, slaughtering
all those men of yours has...
608
00:59:55,342 --> 00:59:59,176
Well, it's left a nasty cramp in my leg...
609
00:59:59,346 --> 01:00:01,428
...so kneeling will be hard for me.
610
01:00:01,681 --> 01:00:05,049
There will be no glory in your sacrifice.
611
01:00:05,227 --> 01:00:08,845
I will erase even the memory of Sparta
from the histories.
612
01:00:09,022 --> 01:00:12,185
Every piece of Greek parchment
shall be burned.
613
01:00:12,359 --> 01:00:15,693
Every Greek historian and every scribe
shall have their eyes put out...
614
01:00:15,862 --> 01:00:18,149
...and their tongues
cut from their mouths.
615
01:00:18,323 --> 01:00:24,319
Why, uttering the very name of Sparta
or Leonidas will be punishable by death.
616
01:00:24,955 --> 01:00:28,198
The world will never know
you existed at all.
617
01:00:30,377 --> 01:00:34,962
The world will know
that free men stood against a tyrant.
618
01:00:35,173 --> 01:00:38,666
That few stood against many.
619
01:00:39,052 --> 01:00:42,215
And before this battle was over...
620
01:00:42,472 --> 01:00:45,430
...that even a god-king can bleed.
621
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:47,721
[FLIES BUZZING]
622
01:00:52,816 --> 01:00:55,023
You fought well today...
623
01:00:56,361 --> 01:00:58,227
...for a woman.
624
01:00:59,406 --> 01:01:01,067
As did you.
625
01:01:01,241 --> 01:01:04,359
Maybe if I'm injured,
you'll be able to keep up with me.
626
01:01:04,870 --> 01:01:09,831
STELIOS: Perhaps I was so
far ahead you couldn't see me.
627
01:01:10,417 --> 01:01:13,626
More likely offering your backside
to the Thespians.
628
01:01:14,588 --> 01:01:16,204
Jealousy...
629
01:01:16,381 --> 01:01:18,873
...does not become you, my friend.
630
01:01:21,595 --> 01:01:23,927
Move it, men!
631
01:01:26,057 --> 01:01:28,264
Pile those Persians high.
632
01:01:31,438 --> 01:01:34,226
For unless I miss my guess...
633
01:01:34,774 --> 01:01:37,766
...we're in for one wild night.
634
01:01:56,630 --> 01:01:58,291
[BIRD CRYING]
635
01:02:01,718 --> 01:02:06,884
DILIOS: They have served the dark
will of Persian kings for 500 years.
636
01:02:07,057 --> 01:02:09,389
Eyes as dark as night.
637
01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:11,550
Teeth filed to fangs.
638
01:02:13,647 --> 01:02:15,934
Soulless.
639
01:02:23,323 --> 01:02:28,113
The personal guard to King Xerxes himself.
The Persian warrior elite.
640
01:02:29,913 --> 01:02:32,996
The deadliest fighting force in all of Asia:
641
01:02:33,792 --> 01:02:35,829
The Immortals.
642
01:02:44,052 --> 01:02:47,465
The god-king has betrayed a fatal flaw:
643
01:02:47,973 --> 01:02:49,714
Hubris.
644
01:02:51,977 --> 01:02:54,719
Easy to taunt, easy to trick.
645
01:02:55,397 --> 01:02:57,855
Before wounds and weariness
have taken their toll...
646
01:02:58,024 --> 01:03:01,517
...the mad king
throws the best he has at us.
647
01:03:02,028 --> 01:03:03,735
Xerxes has taken the bait.
648
01:03:03,905 --> 01:03:05,691
Spartans, push!
649
01:03:06,700 --> 01:03:08,407
[GRUNTING]
650
01:03:16,376 --> 01:03:17,992
DILIOS:
Immortals.
651
01:03:18,461 --> 01:03:21,419
We put their name to the test.
652
01:03:23,008 --> 01:03:24,419
[GRUNTING]
653
01:03:48,033 --> 01:03:49,694
[UBER IMMORTAL GROWLING]
654
01:04:05,592 --> 01:04:07,048
ASTINOS:
Father!
655
01:04:16,186 --> 01:04:17,597
[UBER IMMORTAL GROWLING]
656
01:05:39,978 --> 01:05:41,434
[SNARLING]
657
01:05:52,699 --> 01:05:53,985
SPARTAN:
My king!
658
01:06:37,327 --> 01:06:38,863
[SNARLING]
659
01:06:51,424 --> 01:06:52,914
[GRUNTING]
660
01:07:06,773 --> 01:07:08,730
Arcadians, now!
661
01:07:11,027 --> 01:07:13,769
Go! Show the Spartans what we can do.
662
01:07:14,405 --> 01:07:15,816
Go!
663
01:07:15,990 --> 01:07:17,276
[ARCADIANS SHOUTING
AND GRUNTING]
664
01:07:25,250 --> 01:07:27,116
DILIOS:
They shout and curse...
