From: Tarun Kumar Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 06:50:32 +0000 (+0530) Subject: [TCT][player][Non-ACR] Player module code and resource refactoring X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fchanges%2F02%2F302602%2F1;p=test%2Ftct%2Fnative%2Fapi.git [TCT][player][Non-ACR] Player module code and resource refactoring Change-Id: I51b2c2f6187f08df80379a7fbe47768d89709a65 Signed-off-by: Tarun Kumar --- diff --git a/scripts_tpk/spec.sh b/scripts_tpk/spec.sh index d153e0d39..ffbc0c7e5 100644 --- a/scripts_tpk/spec.sh +++ b/scripts_tpk/spec.sh @@ -410,14 +410,14 @@ case "$1" in mkdir -p $APP_DATA_DIR chsmack -a "User::App::Shared" $APP_DATA_DIR chsmack -e "User::App::Shared" $APP_DATA_DIR - cp short.mp3 $APP_DATA_DIR/short.mp3 - cp file.mp4 $APP_DATA_DIR/file.mp4 - cp sub.srt $APP_DATA_DIR/sub.srt - cp v.mp4 $APP_DATA_DIR/v.mp4 - cp test_drc.ts $APP_DATA_DIR/test_drc.ts - cp test.h264 $APP_DATA_DIR/test.h264 - cp AWB_header_change_AMR.amr $APP_DATA_DIR/AWB_header_change_AMR.amr - cp test_360.mp4 $APP_DATA_DIR/test_360.mp4 + cp res/short.mp3 $APP_DATA_DIR/short.mp3 + cp res/file.mp4 $APP_DATA_DIR/file.mp4 + cp res/sub.srt $APP_DATA_DIR/sub.srt + cp res/v.mp4 $APP_DATA_DIR/v.mp4 + cp res/test_drc.ts $APP_DATA_DIR/test_drc.ts + cp res/test.h264 $APP_DATA_DIR/test.h264 + cp res/AWB_header_change_AMR.amr $APP_DATA_DIR/AWB_header_change_AMR.amr + cp res/test_360.mp4 $APP_DATA_DIR/test_360.mp4 chown -R 5000:5000 $APP_DATA_DIR chmod -R 777 $APP_DATA_DIR chsmack -a "User::App::Shared" $APP_DATA_DIR/* diff --git a/src/itc/player/AWB_header_change_AMR.amr b/src/itc/player/AWB_header_change_AMR.amr deleted file mode 100755 index 5d8a7e6ec..000000000 Binary files a/src/itc/player/AWB_header_change_AMR.amr and /dev/null differ diff --git a/src/itc/player/file.mp4 b/src/itc/player/file.mp4 deleted file mode 100755 index 84ba7defc..000000000 Binary files a/src/itc/player/file.mp4 and /dev/null differ diff --git a/src/itc/player/res/AWB_header_change_AMR.amr b/src/itc/player/res/AWB_header_change_AMR.amr new file mode 100755 index 000000000..5d8a7e6ec Binary files /dev/null and b/src/itc/player/res/AWB_header_change_AMR.amr differ diff --git a/src/itc/player/res/file.mp4 b/src/itc/player/res/file.mp4 new file mode 100755 index 000000000..84ba7defc Binary files /dev/null and b/src/itc/player/res/file.mp4 differ diff --git a/src/itc/player/res/short.mp3 b/src/itc/player/res/short.mp3 new file mode 100755 index 000000000..78527be2d Binary files /dev/null and b/src/itc/player/res/short.mp3 differ diff --git a/src/itc/player/res/sub.srt b/src/itc/player/res/sub.srt new file mode 100755 index 000000000..9759794f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/itc/player/res/sub.srt @@ -0,0 +1,4179 @@ +1 +00:00:00,318 --> 00:00:03,843 +When the boy was born... + +2 +00:01:11,721 --> 00:01:13,814 +...like all Spartans, he was inspected. + +3 +00:01:15,625 --> 00:01:20,255 +If he'd been small or puny +or sickly or misshapen... + +4 +00:01:20,430 --> 00:01:22,762 +...he would have been discarded. + +5 +00:01:29,873 --> 00:01:35,573 +From the time he could stand, +he was baptized in the fire of combat. + +6 +00:01:57,634 --> 00:02:01,297 +Taught never to retreat, +never to surrender. + +7 +00:02:01,471 --> 00:02:06,340 +Taught that death on the battlefield +in service to Sparta... + +8 +00:02:06,543 --> 00:02:09,842 +...was the greatest glory +he could achieve in his life. + +9 +00:02:24,994 --> 00:02:29,522 +At age 7, +as is customary in Sparta... + +10 +00:02:29,699 --> 00:02:34,864 +...the boy was taken from his mother +and plunged into a world of violence. + +11 +00:02:35,672 --> 00:02:40,200 +Manufactured by 300 years +of Spartan warrior society... + +12 +00:02:41,244 --> 00:02:45,544 +...to create the finest soldiers +the world has ever known. + +13 +00:02:45,715 --> 00:02:50,277 +The agoge, as it's called, +forces the boy to fight. + +14 +00:02:50,453 --> 00:02:54,082 +Starves them, +forces them to steal... + +15 +00:02:54,257 --> 00:02:58,626 +...and if necessary, to kill. + +16 +00:02:59,696 --> 00:03:02,688 +By rod and lash +the boy was punished... + +17 +00:03:02,866 --> 00:03:06,165 +...taught to show no pain, +no mercy. + +18 +00:03:07,871 --> 00:03:11,363 +Constantly tested, +tossed into the wild. + +19 +00:03:11,541 --> 00:03:16,843 +Left to pit his wits and will +against nature's fury. + +20 +00:03:17,213 --> 00:03:19,408 +It was his initiation... + +21 +00:03:19,582 --> 00:03:22,142 +...his time in the wild... + +22 +00:03:22,318 --> 00:03:26,812 +...for he would return +to his people a Spartan... + +23 +00:03:26,990 --> 00:03:29,117 +...or not at all. + +24 +00:03:51,447 --> 00:03:54,314 +The wolf begins to circle the boy. + +25 +00:03:54,484 --> 00:03:56,918 +Claws of black steel... + +26 +00:03:57,086 --> 00:03:59,316 +...fur as dark night. + +27 +00:03:59,822 --> 00:04:01,153 +Eyes glowing red... + +28 +00:04:01,324 --> 00:04:05,260 +...jewels from +the pit of hell itself. + +29 +00:04:14,003 --> 00:04:17,996 +The giant wolf sniffing... + +30 +00:04:18,174 --> 00:04:21,234 +...savoring the scent +of the meal to come. + +31 +00:04:45,401 --> 00:04:46,925 +It's not fear that grips him... + +32 +00:04:47,537 --> 00:04:50,700 +...only a heightened +sense of things. + +33 +00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,407 +The cold air in his lungs. + +34 +00:04:54,978 --> 00:04:58,311 +Windswept pines +moving against the coming night. + +35 +00:05:06,322 --> 00:05:08,722 +His hands are steady. + +36 +00:05:08,891 --> 00:05:11,155 +His form... + +37 +00:05:11,327 --> 00:05:13,420 +...perfect. + +38 +00:05:39,222 --> 00:05:41,952 +And so the boy, +given up for dead... + +39 +00:05:42,125 --> 00:05:46,858 +...returns to his people, +to sacred Sparta, a king! + +40 +00:05:47,296 --> 00:05:51,027 +Our king, Leonidas! + +41 +00:05:56,939 --> 00:06:00,705 +It's been more than 30 years +since the wolf and the winter cold. + +42 +00:06:02,111 --> 00:06:06,411 +And now, as then, a beast approaches. + +43 +00:06:06,582 --> 00:06:11,519 +Patient and confident, +savoring the meal to come. + +44 +00:06:12,155 --> 00:06:15,454 +But this beast +is made of men and horses... + +45 +00:06:15,625 --> 00:06:18,423 +...swords and spears. + +46 +00:06:18,628 --> 00:06:23,588 +An army of slaves, vast beyond imagining, +ready to devour tiny Greece. + +47 +00:06:23,933 --> 00:06:28,700 +Ready to snuff out the world's +one hope for reason and justice. + +48 +00:06:31,441 --> 00:06:34,205 +A beast approaches... + +49 +00:06:36,979 --> 00:06:42,508 +...and it was King Leonidas himself +who provoked it. + +50 +00:07:53,156 --> 00:07:54,987 +That's it. + +51 +00:07:55,324 --> 00:08:00,193 +Now, the more you sweat here, +the less you'll bleed in battle. + +52 +00:08:01,397 --> 00:08:03,865 +My father taught me... + +53 +00:08:04,033 --> 00:08:06,501 +...that fear is always a constant. + +54 +00:08:06,669 --> 00:08:08,193 +But accepting it... + +55 +00:08:08,571 --> 00:08:09,697 +...makes you stronger. + +56 +00:08:09,872 --> 00:08:11,237 +My queen. + +57 +00:08:11,407 --> 00:08:14,240 +A Persian emissary awaits Leonidas. + +58 +00:08:16,779 --> 00:08:18,178 +In the end... + +59 +00:08:18,347 --> 00:08:21,908 +...a Spartan's true strength +is the warrior next to him. + +60 +00:08:22,685 --> 00:08:27,179 +So give respect and honor to him, +and it will be returned to you. + +61 +00:08:27,723 --> 00:08:29,213 +First... + +62 +00:08:29,992 --> 00:08:32,927 +- ...you fight with your head. +- Then you fight with your heart. + +63 +00:08:35,264 --> 00:08:36,959 +What is it? + +64 +00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,065 +A Persian messenger awaits you. + +65 +00:08:41,370 --> 00:08:42,837 +Do not forget today's lesson. + +66 +00:08:43,005 --> 00:08:45,701 +- Respect and honor. +- Respect and honor. + +67 +00:09:01,224 --> 00:09:05,684 +Councilman Theron. +You found yourself needed, for once. + +68 +00:09:06,762 --> 00:09:09,697 +My king and queen, +I was just entertaining your guests. + +69 +00:09:09,899 --> 00:09:11,127 +I'm sure. + +70 +00:09:12,368 --> 00:09:14,199 +Before you speak, Persian... + +71 +00:09:14,370 --> 00:09:17,635 +...know that in Sparta everyone, +even a king's messenger... + +72 +00:09:17,807 --> 00:09:20,401 +...is held accountable +for the words of his voice. + +73 +00:09:21,410 --> 00:09:24,140 +Now, what message do you bring? + +74 +00:09:25,248 --> 00:09:27,716 +Earth and water. + +75 +00:09:29,986 --> 00:09:33,615 +You rode all the way from Persia +for earth and water? + +76 +00:09:35,191 --> 00:09:39,093 +Do not be coy or stupid, Persian. +You can afford neither in Sparta. + +77 +00:09:39,595 --> 00:09:42,063 +What makes this woman +think she can speak among men? + +78 +00:09:42,231 --> 00:09:45,064 +Because only Spartan women +give birth to real men. + +79 +00:09:46,569 --> 00:09:50,164 +Let us walk to cool our tongues. + +80 +00:09:52,775 --> 00:09:55,938 +If you value your lives +over your complete annihilation... + +81 +00:09:56,112 --> 00:09:57,773 +...listen carefully, Leonidas. + +82 +00:09:57,947 --> 00:10:02,646 +Xerxes conquers and controls +everything he rests his eyes upon. + +83 +00:10:02,818 --> 00:10:05,912 +He leads an army so massive, +it shakes the ground with its march. + +84 +00:10:06,088 --> 00:10:08,784 +So vast, it drinks the rivers dry. + +85 +00:10:08,958 --> 00:10:11,950 +All the God-King Xerxes requires is this: + +86 +00:10:12,295 --> 00:10:15,526 +A simple offering of earth and water... + +87 +00:10:15,698 --> 00:10:19,862 +...a token of Sparta's submission +to the will of Xerxes. + +88 +00:10:30,913 --> 00:10:33,074 +Submission. + +89 +00:10:35,251 --> 00:10:37,185 +Now, that's a bit of a problem. + +90 +00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:38,848 +See, rumor has it... + +91 +00:10:39,021 --> 00:10:41,649 +...the Athenians +have already turned you down. + +92 +00:10:42,558 --> 00:10:47,791 +And if those philosophers and boy-lovers +have found that kind of nerve, then-- + +93 +00:10:47,963 --> 00:10:52,195 +- We must be diplomatic. +- And, of course, Spartans... + +94 +00:10:53,235 --> 00:10:55,294 +...have their reputation to consider. + +95 +00:10:55,471 --> 00:10:59,498 +Choose your next words carefully, +Leonidas. + +96 +00:10:59,742 --> 00:11:02,370 +They may be your last as king. + +97 +00:11:42,852 --> 00:11:46,151 +"Earth and water." + +98 +00:11:51,427 --> 00:11:53,520 +Madman. You're a madman. + +99 +00:11:53,696 --> 00:11:55,357 +Earth and water. + +100 +00:11:55,731 --> 00:11:57,892 +You'll find plenty of both down there. + +101 +00:11:58,167 --> 00:12:01,603 +No man, Persian or Greek, +no man threatens a messenger. + +102 +00:12:02,071 --> 00:12:07,031 +You bring the crowns and heads +of conquered kings to my city steps. + +103 +00:12:07,209 --> 00:12:09,268 +You insult my queen. + +104 +00:12:09,445 --> 00:12:13,176 +You threaten my people +with slavery and death. + +105 +00:12:13,349 --> 00:12:16,284 +Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, +Persian. + +106 +00:12:16,452 --> 00:12:18,420 +Perhaps you should have done the same. + +107 +00:12:18,587 --> 00:12:22,250 +This is blasphemy. This is madness! + +108 +00:12:39,642 --> 00:12:41,701 +Madness? + +109 +00:12:42,344 --> 00:12:44,471 +This is Sparta! + +110 +00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,366 +Welcome, Leonidas. + +111 +00:14:13,969 --> 00:14:17,132 +We have been expecting you. + +112 +00:14:23,612 --> 00:14:28,948 +The ephors, +priests to the old gods. + +113 +00:14:29,351 --> 00:14:31,683 +Inbred swine. + +114 +00:14:31,854 --> 00:14:34,618 +More creature than man. + +115 +00:14:35,057 --> 00:14:40,495 +Creatures whom even Leonidas +must bribe and beg. + +116 +00:14:41,363 --> 00:14:46,198 +For no Spartan king has gone to war +without the ephors' blessing. + +117 +00:14:47,870 --> 00:14:51,931 +The Persians claim their forces +number in the millions. + +118 +00:14:52,575 --> 00:14:55,840 +I hope, for our sake, they exaggerate. + +119 +00:14:56,312 --> 00:15:00,544 +But there's no question, we face +the most massive army ever assembled. + +120 +00:15:00,783 --> 00:15:04,116 +Before your plan is heard... + +121 +00:15:04,286 --> 00:15:06,550 +...what do you offer? + +122 +00:15:16,098 --> 00:15:20,432 +We will use +our superior fighting skills... + +123 +00:15:20,603 --> 00:15:24,664 +...and the terrain of Greece herself +to destroy them. + +124 +00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,673 +We will march north to the coast, +where I will make sure-- + +125 +00:15:27,843 --> 00:15:32,746 +It is August, Leonidas. +The full moon approaches. + +126 +00:15:33,115 --> 00:15:36,312 +The sacred and ancient festival. + +127 +00:15:36,485 --> 00:15:40,581 +Sparta wages no war +at the time of the Carneia. + +128 +00:15:40,756 --> 00:15:42,348 +Sparta will burn! + +129 +00:15:42,791 --> 00:15:44,315 +Her men will die at arms... + +130 +00:15:44,493 --> 00:15:48,156 +...and her women and children +will be slaves or worse. + +131 +00:15:50,299 --> 00:15:55,362 +Now, we will block +the Persian coastal assault... + +132 +00:15:55,671 --> 00:15:57,969 +...by rebuilding the great Phocian Wall. + +133 +00:15:58,140 --> 00:16:02,839 +And from there, we will funnel them into +the mountain pass we call the Hot Gates. + +134 +00:16:03,012 --> 00:16:07,381 +Now, in that narrow corridor, +their numbers will count for nothing. + +135 +00:16:07,549 --> 00:16:10,143 +And wave after wave of Persian attack... + +136 +00:16:10,319 --> 00:16:14,255 +...will smash against Spartan shields. + +137 +00:16:14,823 --> 00:16:19,123 +Xerxes' losses will be so great, +his men so demoralized... + +138 +00:16:19,294 --> 00:16:23,697 +...he will have no choice +but to abandon his campaign. + +139 +00:16:23,866 --> 00:16:26,562 +We must consult the oracle. + +140 +00:16:27,269 --> 00:16:29,863 +Trust the gods, Leonidas. + +141 +00:16:30,039 --> 00:16:33,372 +I'd prefer you trusted your reason. + +142 +00:16:33,542 --> 00:16:35,567 +Your blasphemies... + +143 +00:16:35,744 --> 00:16:40,113 +...have cost us quite enough already. + +144 +00:16:40,849 --> 00:16:43,875 +Don't compound them. + +145 +00:16:45,954 --> 00:16:50,755 +We will consult the oracle. + +146 +00:16:52,895 --> 00:16:55,386 +Diseased old mystics. + +147 +00:16:56,398 --> 00:17:01,028 +Worthless remnants of a time +before Sparta's ascent from darkness. + +148 +00:17:01,370 --> 00:17:04,635 +Remnants of a senseless tradition. + +149 +00:17:04,807 --> 00:17:09,176 +Tradition even Leonidas +cannot defy... + +150 +00:17:09,344 --> 00:17:13,747 +...for he must respect +the word of the ephors. + +151 +00:17:13,916 --> 00:17:15,850 +That is the law. + +152 +00:17:18,887 --> 00:17:23,221 +And no Spartan, subject or citizen, +man or woman... + +153 +00:17:23,392 --> 00:17:27,419 +...slave or king, is above the law. + +154 +00:18:02,297 --> 00:18:06,563 +The ephors choose only +the most beautiful Spartan girls... + +155 +00:18:06,735 --> 00:18:09,226 +...to live among them as oracles. + +156 +00:18:09,404 --> 00:18:12,669 +Their beauty is their curse... + +157 +00:18:12,841 --> 00:18:16,641 +...for the old wretches +have the needs of men... + +158 +00:18:17,646 --> 00:18:21,742 +...and souls as black as hell. + +159 +00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,917 +"Pray to the winds... + +160 +00:18:30,425 --> 00:18:32,620 +...Sparta will fall. + +161 +00:18:35,564 --> 00:18:39,261 +All Greece will fall. + +162 +00:18:41,436 --> 00:18:45,065 +Trust not in men... + +163 +00:18:47,109 --> 00:18:50,374 +...honor the gods. + +164 +00:18:54,116 --> 00:18:57,779 +Honor the Carneia." + +165 +00:18:59,588 --> 00:19:03,183 +The king's climb down is harder. + +166 +00:19:03,358 --> 00:19:06,259 +Pompous, inbred swine. + +167 +00:19:06,428 --> 00:19:09,659 +Worthless, diseased, rotten... + +168 +00:19:09,832 --> 00:19:11,857 +...corrupt. + +169 +00:19:15,237 --> 00:19:18,866 +Truly, you're in the god-king's +favor now... + +170 +00:19:19,441 --> 00:19:21,534 +...O wise and holy men. + +171 +00:19:21,844 --> 00:19:23,277 +Yes. + +172 +00:19:23,445 --> 00:19:28,405 +And when Sparta burns, +you shall bathe in gold. + +173 +00:19:28,584 --> 00:19:31,178 +Fresh oracles shall be +delivered to you... + +174 +00:19:31,653 --> 00:19:33,052 +...daily... + +175 +00:19:33,222 --> 00:19:37,022 +...from every corner of the empire. + +176 +00:20:12,694 --> 00:20:16,255 +Your lips can finish +what your fingers have started. + +177 +00:20:19,401 --> 00:20:21,869 +Or has the oracle robbed you +of your desire as well? + +178 +00:20:23,405 --> 00:20:26,431 +It would take more than the words +of a drunken adolescent girl... + +179 +00:20:26,608 --> 00:20:28,303 +...to rob me of my desire for you. + +180 +00:20:32,481 --> 00:20:33,948 +Then why so distant? + +181 +00:20:37,085 --> 00:20:39,076 +Because it seems... + +182 +00:20:39,254 --> 00:20:45,193 +...though a slave and captive +of lecherous old men... + +183 +00:20:45,527 --> 00:20:48,758 +...the oracle's words +could set fire to all that I love. + +184 +00:20:48,931 --> 00:20:52,594 +So that is why my king loses sleep +and is forced from the warmth of his bed? + +185 +00:20:55,570 --> 00:20:59,904 +There's only one woman's words that +should affect the mood of my husband. + +186 +00:21:00,742 --> 00:21:02,300 +Those are mine. + +187 +00:21:06,481 --> 00:21:08,881 +Then what must a king do +to save his world... + +188 +00:21:09,051 --> 00:21:13,488 +...when the very laws he is sworn +to protect force him to do nothing? + +189 +00:21:16,425 --> 00:21:19,758 +It is not a question +of what a Spartan citizen should do... + +190 +00:21:19,928 --> 00:21:22,795 +...nor a husband, nor a king. + +191 +00:21:23,432 --> 00:21:26,128 +Instead ask yourself, my dearest love... + +192 +00:21:27,769 --> 00:21:29,760 +...what should a free man do? + +193 +00:22:35,237 --> 00:22:39,401 +- Is this all of them? +- As you ordered. Three hundred. + +194 +00:22:40,409 --> 00:22:43,708 +All with born sons +to carry on their name. + +195 +00:22:54,456 --> 00:22:55,787 +We are with you, sire. + +196 +00:22:56,158 --> 00:22:58,285 +For Sparta. For freedom. + +197 +00:22:58,460 --> 00:23:00,428 +To the death. + +198 +00:23:11,239 --> 00:23:12,900 +He is your son. + +199 +00:23:13,708 --> 00:23:16,609 +He is too young +to have felt a woman's warmth. + +200 +00:23:16,778 --> 00:23:20,737 +I have others to replace him. +Astinos is as brave and ready as any. + +201 +00:23:21,083 --> 00:23:25,110 +No younger than we were the first time +you stood next to me in battle. + +202 +00:23:28,890 --> 00:23:31,017 +You are a good friend... + +203 +00:23:31,193 --> 00:23:34,685 +...but a better captain, there is none. + +204 +00:23:40,202 --> 00:23:42,136 +My good king. + +205 +00:23:43,071 --> 00:23:46,404 +My good king, the oracle has spoken. + +206 +00:23:46,575 --> 00:23:49,442 +The ephors have spoken. +There must be no march. + +207 +00:23:49,611 --> 00:23:51,408 +It is the law, my lord. + +208 +00:23:51,580 --> 00:23:55,573 +- The Spartan army must not go to war. +- Nor shall it. + +209 +00:23:56,485 --> 00:23:58,077 +I've issued no such orders. + +210 +00:23:58,453 --> 00:24:01,980 +I'm here just taking a stroll, +stretching my legs. + +211 +00:24:02,224 --> 00:24:07,389 +These 300 men +are my personal bodyguard. + +212 +00:24:07,662 --> 00:24:09,823 +Our army will stay in Sparta. + +213 +00:24:10,432 --> 00:24:11,763 +Where will you go? + +214 +00:24:14,736 --> 00:24:16,966 +I hadn't really thought about it... + +215 +00:24:17,772 --> 00:24:19,933 +...but now that you ask... + +216 +00:24:20,108 --> 00:24:22,838 +...I suppose I'll head north. + +217 +00:24:24,279 --> 00:24:25,371 +The Hot Gates? + +218 +00:24:28,016 --> 00:24:30,416 +Move out! + +219 +00:24:30,619 --> 00:24:32,678 +Move out! + +220 +00:24:33,822 --> 00:24:35,414 +What shall we do? + +221 +00:24:36,958 --> 00:24:38,289 +What can we do? + +222 +00:24:38,994 --> 00:24:40,723 +What can you do? + +223 +00:24:43,765 --> 00:24:47,599 +Sparta will need sons. + +224 +00:25:35,383 --> 00:25:37,112 +Spartan! + +225 +00:25:46,394 --> 00:25:47,622 +Yes, milady? + +226 +00:26:03,712 --> 00:26:06,010 +Come back with your shield... + +227 +00:26:06,948 --> 00:26:08,381 +...or on it. + +228 +00:26:09,851 --> 00:26:11,216 +Yes, milady. + +229 +00:26:19,728 --> 00:26:22,026 +"Goodbye, my love." + +230 +00:26:22,664 --> 00:26:24,859 +He doesn't say it. + +231 +00:26:25,367 --> 00:26:27,597 +There's no room for softness... + +232 +00:26:27,769 --> 00:26:29,760 +...not in Sparta. + +233 +00:26:29,938 --> 00:26:32,702 +No place for weakness. + +234 +00:26:36,211 --> 00:26:40,409 +Only the hard and strong +may call themselves Spartans. + +235 +00:26:41,249 --> 00:26:45,743 +Only the hard. Only the strong. + +236 +00:27:14,215 --> 00:27:16,080 +We march... + +237 +00:27:16,785 --> 00:27:22,280 +...for our lands, for our families, +for our freedoms. + +238 +00:27:23,058 --> 00:27:25,219 +We march. + +239 +00:27:26,961 --> 00:27:28,622 +Daxos. + +240 +00:27:28,797 --> 00:27:32,198 +- What a pleasant surprise. +- This morning's full of surprises, Leonidas. + +241 +00:27:32,367 --> 00:27:34,767 +- We've been tricked. +- Can't be more than a hundred. + +242 +00:27:34,936 --> 00:27:37,166 +- This is a surprise. +- Silence. + +243 +00:27:37,605 --> 00:27:39,573 +This isn't their army. + +244 +00:27:39,741 --> 00:27:43,905 +We heard Sparta was on the warpath +and we were eager to join forces. + +245 +00:27:44,579 --> 00:27:48,675 +If it is blood you seek, +you are welcome to join us. + +246 +00:27:49,017 --> 00:27:52,248 +But you bring only this handful +of soldiers against Xerxes? + +247 +00:27:52,420 --> 00:27:56,015 +I see I was wrong to expect Sparta's +commitment to at least match our own. + +248 +00:27:57,192 --> 00:27:59,023 +Doesn't it? + +249 +00:28:00,462 --> 00:28:02,157 +You, there. + +250 +00:28:02,630 --> 00:28:03,824 +What is your profession? + +251 +00:28:04,366 --> 00:28:06,493 +I'm a potter, sir. + +252 +00:28:07,669 --> 00:28:11,435 +And you, Arcadian. +What is your profession? + +253 +00:28:11,806 --> 00:28:15,242 +- Sculptor, sir. +- Sculptor. + +254 +00:28:15,610 --> 00:28:17,544 +- And you? +- Blacksmith. + +255 +00:28:22,217 --> 00:28:25,516 +Spartans! What is your profession? + +256 +00:28:32,694 --> 00:28:34,628 +You see, old friend? + +257 +00:28:34,796 --> 00:28:37,697 +I brought more soldiers than you did. + +258 +00:28:47,642 --> 00:28:49,439 +No sleep tonight... + +259 +00:28:50,512 --> 00:28:52,980 +...not for the king. + +260 +00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:55,378 +All his 40 years +have been a straight road... + +261 +00:28:55,550 --> 00:28:59,111 +...to this one gleaming moment +in destiny... + +262 +00:28:59,287 --> 00:29:02,051 +...this one radiant clash +of shield and spear... + +263 +00:29:02,223 --> 00:29:05,818 +...sword and bone, +and flesh and blood. + +264 +00:29:07,529 --> 00:29:09,326 +His only regret... + +265 +00:29:09,497 --> 00:29:13,228 +...is that he has so few +to sacrifice. + +266 +00:29:34,522 --> 00:29:36,513 +We're being followed. + +267 +00:29:41,563 --> 00:29:43,758 +It has followed us since Sparta. + +268 +00:29:48,703 --> 00:29:51,695 +My king! Look! + +269 +00:30:12,660 --> 00:30:14,127 +What happened here? + +270 +00:30:14,696 --> 00:30:16,027 +Where are all the people? + +271 +00:30:17,131 --> 00:30:18,826 +Persians. + +272 +00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,797 +I put their number at around 20. + +273 +00:30:23,171 --> 00:30:24,536 +A scouting party. + +274 +00:30:27,909 --> 00:30:29,399 +But these footprints.... + +275 +00:30:40,788 --> 00:30:42,255 +Behind us! + +276 +00:30:56,304 --> 00:30:57,532 +Child! + +277 +00:31:30,505 --> 00:31:33,235 +It's quiet now. + +278 +00:31:33,708 --> 00:31:35,505 +They.... + +279 +00:31:35,877 --> 00:31:39,904 +They came with beasts +from the blackness. + +280 +00:31:41,482 --> 00:31:43,746 +With their claws and fangs... + +281 +00:31:43,918 --> 00:31:46,148 +...they grabbed them. + +282 +00:31:47,055 --> 00:31:49,216 +Everyone... + +283 +00:31:50,224 --> 00:31:52,283 +...but me. + +284 +00:32:04,539 --> 00:32:06,097 +The villagers. + +285 +00:32:06,641 --> 00:32:08,575 +I found them. + +286 +00:32:20,088 --> 00:32:22,886 +Have the gods no mercy? + +287 +00:32:24,058 --> 00:32:26,083 +We are doomed. + +288 +00:32:26,260 --> 00:32:28,888 +Quiet yourself. + +289 +00:32:32,300 --> 00:32:37,533 +The child speaks of the Persian ghosts, +known from the ancient times. + +290 +00:32:38,406 --> 00:32:41,102 +They are the hunters of men's souls. + +291 +00:32:42,143 --> 00:32:44,771 +They cannot be killed or defeated. + +292 +00:32:45,380 --> 00:32:49,544 +Not this darkness. Not these Immortals. + +293 +00:32:51,719 --> 00:32:53,914 +Immortals? + +294 +00:32:54,222 --> 00:32:57,282 +We'll put their name to the test. + +295 +00:33:19,347 --> 00:33:22,111 +Into the Hot Gates we march. + +296 +00:33:22,283 --> 00:33:25,582 +Into that narrow corridor +we march... + +297 +00:33:25,753 --> 00:33:28,017 +...where Xerxes' numbers +count for nothing. + +298 +00:33:29,190 --> 00:33:33,126 +Spartans, citizen-soldiers, +freed slaves. + +299 +00:33:33,294 --> 00:33:35,194 +Brave Greeks, all. + +300 +00:33:36,197 --> 00:33:39,291 +Brothers, fathers, sons... + +301 +00:33:39,467 --> 00:33:41,458 +...we march. + +302 +00:33:42,136 --> 00:33:46,334 +For honor's sake, for duty's sake, +for glory's sake, we march. + +303 +00:33:46,507 --> 00:33:49,601 +Look! Persians. + +304 +00:33:54,749 --> 00:33:58,480 +Into hell's mouth we march. + +305 +00:34:07,528 --> 00:34:09,587 +Let's watch these motherless dogs... + +306 +00:34:09,831 --> 00:34:13,892 +...as they're embraced by the loving arms +of Greece herself. Come. + +307 +00:34:16,704 --> 00:34:18,399 +True. + +308 +00:34:22,610 --> 00:34:25,078 +It does look like rain. + +309 +00:34:28,382 --> 00:34:31,613 +Zeus stabs the sky +with thunderbolts... + +310 +00:34:31,919 --> 00:34:35,946 +...and batters the Persian ships +with hurricane wind. + +311 +00:34:37,091 --> 00:34:39,525 +Glorious. + +312 +00:34:51,806 --> 00:34:54,673 +Only one among us +keeps his Spartan reserve. + +313 +00:35:00,615 --> 00:35:02,549 +Only he. + +314 +00:35:02,717 --> 00:35:05,185 +Only our king. + +315 +00:35:22,603 --> 00:35:24,537 +My queen? + +316 +00:35:29,710 --> 00:35:31,041 +My queen... + +317 +00:35:31,212 --> 00:35:34,545 +...the courtyard is a more fitting place +for a married woman. + +318 +00:35:34,715 --> 00:35:36,376 +I'm afraid gossip and protocol... + +319 +00:35:36,551 --> 00:35:39,076 +...are the least of my worries now, +councilman. + +320 +00:35:40,755 --> 00:35:42,586 +Is such secrecy needed? + +321 +00:35:42,757 --> 00:35:45,419 +How am I to trust beyond the walls +of my own home? + +322 +00:35:45,593 --> 00:35:49,324 +Even here, Theron has eyes and ears +which fuel Sparta with doubt and fear. + +323 +00:35:49,730 --> 00:35:53,131 +You speak as if all Sparta +conspires against you. + +324 +00:35:53,768 --> 00:35:55,827 +I wish it were only against me. + +325 +00:35:58,472 --> 00:36:01,964 +Many on our council +would vote to give all we have... + +326 +00:36:02,143 --> 00:36:04,008 +...and follow Leonidas... + +327 +00:36:04,345 --> 00:36:06,313 +...but you must show them favor. + +328 +00:36:08,616 --> 00:36:11,084 +And you can arrange for me +to speak to the council? + +329 +00:36:11,252 --> 00:36:13,686 +If it is reason they want, +I will let them know. + +330 +00:36:13,855 --> 00:36:15,982 +Know what, my queen? + +331 +00:36:16,357 --> 00:36:18,348 +Freedom isn't free at all. + +332 +00:36:18,526 --> 00:36:21,859 +That it comes with the highest of costs, +the cost of blood. + +333 +00:36:24,131 --> 00:36:26,759 +I will do my best to gather our council. + +334 +00:36:27,201 --> 00:36:31,035 +And its chamber +shall be filled with your voice. + +335 +00:36:31,372 --> 00:36:33,203 +- I'm in your debt. +- No. + +336 +00:36:33,541 --> 00:36:37,705 +Leonidas is my king as well as yours. + +337 +00:37:02,503 --> 00:37:04,368 +I saw those ships smash on the rocks. + +338 +00:37:05,473 --> 00:37:06,838 +How can this be? + +339 +00:37:07,008 --> 00:37:10,307 +We saw but a fraction of the monster +that is Xerxes' army. + +340 +00:37:10,978 --> 00:37:13,378 +There can be no victory here. + +341 +00:37:17,318 --> 00:37:19,013 +Why do you smile? + +342 +00:37:20,721 --> 00:37:22,655 +Arcadian... + +343 +00:37:22,823 --> 00:37:25,849 +...I have fought countless times... + +344 +00:37:26,127 --> 00:37:28,789 +...yet I've never met an adversary +who could offer me... + +345 +00:37:28,963 --> 00:37:31,124 +...what we Spartans +call "a beautiful death." + +346 +00:37:31,933 --> 00:37:33,594 +I can only hope... + +347 +00:37:33,768 --> 00:37:36,498 +...with all the world's warriors +gathered against us... + +348 +00:37:36,671 --> 00:37:40,334 +...there might be one down there +who's up to the task. + +349 +00:37:51,786 --> 00:37:54,118 +Move! + +350 +00:37:55,423 --> 00:37:58,358 +Keep going, you dogs! + +351 +00:38:06,033 --> 00:38:08,058 +Move! + +352 +00:38:09,503 --> 00:38:12,063 +Forward, I say! + +353 +00:38:14,408 --> 00:38:16,000 +Stop here! + +354 +00:38:16,844 --> 00:38:19,005 +Who commands here? + +355 +00:38:21,215 --> 00:38:23,877 +I am the emissary... + +356 +00:38:24,051 --> 00:38:26,315 +...to the ruler of all the world... + +357 +00:38:27,121 --> 00:38:31,023 +...the god of gods, king of kings... + +358 +00:38:31,192 --> 00:38:32,784 +...and by that authority... + +359 +00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,726 +...I demand that someone +show me your commander. + +360 +00:38:40,501 --> 00:38:46,406 +Listen. Do you think the paltry dozen +you slew scares us? + +361 +00:38:46,574 --> 00:38:50,066 +These hills swarm with our scouts. + +362 +00:38:50,244 --> 00:38:54,943 +And do you think your pathetic wall +will do anything... + +363 +00:38:55,116 --> 00:39:01,419 +...except fall like a heap of dry leaves +in the face of...? + +364 +00:39:13,134 --> 00:39:15,432 +Our ancestors built this wall... + +365 +00:39:16,170 --> 00:39:20,106 +...using ancient stones +from the bosom of Greece herself. + +366 +00:39:20,541 --> 00:39:22,907 +And with a little Spartan help... + +367 +00:39:23,210 --> 00:39:25,678 +...your Persian scouts +supplied the mortar. + +368 +00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,239 +You will pay for your barbarism! + +369 +00:39:49,403 --> 00:39:50,961 +My arm! + +370 +00:39:53,541 --> 00:39:55,406 +It's not yours anymore. + +371 +00:39:55,676 --> 00:40:00,306 +Go now. Run along and tell your Xerxes +he faces free men here... + +372 +00:40:00,681 --> 00:40:02,046 +...not slaves. + +373 +00:40:02,216 --> 00:40:03,444 +Do it quickly... + +374 +00:40:03,684 --> 00:40:06,619 +...before we decide to make our wall +just a little bit bigger. + +375 +00:40:07,121 --> 00:40:08,713 +No. + +376 +00:40:08,889 --> 00:40:11,323 +Not slaves. + +377 +00:40:13,127 --> 00:40:16,563 +Your women will be slaves. + +378 +00:40:16,897 --> 00:40:19,730 +Your sons, your daughters... + +379 +00:40:19,900 --> 00:40:22,232 +...your elders will be slaves! + +380 +00:40:22,403 --> 00:40:25,167 +But not you, no. + +381 +00:40:25,339 --> 00:40:29,400 +By noon this day you will be dead men. + +382 +00:40:30,578 --> 00:40:36,574 +A thousand nations of the Persian Empire +descend upon you. + +383 +00:40:36,984 --> 00:40:40,476 +Our arrows will blot out the sun. + +384 +00:40:42,256 --> 00:40:44,952 +Then we will fight in the shade. + +385 +00:40:46,494 --> 00:40:48,257 +The wall is solid. + +386 +00:40:48,429 --> 00:40:51,592 +It'll do the job of funneling the Persians +into the Hot Gates. + +387 +00:40:51,932 --> 00:40:54,628 +Have the men found any route +through the hills to our back? + +388 +00:40:55,136 --> 00:40:57,161 +None, sire. + +389 +00:40:57,438 --> 00:40:58,996 +There is such a route, good king. + +390 +00:40:59,540 --> 00:41:01,269 +Just pass that western ridge. + +391 +00:41:01,942 --> 00:41:03,637 +It's an old goat path. + +392 +00:41:03,811 --> 00:41:06,644 +The Persians could use it to outflank us. + +393 +00:41:06,814 --> 00:41:10,545 +Not one step closer, monster! + +394 +00:41:12,186 --> 00:41:15,781 +Wise king, I humbly request an audience. + +395 +00:41:15,956 --> 00:41:19,323 +- I'll skewer you where you stand. +- I gave no such order. + +396 +00:41:29,837 --> 00:41:31,065 +Forgive the captain. + +397 +00:41:31,739 --> 00:41:33,229 +He is a good soldier... + +398 +00:41:33,807 --> 00:41:36,435 +...but a bit short on manners. + +399 +00:41:36,610 --> 00:41:40,671 +There is nothing to forgive, brave king. +I know what I look like. + +400 +00:41:41,115 --> 00:41:43,140 +You wear the crimson of a Spartan. + +401 +00:41:43,751 --> 00:41:49,383 +I am Ephialtes, born of Sparta. + +402 +00:41:49,990 --> 00:41:54,051 +My mother's love +led my parents to flee Sparta... + +403 +00:41:54,228 --> 00:41:55,695 +...lest I be discarded. + +404 +00:41:56,230 --> 00:41:59,028 +Your shield and armor? + +405 +00:41:59,934 --> 00:42:01,595 +My father's, sir. + +406 +00:42:02,937 --> 00:42:06,998 +I beg you, bold king, +to permit me... + +407 +00:42:07,174 --> 00:42:12,202 +...to redeem my father's name +by serving you in combat. + +408 +00:42:12,513 --> 00:42:18,383 +My father trained me to feel no fear, +to make spear and shield and sword... + +409 +00:42:18,552 --> 00:42:21,282 +...as much a part of me +as my own beating heart. + +410 +00:42:21,722 --> 00:42:25,021 +I will earn my father's armor, +noble king... + +411 +00:42:25,192 --> 00:42:27,353 +...by serving you in the battle. + +412 +00:42:32,533 --> 00:42:34,626 +A fine thrust. + +413 +00:42:34,802 --> 00:42:36,394 +I will kill many Persians. + +414 +00:42:42,276 --> 00:42:43,868 +Raise your shield. + +415 +00:42:44,044 --> 00:42:46,706 +- Sire? +- Raise your shield as high as you can. + +416 +00:42:54,955 --> 00:42:57,981 +Your father should have taught you +how our phalanx works. + +417 +00:42:58,659 --> 00:42:59,956 +We fight... + +418 +00:43:00,494 --> 00:43:03,395 +...as a single, impenetrable unit. + +419 +00:43:03,564 --> 00:43:06,499 +That is the source of our strength. + +420 +00:43:07,334 --> 00:43:10,963 +Each Spartan protects the man +to his left... + +421 +00:43:11,138 --> 00:43:14,335 +...from thigh to neck with his shield. + +422 +00:43:14,508 --> 00:43:19,172 +A single weak spot +and the phalanx shatters. + +423 +00:43:20,581 --> 00:43:23,812 +From thigh to neck, Ephialtes. + +424 +00:43:25,853 --> 00:43:28,253 +I am sorry, my friend. + +425 +00:43:28,422 --> 00:43:31,016 +- But not all of us were made to be soldiers. +- But I-- + +426 +00:43:31,191 --> 00:43:33,625 +- If you want to help in a Spartan victory... +- Yes. + +427 +00:43:33,794 --> 00:43:38,959 +...clear the battlefield of the dead, +tend the wounded, bring them water... + +428 +00:43:39,133 --> 00:43:40,760 +...but as for the fight itself... + +429 +00:43:42,136 --> 00:43:44,036 +...I cannot use you. + +430 +00:43:45,873 --> 00:43:47,306 +You.... + +431 +00:43:55,182 --> 00:43:59,278 +Mother! Father! You were wrong! + +432 +00:44:02,556 --> 00:44:04,319 +You are wrong! + +433 +00:44:04,491 --> 00:44:09,019 +Leonidas! You are wrong! + +434 +00:44:09,496 --> 00:44:11,964 +Dispatch the Phocians to the goat path... + +435 +00:44:12,132 --> 00:44:16,660 +...and pray to the gods +nobody tells the Persians about it. + +436 +00:44:22,376 --> 00:44:23,934 +Earthquake. + +437 +00:44:24,478 --> 00:44:25,706 +No, captain. + +438 +00:44:27,314 --> 00:44:29,248 +Battle formations. + +439 +00:44:53,140 --> 00:44:56,337 +This is where we hold them. + +440 +00:44:56,510 --> 00:44:58,774 +This is where we fight! + +441 +00:44:59,346 --> 00:45:01,576 +This is where they die! + +442 +00:45:01,915 --> 00:45:03,780 +Earn these shields, boys! + +443 +00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,011 +Remember this day, men... + +444 +00:45:09,189 --> 00:45:12,920 +...for it will be yours for all time. + +445 +00:45:24,037 --> 00:45:25,800 +Spartans! + +446 +00:45:25,973 --> 00:45:28,100 +Lay down your weapons! + +447 +00:45:44,992 --> 00:45:47,256 +Persians! + +448 +00:45:47,828 --> 00:45:49,887 +Come and get them! + +449 +00:46:11,385 --> 00:46:13,012 +Hold! + +450 +00:46:15,856 --> 00:46:17,414 +Give them nothing... + +451 +00:46:17,858 --> 00:46:21,453 +...but take from them everything! + +452 +00:46:23,163 --> 00:46:24,892 +Steady! + +453 +00:46:35,676 --> 00:46:37,200 +Push! + +454 +00:46:41,048 --> 00:46:43,448 +Is that the best you can do? + +455 +00:46:45,652 --> 00:46:47,643 +Push! Push! + +456 +00:46:57,731 --> 00:46:59,255 +Now! + +457 +00:47:11,078 --> 00:47:12,568 +Push! + +458 +00:47:56,123 --> 00:47:58,717 +No prisoners! + +459 +00:47:59,059 --> 00:48:00,788 +No mercy! + +460 +00:49:20,107 --> 00:49:22,234 +They look thirsty. + +461 +00:49:23,343 --> 00:49:26,278 +Well, let's give them something to drink. + +462 +00:49:29,182 --> 00:49:31,844 +To the cliffs. + +463 +00:49:55,475 --> 00:49:57,636 +Halt. + +464 +00:49:59,746 --> 00:50:01,839 +Hell of a good start. + +465 +00:50:24,504 --> 00:50:26,972 +Tuck tail! + +466 +00:50:32,446 --> 00:50:34,004 +Persian cowards. + +467 +00:50:41,788 --> 00:50:44,723 +- What the hell are you laughing at? +- Well, you had to say it. + +468 +00:50:45,525 --> 00:50:49,188 +- What? +- "Fight in the shade." + +469 +00:51:02,709 --> 00:51:04,643 +Recover. + +470 +00:51:27,934 --> 00:51:30,562 +Today no Spartan dies. + +471 +00:51:55,695 --> 00:51:57,128 +Easy, son. + +472 +00:52:23,356 --> 00:52:25,324 +We do what we were trained to do... + +473 +00:52:25,492 --> 00:52:26,959 +...what we were bred to do... + +474 +00:52:27,127 --> 00:52:30,119 +...what we were born to do. + +475 +00:52:37,504 --> 00:52:40,496 +No prisoners. No mercy. + +476 +00:52:40,674 --> 00:52:42,141 +A good start. + +477 +00:53:51,611 --> 00:53:54,876 +- I was afraid you might not come. +- I'm sorry, my son is-- + +478 +00:53:55,048 --> 00:54:00,645 +Is doing what children do best. +Please, don't apologize. + +479 +00:54:01,655 --> 00:54:03,782 +Your son starts the agoge next year. + +480 +00:54:04,391 --> 00:54:08,384 +That is always a difficult time +for a Spartan mother. + +481 +00:54:09,496 --> 00:54:14,058 +Yes, it will be hard. But also necessary. + +482 +00:54:16,503 --> 00:54:20,735 +You will speak before the council +in two days' time. + +483 +00:54:22,609 --> 00:54:24,634 +My husband does not have two days. + +484 +00:54:25,045 --> 00:54:27,013 +Think of the two days as a gift. + +485 +00:54:29,082 --> 00:54:31,107 +It's no secret... + +486 +00:54:31,284 --> 00:54:34,151 +...Theron wants what you control. + +487 +00:54:34,321 --> 00:54:37,154 +It's his voice you must silence. + +488 +00:54:37,324 --> 00:54:39,417 +Make him your ally... + +489 +00:54:39,726 --> 00:54:42,286 +...and you will have your victory. + +490 +00:54:43,096 --> 00:54:44,859 +Thank you. + +491 +00:54:45,198 --> 00:54:47,598 +You are wise as you are kind. + +492 +00:55:14,661 --> 00:55:16,424 +There's your mother. + +493 +00:55:22,902 --> 00:55:26,338 +You should keep a better eye on him +if he's to be king one day. + +494 +00:55:26,539 --> 00:55:29,007 +Be unfortunate if anything +were to happen to him. + +495 +00:55:30,510 --> 00:55:32,375 +Or to his beautiful mother. + +496 +00:55:33,846 --> 00:55:35,336 +No! + +497 +00:55:53,584 --> 00:55:59,022 +Our Greek comrades are begging +for a crack at the Persians, sire. + +498 +00:55:59,323 --> 00:56:00,654 +Good. + +499 +00:56:00,825 --> 00:56:03,589 +I've got something +I think they can handle. + +500 +00:56:04,094 --> 00:56:05,789 +Tell Daxos that I want him... + +501 +00:56:05,963 --> 00:56:10,491 +...and 20 of his best eager, sober +and ready for the next charge. + +502 +00:56:10,668 --> 00:56:12,499 +King Leonidas. + +503 +00:56:15,005 --> 00:56:18,805 +- Stelios, catch your breath, boy. +- Yes, milord. + +504 +00:56:19,443 --> 00:56:21,570 +The Persians are approaching. + +505 +00:56:22,947 --> 00:56:26,815 +A small contingent. +Too small for an attack. + +506 +00:56:30,554 --> 00:56:34,115 +- Captain, I leave you in charge. +- But sire-- + +507 +00:56:34,291 --> 00:56:35,519 +Relax, old friend. + +508 +00:56:35,693 --> 00:56:40,255 +If they assassinate me, +all of Sparta goes to war. + +509 +00:56:41,198 --> 00:56:43,792 +Pray they're that stupid. + +510 +00:56:44,902 --> 00:56:46,597 +Pray... + +511 +00:56:47,137 --> 00:56:49,332 +...we're that lucky. + +512 +00:56:52,476 --> 00:56:54,239 +Besides... + +513 +00:56:56,514 --> 00:56:59,847 +...there's no reason we can't be civil... + +514 +00:57:00,150 --> 00:57:01,742 +...is there? + +515 +00:57:03,087 --> 00:57:04,076 +None, sire. + +516 +00:57:23,471 --> 00:57:25,701 +Let me guess. + +517 +00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,432 +You must be Xerxes. + +518 +00:57:41,455 --> 00:57:43,650 +Come, Leonidas. + +519 +00:57:45,092 --> 00:57:46,855 +Let us reason together. + +520 +00:57:47,128 --> 00:57:49,096 +It would be a regrettable waste... + +521 +00:57:49,497 --> 00:57:52,694 +...it would be nothing short of madness +were you, brave king... + +522 +00:57:52,867 --> 00:57:56,064 +...and your valiant troops to perish... + +523 +00:57:56,704 --> 00:57:58,763 +...all because of a simple +misunderstanding. + +524 +00:57:59,373 --> 00:58:02,206 +- There's much our cultures could share. +- Haven't you noticed? + +525 +00:58:02,376 --> 00:58:04,776 +We've been sharing our culture +with you all morning. + +526 +00:58:05,379 --> 00:58:07,643 +Yours is a fascinating tribe. + +527 +00:58:07,815 --> 00:58:09,976 +Even now you are defiant... + +528 +00:58:10,151 --> 00:58:14,281 +...in the face of annihilation +and the presence of a god. + +529 +00:58:14,455 --> 00:58:16,480 +It isn't wise to stand against me, +Leonidas. + +530 +00:58:17,158 --> 00:58:19,388 +Imagine what a horrible fate +awaits my enemies... + +531 +00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,461 +...when I would gladly kill +any of my own men for victory. + +532 +00:58:22,630 --> 00:58:25,258 +And I would die for any one of mine. + +533 +00:58:25,433 --> 00:58:29,665 +You Greeks take pride in your logic. +I suggest you employ it. + +534 +00:58:29,837 --> 00:58:33,398 +Consider the beautiful land +you so vigorously defend. + +535 +00:58:33,574 --> 00:58:36,065 +Picture it reduced to ash at my whim. + +536 +00:58:36,310 --> 00:58:37,777 +Consider the fate of your women. + +537 +00:58:38,379 --> 00:58:40,904 +Clearly you don't know our women. + +538 +00:58:41,082 --> 00:58:44,609 +I might as well have marched them up here, +judging by what I've seen. + +539 +00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:48,245 +You have many slaves, Xerxes... + +540 +00:58:49,190 --> 00:58:51,488 +...but few warriors. + +541 +00:58:51,659 --> 00:58:55,595 +It won't be long +before they fear my spears... + +542 +00:58:55,997 --> 00:58:58,431 +...more than your whips. + +543 +00:59:02,269 --> 00:59:05,136 +It's not the lash they fear... + +544 +00:59:07,875 --> 00:59:09,536 +...it is my divine power. + +545 +00:59:10,277 --> 00:59:14,771 +But I am a generous god. +I can make you rich beyond all measure. + +546 +00:59:15,216 --> 00:59:17,616 +I will make you warlord of all Greece. + +547 +00:59:18,252 --> 00:59:22,154 +You will carry my battle standard +to the heart of Europa. + +548 +00:59:22,323 --> 00:59:24,917 +Your Athenian rivals... + +549 +00:59:25,226 --> 00:59:27,387 +...will kneel at your feet... + +550 +00:59:28,095 --> 00:59:30,893 +...if you will but kneel at mine. + +551 +00:59:31,732 --> 00:59:33,996 +You are generous... + +552 +00:59:34,568 --> 00:59:36,968 +...as you are divine... + +553 +00:59:37,705 --> 00:59:39,332 +...O king of kings. + +554 +00:59:39,507 --> 00:59:43,409 +Such an offer +only a madman would refuse. + +555 +00:59:44,011 --> 00:59:46,002 +But the.... + +556 +00:59:46,914 --> 00:59:49,747 +The idea of kneeling, it's.... + +557 +00:59:49,917 --> 00:59:54,445 +You see, slaughtering +all those men of yours has.... + +558 +00:59:54,622 --> 00:59:58,456 +Well, it's left a nasty cramp in my leg... + +559 +00:59:58,626 --> 01:00:00,719 +...so kneeling will be hard for me. + +560 +01:00:00,995 --> 01:00:04,362 +There will be no glory in your sacrifice. + +561 +01:00:04,532 --> 01:00:08,127 +I will erase even the memory of Sparta +from the histories. + +562 +01:00:08,302 --> 01:00:11,499 +Every piece of Greek parchment +shall be burned. + +563 +01:00:11,672 --> 01:00:15,005 +Every Greek historian and every scribe +shall have their eyes put out... + +564 +01:00:15,176 --> 01:00:17,440 +...and their tongues +cut from their mouths. + +565 +01:00:17,611 --> 01:00:23,607 +Why, uttering the very name of Sparta +or Leonidas will be punishable by death. + +566 +01:00:24,251 --> 01:00:27,516 +The world will never know +you existed at all. + +567 +01:00:29,657 --> 01:00:34,253 +The world will know +that free men stood against a tyrant. + +568 +01:00:34,462 --> 01:00:37,954 +That few stood against many. + +569 +01:00:38,365 --> 01:00:41,493 +And before this battle was over... + +570 +01:00:41,769 --> 01:00:44,738 +...that even a god-king can bleed. + +571 +01:00:52,113 --> 01:00:54,308 +You fought well today... + +572 +01:00:55,649 --> 01:00:57,549 +...for a woman. + +573 +01:00:58,719 --> 01:01:00,380 +As did you. + +574 +01:01:00,554 --> 01:01:03,648 +Maybe if I'm injured, +you'll be able to keep up with me. + +575 +01:01:04,158 --> 01:01:09,118 +Perhaps I was so far ahead +you couldn't see me. + +576 +01:01:09,730 --> 01:01:12,927 +More likely offering your backside +to the Thespians. + +577 +01:01:13,868 --> 01:01:15,495 +Jealousy... + +578 +01:01:15,669 --> 01:01:18,160 +...does not become you, my friend. + +579 +01:01:20,908 --> 01:01:23,240 +Move it, men! + +580 +01:01:25,346 --> 01:01:27,576 +Pile those Persians high. + +581 +01:01:30,718 --> 01:01:33,516 +For unless I miss my guess... + +582 +01:01:34,088 --> 01:01:37,080 +...we're in for one wild night. + +583 +01:02:01,015 --> 01:02:06,180 +They have served the dark will +of Persian kings for 500 years. + +584 +01:02:06,353 --> 01:02:08,685 +Eyes as dark as night. + +585 +01:02:08,856 --> 01:02:10,847 +Teeth filed to fangs. + +586 +01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:15,224 +Soulless. + +587 +01:02:22,636 --> 01:02:27,403 +The personal guard to King Xerxes himself. +The Persian warrior elite. + +588 +01:02:29,210 --> 01:02:32,304 +The deadliest fighting force +in all of Asia: + +589 +01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,139 +The Immortals. + +590 +01:02:43,357 --> 01:02:46,758 +The god-king +has betrayed a fatal flaw: + +591 +01:02:47,261 --> 01:02:49,024 +Hubris. + +592 +01:02:51,265 --> 01:02:54,029 +Easy to taunt, easy to trick. + +593 +01:02:54,702 --> 01:02:57,136 +Before wounds and weariness +have taken their toll... + +594 +01:02:57,304 --> 01:03:00,831 +...the mad king +throws the best he has at us. + +595 +01:03:01,342 --> 01:03:03,037 +Xerxes has taken the bait. + +596 +01:03:03,210 --> 01:03:05,007 +Spartans, push! + +597 +01:03:15,689 --> 01:03:17,281 +Immortals. + +598 +01:03:17,758 --> 01:03:20,727 +We put their name to the test. + +599 +01:04:04,905 --> 01:04:06,338 +Father! + +600 +01:05:52,012 --> 01:05:53,274 +My king! + +601 +01:07:06,053 --> 01:07:08,021 +Arcadians, now! + +602 +01:07:10,324 --> 01:07:13,088 +Go! Show the Spartans what we can do. + +603 +01:07:13,694 --> 01:07:15,127 +Go! + +604 +01:07:24,538 --> 01:07:26,438 +They shout and curse... + +605 +01:07:26,607 --> 01:07:29,804 +...stabbing wildly, +more brawlers than warriors. + +606 +01:07:30,944 --> 01:07:33,504 +They make a wondrous +mess of things. + +607 +01:07:34,548 --> 01:07:37,312 +Brave amateurs, they do their part. + +608 +01:08:24,932 --> 01:08:26,797 +Immortals. + +609 +01:08:26,967 --> 01:08:29,561 +They fail our king's test. + +610 +01:08:29,736 --> 01:08:32,671 +And a man +who fancies himself a god... + +611 +01:08:33,407 --> 01:08:38,344 +...feels a very human