665
01:07:27,293 --> 01:07:30,502
...stabbing wildly,
more brawlers than warriors.
666
01:07:31,631 --> 01:07:34,214
They make a wondrous mess of things.
667
01:07:35,260 --> 01:07:38,002
Brave amateurs, they do their part.
668
01:07:38,513 --> 01:07:39,844
[SHOUTS]
669
01:08:25,643 --> 01:08:27,509
DILIOS:
Immortals.
670
01:08:27,687 --> 01:08:30,270
They fail our king's test.
671
01:08:30,440 --> 01:08:33,353
And a man who fancies himself a god...
672
01:08:34,110 --> 01:08:37,944
...feels a very human chill
crawl up his spine.
673
01:08:38,114 --> 01:08:39,354
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
674
01:08:43,911 --> 01:08:45,527
[SPARTANS SHOUTING]
675
01:08:46,164 --> 01:08:47,279
To our king!
676
01:08:47,457 --> 01:08:48,492
[ALL CHEERING]
677
01:08:48,666 --> 01:08:50,657
And our honored dead.
678
01:08:50,835 --> 01:08:53,623
Whom will Xerxes dare to send next?
Whom?!
679
01:08:53,963 --> 01:08:55,704
ASTINOS:
There's nothing that can stop us now!
680
01:08:55,882 --> 01:08:57,043
[ALL CHEERING]
681
01:08:57,550 --> 01:09:01,043
DILIOS: Even the king allows
himself to hope for more than glory.
682
01:09:01,220 --> 01:09:04,554
Such mad hope, but there it is:
683
01:09:05,016 --> 01:09:10,386
"Against Asia's endless hordes,
against all odds, we can do it.
684
01:09:10,563 --> 01:09:13,305
We can hold the Hot Gates.
685
01:09:13,483 --> 01:09:15,599
We can win. "
686
01:09:23,201 --> 01:09:24,566
Dawn.
687
01:09:24,744 --> 01:09:25,734
[WHIPS CRACKING]
688
01:09:25,912 --> 01:09:29,576
Whips crack. Barbarians howl.
689
01:09:29,749 --> 01:09:33,663
Those behind cry, "Forward!"
690
01:09:35,546 --> 01:09:39,335
Those in front cry, "Back!"
691
01:09:39,759 --> 01:09:41,500
[RHINO GALLOPING
AND ROARING]
692
01:09:45,431 --> 01:09:47,968
Our eyes bear witness
to the grotesque spectacle...
693
01:09:48,142 --> 01:09:52,261
...coughed forth from the darkest comer
of Xerxes' empire.
694
01:09:54,816 --> 01:09:55,931
[SCREAMING]
695
01:10:31,811 --> 01:10:33,301
[RHINO GRUNTS]
696
01:10:42,488 --> 01:10:43,978
DILIOS:
When muscle failed...
697
01:10:44,449 --> 01:10:47,111
...they turned to their magic.
698
01:10:48,161 --> 01:10:52,951
One hundred nations descend upon us,
the armies of all Asia.
699
01:10:53,124 --> 01:10:57,584
Funneled into this narrow corridor,
their numbers count for nothing.
700
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:09,262
[SCREAMING]
701
01:11:31,954 --> 01:11:33,911
They fall by the hundreds.
702
01:11:34,081 --> 01:11:39,702
We send the severed bodies and
the fragile hearts back to Xerxes' feet.
703
01:11:39,879 --> 01:11:41,085
[INAUDIBLE]
704
01:11:46,677 --> 01:11:48,509
[SNARLING]
705
01:11:54,227 --> 01:11:55,968
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
706
01:11:56,312 --> 01:12:00,476
DILIOS: King Xerxes is
displeased with his generals-
707
01:12:00,650 --> 01:12:03,233
He disciplines them.
708
01:12:04,403 --> 01:12:06,019
[METAL BLADE WHOOSHING]
709
01:12:15,081 --> 01:12:16,992
[ELEPHANT TRUMPETING]
710
01:12:20,086 --> 01:12:24,501
DILIOS: Xerxes dispatches his
monsters from half the world away.
711
01:12:35,476 --> 01:12:37,592
They're clumsy beasts...
712
01:12:37,770 --> 01:12:40,102
...and the piled Persian dead are slippery.
713
01:12:44,443 --> 01:12:45,774
[GRUNTING]
714
01:13:16,559 --> 01:13:18,971
- You still here?
- Somebody's gotta watch your back.
715
01:13:19,145 --> 01:13:20,761
Not now, I'm a little busy.
716
01:14:01,020 --> 01:14:03,557
Regroup!
717
01:14:06,776 --> 01:14:08,392
CAPTAIN:
Astinos!
718
01:14:08,611 --> 01:14:10,318
My son!
719
01:14:19,246 --> 01:14:20,862
Astinos!
720
01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:23,828
No!
721
01:14:47,066 --> 01:14:49,228
DILIOS:
Day wears on.
722
01:14:49,568 --> 01:14:51,730
We lose few...
723
01:14:51,904 --> 01:14:55,113
...but each felled is a friend,
or dearest blood.
724
01:14:57,326 --> 01:15:01,240
And upon seeing the headless body
of his own young son...
725
01:15:01,414 --> 01:15:03,246
...the captain breaks rank.
726
01:15:03,416 --> 01:15:06,875
He goes wild, blood-drunk.
727
01:15:20,808 --> 01:15:21,923
[CRYING]
728
01:15:27,440 --> 01:15:28,601
[SCREAMING]
729
01:15:31,485 --> 01:15:33,977
DILIOS: The captain's cries
of pain at the loss of his son...
730
01:15:34,155 --> 01:15:37,898
...are more frightening to the enemy
than the deepest battle drums.
731
01:15:38,075 --> 01:15:42,069
It takes three men to restrain him
and bring him back to our own.
732
01:15:42,413 --> 01:15:44,745
The day is ours.
733
01:15:45,124 --> 01:15:47,786
No songs are sung.
734
01:16:27,917 --> 01:16:32,502
XERXES: Your gods were cruel
to shape you so, friend Ephialtes.
735
01:16:34,924 --> 01:16:36,210
The Spartans, too...
736
01:16:36,967 --> 01:16:39,834
...were cruel to reject you.
737
01:16:42,681 --> 01:16:45,139
But I am kind.
738
01:16:51,649 --> 01:16:53,765
Everything you could ever desire...
739
01:16:55,027 --> 01:16:56,768
...every happiness you can imagine...
740
01:16:58,989 --> 01:17:03,574
...every pleasure your fellow Greeks
and your false gods have denied you...
741
01:17:04,370 --> 01:17:06,657
...I will grant you.
742
01:17:07,915 --> 01:17:10,327
For I am kind.
743
01:17:24,265 --> 01:17:27,553
Embrace me as your king
and as your god.
744
01:17:28,727 --> 01:17:30,388
Yes.
745
01:17:31,897 --> 01:17:36,687
Lead my soldiers to the hidden path
that enters behind the cursed Spartans...
746
01:17:36,861 --> 01:17:39,102
...and your joys will be endless.
747
01:17:47,580 --> 01:17:50,743
Yes! I want it all.
748
01:17:51,167 --> 01:17:54,751
Wealth. Women.
749
01:17:56,755 --> 01:17:58,416
And one more thing...
750
01:18:01,594 --> 01:18:04,256
...I want a uniform.
751
01:18:08,767 --> 01:18:10,474
Done.
752
01:18:12,104 --> 01:18:13,811
You Will find...
753
01:18:14,440 --> 01:18:16,351
...I am kind.
754
01:18:17,484 --> 01:18:21,728
Unlike the cruel Leonidas,
who demanded that you stand...
755
01:18:23,824 --> 01:18:25,531
...I require only...
756
01:18:26,285 --> 01:18:27,696
...that you kneel.
757
01:18:55,356 --> 01:18:57,313
Beautiful night.
758
01:18:58,734 --> 01:19:02,728
Yes, but I did not ask you here
for small talk, Theron.
759
01:19:03,364 --> 01:19:05,480
THERON:
You can be sure of that.
760
01:19:06,867 --> 01:19:09,529
You never spared words with me.
761
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:13,363
GORGO: Can I offer you
something? A drink, perhaps?
762
01:19:13,540 --> 01:19:15,372
THERON:
Is it poison?
763
01:19:15,793 --> 01:19:18,535
I'm sorry to disappoint you,
it's only water.
764
01:19:28,347 --> 01:19:31,510
I'm told it's been arranged for you
to go before the council.
765
01:19:32,184 --> 01:19:33,891
Yes.
766
01:19:34,103 --> 01:19:37,437
I need your help in winning votes
to send the army north to our king.
767
01:19:38,023 --> 01:19:39,639
Yes.
768
01:19:40,317 --> 01:19:42,854
I can see it,
the two of us standing together.
769
01:19:43,028 --> 01:19:47,397
Me, politician. You, warrior.
Our voices as one.
770
01:19:48,742 --> 01:19:50,198
But why would I want to do that?
771
01:19:51,203 --> 01:19:55,162
It proves you care for a king who right now
fights for the very water we drink.
772
01:19:55,499 --> 01:19:57,081
True.
773
01:19:57,459 --> 01:20:00,076
But this is politics, not war.
774
01:20:00,379 --> 01:20:01,915
Leonidas is an idealist.
775
01:20:02,339 --> 01:20:06,253
I know your kind too well. You send men
to slaughter for your own gain.
776
01:20:06,427 --> 01:20:11,342
Your husband, our king,
has taken 300 of our finest to slaughter.
777
01:20:11,515 --> 01:20:16,134
He's broken our laws
and left without the council's consent.