chill +crawl up his spine. + +612 +01:08:45,452 --> 01:08:47,579 +To our king! + +613 +01:08:47,955 --> 01:08:49,946 +And our honored dead. + +614 +01:08:50,123 --> 01:08:52,921 +Whom will Xerxes dare to send next? +Whom?! + +615 +01:08:53,260 --> 01:08:55,956 +There's nothing that can stop us now! + +616 +01:08:56,830 --> 01:09:00,357 +Even the king allows himself +to hope for more than glory. + +617 +01:09:00,534 --> 01:09:03,867 +Such mad hope, but there it is: + +618 +01:09:04,304 --> 01:09:09,708 +"Against Asia's endless hordes, +against all odds, we can do it. + +619 +01:09:09,876 --> 01:09:12,606 +We can hold the Hot Gates. + +620 +01:09:12,779 --> 01:09:14,906 +We can win." + +621 +01:09:22,489 --> 01:09:24,252 +Dawn. + +622 +01:09:24,858 --> 01:09:28,885 +Whips crack. Barbarians howl. + +623 +01:09:29,062 --> 01:09:32,964 +Those behind cry, "Forward!" + +624 +01:09:34,835 --> 01:09:38,635 +Those in front cry, "Back!" + +625 +01:09:44,745 --> 01:09:47,270 +Our eyes bear witness +to the grotesque spectacle... + +626 +01:09:47,447 --> 01:09:51,543 +...coughed forth from the darkest +corner of Xerxes' empire. + +627 +01:10:41,768 --> 01:10:43,292 +When muscle failed... + +628 +01:10:43,737 --> 01:10:46,399 +...they turned to their magic. + +629 +01:10:47,441 --> 01:10:52,242 +One hundred nations descend +upon us, the armies of all Asia. + +630 +01:10:52,412 --> 01:10:56,872 +Funneled into this narrow corridor, +their numbers count for nothing. + +631 +01:11:31,251 --> 01:11:33,219 +They fall by the hundreds. + +632 +01:11:33,386 --> 01:11:38,983 +We send the severed bodies and the +fragile hearts back to Xerxes' feet. + +633 +01:11:55,609 --> 01:11:59,773 +King Xerxes is displeased +with his generals. + +634 +01:11:59,946 --> 01:12:02,506 +He disciplines them. + +635 +01:12:19,399 --> 01:12:23,802 +Xerxes dispatches his monsters +from half the world away. + +636 +01:12:34,781 --> 01:12:36,874 +They're clumsy beasts... + +637 +01:12:37,050 --> 01:12:39,416 +...and the piled Persian dead +are slippery. + +638 +01:13:15,856 --> 01:13:18,290 +- You still here? +- Somebody's gotta watch your back. + +639 +01:13:18,458 --> 01:13:20,050 +Not now, I'm a little busy. + +640 +01:14:00,333 --> 01:14:02,858 +Regroup! + +641 +01:14:06,072 --> 01:14:07,699 +Astinos! + +642 +01:14:07,908 --> 01:14:09,603 +My son! + +643 +01:14:18,551 --> 01:14:20,178 +Astinos! + +644 +01:14:20,353 --> 01:14:23,117 +No! + +645 +01:14:46,379 --> 01:14:48,506 +Day wears on. + +646 +01:14:48,848 --> 01:14:51,009 +We lose few... + +647 +01:14:51,184 --> 01:14:54,415 +...but each felled is a friend, +or dearest blood. + +648 +01:14:56,623 --> 01:15:00,525 +And upon seeing the headless body +of his own young son... + +649 +01:15:00,694 --> 01:15:02,559 +...the captain breaks rank. + +650 +01:15:02,729 --> 01:15:06,165 +He goes wild, blood-drunk. + +651 +01:15:30,790 --> 01:15:33,281 +The captain's cries of pain +at the loss of his son... + +652 +01:15:33,460 --> 01:15:37,191 +...are more frightening to the enemy +than the deepest battle drums. + +653 +01:15:37,364 --> 01:15:41,357 +It takes three men to restrain him +and bring him back to our own. + +654 +01:15:41,701 --> 01:15:44,033 +The day is ours. + +655 +01:15:44,437 --> 01:15:47,099 +No songs are sung. + +656 +01:16:27,213 --> 01:16:31,809 +Your gods were cruel to shape you so, +friend Ephialtes. + +657 +01:16:34,220 --> 01:16:35,517 +The Spartans, too... + +658 +01:16:36,256 --> 01:16:39,157 +...were cruel to reject you. + +659 +01:16:41,995 --> 01:16:44,429 +But I am kind. + +660 +01:16:50,937 --> 01:16:53,064 +Everything you could ever desire... + +661 +01:16:54,307 --> 01:16:56,070 +...every happiness you can imagine... + +662 +01:16:58,278 --> 01:17:02,874 +...every pleasure your fellow Greeks +and your false gods have denied you... + +663 +01:17:03,683 --> 01:17:05,947 +...I will grant you. + +664 +01:17:07,220 --> 01:17:09,620 +For I am kind. + +665 +01:17:23,570 --> 01:17:26,869 +Embrace me as your king +and as your god. + +666 +01:17:28,007 --> 01:17:29,702 +Yes. + +667 +01:17:31,177 --> 01:17:35,978 +Lead my soldiers to the hidden path +that enters behind the cursed Spartans... + +668 +01:17:36,149 --> 01:17:38,413 +...and your joys will be endless. + +669 +01:17:46,860 --> 01:17:50,023 +Yes! I want it all. + +670 +01:17:50,463 --> 01:17:54,024 +Wealth. Women. + +671 +01:17:56,035 --> 01:17:57,730 +And one more thing... + +672 +01:18:00,907 --> 01:18:03,569 +...I want a uniform. + +673 +01:18:08,081 --> 01:18:09,776 +Done. + +674 +01:18:11,417 --> 01:18:13,112 +You will find... + +675 +01:18:13,720 --> 01:18:15,654 +...I am kind. + +676 +01:18:16,789 --> 01:18:21,021 +Unlike the cruel Leonidas, +who demanded that you stand... + +677 +01:18:23,129 --> 01:18:24,824 +...I require only... + +678 +01:18:25,565 --> 01:18:26,998 +...that you kneel. + +679 +01:18:54,661 --> 01:18:56,595 +Beautiful night. + +680 +01:18:58,031 --> 01:19:02,024 +Yes, but I did not ask you here +for small talk, Theron. + +681 +01:19:02,669 --> 01:19:04,762 +You can be sure of that. + +682 +01:19:06,172 --> 01:19:08,834 +You never spared words with me. + +683 +01:19:09,409 --> 01:19:12,674 +Can I offer you something? +A drink, perhaps? + +684 +01:19:12,845 --> 01:19:14,676 +Is it poison? + +685 +01:19:15,081 --> 01:19:17,845 +I'm sorry to disappoint you, +it's only water. + +686 +01:19:27,627 --> 01:19:30,790 +I'm told it's been arranged for you +to go before the council. + +687 +01:19:31,464 --> 01:19:33,193 +Yes. + +688 +01:19:33,399 --> 01:19:36,732 +I need your help in winning votes +to send the army north to our king. + +689 +01:19:37,303 --> 01:19:38,930 +Yes. + +690 +01:19:39,606 --> 01:19:42,166 +I can see it, +the two of us standing together. + +691 +01:19:42,342 --> 01:19:46,711 +Me, politician. You, warrior. +Our voices as one. + +692 +01:19:48,047 --> 01:19:49,514 +But why would I want to do that? + +693 +01:19:50,483 --> 01:19:54,442 +It proves you care for a king who right now +fights for the very water we drink. + +694 +01:19:54,787 --> 01:19:56,379 +True. + +695 +01:19:56,756 --> 01:19:59,384 +But this is politics, not war. + +696 +01:19:59,692 --> 01:20:01,216 +Leonidas is an idealist. + +697 +01:20:01,628 --> 01:20:05,564 +I know your kind too well. You send men +to slaughter for your own gain. + +698 +01:20:05,732 --> 01:20:10,635 +Your husband, our king, +has taken 300 of our finest to slaughter. + +699 +01:20:10,803 --> 01:20:15,433 +He's broken our laws +and left without the council's consent. + +700 +01:20:15,942 --> 01:20:18,934 +- I'm simply a realist. +- You're an opportunist. + +701 +01:20:19,912 --> 01:20:24,212 +You're as foolish as Leonidas if you think +men don't have a price in this world. + +702 +01:20:24,384 --> 01:20:28,946 +All men are not created equal. +That's the Spartan code, my little queen. + +703 +01:20:32,625 --> 01:20:35,025 +I admire your passion. + +704 +01:20:36,362 --> 01:20:38,091 +But don't think that you... + +705 +01:20:38,531 --> 01:20:40,863 +...a woman, even a queen... + +706 +01:20:41,034 --> 01:20:44,970 +...can walk into the council chamber +and sway the minds of men. + +707 +01:20:45,138 --> 01:20:47,572 +I own that chamber... + +708 +01:20:47,740 --> 01:20:49,799 +...as if it were built with these hands. + +709 +01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:57,807 +I could crush +the life out of you right now. + +710 +01:20:58,885 --> 01:21:02,548 +You will go before the council, +but your words will fall on deaf ears. + +711 +01:21:02,722 --> 01:21:08,490 +Leonidas will receive no reinforcements, +and if he returns, without my help... + +712 +01:21:08,661 --> 01:21:11,630 +...he will go to jail or worse. + +713 +01:21:15,368 --> 01:21:16,835 +Do you love your Sparta? + +714 +01:21:17,337 --> 01:21:19,032 +Yes. + +715 +01:21:19,205 --> 01:21:21,469 +- And your king? +- I do. + +716 +01:21:27,313 --> 01:21:31,010 +Your husband fights for his land +and his love. + +717 +01:21:31,684 --> 01:21:33,982 +What do you have to offer... + +718 +01:21:34,754 --> 01:21:37,723 +...in return for my word +that I'll help you send our army north? + +719 +01:21:41,694 --> 01:21:44,356 +What does a realist want with his queen? + +720 +01:21:48,968 --> 01:21:50,697 +I think you know. + +721 +01:22:05,151 --> 01:22:07,847 +This will not be over quickly. + +722 +01:22:08,888 --> 01:22:11,379 +You will not enjoy this. + +723 +01:22:11,924 --> 01:22:14,188 +I'm not your king. + +724 +01:22:38,985 --> 01:22:40,782 +Dilios. + +725 +01:22:42,789 --> 01:22:46,816 +I trust that scratch +hasn't made you useless? + +726 +01:22:46,993 --> 01:22:50,019 +Hardly, my lord. It's just an eye. + +727 +01:22:50,196 --> 01:22:53,393 +The gods saw fit to grace me +with a spare. + +728 +01:22:55,268 --> 01:22:57,202 +My captain? + +729 +01:22:58,504 --> 01:23:02,304 +Curses the gods and mourns alone. + +730 +01:23:04,277 --> 01:23:06,245 +Leonidas! + +731 +01:23:07,447 --> 01:23:10,439 +We are undone. +Undone, I tell you. Destroyed. + +732 +01:23:10,616 --> 01:23:12,049 +Daxos, calm yourself. + +733 +01:23:12,218 --> 01:23:15,813 +Our hunchback traitor led Xerxes' Immortals +to the hidden goat path behind us. + +734 +01:23:16,222 --> 01:23:19,055 +The Phocians you posted there +were scattered without a fight. + +735 +01:23:19,225 --> 01:23:24,458 +- This battle is over, Leonidas. +- This battle is over when I say it is over. + +736 +01:23:24,630 --> 01:23:28,999 +By morning, the Immortals will surround us. +The Hot Gates will fall. + +737 +01:23:29,635 --> 01:23:34,004 +Spartans! Prepare for glory! + +738 +01:23:34,173 --> 01:23:37,370 +Glory? Have you gone mad? + +739 +01:23:37,543 --> 01:23:39,101 +There is no glory to be had now. + +740 +01:23:39,712 --> 01:23:43,307 +Only retreat or surrender. Or death. + +741 +01:23:43,483 --> 01:23:46,646 +Well, that's an easy choice +for us, Arcadian. + +742 +01:23:46,819 --> 01:23:52,314 +Spartans never retreat. +Spartans never surrender. + +743 +01:23:52,925 --> 01:23:55,018 +Go spread the word. + +744 +01:23:55,261 --> 01:23:58,924 +Let every Greek assembled +know the truth of this. + +745 +01:23:59,098 --> 01:24:01,931 +Let each among them +search his own soul. + +746 +01:24:03,636 --> 01:24:07,766 +And while you're at it, search your own. + +747 +01:24:15,281 --> 01:24:17,545 +My men will leave with me. + +748 +01:24:22,889 --> 01:24:25,119 +Godspeed, Leonidas. + +749 +01:24:31,430 --> 01:24:33,022 +Children! + +750 +01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:35,331 +Children. + +751 +01:24:36,369 --> 01:24:38,360 +Gather round. + +752 +01:24:40,239 --> 01:24:43,504 +No retreat, no surrender. + +753 +01:24:43,676 --> 01:24:47,544 +That is Spartan law. + +754 +01:24:47,780 --> 01:24:52,843 +And by Spartan law, +we will stand and fight... + +755 +01:24:53,019 --> 01:24:55,010 +...and die. + +756 +01:24:58,457 --> 01:25:01,949 +A new age has begun. + +757 +01:25:03,696 --> 01:25:06,824 +An age of freedom. + +758 +01:25:07,900 --> 01:25:11,563 +And all will know that 300 Spartans... + +759 +01:25:11,737 --> 01:25:15,002 +...gave their last breath to defend it. + +760 +01:25:35,294 --> 01:25:37,057 +My friend. + +761 +01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:46,163 +I have lived my entire life +without regret until now. + +762 +01:25:49,542 --> 01:25:55,481 +It's not that my son +gave up his life for his country. + +763 +01:25:57,383 --> 01:26:01,251 +It's just that I never told him +that I loved him the most. + +764 +01:26:02,855 --> 01:26:05,722 +That he stood by me with honor. + +765 +01:26:07,159 --> 01:26:10,094 +That he was all that was best in me. + +766 +01:26:19,205 --> 01:26:21,730 +My heart is broken for your loss. + +767 +01:26:22,475 --> 01:26:24,170 +Heart? + +768 +01:26:29,248 --> 01:26:32,342 +I have filled my heart... + +769 +01:26:32,518 --> 01:26:34,247 +...with hate. + +770 +01:26:38,391 --> 01:26:40,052 +Good. + +771 +01:26:49,201 --> 01:26:51,032 +Dilios... + +772 +01:26:52,738 --> 01:26:54,865 +...let's take a walk. + +773 +01:26:56,342 --> 01:26:58,401 +Yes, my lord. + +774 +01:27:00,813 --> 01:27:03,475 +But, sire, I am fit and ready for battle. + +775 +01:27:03,649 --> 01:27:06,777 +That you are, one of the finest. + +776 +01:27:07,086 --> 01:27:10,681 +But you have another talent +unlike any other Spartan. + +777 +01:27:13,392 --> 01:27:16,828 +You will deliver my final orders +to the council... + +778 +01:27:16,996 --> 01:27:19,487 +...with force and verve. + +779 +01:27:22,001 --> 01:27:24,265 +Tell them our story. + +780 +01:27:24,437 --> 01:27:28,965 +Make every Greek know +what happened here. + +781 +01:27:29,809 --> 01:27:32,437 +You'll have a grand tale to tell. + +782 +01:27:34,246 --> 01:27:35,941 +A tale of victory. + +783 +01:27:36,615 --> 01:27:38,173 +Victory. + +784 +01:27:42,221 --> 01:27:44,212 +Yes, my lord. + +785 +01:27:49,895 --> 01:27:52,261 +Sire, any message...? + +786 +01:27:55,134 --> 01:27:56,499 +For the queen? + +787 +01:28:18,958 --> 01:28:21,392 +None that need be spoken. + +788 +01:28:36,509 --> 01:28:38,909 +Hundreds leave. + +789 +01:28:39,545 --> 01:28:41,979 +A handful stay. + +790 +01:28:47,153 --> 01:28:49,781 +Only one looks back. + +791 +01:29:00,099 --> 01:29:02,294 +Spartans! + +792 +01:29:03,369 --> 01:29:06,532 +Ready your breakfast and eat hearty... + +793 +01:29:06,705 --> 01:29:10,641 +...for tonight we dine in hell! + +794 +01:29:19,518 --> 01:29:22,180 +May I give the floor now... + +795 +01:29:22,354 --> 01:29:26,791 +...to the wife of Leonidas +and queen of Sparta. + +796 +01:29:38,504 --> 01:29:40,233 +- What's this? +- This is nothing. + +797 +01:29:40,406 --> 01:29:42,237 +Councilmen... + +798 +01:29:42,408 --> 01:29:46,174 +...I stand before you +not only as your queen. + +799 +01:29:47,046 --> 01:29:49,776 +I come to you as a mother. + +800 +01:29:51,050 --> 01:29:53,450 +I come to you as a wife. + +801 +01:29:55,254 --> 01:29:57,779 +I come to you as a Spartan woman. + +802 +01:30:02,795 --> 01:30:05,889 +I come to you with great humility. + +803 +01:30:09,335 --> 01:30:11,735 +I am not here to represent Leonidas. + +804 +01:30:11,904 --> 01:30:14,668 +His actions speak louder +than my words ever could. + +805 +01:30:15,007 --> 01:30:17,407 +I am here for all those voices +which cannot be heard. + +806 +01:30:17,576 --> 01:30:20,101 +Mothers, daughters, fathers, sons. + +807 +01:30:20,279 --> 01:30:23,248 +Three hundred families +that bleed for our rights... + +808 +01:30:23,682 --> 01:30:26,879 +...and for the very principles +this room was built upon. + +809 +01:30:27,486 --> 01:30:29,579 +We are at war, gentlemen. + +810 +01:30:30,022 --> 01:30:32,547 +We must send the entire Spartan army +to aid our king... + +811 +01:30:32,725 --> 01:30:35,819 +...in the preservation of not +just ourselves, but of our children. + +812 +01:30:36,395 --> 01:30:39,523 +Send the army +for the preservation of liberty. + +813 +01:30:39,698 --> 01:30:42,030 +Send it for justice. + +814 +01:30:42,201 --> 01:30:43,828 +Send it for law and order. + +815 +01:30:44,370 --> 01:30:46,565 +Send it for reason. + +816 +01:30:46,739 --> 01:30:50,835 +But most importantly, +send our army for hope. + +817 +01:30:51,010 --> 01:30:54,571 +Hope that a king and his men have not +been wasted to the pages of history. + +818 +01:30:55,414 --> 01:30:58,850 +That their courage bonds us together. + +819 +01:30:59,151 --> 01:31:02,348 +That we are made stronger +by their actions... + +820 +01:31:03,355 --> 01:31:07,451 +...and that your choices today +reflect their bravery. + +821 +01:31:09,395 --> 01:31:11,056 +Three hundred. + +822 +01:31:13,399 --> 01:31:15,230 +We must send them. + +823 +01:31:19,004 --> 01:31:20,835 +Moving... + +824 +01:31:21,173 --> 01:31:24,074 +...eloquent, passionate. + +825 +01:31:24,476 --> 01:31:28,640 +But it doesn't change the fact +that your husband has brought war upon us. + +826 +01:31:28,814 --> 01:31:31,248 +You are wrong. +Xerxes brought it forth... + +827 +01:31:31,417 --> 01:31:33,885 +...and