778
01:20:16,645 --> 01:20:19,637
- I'm simply a realist.
- You're an opportunist.
779
01:20:20,607 --> 01:20:24,896
You're as foolish as Leonidas if you think
men don't have a price in this world.
780
01:20:25,070 --> 01:20:29,655
All men are not created equal.
That's the Spartan code, my little queen.
781
01:20:33,329 --> 01:20:35,741
I admire your passion.
782
01:20:37,082 --> 01:20:38,789
But don't think that you...
783
01:20:39,251 --> 01:20:41,583
...a woman, even a queen...
784
01:20:41,754 --> 01:20:45,668
...can walk into the council chamber
and sway the minds of men.
785
01:20:45,841 --> 01:20:48,253
I own that chamber...
786
01:20:48,427 --> 01:20:50,509
...as if it were built with these hands.
787
01:20:54,975 --> 01:20:58,513
I could crush
the life out of you right now.
788
01:20:59,605 --> 01:21:03,269
You will go before the council,
but your words will fall on deaf ears.
789
01:21:03,442 --> 01:21:09,188
Leonidas will receive no reinforcements,
and if he returns, without my help...
790
01:21:09,365 --> 01:21:12,323
...he will go to jail or worse.
791
01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:17,536
Do you love your Sparta?
792
01:21:18,040 --> 01:21:19,747
Yes.
793
01:21:19,917 --> 01:21:22,158
- And your king?
- I do.
794
01:21:28,008 --> 01:21:31,717
Your husband fights for his land
and his love.
795
01:21:32,388 --> 01:21:34,675
What do you have to offer...
796
01:21:35,474 --> 01:21:38,432
...in return for my word
that I'll help you send our army north?
797
01:21:42,398 --> 01:21:45,060
What does a realist want with his queen?
798
01:21:49,655 --> 01:21:51,396
I think you know.
799
01:22:05,838 --> 01:22:08,546
This will not be over quickly.
800
01:22:09,591 --> 01:22:12,083
You will not enjoy this.
801
01:22:12,636 --> 01:22:14,877
I'm not your king.
802
01:22:16,974 --> 01:22:18,180
[THERON GRUNTING]
803
01:22:22,062 --> 01:22:23,143
[SPARTANS GRUNTING]
804
01:22:25,399 --> 01:22:26,935
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
805
01:22:39,705 --> 01:22:41,491
Dilios.
806
01:22:43,500 --> 01:22:46,743
I trust that scratch
hasn't made you useless?
807
01:22:46,920 --> 01:22:50,709
Mm. Hardly, my lord.
It's just an eye.
808
01:22:50,883 --> 01:22:54,092
The gods saw fit to grace me
with a spare.
809
01:22:55,971 --> 01:22:57,882
My captain?
810
01:22:59,224 --> 01:23:02,262
Curses the gods and mourns alone.
811
01:23:02,436 --> 01:23:03,722
[HORSE WHINNYING
AND GALLOPING]
812
01:23:04,980 --> 01:23:06,937
DAXOS:
Leonidas!
813
01:23:08,150 --> 01:23:11,142
We are undone.
Undone, I tell you. Destroyed.
814
01:23:11,320 --> 01:23:12,731
Daxos, calm yourself.
815
01:23:12,905 --> 01:23:16,523
Our hunchback traitor led Xerxes' Immortals
to the hidden goat path behind us.
816
01:23:16,909 --> 01:23:19,742
The Phocians you posted there
were scattered without a fight.
817
01:23:19,912 --> 01:23:25,157
- This battle is over, Leonidas.
- This battle is over when I say it is over.
818
01:23:25,334 --> 01:23:29,703
By morning, the Immortals will surround us.
The Hot Gates will fall.
819
01:23:30,339 --> 01:23:34,708
Spartans! Prepare for glory!
820
01:23:34,885 --> 01:23:38,094
Glory? Have you gone mad?
821
01:23:38,263 --> 01:23:39,799
There is no glory to be had now.
822
01:23:40,432 --> 01:23:44,016
Only retreat or surrender. Or death.
823
01:23:44,186 --> 01:23:47,349
Well, that's an easy choice
for us, Arcadian.
824
01:23:47,523 --> 01:23:53,018
Spartans never retreat.
Spartans never surrender.
825
01:23:53,612 --> 01:23:55,728
Go spread the word.
826
01:23:55,948 --> 01:23:59,612
Let every Greek assembled
know the truth of this.
827
01:23:59,785 --> 01:24:02,618
Let each among them
search his own soul.
828
01:24:04,331 --> 01:24:08,450
And while you're at it, search your own.
829
01:24:15,968 --> 01:24:18,255
My men will leave with me.
830
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:25,807
Godspeed, Leonidas.
831
01:24:26,979 --> 01:24:28,140
Hyah!
832
01:24:32,150 --> 01:24:33,732
Children!
833
01:24:34,695 --> 01:24:36,026
Children.