before that, +his father Darius at Marathon. + +828 +01:31:34,053 --> 01:31:35,782 +The Persians will not stop... + +829 +01:31:35,955 --> 01:31:39,322 +...until the only shelter we will find +is rubble and chaos. + +830 +01:31:39,725 --> 01:31:43,456 +This chamber needs no +history lesson, my queen. + +831 +01:31:43,963 --> 01:31:46,158 +Then what is the lesson +you would like to leave? + +832 +01:31:46,332 --> 01:31:48,425 +Shall I begin to enumerate all of them? + +833 +01:31:48,834 --> 01:31:52,270 +Honor. Duty. Glory. + +834 +01:31:52,538 --> 01:31:57,566 +You speak of honor, duty and glory? + +835 +01:31:58,877 --> 01:32:00,105 +But what of adultery? + +836 +01:32:00,279 --> 01:32:02,747 +- How dare you. +- How dare I? + +837 +01:32:03,182 --> 01:32:06,174 +Watch her carefully. + +838 +01:32:06,352 --> 01:32:09,321 +She is a trickster in true form. + +839 +01:32:09,488 --> 01:32:12,651 +Do not play with the members +of this sacred chamber, my queen. + +840 +01:32:12,825 --> 01:32:15,919 +Just hours ago, +you offered yourself to me. + +841 +01:32:16,095 --> 01:32:20,532 +Were I a weaker man, +I would have her scent on me still. + +842 +01:32:20,699 --> 01:32:23,691 +- This is outrage. +- Oh, the hypocrite speaks! + +843 +01:32:23,869 --> 01:32:26,861 +Did you not receive a similar payment, +which you took... + +844 +01:32:27,039 --> 01:32:30,270 +...in exchange for her having an audience +with these noble men? + +845 +01:32:30,442 --> 01:32:32,205 +- That is a lie. +- Is it? + +846 +01:32:32,378 --> 01:32:36,144 +Was he not, by your invitation, +asked to come to the king's bedchamber? + +847 +01:32:36,682 --> 01:32:41,312 +The very bed where you attempted +to negotiate with me so vigorously? + +848 +01:32:43,956 --> 01:32:47,414 +You look shocked. +A bribe of the flesh, gentlemen... + +849 +01:32:47,593 --> 01:32:50,892 +...while her husband +promotes anarchy and war. + +850 +01:32:53,832 --> 01:32:55,026 +He speaks truth. + +851 +01:32:55,634 --> 01:32:58,831 +Words escape +even the most cunning tongue... + +852 +01:32:59,004 --> 01:33:01,063 +...my little whore queen. + +853 +01:33:05,811 --> 01:33:07,642 +What queen-like behavior. + +854 +01:33:09,348 --> 01:33:12,476 +Remove her from this chamber +before she infects us further... + +855 +01:33:12,651 --> 01:33:15,643 +...with her inglorious and shabby self. + +856 +01:33:22,461 --> 01:33:24,053 +This will not be over quickly. + +857 +01:33:25,397 --> 01:33:28,924 +You will not enjoy this. +I am not your queen. + +858 +01:33:51,090 --> 01:33:53,024 +Traitor. + +859 +01:33:53,559 --> 01:33:58,360 +Traitor! Traitor! Traitor! + +860 +01:33:58,630 --> 01:34:00,894 +Traitor! + +861 +01:34:37,936 --> 01:34:43,932 +Leonidas, my compliments +and congratulations. + +862 +01:34:44,109 --> 01:34:47,772 +You surely have turned calamity +into victory. + +863 +01:34:47,946 --> 01:34:50,938 +Despite your insufferable arrogance... + +864 +01:34:51,116 --> 01:34:55,280 +...the god-king has come to admire +Spartan valor and fighting skill. + +865 +01:34:56,021 --> 01:34:57,386 +You will make a mighty ally. + +866 +01:34:57,556 --> 01:34:59,285 +Yield, Leonidas. + +867 +01:35:00,459 --> 01:35:03,326 +Use your reason. Think of your men. + +868 +01:35:06,165 --> 01:35:07,792 +I beg you. + +869 +01:35:08,367 --> 01:35:10,335 +Listen to your fellow Greek. + +870 +01:35:10,502 --> 01:35:14,199 +He can attest +to the divine one's generosity. + +871 +01:35:14,373 --> 01:35:18,833 +Despite your several insults, +despite your horrid blasphemies... + +872 +01:35:19,745 --> 01:35:22,942 +...the lord of hosts +is prepared to forgive all... + +873 +01:35:23,182 --> 01:35:26,208 +...and more, to reward your service. + +874 +01:35:26,485 --> 01:35:27,816 +You fight for your lands. + +875 +01:35:28,520 --> 01:35:30,351 +Keep them. + +876 +01:35:31,056 --> 01:35:33,024 +You fight for Sparta. + +877 +01:35:33,192 --> 01:35:37,185 +She will be wealthier and more powerful +than ever before. + +878 +01:35:37,396 --> 01:35:39,330 +You fight for your kingship. + +879 +01:35:40,232 --> 01:35:43,201 +You will be proclaimed warlord +of all Greece... + +880 +01:35:43,368 --> 01:35:47,668 +...answerable only +to the one true master of the world. + +881 +01:35:48,040 --> 01:35:52,773 +Leonidas, your victory will be complete... + +882 +01:35:52,945 --> 01:35:55,539 +...if you but lay down your arms... + +883 +01:35:55,714 --> 01:35:58,877 +...and kneel to holy Xerxes. + +884 +01:36:29,381 --> 01:36:34,318 +It's been more than 30 years +since the wolf in the winter cold. + +885 +01:36:34,486 --> 01:36:39,048 +And now, as then, +it's not fear that grips him... + +886 +01:36:39,224 --> 01:36:44,389 +...only restlessness. +A heightened sense of things. + +887 +01:36:45,163 --> 01:36:49,964 +The seaborne breeze coolly kissing +the sweat at his chest and neck. + +888 +01:36:50,135 --> 01:36:51,625 +Gulls cawing... + +889 +01:36:51,803 --> 01:36:56,035 +...complaining even as they feast +on the thousands of floating dead. + +890 +01:36:57,643 --> 01:37:02,706 +The steady breathing +of the 300 at his back... + +891 +01:37:03,482 --> 01:37:06,940 +...ready to die for him +without a moment's pause. + +892 +01:37:09,554 --> 01:37:10,919 +Every one of them... + +893 +01:37:12,391 --> 01:37:14,325 +...ready to die. + +894 +01:37:29,841 --> 01:37:32,776 +His helmet is stifling. + +895 +01:37:53,465 --> 01:37:56,298 +His shield is heavy. + +896 +01:38:03,909 --> 01:38:05,274 +Your spear. + +897 +01:38:14,086 --> 01:38:15,519 +You there... + +898 +01:38:15,954 --> 01:38:17,945 +...Ephialtes. + +899 +01:38:23,061 --> 01:38:25,325 +May you live forever. + +900 +01:38:32,738 --> 01:38:35,036 +Leonidas, your spear. + +901 +01:39:42,274 --> 01:39:43,866 +Stelios! + +902 +01:39:53,885 --> 01:39:55,477 +Slaughter them! + +903 +01:39:58,857 --> 01:40:00,449 +His helmet was stifling. + +904 +01:40:00,625 --> 01:40:03,753 +It narrowed his vision, +and he must see far. + +905 +01:40:05,063 --> 01:40:08,931 +His shield was heavy. +It threw him off balance... + +906 +01:40:09,100 --> 01:40:12,763 +...and his target is far away. + +907 +01:41:17,335 --> 01:41:21,897 +The old ones say we Spartans are +descended from Hercules himself. + +908 +01:41:23,375 --> 01:41:27,709 +Bold Leonidas gives testament +to our bloodline. + +909 +01:41:27,879 --> 01:41:32,009 +His roar is long and loud. + +910 +01:42:02,113 --> 01:42:03,705 +My king. + +911 +01:42:15,961 --> 01:42:19,590 +It's an honor to die at your side. + +912 +01:42:21,166 --> 01:42:25,660 +It's an honor to have lived at yours. + +913 +01:42:46,591 --> 01:42:48,684 +My queen! + +914 +01:42:56,935 --> 01:42:58,664 +My wife. + +915 +01:43:10,115 --> 01:43:11,912 +My love. + +916 +01:45:38,329 --> 01:45:40,456 +"Remember us." + +917 +01:45:42,133 --> 01:45:45,569 +As simple an order +as a king can give. + +918 +01:45:47,138 --> 01:45:50,335 +"Remember why we died." + +919 +01:45:52,343 --> 01:45:56,370 +For he did not wish tribute or song... + +920 +01:45:58,216 --> 01:46:02,414 +...nor monuments, +nor poems of war and valor. + +921 +01:46:05,290 --> 01:46:07,588 +His wish was simple. + +922 +01:46:12,964 --> 01:46:15,023 +"Remember us"... + +923 +01:46:16,067 --> 01:46:17,796 +...he said to me. + +924 +01:46:19,470 --> 01:46:21,665 +That was his hope. + +925 +01:46:21,873 --> 01:46:25,604 +Should any free soul +come across that place... + +926 +01:46:26,377 --> 01:46:29,710 +...in all the countless +centuries yet to be... + +927 +01:46:30,148 --> 01:46:32,708 +...may all our voices... + +928 +01:46:32,884 --> 01:46:36,945 +...whisper to you +from the ageless stones. + +929 +01:46:37,922 --> 01:46:41,551 +Go tell the Spartans, passerby... + +930 +01:46:41,893 --> 01:46:47,763 +...that here, by Spartan law, +we lie. + +931 +01:46:50,535 --> 01:46:53,231 +And so my king died... + +932 +01:46:54,105 --> 01:46:56,733 +...and my brothers died... + +933 +01:46:59,110 --> 01:47:01,578 +...barely a year ago. + +934 +01:47:05,516 --> 01:47:10,749 +Long I pondered my king's +cryptic talk of victory. + +935 +01:47:10,989 --> 01:47:13,617 +Time has proven him wise. + +936 +01:47:14,525 --> 01:47:17,551 +For from free Greek to free Greek... + +937 +01:47:17,729 --> 01:47:22,325 +...the word was spread +that bold Leonidas and his 300... + +938 +01:47:22,500 --> 01:47:24,491 +...so far from home... + +939 +01:47:24,669 --> 01:47:28,070 +...laid down their lives +not just for Sparta... + +940 +01:47:28,239 --> 01:47:32,039 +...but for all Greece +and the promise this country holds. + +941 +01:47:32,944 --> 01:47:38,007 +Now, here on this rugged patch of earth +called Plataea... + +942 +01:47:38,182 --> 01:47:43,176 +...Xerxes' hordes face obliteration! + +943 +01:47:44,856 --> 01:47:48,257 +Just there the barbarians huddle... + +944 +01:47:48,426 --> 01:47:53,295 +...sheer terror gripping tight +their hearts... + +945 +01:47:53,464 --> 01:47:55,364 +...with icy fingers... + +946 +01:47:55,533 --> 01:47:58,764 +...knowing full well +what merciless horrors they suffered... + +947 +01:47:58,937 --> 01:48:01,462 +...at the swords and spears of 300. + +948 +01:48:02,874 --> 01:48:08,437 +Yet they stare now across the plain +at 10,000 Spartans... + +949 +01:48:08,613 --> 01:48:11,912 +...commanding 30,000 free Greeks! + +950 +01:48:18,723 --> 01:48:22,625 +The enemy outnumber us +a paltry three to one. + +951 +01:48:22,927 --> 01:48:24,918 +Good odds for any Greek. + +952 +01:48:25,630 --> 01:48:30,329 +This day, we rescue a world +from mysticism and tyranny... + +953 +01:48:30,501 --> 01:48:34,870 +...and usher in a future +brighter than anything we can imagine. + +954 +01:48:39,310 --> 01:48:40,800 +Give thanks, men... + +955 +01:48:41,512 --> 01:48:45,278 +...to Leonidas and the brave 300!. + +956 +01:48:45,450 --> 01:48:48,180 +To Victory! 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- -40 -00:05:47,296 --> 00:05:51,027 -Our king, Leonidas! - -41 -00:05:56,939 --> 00:06:00,705 -It's been more than 30 years -since the wolf and the winter cold. - -42 -00:06:02,111 --> 00:06:06,411 -And now, as then, a beast approaches. - -43 -00:06:06,582 --> 00:06:11,519 -Patient and confident, -savoring the meal to come. - -44 -00:06:12,155 --> 00:06:15,454 -But this beast -is made of men and horses... - -45 -00:06:15,625 --> 00:06:18,423 -...swords and spears. - -46 -00:06:18,628 --> 00:06:23,588 -An army of slaves, vast beyond imagining, -ready to devour tiny Greece. - -47 -00:06:23,933 --> 00:06:28,700 -Ready to snuff out the world's -one hope for reason and justice. - -48 -00:06:31,441 --> 00:06:34,205 -A beast approaches... - -49 -00:06:36,979 --> 00:06:42,508 -...and it was King Leonidas himself -who provoked it. - -50 -00:07:53,156 --> 00:07:54,987 -That's it. - -51 -00:07:55,324 --> 00:08:00,193 -Now, the more you sweat here, -the less you'll bleed in battle. - -52 -00:08:01,397 --> 00:08:03,865 -My father taught me... - -53 -00:08:04,033 --> 00:08:06,501 -...that fear is always a constant. - -54 -00:08:06,669 --> 00:08:08,193 -But accepting it... - -55 -00:08:08,571 --> 00:08:09,697 -...makes you stronger. - -56 -00:08:09,872 --> 00:08:11,237 -My queen. - -57 -00:08:11,407 --> 00:08:14,240 -A Persian emissary awaits Leonidas. - -58 -00:08:16,779 --> 00:08:18,178 -In the end... - -59 -00:08:18,347 --> 00:08:21,908 -...a Spartan's true strength -is the warrior next to him. - -60 -00:08:22,685 --> 00:08:27,179 -So give respect and honor to him, -and it will be returned to you. - -61 -00:08:27,723 --> 00:08:29,213 -First... - -62 -00:08:29,992 --> 00:08:32,927 -- ...you fight with your head. -- Then you fight with your heart. - -63 -00:08:35,264 --> 00:08:36,959 -What is it? - -64 -00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,065 -A Persian messenger awaits you. - -65 -00:08:41,370 --> 00:08:42,837 -Do not forget today's lesson. - -66 -00:08:43,005 --> 00:08:45,701 -- Respect and honor. -- Respect and honor. - -67 -00:09:01,224 --> 00:09:05,684 -Councilman Theron. -You found yourself needed, for once. - -68 -00:09:06,762 --> 00:09:09,697 -My king and queen, -I was just entertaining your guests. - -69 -00:09:09,899 --> 00:09:11,127 -I'm sure. - -70 -00:09:12,368 --> 00:09:14,199 -Before you speak, Persian... - -71 -00:09:14,370 --> 00:09:17,635 -...know that in Sparta everyone, -even a king's messenger... - -72 -00:09:17,807 --> 00:09:20,401 -...is held accountable -for the words of his voice. - -73 -00:09:21,410 --> 00:09:24,140 -Now, what message do you bring? - -74 -00:09:25,248 --> 00:09:27,716 -Earth and water. - -75 -00:09:29,986 --> 00:09:33,615 -You rode all the way from Persia -for earth and water? - -76 -00:09:35,191 --> 00:09:39,093 -Do not be coy or stupid, Persian. -You can afford neither in Sparta. - -77 -00:09:39,595 --> 00:09:42,063 -What makes this woman -think she can speak among men? - -78 -00:09:42,231 --> 00:09:45,064 -Because only Spartan women -give birth to real men. - -79 -00:09:46,569 --> 00:09:50,164 -Let us walk to cool our tongues. - -80 -00:09:52,775 --> 00:09:55,938 -If you value your lives -over your complete annihilation... - -81 -00:09:56,112 --> 00:09:57,773 -...listen carefully, Leonidas. - -82 -00:09:57,947 --> 00:10:02,646 -Xerxes conquers and controls -everything he rests his eyes upon. - -83 -00:10:02,818 --> 00:10:05,912 -He leads an army so massive, -it shakes the ground with its march. - -84 -00:10:06,088 --> 00:10:08,784 -So vast, it drinks the rivers dry. - -85 -00:10:08,958 --> 00:10:11,950 -All the God-King Xerxes requires is this: - -86 -00:10:12,295 --> 00:10:15,526 -A simple offering of earth and water... - -87 -00:10:15,698 --> 00:10:19,862 -...a token of Sparta's submission -to the will of Xerxes. - -88 -00:10:30,913 --> 00:10:33,074 -Submission. - -89 -00:10:35,251 --> 00:10:37,185 -Now, that's a bit of a problem. - -90 -00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:38,848 -See, rumor has it... - -91 -00:10:39,021 --> 00:10:41,649 -...the Athenians -have already turned you down. - -92 -00:10:42,558 --> 00:10:47,791 -And if those philosophers and boy-lovers -have found that kind of nerve, then-- - -93 -00:10:47,963 --> 00:10:52,195 -- We must be diplomatic. -- And, of course, Spartans... - -94 -00:10:53,235 --> 00:10:55,294 -...have their reputation to consider. - -95 -00:10:55,471 --> 00:10:59,498 -Choose your next words carefully, -Leonidas. - -96 -00:10:59,742 --> 00:11:02,370 -They may be your last as king. - -97 -00:11:42,852 --> 00:11:46,151 -"Earth and water." - -98 -00:11:51,427 --> 00:11:53,520 -Madman. You're a madman. - -99 -00:11:53,696 --> 00:11:55,357 -Earth and water. - -100 -00:11:55,731 --> 00:11:57,892 -You'll find plenty of both down there. - -101 -00:11:58,167 --> 00:12:01,603 -No man, Persian or Greek, -no man threatens a messenger. - -102 -00:12:02,071 --> 00:12:07,031 -You bring the crowns and heads -of conquered kings to my city steps. - -103 -00:12:07,209 --> 00:12:09,268 -You insult my queen. - -104 -00:12:09,445 --> 00:12:13,176 -You threaten my people -with slavery and death. - -105 -00:12:13,349 --> 00:12:16,284 -Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, -Persian. - -106 -00:12:16,452 --> 00:12:18,420 -Perhaps you should have done the same. - -107 -00:12:18,587 --> 00:12:22,250 -This is blasphemy. This is madness! - -108 -00:12:39,642 --> 00:12:41,701 -Madness? - -109 -00:12:42,344 --> 00:12:44,471 -This is Sparta! - -110 -00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,366 -Welcome, Leonidas. - -111 -00:14:13,969 --> 00:14:17,132 -We have been expecting you. - -112 -00:14:23,612 --> 00:14:28,948 -The ephors, -priests to the old gods. - -113 -00:14:29,351 --> 00:14:31,683 -Inbred swine. - -114 -00:14:31,854 --> 00:14:34,618 -More creature than man. - -115 -00:14:35,057 --> 00:14:40,495 -Creatures whom even Leonidas -must bribe and beg. - -116 -00:14:41,363 --> 00:14:46,198 -For no Spartan king has gone to war -without the ephors' blessing. - -117 -00:14:47,870 --> 00:14:51,931 -The Persians claim their forces -number in the millions. - -118 -00:14:52,575 --> 00:14:55,840 -I hope, for our sake, they exaggerate. - -119 -00:14:56,312 --> 00:15:00,544 -But there's no question, we face -the most massive army ever assembled. - -120 -00:15:00,783 --> 00:15:04,116 -Before your plan is heard... - -121 -00:15:04,286 --> 00:15:06,550 -...what do you offer? - -122 -00:15:16,098 --> 00:15:20,432 -We will use -our superior fighting skills... - -123 -00:15:20,603 --> 00:15:24,664 -...and the terrain of Greece herself -to destroy them. - -124 -00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,673 -We will march north to the coast, -where I will make sure-- - -125 -00:15:27,843 --> 00:15:32,746 -It is August, Leonidas. -The full moon approaches. - -126 -00:15:33,115 --> 00:15:36,312 -The sacred and ancient festival. - -127 -00:15:36,485 --> 00:15:40,581 -Sparta wages no war -at the time of the Carneia. - -128 -00:15:40,756 --> 00:15:42,348 -Sparta will burn! - -129 -00:15:42,791 --> 00:15:44,315 -Her men will die at arms... - -130 -00:15:44,493 --> 00:15:48,156 -...and her women and children -will be slaves or worse. - -131 -00:15:50,299 --> 00:15:55,362 -Now, we will block -the Persian coastal assault... - -132 -00:15:55,671 --> 00:15:57,969 -...by rebuilding the great Phocian Wall. - -133 -00:15:58,140 --> 00:16:02,839 -And from there, we will funnel them into -the mountain pass we call the Hot Gates. - -134 -00:16:03,012 --> 00:16:07,381 -Now, in that narrow corridor, -their numbers will count for nothing. - -135 -00:16:07,549 --> 00:16:10,143 -And wave after wave of Persian attack... - -136 -00:16:10,319 --> 00:16:14,255 -...will smash against Spartan shields. - -137 -00:16:14,823 --> 00:16:19,123 -Xerxes' losses will be so great, -his men so demoralized... - -138 -00:16:19,294 --> 00:16:23,697 -...he will have no choice -but to abandon his campaign. - -139 -00:16:23,866 --> 00:16:26,562 -We must consult the oracle. - -140 -00:16:27,269 --> 00:16:29,863 -Trust the gods, Leonidas. - -141 -00:16:30,039 --> 00:16:33,372 -I'd prefer you trusted your reason. - -142 -00:16:33,542 --> 00:16:35,567 -Your blasphemies... - -143 -00:16:35,744 --> 00:16:40,113 -...have cost us quite enough already. - -144 -00:16:40,849 --> 00:16:43,875 -Don't compound them. - -145 -00:16:45,954 --> 00:16:50,755 -We will consult the oracle. - -146 -00:16:52,895 --> 00:16:55,386 -Diseased old mystics. - -147 -00:16:56,398 --> 00:17:01,028 -Worthless remnants of a time -before Sparta's ascent from darkness. - -148 -00:17:01,370 --> 00:17:04,635 -Remnants of a senseless tradition. - -149 -00:17:04,807 --> 00:17:09,176 -Tradition even Leonidas -cannot defy... - -150 -00:17:09,344 --> 00:17:13,747 -...for he must respect -the word of the ephors. - -151 -00:17:13,916 --> 00:17:15,850 -That is the law. - -152 -00:17:18,887 --> 00:17:23,221 -And no Spartan, subject or citizen, -man or woman... - -153 -00:17:23,392 --> 00:17:27,419 -...slave or king, is above the law. - -154 -00:18:02,297 --> 00:18:06,563 -The ephors choose only -the most beautiful Spartan girls... - -155 -00:18:06,735 --> 00:18:09,226 -...to live among them as oracles. - -156 -00:18:09,404 --> 00:18:12,669 -Their beauty is their curse... - -157 -00:18:12,841 --> 00:18:16,641 -...for the old wretches -have the needs of men... - -158 -00:18:17,646 --> 00:18:21,742 -...and souls as black as hell. - -159 -00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,917 -"Pray to the winds... - -160 -00:18:30,425 --> 00:18:32,620 -...Sparta will fall. - -161 -00:18:35,564 --> 00:18:39,261 -All Greece will fall. - -162 -00:18:41,436 --> 00:18:45,065 -Trust not in men... - -163 -00:18:47,109 --> 00:18:50,374 -...honor the gods. - -164 -00:18:54,116 --> 00:18:57,779 -Honor the Carneia." - -165 -00:18:59,588 --> 00:19:03,183 -The king's climb down is harder. - -166 -00:19:03,358 --> 00:19:06,259 -Pompous, inbred swine. - -167 -00:19:06,428 --> 00:19:09,659 -Worthless, diseased, rotten... - -168 -00:19:09,832 --> 00:19:11,857 -...corrupt. - -169 -00:19:15,237 --> 00:19:18,866 -Truly, you're in the god-king's -favor now... - -170 -00:19:19,441 --> 00:19:21,534 -...O wise and holy men. - -171 -00:19:21,844 --> 00:19:23,277 -Yes. - -172 -00:19:23,445 --> 00:19:28,405 -And when Sparta burns, -you shall bathe in gold. - -173 -00:19:28,584 --> 00:19:31,178 -Fresh oracles shall be -delivered to you... - -174 -00:19:31,653 --> 00:19:33,052 -...daily... - -175 -00:19:33,222 --> 00:19:37,022 -...from every corner of the empire. - -176 -00:20:12,694 --> 00:20:16,255 -Your lips can finish -what your fingers have started. - -177 -00:20:19,401 --> 00:20:21,869 -Or has the oracle robbed you -of your desire as well? - -178 -00:20:23,405 --> 00:20:26,431 -It would take more than the words -of a drunken adolescent girl... - -179 -00:20:26,608 --> 00:20:28,303 -...to rob me of my desire for you. - -180 -00:20:32,481 --> 00:20:33,948 -Then why so distant? - -181 -00:20:37,085 --> 00:20:39,076 -Because it seems... - -182 -00:20:39,254 --> 00:20:45,193 -...though a slave and captive -of lecherous old men... - -183 -00:20:45,527 --> 00:20:48,758 -...the oracle's words -could set fire to all that I love. - -184 -00:20:48,931 --> 00:20:52,594 -So that is why my king loses sleep -and is forced from the warmth of his bed? - -185 -00:20:55,570 --> 00:20:59,904 -There's only one woman's words that -should affect the mood of my husband. - -186 -00:21:00,742 --> 00:21:02,300 -Those are mine. - -187 -00:21:06,481 --> 00:21:08,881 -Then what must a king do -to save his world... - -188 -00:21:09,051 --> 00:21:13,488 -...when the very laws he is sworn -to protect force him to do nothing? - -189 -00:21:16,425 --> 00:21:19,758 -It is not a question -of what a Spartan citizen should do... - -190 -00:21:19,928 --> 00:21:22,795 -...nor a husband, nor a king. - -191 -00:21:23,432 --> 00:21:26,128 -Instead ask yourself, my dearest love... - -192 -00:21:27,769 --> 00:21:29,760 -...what should a free man do? - -193 -00:22:35,237 --> 00:22:39,401 -- Is this all of them? -- As you ordered. Three hundred. - -194 -00:22:40,409 --> 00:22:43,708 -All with born sons -to carry on their name. - -195 -00:22:54,456 --> 00:22:55,787 -We are with you, sire. - -196 -00:22:56,158 --> 00:22:58,285 -For Sparta. For freedom. - -197 -00:22:58,460 --> 00:23:00,428 -To the death. - -198 -00:23:11,239 --> 00:23:12,900 -He is your son. - -199 -00:23:13,708 --> 00:23:16,609 -He is too young -to have felt a woman's warmth. - -200 -00:23:16,778 --> 00:23:20,737 -I have others to replace him. -Astinos is as brave and ready as any. - -201 -00:23:21,083 --> 00:23:25,110 -No younger than we were the first time -you stood next to me in battle. - -202 -00:23:28,890 --> 00:23:31,017 -You are a good friend... - -203 -00:23:31,193 --> 00:23:34,685 -...but a better captain, there is none. - -204 -00:23:40,202 --> 00:23:42,136 -My good king. - -205 -00:23:43,071 --> 00:23:46,404 -My good king, the oracle has spoken. - -206 -00:23:46,575 --> 00:23:49,442 -The ephors have spoken. -There must be no march. - -207 -00:23:49,611 --> 00:23:51,408 -It is the law, my lord. - -208 -00:23:51,580 --> 00:23:55,573 -- The Spartan army must not go to war. -- Nor shall it. - -209 -00:23:56,485 --> 00:23:58,077 -I've issued no such orders. - -210 -00:23:58,453 --> 00:24:01,980 -I'm here just taking a stroll, -stretching my legs. - -211 -00:24:02,224 --> 00:24:07,389 -These 300 men -are my personal bodyguard. - -212 -00:24:07,662 --> 00:24:09,823 -Our army will stay in Sparta. - -213 -00:24:10,432 --> 00:24:11,763 -Where will you go? - -214 -00:24:14,736 --> 00:24:16,966 -I hadn't really thought about it... - -215 -00:24:17,772 --> 00:24:19,933 -...but now that you ask... - -216 -00:24:20,108 --> 00:24:22,838 -...I suppose I'll head north. - -217 -00:24:24,279 --> 00:24:25,371 -The Hot Gates? - -218 -00:24:28,016 --> 00:24:30,416 -Move out! - -219 -00:24:30,619 --> 00:24:32,678 -Move out! - -220 -00:24:33,822 --> 00:24:35,414 -What shall we do? - -221 -00:24:36,958 --> 00:24:38,289 -What can we do? - -222 -00:24:38,994 --> 00:24:40,723 -What can you do? - -223 -00:24:43,765 --> 00:24:47,599 -Sparta will need sons. - -224 -00:25:35,383 --> 00:25:37,112 -Spartan! - -225 -00:25:46,394 --> 00:25:47,622 -Yes, milady? - -226 -00:26:03,712 --> 00:26:06,010 -Come back with your shield... - -227 -00:26:06,948 --> 00:26:08,381 -...or on it. - -228 -00:26:09,851 --> 00:26:11,216 -Yes, milady. - -229 -00:26:19,728 --> 00:26:22,026 -"Goodbye, my love." - -230 -00:26:22,664 --> 00:26:24,859 -He doesn't say it. - -231 -00:26:25,367 --> 00:26:27,597 -There's no room for softness... - -232 -00:26:27,769 --> 00:26:29,760 -...not in Sparta. - -233 -00:26:29,938 --> 00:26:32,702 -No place for weakness. - -234 -00:26:36,211 --> 00:26:40,409 -Only the hard and strong -may call themselves Spartans. - -235 -00:26:41,249 --> 00:26:45,743 -Only the hard. Only the strong. - -236 -00:27:14,215 --> 00:27:16,080 -We march... - -237 -00:27:16,785 --> 00:27:22,280 -...for our lands, for our families, -for our freedoms. - -238 -00:27:23,058 --> 00:27:25,219 -We march. - -239 -00:27:26,961 --> 00:27:28,622 -Daxos. - -240 -00:27:28,797 --> 00:27:32,198 -- What a pleasant surprise. -- This morning's full of surprises, Leonidas. - -241 -00:27:32,367 --> 00:27:34,767 -- We've been tricked. -- Can't be more than a hundred. - -242 -00:27:34,936 --> 00:27:37,166 -- This is a surprise. -- Silence. - -243 -00:27:37,605 --> 00:27:39,573 -This isn't their army. - -244 -00:27:39,741 --> 00:27:43,905 -We heard Sparta was on the warpath -and we were eager to join forces. - -245 -00:27:44,579 --> 00:27:48,675 -If it is blood you seek, -you are welcome to join us. - -246 -00:27:49,017 --> 00:27:52,248 -But you bring only this handful -of soldiers against Xerxes? - -247 -00:27:52,420 --> 00:27:56,015 -I see I was wrong to expect Sparta's -commitment to at least match our own. - -248 -00:27:57,192 --> 00:27:59,023 -Doesn't it? - -249 -00:28:00,462 --> 00:28:02,157 -You, there. - -250 -00:28:02,630 --> 00:28:03,824 -What is your profession? - -251 -00:28:04,366 --> 00:28:06,493 -I'm a potter, sir. - -252 -00:28:07,669 --> 00:28:11,435 -And you, Arcadian. -What is your profession? - -253 -00:28:11,806 --> 00:28:15,242 -- Sculptor, sir. -- Sculptor. - -254 -00:28:15,610 --> 00:28:17,544 -- And you? -- Blacksmith. - -255 -00:28:22,217 --> 00:28:25,516 -Spartans! What is your profession? - -256 -00:28:32,694 --> 00:28:34,628 -You see, old friend? - -257 -00:28:34,796 --> 00:28:37,697 -I brought more soldiers than you did. - -258 -00:28:47,642 --> 00:28:49,439 -No sleep tonight... - -259 -00:28:50,512 --> 00:28:52,980 -...not for the king. - -260 -00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:55,378 -All his 40 years -have been a straight road... - -261 -00:28:55,550 --> 00:28:59,111 -...to this one gleaming moment -in destiny... - -262 -00:28:59,287 --> 00:29:02,051 -...this one radiant clash -of shield and spear... - -263 -00:29:02,223 --> 00:29:05,818 -...sword and bone, -and flesh and blood. - -264 -00:29:07,529 --> 00:29:09,326 -His only regret... - -265 -00:29:09,497 --> 00:29:13,228 -...is that he has so few -to sacrifice. - -266 -00:29:34,522 --> 00:29:36,513 -We're being followed. - -267 -00:29:41,563 --> 00:29:43,758 -It has followed us since Sparta. - -268 -00:29:48,703 --> 00:29:51,695 -My king! Look! - -269 -00:30:12,660 --> 00:30:14,127 -What happened here? - -270 -00:30:14,696 --> 00:30:16,027 -Where are all the people? - -271 -00:30:17,131 --> 00:30:18,826 -Persians. - -272 -00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,797 -I put their number at around 20. - -273 -00:30:23,171 --> 00:30:24,536 -A scouting party. - -274 -00:30:27,909 --> 00:30:29,399 -But these footprints.... - -275 -00:30:40,788 --> 00:30:42,255 -Behind us! - -276 -00:30:56,304 --> 00:30:57,532 -Child! - -277 -00:31:30,505 --> 00:31:33,235 -It's quiet now. - -278 -00:31:33,708 --> 00:31:35,505 -They.... - -279 -00:31:35,877 --> 00:31:39,904 -They came with beasts -from the blackness. - -280 -00:31:41,482 --> 00:31:43,746 -With their claws and fangs... - -281 -00:31:43,918 --> 00:31:46,148 -...they grabbed them. - -282 -00:31:47,055 --> 00:31:49,216 -Everyone... - -283 -00:31:50,224 --> 00:31:52,283 -...but me. - -284 -00:32:04,539 --> 00:32:06,097 -The villagers. - -285 -00:32:06,641 --> 00:32:08,575 -I found them. - -286 -00:32:20,088 --> 00:32:22,886 -Have the gods no mercy? - -287 -00:32:24,058 --> 00:32:26,083 -We are doomed. - -288 -00:32:26,260 --> 00:32:28,888 -Quiet yourself. - -289 -00:32:32,300 --> 00:32:37,533 -The child speaks of the Persian ghosts, -known from the ancient times. - -290 -00:32:38,406 --> 00:32:41,102 -They are the hunters of men's souls. - -291 -00:32:42,143 --> 00:32:44,771 -They cannot be killed or defeated. - -292 -00:32:45,380 --> 00:32:49,544 -Not this darkness. Not these Immortals. - -293 -00:32:51,719 --> 00:32:53,914 -Immortals? - -294 -00:32:54,222 --> 00:32:57,282 -We'll put their name to the test. - -295 -00:33:19,347 --> 00:33:22,111 -Into the Hot Gates we march. - -296 -00:33:22,283 --> 00:33:25,582 -Into that narrow corridor -we march... - -297 -00:33:25,753 --> 00:33:28,017 -...where Xerxes' numbers -count for nothing. - -298 -00:33:29,190 --> 00:33:33,126 -Spartans, citizen-soldiers, -freed slaves. - -299 -00:33:33,294 --> 00:33:35,194 -Brave Greeks, all. - -300 -00:33:36,197 --> 00:33:39,291 -Brothers, fathers, sons... - -301 -00:33:39,467 --> 00:33:41,458 -...we march. - -302 -00:33:42,136 --> 00:33:46,334 -For honor's sake, for duty's sake, -for glory's sake, we march. - -303 -00:33:46,507 --> 00:33:49,601 -Look! Persians. - -304 -00:33:54,749 --> 00:33:58,480 -Into hell's mouth we march. - -305 -00:34:07,528 --> 00:34:09,587 -Let's watch these motherless dogs... - -306 -00:34:09,831 --> 00:34:13,892 -...as they're embraced by the loving arms -of Greece herself. Come. - -307 -00:34:16,704 --> 00:34:18,399 -True. - -308 -00:34:22,610 --> 00:34:25,078 -It does look like rain. - -309 -00:34:28,382 --> 00:34:31,613 -Zeus stabs the sky -with thunderbolts... - -310 -00:34:31,919 --> 00:34:35,946 -...and batters the Persian ships -with hurricane wind. - -311 -00:34:37,091 --> 00:34:39,525 -Glorious. - -312 -00:34:51,806 --> 00:34:54,673 -Only one among us -keeps his Spartan reserve. - -313 -00:35:00,615 --> 00:35:02,549 -Only he. - -314 -00:35:02,717 --> 00:35:05,185 -Only our king. - -315 -00:35:22,603 --> 00:35:24,537 -My queen? - -316 -00:35:29,710 --> 00:35:31,041 -My queen... - -317 -00:35:31,212 --> 00:35:34,545 -...the courtyard is a more fitting place -for a married woman. - -318 -00:35:34,715 --> 00:35:36,376 -I'm afraid gossip and protocol... - -319 -00:35:36,551 --> 00:35:39,076 -...are the least of my worries now, -councilman. - -320 -00:35:40,755 --> 00:35:42,586 -Is such secrecy needed? - -321 -00:35:42,757 --> 00:35:45,419 -How am I to trust beyond the walls -of my own home? - -322 -00:35:45,593 --> 00:35:49,324 -Even here, Theron has eyes and ears -which fuel Sparta with doubt and fear. - -323 -00:35:49,730 --> 00:35:53,131 -You speak as if all Sparta -conspires against you. - -324 -00:35:53,768 --> 00:35:55,827 -I wish it were only against me. - -325 -00:35:58,472 --> 00:36:01,964 -Many on our council -would vote to give all we have... - -326 -00:36:02,143 --> 00:36:04,008 -...and follow Leonidas... - -327 -00:36:04,345 --> 00:36:06,313 -...but you must show them favor. - -328 -00:36:08,616 --> 00:36:11,084 -And you can arrange for me -to speak to the council? - -329 -00:36:11,252 --> 00:36:13,686 -If it is reason they want, -I will let them know. - -330 -00:36:13,855 --> 00:36:15,982 -Know what, my queen? - -331 -00:36:16,357 --> 00:36:18,348 -Freedom isn't free at all. - -332 -00:36:18,526 --> 00:36:21,859 -That it comes with the highest of costs, -the cost of blood. - -333 -00:36:24,131 --> 00:36:26,759 -I will do my best to gather our council. - -334 -00:36:27,201 --> 00:36:31,035 -And its chamber -shall be filled with your voice. - -335 -00:36:31,372 --> 00:36:33,203 -- I'm in your