834
01:24:37,072 --> 01:24:39,063
Gather round.
835
01:24:40,951 --> 01:24:44,194
No retreat, no surrender.
836
01:24:44,371 --> 01:24:48,239
That is Spartan law.
837
01:24:48,500 --> 01:24:53,540
And by Spartan law,
we will stand and fight...
838
01:24:53,714 --> 01:24:55,705
...and die.
839
01:24:59,177 --> 01:25:02,670
A new age has begun.
840
01:25:04,391 --> 01:25:07,509
An age of freedom.
841
01:25:08,604 --> 01:25:12,268
And all will know that 300 Spartans...
842
01:25:12,441 --> 01:25:15,684
...gave their last breath to defend it.
843
01:25:15,861 --> 01:25:17,852
[ALL CHANTING]
844
01:25:36,006 --> 01:25:37,747
My friend.
845
01:25:41,303 --> 01:25:46,889
I have lived my entire life
without regret until now.
846
01:25:50,228 --> 01:25:56,190
It's not that my son
gave up his life for his country.
847
01:25:58,070 --> 01:26:01,938
It's just that I never told him
that I loved him the most.
848
01:26:03,575 --> 01:26:06,408
That he stood by me with honor.
849
01:26:07,871 --> 01:26:10,784
That he was all that was best in me.
850
01:26:19,925 --> 01:26:22,417
My heart is broken for your loss.
851
01:26:23,178 --> 01:26:24,464
Head?
852
01:26:24,638 --> 01:26:25,924
[SCOFFS]
853
01:26:29,935 --> 01:26:33,053
I have filled my heart...
854
01:26:33,230 --> 01:26:34,937
...with hate.
855
01:26:39,111 --> 01:26:40,772
Good.
856
01:26:49,913 --> 01:26:51,745
Dilios...
857
01:26:53,458 --> 01:26:55,574
...let's take a walk.
858
01:26:57,045 --> 01:26:59,127
Yes, my lord.
859
01:27:01,508 --> 01:27:04,170
But, sire, I am fit and ready for battle.
860
01:27:04,344 --> 01:27:07,462
That you are, one of the finest.
861
01:27:07,806 --> 01:27:11,390
But you have another talent
unlike any other Spartan.
862
01:27:14,104 --> 01:27:17,517
You will deliver my final orders
to the council...
863
01:27:17,691 --> 01:27:20,183
...with force and verve.
864
01:27:22,696 --> 01:27:24,983
Tell them our story.
865
01:27:25,157 --> 01:27:29,651
Make every Greek know
what happened here.
866
01:27:30,495 --> 01:27:33,157
You'll have a grand tale to tell.
867
01:27:34,958 --> 01:27:36,665
A tale of victory.
868
01:27:37,335 --> 01:27:38,871
Victory.
869
01:27:42,924 --> 01:27:44,915
Yes, my lord.
870
01:27:50,599 --> 01:27:52,966
Sire, any message...?
871
01:27:55,854 --> 01:27:57,185
For the queen?
872
01:28:19,669 --> 01:28:22,081
None that need be spoken.
873
01:28:37,229 --> 01:28:39,596
DILIOS:
Hundreds leave.
874
01:28:40,232 --> 01:28:42,690
A handful stay.
875
01:28:47,864 --> 01:28:50,481
Only one looks back.
876
01:29:00,794 --> 01:29:03,001
Spartans!
877
01:29:04,089 --> 01:29:07,252
Ready your breakfast and eat hearty...
878
01:29:07,425 --> 01:29:11,339
...for tonight we dine in hell!
879
01:29:20,230 --> 01:29:22,892
LOYALIST:
May I give the floor now...
880
01:29:23,066 --> 01:29:26,525
...to the wife of Leonidas
and queen of Sparta.
881
01:29:26,695 --> 01:29:28,060
[COUNCIL MEMBERS MURMURING]
882
01:29:39,207 --> 01:29:40,948
- What's this?
COUNCILMAN 1: This is nothing.
883
01:29:41,126 --> 01:29:42,958
Councilmen...
884
01:29:43,128 --> 01:29:46,871
...I stand before you
not only as your queen.
885
01:29:47,757 --> 01:29:50,465
I come to you as a mother.
886
01:29:51,761 --> 01:29:54,128
I come to you as a wife.
887
01:29:55,974 --> 01:29:58,466
I come to you as a Spartan woman.
888
01:30:03,481 --> 01:30:06,599
I come to you with great humility.
889
01:30:10,030 --> 01:30:12,442
I am not here to represent Leonidas.
890
01:30:12,616 --> 01:30:15,358
His actions speak louder
than my words ever could.
891
01:30:15,702 --> 01:30:18,114
I am here for all those voices
which cannot be heard.
892
01:30:18,288 --> 01:30:20,825
Mothers, daughters, fathers, sons.
893
01:30:20,999 --> 01:30:23,957
Three hundred families
that bleed for our rights...
894
01:30:24,377 --> 01:30:27,586
...and for the very principles
this room was built upon.
895
01:30:28,173 --> 01:30:30,289
We are at war, gentlemen.
896
01:30:30,717 --> 01:30:33,254
We must send the entire Spartan army
to aid our king...
897
01:30:33,428 --> 01:30:36,511
...in the preservation of not just ourselves,
but of our children.
898
01:30:37,098 --> 01:30:40,216
Send the army
for the preservation of liberty.
899
01:30:40,393 --> 01:30:42,725
Send it for justice.
900
01:30:42,896 --> 01:30:44,512
Send it for law and order.
901
01:30:45,065 --> 01:30:47,272
Send it for reason.
902
01:30:47,442 --> 01:30:51,527
But most importantly,
send our army for hope.
903
01:30:51,696 --> 01:30:55,280
Hope that a king and his men have not
been wasted to the pages of history.
904
01:30:56,117 --> 01:30:59,530
That their courage bonds us together.
905
01:30:59,871 --> 01:31:03,034
That we are made stronger
by their actions...
906
01:31:04,042 --> 01:31:08,161
...and that your choices today
reflect their bravery.
907
01:31:10,090 --> 01:31:11,330
COUNCILMAN 2:
Three hundred.
908
01:31:11,508 --> 01:31:13,374
[COUNCIL MEMBERS
CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
909
01:31:14,094 --> 01:31:15,926
We must send them.
910
01:31:16,304 --> 01:31:17,760
[THERON CLAPPING]
911
01:31:19,724 --> 01:31:21,556
Moving...
912
01:31:21,893 --> 01:31:24,760
...eloquent, passionate.
913
01:31:25,188 --> 01:31:29,352
But it doesn't change the fact
that your husband has brought war upon us.
914
01:31:29,526 --> 01:31:31,938
You are wrong.
Xerxes brought it forth...
915
01:31:32,112 --> 01:31:34,570
...and before that,
his father Darius at Marathon.
916
01:31:34,739 --> 01:31:36,480
The Persians will not stop...
917
01:31:36,658 --> 01:31:40,026
...until the only shelter we will find
is rubble and chaos.
918
01:31:40,412 --> 01:31:44,155
This chamber needs no
history lesson, my queen.
919
01:31:44,666 --> 01:31:46,873
Then what is the lesson
you would like to leave?
920
01:31:47,043 --> 01:31:49,125
Shall I begin to enumerate all of them?
921
01:31:49,546 --> 01:31:52,959
Honor. Duty. Glory.
922
01:31:53,258 --> 01:31:58,253
You speak of honor, duty and glory?
923
01:31:59,597 --> 01:32:00,803
But what of adultery?
924
01:32:00,974 --> 01:32:03,432
- How dare you.
THERON: How dare I?
925
01:32:03,893 --> 01:32:06,885
Watch her carefully.
926
01:32:07,063 --> 01:32:10,021
She is a trickster in true form.
927
01:32:10,191 --> 01:32:13,354
Do not play with the members
of this sacred chamber, my queen.
928
01:32:13,528 --> 01:32:16,611
Just hours ago,
you offered yourself to me.
929
01:32:16,781 --> 01:32:21,241
Were I a weaker man,
I would have her scent on me still.
930
01:32:21,411 --> 01:32:24,403
- This is outrage.
- Oh, the hypocrite speaks!
931
01:32:24,581 --> 01:32:27,573
Did you not receive a similar payment,
which you took...
932
01:32:27,751 --> 01:32:30,960
...in exchange for her having an audience
with these noble men?
933
01:32:31,129 --> 01:32:32,915
- That is a lie.
- Is it?
934
01:32:33,089 --> 01:32:36,832
Was he not, by your invitation,
asked to come to the king's bedchamber?
935
01:32:37,385 --> 01:32:42,004
The very bed where you attempted
to negotiate with me so vigorously?
936
01:32:42,182 --> 01:32:43,547
[COUNCIL MEMBERS MURMURING]
937
01:32:44,642 --> 01:32:48,135
You look shocked.
A bribe of the flesh, gentlemen...
938
01:32:48,313 --> 01:32:51,601
...while her husband
promotes anarchy and war.
939
01:32:54,527 --> 01:32:55,733
COUNCILMAN 4:
He speaks truth.
940
01:32:56,321 --> 01:32:59,530
Words escape
even the most cunning tongue...
941
01:32:59,699 --> 01:33:01,781
...my little whore queen.
942
01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:05,576
[SCOFFS]
943
01:33:06,498 --> 01:33:08,330
What queen-like behavior.
944
01:33:10,043 --> 01:33:13,161
Remove her from this chamber
before she infects us further...
945
01:33:13,338 --> 01:33:16,330
...with her inglorious and shabby self.
946
01:33:18,009 --> 01:33:19,841
[COUNCIL MEMBERS GASPING]
947
01:33:23,181 --> 01:33:24,763
This will not be over quickly.
948
01:33:26,101 --> 01:33:29,639
You will not enjoy this.
I am not your queen.
949
01:33:51,793 --> 01:33:53,704
COUNCILMAN 5:
Traitor.
950
01:33:54,254 --> 01:33:59,044
ALL:
Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!
951
01:33:59,384 --> 01:34:01,591
Traitor!
952
01:34:38,631 --> 01:34:44,627
Leonidas, my compliments
and congratulations.
953
01:34:44,804 --> 01:34:48,468
You surely have turned calamity
into victory.
954
01:34:48,641 --> 01:34:51,633
Despite your insufferable arrogance...
955
01:34:51,811 --> 01:34:55,975
...the god-king has come
to admire Spartan valor and fighting skill.
956
01:34:56,733 --> 01:34:58,098
You will make a mighty ally.
957
01:34:58,276 --> 01:34:59,983
Yield, Leonidas.
958
01:35:01,154 --> 01:35:04,021
Use your reason. Think of your men.
959
01:35:06,868 --> 01:35:08,484
I beg you.
960
01:35:09,078 --> 01:35:11,035
PERSIAN GENERAL:
Listen to your fellow Greek.
961
01:35:11,206 --> 01:35:14,915
He can attest
to the divine one's generosity.
962
01:35:15,084 --> 01:35:19,544
Despite your several insults,
despite your horrid blasphemies...
963
01:35:20,465 --> 01:35:23,628
...the lord of hosts
is prepared to forgive all...
964
01:35:23,885 --> 01:35:26,923
...and more, to reward your service.
965
01:35:27,180 --> 01:35:28,511
You fight for your lands.
966
01:35:29,224 --> 01:35:31,056
Keep them.
967
01:35:31,768 --> 01:35:33,725
You fight for Sparta.
968
01:35:33,895 --> 01:35:37,889
She will be wealthier and more powerful
than ever before.
969
01:35:38,107 --> 01:35:40,018
You fight for your kingship.
970
01:35:40,944 --> 01:35:43,902
You will be proclaimed warlord
of all Greece...
971
01:35:44,072 --> 01:35:48,361
...answerable only
to the one true master of the world.
972
01:35:48,743 --> 01:35:53,488
Leonidas, your victory will be complete...
973
01:35:53,665 --> 01:35:56,248
...if you but lay down your arms...
974
01:35:56,417 --> 01:35:59,580
...and kneel to holy Xerxes.
975
01:36:28,157 --> 01:36:29,693
[SNARLING]
976
01:36:30,076 --> 01:36:35,037
DILIOS: It's been more than 30 years
since the wolf in the Winter cold.
977
01:36:35,206 --> 01:36:39,746
And now, as then,
it's not fear that grips him...
978
01:36:39,919 --> 01:36:45,085
...only restlessness.
A heightened sense of things.
979
01:36:45,883 --> 01:36:50,673
The seaborne breeze coolly kissing
the sweat at his chest and neck.
980
01:36:50,847 --> 01:36:52,337
Gulls cawing...
981
01:36:52,515 --> 01:36:56,725
...complaining even as they feast
on the thousands of floating dead.
982
01:36:58,354 --> 01:37:03,394
The steady breathing
of the 300 at his back...
983
01:37:04,193 --> 01:37:07,652
...ready to die for him
without a moment's pause.
984
01:37:10,241 --> 01:37:11,606
Every one of them...
985
01:37:13,077 --> 01:37:15,034
...ready to die.
986
01:37:30,553 --> 01:37:33,466
His helmet is stifling.
987
01:37:54,160 --> 01:37:56,993
His shield is heavy.
988
01:38:04,629 --> 01:38:05,960
Your spear.
989
01:38:14,806 --> 01:38:16,217
You there...
990
01:38:16,641 --> 01:38:18,632
...Ephialtes.
991
01:38:23,773 --> 01:38:26,014
May you live forever.
992
01:38:33,449 --> 01:38:35,736
Leonidas, your spear.
993
01:39:42,977 --> 01:39:44,559
Stelios!
994
01:39:47,940 --> 01:39:49,396
[SHOUTS]
995
01:39:54,572 --> 01:39:56,188
Slaughter them!
996
01:39:59,577 --> 01:40:01,159
DILIOS:
His helmet was stifling.
997
01:40:01,329 --> 01:40:04,447
It narrowed his vision,
and he must see far.
998
01:40:05,750 --> 01:40:09,618
His shield was heavy.
It threw him off balance...
999
01:40:09,795 --> 01:40:13,459
...and his target is far away.
1000
01:40:32,944 --> 01:40:34,526
[GRUNTING]
1001
01:41:01,013 --> 01:41:02,253
[GRUNTING]
1002
01:41:05,977 --> 01:41:07,342
[SHOUTING]
1003
01:41:18,030 --> 01:41:22,615
DILIOS: The old ones say we Spartans
are descended from Hercules himself.
1004
01:41:24,078 --> 01:41:28,413
Bold Leonidas gives testament
to our bloodline.
1005
01:41:28,583 --> 01:41:32,702
His roar is long and loud.
1006
01:41:33,045 --> 01:41:34,285
[INAUDIBLE]
1007
01:41:59,488 --> 01:42:00,774
[MOANING]
1008
01:42:02,825 --> 01:42:04,407
My king.
1009
01:42:16,672 --> 01:42:20,290
It's an honor to die at your side.
1010
01:42:21,886 --> 01:42:26,380
It's an honor to have lived at yours.
1011
01:42:47,286 --> 01:42:49,402
My queen!
1012
01:42:57,630 --> 01:42:59,371
My wife.
1013
01:43:10,810 --> 01:43:12,596
My love.
1014
01:45:39,041 --> 01:45:41,157
DILIOS:
"Remember us. "
1015
01:45:42,837 --> 01:45:46,250
As simple an order as a king can give.
1016
01:45:47,842 --> 01:45:51,051
"Remember why we died. "
1017
01:45:53,055 --> 01:45:57,094
For he did not wish tribute or song...
1018
01:45:58,936 --> 01:46:03,100
...nor monuments,
nor poems of war and valor.
1019
01:46:05,985 --> 01:46:08,272
His wish was simple.
1020
01:46:13,659 --> 01:46:15,741
"Remember us"...
1021
01:46:16,787 --> 01:46:18,494
...he said to me.
1022
01:46:20,165 --> 01:46:22,372
DILIOS:
That was his hope.
1023
01:46:22,585 --> 01:46:26,294
Should any free soul
come across that place...
1024
01:46:27,089 --> 01:46:30,423
...in all the countless
centuries yet to be...
1025
01:46:30,843 --> 01:46:33,426
...may all our voices...
1026
01:46:33,596 --> 01:46:37,635
...whisper to you
from the ageless stones.
1027
01:46:38,642 --> 01:46:42,260
Go tell the Spartans, passerby...
1028
01:46:42,605 --> 01:46:48,476
...that here, by Spartan law, we lie.
1029
01:46:51,238 --> 01:46:53,946
And so my king died...
1030
01:46:54,825 --> 01:46:57,442
...and my brothers died...
1031
01:46:59,830 --> 01:47:02,288
...barely a year ago.
1032
01:47:06,211 --> 01:47:11,456
Long I pondered my king's
cryptic talk of victory.
1033
01:47:11,675 --> 01:47:14,337
Time has proven him wise.
1034
01:47:15,220 --> 01:47:18,258
For from free Greek to free Greek...
1035
01:47:18,432 --> 01:47:23,017
...the word was spread
that bold Leonidas and his 300...
1036
01:47:23,187 --> 01:47:25,178
...so far from home...
1037
01:47:25,356 --> 01:47:28,769
...laid down their lives
not just for Sparta...
1038
01:47:28,943 --> 01:47:32,732
...but for all Greece
and the promise this country holds.
1039
01:47:33,656 --> 01:47:38,696
Now, here on this rugged patch of earth
called Plataea...
1040
01:47:38,869 --> 01:47:42,578
...Xerxes' hordes face obliteration!
1041
01:47:42,748 --> 01:47:43,954
[ALL CHANTING]
1042
01:47:45,542 --> 01:47:48,955
Just there the barbarians huddle...
1043
01:47:49,129 --> 01:47:53,999
...sheer terror gripping tight their hearts...
1044
01:47:54,176 --> 01:47:56,042
...with icy fingers...
1045
01:47:56,220 --> 01:47:59,463
...knowing full well
what merciless horrors they suffered...
1046
01:47:59,640 --> 01:48:02,177
...at the swords and spears of 300.
1047
01:48:03,560 --> 01:48:09,146
Yet they stare now across the plain
at 10,000 Spartans...
1048
01:48:09,316 --> 01:48:12,604
...commanding 30,000 free Greeks!
1049
01:48:14,071 --> 01:48:15,903
[ALL CHANTING]
1050
01:48:19,410 --> 01:48:23,324
DILIOS: The enemy outnumber
us a paltry three to one.
1051
01:48:23,622 --> 01:48:25,613
Good odds for any Greek.
1052
01:48:26,333 --> 01:48:31,043
This day, we rescue a world
from mysticism and tyranny...
1053
01:48:31,213 --> 01:48:35,582
...and usher in a future
brighter than anything we can imagine.
1054
01:48:40,014 --> 01:48:41,504
Give thanks, men...
1055
01:48:42,224 --> 01:48:45,967
...to Leonidas and the brave 300.
1056
01:48:46,145 --> 01:48:48,182
To victory!
1057
01:48:48,355 --> 01:48:49,470
[ALL CHEERING AND SHOUTING]
1058
01:56:28,231 --> 01:56:30,222
[ENGLISH SDH]