debt. -- No. - -336 -00:36:33,541 --> 00:36:37,705 -Leonidas is my king as well as yours. - -337 -00:37:02,503 --> 00:37:04,368 -I saw those ships smash on the rocks. - -338 -00:37:05,473 --> 00:37:06,838 -How can this be? - -339 -00:37:07,008 --> 00:37:10,307 -We saw but a fraction of the monster -that is Xerxes' army. - -340 -00:37:10,978 --> 00:37:13,378 -There can be no victory here. - -341 -00:37:17,318 --> 00:37:19,013 -Why do you smile? - -342 -00:37:20,721 --> 00:37:22,655 -Arcadian... - -343 -00:37:22,823 --> 00:37:25,849 -...I have fought countless times... - -344 -00:37:26,127 --> 00:37:28,789 -...yet I've never met an adversary -who could offer me... - -345 -00:37:28,963 --> 00:37:31,124 -...what we Spartans -call "a beautiful death." - -346 -00:37:31,933 --> 00:37:33,594 -I can only hope... - -347 -00:37:33,768 --> 00:37:36,498 -...with all the world's warriors -gathered against us... - -348 -00:37:36,671 --> 00:37:40,334 -...there might be one down there -who's up to the task. - -349 -00:37:51,786 --> 00:37:54,118 -Move! - -350 -00:37:55,423 --> 00:37:58,358 -Keep going, you dogs! - -351 -00:38:06,033 --> 00:38:08,058 -Move! - -352 -00:38:09,503 --> 00:38:12,063 -Forward, I say! - -353 -00:38:14,408 --> 00:38:16,000 -Stop here! - -354 -00:38:16,844 --> 00:38:19,005 -Who commands here? - -355 -00:38:21,215 --> 00:38:23,877 -I am the emissary... - -356 -00:38:24,051 --> 00:38:26,315 -...to the ruler of all the world... - -357 -00:38:27,121 --> 00:38:31,023 -...the god of gods, king of kings... - -358 -00:38:31,192 --> 00:38:32,784 -...and by that authority... - -359 -00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,726 -...I demand that someone -show me your commander. - -360 -00:38:40,501 --> 00:38:46,406 -Listen. Do you think the paltry dozen -you slew scares us? - -361 -00:38:46,574 --> 00:38:50,066 -These hills swarm with our scouts. - -362 -00:38:50,244 --> 00:38:54,943 -And do you think your pathetic wall -will do anything... - -363 -00:38:55,116 --> 00:39:01,419 -...except fall like a heap of dry leaves -in the face of...? - -364 -00:39:13,134 --> 00:39:15,432 -Our ancestors built this wall... - -365 -00:39:16,170 --> 00:39:20,106 -...using ancient stones -from the bosom of Greece herself. - -366 -00:39:20,541 --> 00:39:22,907 -And with a little Spartan help... - -367 -00:39:23,210 --> 00:39:25,678 -...your Persian scouts -supplied the mortar. - -368 -00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,239 -You will pay for your barbarism! - -369 -00:39:49,403 --> 00:39:50,961 -My arm! - -370 -00:39:53,541 --> 00:39:55,406 -It's not yours anymore. - -371 -00:39:55,676 --> 00:40:00,306 -Go now. Run along and tell your Xerxes -he faces free men here... - -372 -00:40:00,681 --> 00:40:02,046 -...not slaves. - -373 -00:40:02,216 --> 00:40:03,444 -Do it quickly... - -374 -00:40:03,684 --> 00:40:06,619 -...before we decide to make our wall -just a little bit bigger. - -375 -00:40:07,121 --> 00:40:08,713 -No. - -376 -00:40:08,889 --> 00:40:11,323 -Not slaves. - -377 -00:40:13,127 --> 00:40:16,563 -Your women will be slaves. - -378 -00:40:16,897 --> 00:40:19,730 -Your sons, your daughters... - -379 -00:40:19,900 --> 00:40:22,232 -...your elders will be slaves! - -380 -00:40:22,403 --> 00:40:25,167 -But not you, no. - -381 -00:40:25,339 --> 00:40:29,400 -By noon this day you will be dead men. - -382 -00:40:30,578 --> 00:40:36,574 -A thousand nations of the Persian Empire -descend upon you. - -383 -00:40:36,984 --> 00:40:40,476 -Our arrows will blot out the sun. - -384 -00:40:42,256 --> 00:40:44,952 -Then we will fight in the shade. - -385 -00:40:46,494 --> 00:40:48,257 -The wall is solid. - -386 -00:40:48,429 --> 00:40:51,592 -It'll do the job of funneling the Persians -into the Hot Gates. - -387 -00:40:51,932 --> 00:40:54,628 -Have the men found any route -through the hills to our back? - -388 -00:40:55,136 --> 00:40:57,161 -None, sire. - -389 -00:40:57,438 --> 00:40:58,996 -There is such a route, good king. - -390 -00:40:59,540 --> 00:41:01,269 -Just pass that western ridge. - -391 -00:41:01,942 --> 00:41:03,637 -It's an old goat path. - -392 -00:41:03,811 --> 00:41:06,644 -The Persians could use it to outflank us. - -393 -00:41:06,814 --> 00:41:10,545 -Not one step closer, monster! - -394 -00:41:12,186 --> 00:41:15,781 -Wise king, I humbly request an audience. - -395 -00:41:15,956 --> 00:41:19,323 -- I'll skewer you where you stand. -- I gave no such order. - -396 -00:41:29,837 --> 00:41:31,065 -Forgive the captain. - -397 -00:41:31,739 --> 00:41:33,229 -He is a good soldier... - -398 -00:41:33,807 --> 00:41:36,435 -...but a bit short on manners. - -399 -00:41:36,610 --> 00:41:40,671 -There is nothing to forgive, brave king. -I know what I look like. - -400 -00:41:41,115 --> 00:41:43,140 -You wear the crimson of a Spartan. - -401 -00:41:43,751 --> 00:41:49,383 -I am Ephialtes, born of Sparta. - -402 -00:41:49,990 --> 00:41:54,051 -My mother's love -led my parents to flee Sparta... - -403 -00:41:54,228 --> 00:41:55,695 -...lest I be discarded. - -404 -00:41:56,230 --> 00:41:59,028 -Your shield and armor? - -405 -00:41:59,934 --> 00:42:01,595 -My father's, sir. - -406 -00:42:02,937 --> 00:42:06,998 -I beg you, bold king, -to permit me... - -407 -00:42:07,174 --> 00:42:12,202 -...to redeem my father's name -by serving you in combat. - -408 -00:42:12,513 --> 00:42:18,383 -My father trained me to feel no fear, -to make spear and shield and sword... - -409 -00:42:18,552 --> 00:42:21,282 -...as much a part of me -as my own beating heart. - -410 -00:42:21,722 --> 00:42:25,021 -I will earn my father's armor, -noble king... - -411 -00:42:25,192 --> 00:42:27,353 -...by serving you in the battle. - -412 -00:42:32,533 --> 00:42:34,626 -A fine thrust. - -413 -00:42:34,802 --> 00:42:36,394 -I will kill many Persians. - -414 -00:42:42,276 --> 00:42:43,868 -Raise your shield. - -415 -00:42:44,044 --> 00:42:46,706 -- Sire? -- Raise your shield as high as you can. - -416 -00:42:54,955 --> 00:42:57,981 -Your father should have taught you -how our phalanx works. - -417 -00:42:58,659 --> 00:42:59,956 -We fight... - -418 -00:43:00,494 --> 00:43:03,395 -...as a single, impenetrable unit. - -419 -00:43:03,564 --> 00:43:06,499 -That is the source of our strength. - -420 -00:43:07,334 --> 00:43:10,963 -Each Spartan protects the man -to his left... - -421 -00:43:11,138 --> 00:43:14,335 -...from thigh to neck with his shield. - -422 -00:43:14,508 --> 00:43:19,172 -A single weak spot -and the phalanx shatters. - -423 -00:43:20,581 --> 00:43:23,812 -From thigh to neck, Ephialtes. - -424 -00:43:25,853 --> 00:43:28,253 -I am sorry, my friend. - -425 -00:43:28,422 --> 00:43:31,016 -- But not all of us were made to be soldiers. -- But I-- - -426 -00:43:31,191 --> 00:43:33,625 -- If you want to help in a Spartan victory... -- Yes. - -427 -00:43:33,794 --> 00:43:38,959 -...clear the battlefield of the dead, -tend the wounded, bring them water... - -428 -00:43:39,133 --> 00:43:40,760 -...but as for the fight itself... - -429 -00:43:42,136 --> 00:43:44,036 -...I cannot use you. - -430 -00:43:45,873 --> 00:43:47,306 -You.... - -431 -00:43:55,182 --> 00:43:59,278 -Mother! Father! You were wrong! - -432 -00:44:02,556 --> 00:44:04,319 -You are wrong! - -433 -00:44:04,491 --> 00:44:09,019 -Leonidas! You are wrong! - -434 -00:44:09,496 --> 00:44:11,964 -Dispatch the Phocians to the goat path... - -435 -00:44:12,132 --> 00:44:16,660 -...and pray to the gods -nobody tells the Persians about it. - -436 -00:44:22,376 --> 00:44:23,934 -Earthquake. - -437 -00:44:24,478 --> 00:44:25,706 -No, captain. - -438 -00:44:27,314 --> 00:44:29,248 -Battle formations. - -439 -00:44:53,140 --> 00:44:56,337 -This is where we hold them. - -440 -00:44:56,510 --> 00:44:58,774 -This is where we fight! - -441 -00:44:59,346 --> 00:45:01,576 -This is where they die! - -442 -00:45:01,915 --> 00:45:03,780 -Earn these shields, boys! - -443 -00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,011 -Remember this day, men... - -444 -00:45:09,189 --> 00:45:12,920 -...for it will be yours for all time. - -445 -00:45:24,037 --> 00:45:25,800 -Spartans! - -446 -00:45:25,973 --> 00:45:28,100 -Lay down your weapons! - -447 -00:45:44,992 --> 00:45:47,256 -Persians! - -448 -00:45:47,828 --> 00:45:49,887 -Come and get them! - -449 -00:46:11,385 --> 00:46:13,012 -Hold! - -450 -00:46:15,856 --> 00:46:17,414 -Give them nothing... - -451 -00:46:17,858 --> 00:46:21,453 -...but take from them everything! - -452 -00:46:23,163 --> 00:46:24,892 -Steady! - -453 -00:46:35,676 --> 00:46:37,200 -Push! - -454 -00:46:41,048 --> 00:46:43,448 -Is that the best you can do? - -455 -00:46:45,652 --> 00:46:47,643 -Push! Push! - -456 -00:46:57,731 --> 00:46:59,255 -Now! - -457 -00:47:11,078 --> 00:47:12,568 -Push! - -458 -00:47:56,123 --> 00:47:58,717 -No prisoners! - -459 -00:47:59,059 --> 00:48:00,788 -No mercy! - -460 -00:49:20,107 --> 00:49:22,234 -They look thirsty. - -461 -00:49:23,343 --> 00:49:26,278 -Well, let's give them something to drink. - -462 -00:49:29,182 --> 00:49:31,844 -To the cliffs. - -463 -00:49:55,475 --> 00:49:57,636 -Halt. - -464 -00:49:59,746 --> 00:50:01,839 -Hell of a good start. - -465 -00:50:24,504 --> 00:50:26,972 -Tuck tail! - -466 -00:50:32,446 --> 00:50:34,004 -Persian cowards. - -467 -00:50:41,788 --> 00:50:44,723 -- What the hell are you laughing at? -- Well, you had to say it. - -468 -00:50:45,525 --> 00:50:49,188 -- What? -- "Fight in the shade." - -469 -00:51:02,709 --> 00:51:04,643 -Recover. - -470 -00:51:27,934 --> 00:51:30,562 -Today no Spartan dies. - -471 -00:51:55,695 --> 00:51:57,128 -Easy, son. - -472 -00:52:23,356 --> 00:52:25,324 -We do what we were trained to do... - -473 -00:52:25,492 --> 00:52:26,959 -...what we were bred to do... - -474 -00:52:27,127 --> 00:52:30,119 -...what we were born to do. - -475 -00:52:37,504 --> 00:52:40,496 -No prisoners. No mercy. - -476 -00:52:40,674 --> 00:52:42,141 -A good start. - -477 -00:53:51,611 --> 00:53:54,876 -- I was afraid you might not come. -- I'm sorry, my son is-- - -478 -00:53:55,048 --> 00:54:00,645 -Is doing what children do best. -Please, don't apologize. - -479 -00:54:01,655 --> 00:54:03,782 -Your son starts the agoge next year. - -480 -00:54:04,391 --> 00:54:08,384 -That is always a difficult time -for a Spartan mother. - -481 -00:54:09,496 --> 00:54:14,058 -Yes, it will be hard. But also necessary. - -482 -00:54:16,503 --> 00:54:20,735 -You will speak before the council -in two days' time. - -483 -00:54:22,609 --> 00:54:24,634 -My husband does not have two days. - -484 -00:54:25,045 --> 00:54:27,013 -Think of the two days as a gift. - -485 -00:54:29,082 --> 00:54:31,107 -It's no secret... - -486 -00:54:31,284 --> 00:54:34,151 -...Theron wants what you control. - -487 -00:54:34,321 --> 00:54:37,154 -It's his voice you must silence. - -488 -00:54:37,324 --> 00:54:39,417 -Make him your ally... - -489 -00:54:39,726 --> 00:54:42,286 -...and you will have your victory. - -490 -00:54:43,096 --> 00:54:44,859 -Thank you. - -491 -00:54:45,198 --> 00:54:47,598 -You are wise as you are kind. - -492 -00:55:14,661 --> 00:55:16,424 -There's your mother. - -493 -00:55:22,902 --> 00:55:26,338 -You should keep a better eye on him -if he's to be king one day. - -494 -00:55:26,539 --> 00:55:29,007 -Be unfortunate if anything -were to happen to him. - -495 -00:55:30,510 --> 00:55:32,375 -Or to his beautiful mother. - -496 -00:55:33,846 --> 00:55:35,336 -No! - -497 -00:55:53,584 --> 00:55:59,022 -Our Greek comrades are begging -for a crack at the Persians, sire. - -498 -00:55:59,323 --> 00:56:00,654 -Good. - -499 -00:56:00,825 --> 00:56:03,589 -I've got something -I think they can handle. - -500 -00:56:04,094 --> 00:56:05,789 -Tell Daxos that I want him... - -501 -00:56:05,963 --> 00:56:10,491 -...and 20 of his best eager, sober -and ready for the next charge. - -502 -00:56:10,668 --> 00:56:12,499 -King Leonidas. - -503 -00:56:15,005 --> 00:56:18,805 -- Stelios, catch your breath, boy. -- Yes, milord. - -504 -00:56:19,443 --> 00:56:21,570 -The Persians are approaching. - -505 -00:56:22,947 --> 00:56:26,815 -A small contingent. -Too small for an attack. - -506 -00:56:30,554 --> 00:56:34,115 -- Captain, I leave you in charge. -- But sire-- - -507 -00:56:34,291 --> 00:56:35,519 -Relax, old friend. - -508 -00:56:35,693 --> 00:56:40,255 -If they assassinate me, -all of Sparta goes to war. - -509 -00:56:41,198 --> 00:56:43,792 -Pray they're that stupid. - -510 -00:56:44,902 --> 00:56:46,597 -Pray... - -511 -00:56:47,137 --> 00:56:49,332 -...we're that lucky. - -512 -00:56:52,476 --> 00:56:54,239 -Besides... - -513 -00:56:56,514 --> 00:56:59,847 -...there's no reason we can't be civil... - -514 -00:57:00,150 --> 00:57:01,742 -...is there? - -515 -00:57:03,087 --> 00:57:04,076 -None, sire. - -516 -00:57:23,471 --> 00:57:25,701 -Let me guess. - -517 -00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,432 -You must be Xerxes. - -518 -00:57:41,455 --> 00:57:43,650 -Come, Leonidas. - -519 -00:57:45,092 --> 00:57:46,855 -Let us reason together. - -520 -00:57:47,128 --> 00:57:49,096 -It would be a regrettable waste... - -521 -00:57:49,497 --> 00:57:52,694 -...it would be nothing short of madness -were you, brave king... - -522 -00:57:52,867 --> 00:57:56,064 -...and your valiant troops to perish... - -523 -00:57:56,704 --> 00:57:58,763 -...all because of a simple -misunderstanding. - -524 -00:57:59,373 --> 00:58:02,206 -- There's much our cultures could share. -- Haven't you noticed? - -525 -00:58:02,376 --> 00:58:04,776 -We've been sharing our culture -with you all morning. - -526 -00:58:05,379 --> 00:58:07,643 -Yours is a fascinating tribe. - -527 -00:58:07,815 --> 00:58:09,976 -Even now you are defiant... - -528 -00:58:10,151 --> 00:58:14,281 -...in the face of annihilation -and the presence of a god. - -529 -00:58:14,455 --> 00:58:16,480 -It isn't wise to stand against me, -Leonidas. - -530 -00:58:17,158 --> 00:58:19,388 -Imagine what a horrible fate -awaits my enemies... - -531 -00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,461 -...when I would gladly kill -any of my own men for victory. - -532 -00:58:22,630 --> 00:58:25,258 -And I would die for any one of mine. - -533 -00:58:25,433 --> 00:58:29,665 -You Greeks take pride in your logic. -I suggest you employ it. - -534 -00:58:29,837 --> 00:58:33,398 -Consider the beautiful land -you so vigorously defend. - -535 -00:58:33,574 --> 00:58:36,065 -Picture it reduced to ash at my whim. - -536 -00:58:36,310 --> 00:58:37,777 -Consider the fate of your women. - -537 -00:58:38,379 --> 00:58:40,904 -Clearly you don't know our women. - -538 -00:58:41,082 --> 00:58:44,609 -I might as well have marched them up here, -judging by what I've seen. - -539 -00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:48,245 -You have many slaves, Xerxes... - -540 -00:58:49,190 --> 00:58:51,488 -...but few warriors. - -541 -00:58:51,659 --> 00:58:55,595 -It won't be long -before they fear my spears... - -542 -00:58:55,997 --> 00:58:58,431 -...more than your whips. - -543 -00:59:02,269 --> 00:59:05,136 -It's not the lash they fear... - -544 -00:59:07,875 --> 00:59:09,536 -...it is my divine power. - -545 -00:59:10,277 --> 00:59:14,771 -But I am a generous god. -I can make you rich beyond all measure. - -546 -00:59:15,216 --> 00:59:17,616 -I will make you warlord of all Greece. - -547 -00:59:18,252 --> 00:59:22,154 -You will carry my battle standard -to the heart of Europa. - -548 -00:59:22,323 --> 00:59:24,917 -Your Athenian rivals... - -549 -00:59:25,226 --> 00:59:27,387 -...will kneel at your feet... - -550 -00:59:28,095 --> 00:59:30,893 -...if you will but kneel at mine. - -551 -00:59:31,732 --> 00:59:33,996 -You are generous... - -552 -00:59:34,568 --> 00:59:36,968 -...as you are divine... - -553 -00:59:37,705 --> 00:59:39,332 -...O king of kings. - -554 -00:59:39,507 --> 00:59:43,409 -Such an offer -only a madman would refuse. - -555 -00:59:44,011 --> 00:59:46,002 -But the.... - -556 -00:59:46,914 --> 00:59:49,747 -The idea of kneeling, it's.... - -557 -00:59:49,917 --> 00:59:54,445 -You see, slaughtering -all those men of yours has.... - -558 -00:59:54,622 --> 00:59:58,456 -Well, it's left a nasty cramp in my leg... - -559 -00:59:58,626 --> 01:00:00,719 -...so kneeling will be hard for me. - -560 -01:00:00,995 --> 01:00:04,362 -There will be no glory in your sacrifice. - -561 -01:00:04,532 --> 01:00:08,127 -I will erase even the memory of Sparta -from the histories. - -562 -01:00:08,302 --> 01:00:11,499 -Every piece of Greek parchment -shall be burned. - -563 -01:00:11,672 --> 01:00:15,005 -Every Greek historian and every scribe -shall have their eyes put out... - -564 -01:00:15,176 --> 01:00:17,440 -...and their tongues -cut from their mouths. - -565 -01:00:17,611 --> 01:00:23,607 -Why, uttering the very name of Sparta -or Leonidas will be punishable by death. - -566 -01:00:24,251 --> 01:00:27,516 -The world will never know -you existed at all. - -567 -01:00:29,657 --> 01:00:34,253 -The world will know -that free men stood against a tyrant. - -568 -01:00:34,462 --> 01:00:37,954 -That few stood against many. - -569 -01:00:38,365 --> 01:00:41,493 -And before this battle was over... - -570 -01:00:41,769 --> 01:00:44,738 -...that even a god-king can bleed. - -571 -01:00:52,113 --> 01:00:54,308 -You fought well today... - -572 -01:00:55,649 --> 01:00:57,549 -...for a woman. - -573 -01:00:58,719 --> 01:01:00,380 -As did you. - -574 -01:01:00,554 --> 01:01:03,648 -Maybe if I'm injured, -you'll be able to keep up with me. - -575 -01:01:04,158 --> 01:01:09,118 -Perhaps I was so far ahead -you couldn't see me. - -576 -01:01:09,730 --> 01:01:12,927 -More likely offering your backside -to the Thespians. - -577 -01:01:13,868 --> 01:01:15,495 -Jealousy... - -578 -01:01:15,669 --> 01:01:18,160 -...does not become you, my friend. - -579 -01:01:20,908 --> 01:01:23,240 -Move it, men! - -580 -01:01:25,346 --> 01:01:27,576 -Pile those Persians high. - -581 -01:01:30,718 --> 01:01:33,516 -For unless I miss my guess... - -582 -01:01:34,088 --> 01:01:37,080 -...we're in for one wild night. - -583 -01:02:01,015 --> 01:02:06,180 -They have served the dark will -of Persian kings for 500 years. - -584 -01:02:06,353 --> 01:02:08,685 -Eyes as dark as night. - -585 -01:02:08,856 --> 01:02:10,847 -Teeth filed to fangs. - -586 -01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:15,224 -Soulless. - -587 -01:02:22,636 --> 01:02:27,403 -The personal guard to King Xerxes himself. -The Persian warrior elite. - -588 -01:02:29,210 --> 01:02:32,304 -The deadliest fighting force -in all of Asia: - -589 -01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,139 -The Immortals. - -590 -01:02:43,357 --> 01:02:46,758 -The god-king -has betrayed a fatal flaw: - -591 -01:02:47,261 --> 01:02:49,024 -Hubris. - -592 -01:02:51,265 --> 01:02:54,029 -Easy to taunt, easy to trick. - -593 -01:02:54,702 --> 01:02:57,136 -Before wounds and weariness -have taken their toll... - -594 -01:02:57,304 --> 01:03:00,831 -...the mad king -throws the best he has at us. - -595 -01:03:01,342 --> 01:03:03,037 -Xerxes has taken the bait. - -596 -01:03:03,210 --> 01:03:05,007 -Spartans, push! - -597 -01:03:15,689 --> 01:03:17,281 -Immortals. - -598 -01:03:17,758 --> 01:03:20,727 -We put their name to the test. - -599 -01:04:04,905 --> 01:04:06,338 -Father! - -600 -01:05:52,012 --> 01:05:53,274 -My king! - -601 -01:07:06,053 --> 01:07:08,021 -Arcadians, now! - -602 -01:07:10,324 --> 01:07:13,088 -Go! Show the Spartans what we can do. - -603 -01:07:13,694 --> 01:07:15,127 -Go! - -604 -01:07:24,538 --> 01:07:26,438 -They shout and curse... - -605 -01:07:26,607 --> 01:07:29,804 -...stabbing wildly, -more brawlers than warriors. - -606 -01:07:30,944 --> 01:07:33,504 -They make a wondrous -mess of things. - -607 -01:07:34,548 --> 01:07:37,312 -Brave amateurs, they do their part. - -608 -01:08:24,932 --> 01:08:26,797 -Immortals. - -609 -01:08:26,967 --> 01:08:29,561 -They fail our king's test. - -610 -01:08:29,736 --> 01:08:32,671 -And a man -who fancies himself a god... - -611 -01:08:33,407 --> 01:08:38,344 -...feels a very human chill -crawl up his spine. - -612 -01:08:45,452 --> 01:08:47,579 -To our king! - -613 -01:08:47,955 --> 01:08:49,946 -And our honored dead. - -614 -01:08:50,123 --> 01:08:52,921 -Whom will Xerxes dare to send next? -Whom?! - -615 -01:08:53,260 --> 01:08:55,956 -There's nothing that can stop us now! - -616 -01:08:56,830 --> 01:09:00,357 -Even the king allows himself -to hope for more than glory. - -617 -01:09:00,534 --> 01:09:03,867 -Such mad hope, but there it is: - -618 -01:09:04,304 --> 01:09:09,708 -"Against Asia's endless hordes, -against all odds, we can do it. - -619 -01:09:09,876 --> 01:09:12,606 -We can hold the Hot Gates. - -620 -01:09:12,779 --> 01:09:14,906 -We can win." - -621 -01:09:22,489 --> 01:09:24,252 -Dawn. - -622 -01:09:24,858 --> 01:09:28,885 -Whips crack. Barbarians howl. - -623 -01:09:29,062 --> 01:09:32,964 -Those behind cry, "Forward!" - -624 -01:09:34,835 --> 01:09:38,635 -Those in front cry, "Back!" - -625 -01:09:44,745 --> 01:09:47,270 -Our eyes bear witness -to the grotesque spectacle... - -626 -01:09:47,447 --> 01:09:51,543 -...coughed forth from the darkest -corner of Xerxes' empire. - -627 -01:10:41,768 --> 01:10:43,292 -When muscle failed... - -628 -01:10:43,737 --> 01:10:46,399 -...they turned to their magic. - -629 -01:10:47,441 --> 01:10:52,242 -One hundred nations descend -upon us, the armies of all Asia. - -630 -01:10:52,412 --> 01:10:56,872 -Funneled into this narrow corridor, -their numbers count for nothing. - -631 -01:11:31,251 --> 01:11:33,219 -They fall by the hundreds. - -632 -01:11:33,386 --> 01:11:38,983 -We send the severed bodies and the -fragile hearts back to Xerxes' feet. - -633 -01:11:55,609 --> 01:11:59,773 -King Xerxes is displeased -with his generals. - -634 -01:11:59,946 --> 01:12:02,506 -He disciplines them. - -635 -01:12:19,399 --> 01:12:23,802 -Xerxes dispatches his monsters -from half the world away. - -636 -01:12:34,781 --> 01:12:36,874 -They're clumsy beasts... - -637 -01:12:37,050 --> 01:12:39,416 -...and the piled Persian dead -are slippery. - -638 -01:13:15,856 --> 01:13:18,290 -- You still here? -- Somebody's gotta watch your back. - -639 -01:13:18,458 --> 01:13:20,050 -Not now, I'm a little busy. - -640 -01:14:00,333 --> 01:14:02,858 -Regroup! - -641 -01:14:06,072 --> 01:14:07,699 -Astinos! - -642 -01:14:07,908 --> 01:14:09,603 -My son! - -643 -01:14:18,551 --> 01:14:20,178 -Astinos! - -644 -01:14:20,353 --> 01:14:23,117 -No! - -645 -01:14:46,379 --> 01:14:48,506 -Day wears on. - -646 -01:14:48,848 --> 01:14:51,009 -We lose few... - -647 -01:14:51,184 --> 01:14:54,415 -...but each felled is a friend, -or dearest blood. - -648 -01:14:56,623 --> 01:15:00,525 -And upon seeing the headless body -of his own young son... - -649 -01:15:00,694 --> 01:15:02,559 -...the captain breaks rank. - -650 -01:15:02,729 --> 01:15:06,165 -He goes wild, blood-drunk. - -651 -01:15:30,790 --> 01:15:33,281 -The captain's cries of pain -at the loss of his son... - -652 -01:15:33,460 --> 01:15:37,191 -...are more frightening to the enemy -than the deepest battle drums. - -653 -01:15:37,364 --> 01:15:41,357 -It takes three men to restrain him -and bring him back to our own. - -654 -01:15:41,701 --> 01:15:44,033 -The day is ours. - -655 -01:15:44,437 --> 01:15:47,099 -No songs are sung. - -656 -01:16:27,213 --> 01:16:31,809 -Your gods were cruel to shape you so, -friend Ephialtes. - -657 -01:16:34,220 --> 01:16:35,517 -The Spartans, too... - -658 -01:16:36,256 --> 01:16:39,157 -...were cruel to reject you. - -659 -01:16:41,995 --> 01:16:44,429 -But I am kind. - -660 -01:16:50,937 --> 01:16:53,064 -Everything you could ever desire... - -661 -01:16:54,307 --> 01:16:56,070 -...every happiness you can imagine... - -662 -01:16:58,278 --> 01:17:02,874 -...every pleasure your fellow Greeks -and your false gods have denied you... - -663 -01:17:03,683 --> 01:17:05,947 -...I will grant you. - -664 -01:17:07,220 --> 01:17:09,620 -For I am kind. - -665 -01:17:23,570 --> 01:17:26,869 -Embrace me as your king -and as your god. - -666 -01:17:28,007 --> 01:17:29,702 -Yes. - -667 -01:17:31,177 --> 01:17:35,978 -Lead my soldiers to the hidden path -that enters behind the cursed Spartans... - -668 -01:17:36,149 --> 01:17:38,413 -...and your joys will be endless. - -669 -01:17:46,860 --> 01:17:50,023 -Yes! I want it all. - -670 -01:17:50,463 --> 01:17:54,024 -Wealth. Women. - -671 -01:17:56,035 --> 01:17:57,730 -And one more thing... - -672 -01:18:00,907 --> 01:18:03,569 -...I want a uniform. - -673 -01:18:08,081 --> 01:18:09,776 -Done. - -674 -01:18:11,417 --> 01:18:13,112 -You will find... - -675 -01:18:13,720 --> 01:18:15,654 -...I am kind. - -676 -01:18:16,789 --> 01:18:21,021 -Unlike the cruel Leonidas, -who demanded that you stand... - -677 -01:18:23,129 --> 01:18:24,824 -...I require only... - -678 -01:18:25,565 --> 01:18:26,998 -...that you kneel. - -679 -01:18:54,661 --> 01:18:56,595 -Beautiful night. - -680 -01:18:58,031 --> 01:19:02,024 -Yes, but I did not ask you here -for small talk, Theron. - -681 -01:19:02,669 --> 01:19:04,762 -You can be sure of that. - -682 -01:19:06,172 --> 01:19:08,834 -You never spared words with me. - -683 -01:19:09,409 --> 01:19:12,674 -Can I offer you something? -A drink, perhaps? - -684 -01:19:12,845 --> 01:19:14,676 -Is it poison? - -685 -01:19:15,081 --> 01:19:17,845 -I'm sorry to disappoint you, -it's only water. - -686 -01:19:27,627 --> 01:19:30,790 -I'm told it's been arranged for you -to go before the council. - -687 -01:19:31,464 --> 01:19:33,193 -Yes. - -688 -01:19:33,399 --> 01:19:36,732 -I need your help in winning votes -to send the army north to our king. - -689 -01:19:37,303 --> 01:19:38,930 -Yes. - -690 -01:19:39,606 --> 01:19:42,166 -I can see it, -the two of us standing together. - -691 -01:19:42,342 --> 01:19:46,711 -Me, politician. You, warrior. -Our voices as one. - -692 -01:19:48,047 --> 01:19:49,514 -But why would I want to do that? - -693 -01:19:50,483 --> 01:19:54,442 -It proves you care for a king who right now -fights for the very water we drink. - -694 -01:19:54,787 --> 01:19:56,379 -True. - -695 -01:19:56,756 --> 01:19:59,384 -But this is politics, not war. - -696 -01:19:59,692 --> 01:20:01,216 -Leonidas is an idealist. - -697 -01:20:01,628 --> 01:20:05,564 -I know your kind too well. You send men -to slaughter for your own gain. - -698 -01:20:05,732 --> 01:20:10,635 -Your husband, our king, -has taken 300 of our finest to slaughter. - -699 -01:20:10,803 --> 01:20:15,433 -He's broken our laws -and left without the council's consent. - -700 -01:20:15,942 --> 01:20:18,934 -- I'm simply a realist. -- You're an opportunist. - -701 -01:20:19,912 --> 01:20:24,212 -You're as foolish as Leonidas if you think -men don't have a price in this world. - -702 -01:20:24,384 --> 01:20:28,946 -All men are not created equal. -That's the Spartan code, my little queen. - -703 -01:20:32,625 --> 01:20:35,025 -I admire your passion. - -704 -01:20:36,362 --> 01:20:38,091 -But don't think that you... - -705 -01:20:38,531 --> 01:20:40,863 -...a woman, even a queen... - -706 -01:20:41,034 --> 01:20:44,970 -...can walk into the council chamber -and sway the minds of men. - -707 -01:20:45,138 --> 01:20:47,572 -I own that chamber... - -708 -01:20:47,740 --> 01:20:49,799 -...as if it were built with these hands. - -709 -01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:57,807 -I could crush -the life out of you right now. - -710 -01:20:58,885 --> 01:21:02,548 -You will go before the council, -but your words will fall on deaf ears. - -711 -01:21:02,722 --> 01:21:08,490 -Leonidas will receive no reinforcements, -and if he returns, without my help... - -712 -01:21:08,661 --> 01:21:11,630 -...he will go to jail or worse. - -713 -01:21:15,368 --> 01:21:16,835 -Do you love your Sparta? - -714 -01:21:17,337 --> 01:21:19,032 -Yes. - -715 -01:21:19,205 --> 01:21:21,469 -- And your king? -- I do. - -716 -01:21:27,313 --> 01:21:31,010 -Your husband fights for his land -and his love. - -717 -01:21:31,684 --> 01:21:33,982 -What do you have to offer... - -718 -01:21:34,754 --> 01:21:37,723 -...in return for my word -that I'll help you send our army north? - -719 -01:21:41,694 --> 01:21:44,356 -What does a realist want with his queen? - -720 -01:21:48,968 --> 01:21:50,697 -I think you know. - -721 -01:22:05,151 --> 01:22:07,847 -This will not be over quickly. - -722 -01:22:08,888 --> 01:22:11,379 -You will not enjoy this. - -723 -01:22:11,924 --> 01:22:14,188 -I'm not your king. - -724 -01:22:38,985 --> 01:22:40,782 -Dilios. - -725 -01:22:42,789 --> 01:22:46,816 -I trust that scratch -hasn't made you useless? - -726 -01:22:46,993 --> 01:22:50,019 -Hardly, my lord. It's just an eye. - -727 -01:22:50,196 --> 01:22:53,393 -The gods saw fit to grace me -with a spare. - -728 -01:22:55,268 --> 01:22:57,202 -My captain? - -729 -01:22:58,504 --> 01:23:02,304 -Curses the gods and mourns alone. - -730 -01:23:04,277 --> 01:23:06,245 -Leonidas! - -731 -01:23:07,447 --> 01:23:10,439 -We are undone. -Undone, I tell you. Destroyed. - -732 -01:23:10,616 --> 01:23:12,049 -Daxos, calm yourself. - -733 -01:23:12,218 --> 01:23:15,813 -Our hunchback traitor led Xerxes' Immortals -to the hidden goat path behind us. - -734 -01:23:16,222 --> 01:23:19,055 -The Phocians you posted there -were scattered without a fight. - -735 -01:23:19,225 --> 01:23:24,458 -- This battle is over, Leonidas. -- This battle is over when I say it is over. - -736 -01:23:24,630 --> 01:23:28,999 -By morning, the Immortals will surround us. -The Hot Gates will fall. - -737 -01:23:29,635 --> 01:23:34,004 -Spartans! Prepare for glory! - -738 -01:23:34,173 --> 01:23:37,370 -Glory? Have you gone mad? - -739 -01:23:37,543 --> 01:23:39,101 -There is no glory to be had now. - -740 -01:23:39,712 --> 01:23:43,307 -Only retreat or surrender. Or death. - -741 -01:23:43,483 --> 01:23:46,646 -Well, that's an easy choice -for us, Arcadian. - -742 -01:23:46,819 --> 01:23:52,314 -Spartans never retreat. -Spartans never surrender. - -743 -01:23:52,925 --> 01:23:55,018 -Go spread the word. - -744 -01:23:55,261 --> 01:23:58,924 -Let every Greek assembled -know the truth of this. - -745 -01:23:59,098 --> 01:24:01,931 -Let each among them -search his own soul. - -746 -01:24:03,636 --> 01:24:07,766 -And while you're at it, search your own. - -747 -01:24:15,281 --> 01:24:17,545 -My men will leave with me. - -748 -01:24:22,889 --> 01:24:25,119 -Godspeed, Leonidas. - -749 -01:24:31,430 --> 01:24:33,022 -Children! - -750 -01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:35,331 -Children. - -751 -01:24:36,369 --> 01:24:38,360 -Gather round. - -752 -01:24:40,239 --> 01:24:43,504 -No retreat, no surrender. - -753 -01:24:43,676 --> 01:24:47,544 -That is Spartan law. - -754 -01:24:47,780 --> 01:24:52,843 -And by Spartan law, -we will stand and fight... - -755 -01:24:53,019 --> 01:24:55,010 -...and die. - -756 -01:24:58,457 --> 01:25:01,949 -A new age has begun. - -757 -01:25:03,696 --> 01:25:06,824 -An age of freedom. - -758 -01:25:07,900 --> 01:25:11,563 -And all will know that 300 Spartans... - -759 -01:25:11,737 --> 01:25:15,002 -...gave their last breath to defend it. - -760 -01:25:35,294 --> 01:25:37,057 -My friend. - -761 -01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:46,163 -I have lived my entire life -without regret until now. - -762 -01:25:49,542 --> 01:25:55,481 -It's not that my son -gave up his life for his country. - -763 -01:25:57,383 --> 01:26:01,251 -It's just that I never told him -that I loved him the most. - -764 -01:26:02,855 --> 01:26:05,722 -That he stood by me with honor. - -765 -01:26:07,159 --> 01:26:10,094 -That he was all that was best in me. - -766 -01:26:19,205 --> 01:26:21,730 -My heart is broken for your loss. - -767 -01:26:22,475 --> 01:26:24,170 -Heart? - -768 -01:26:29,248 --> 01:26:32,342 -I have filled my heart... - -769 -01:26:32,518 --> 01:26:34,247 -...with hate. - -770 -01:26:38,391 --> 01:26:40,052 -Good. - -771 -01:26:49,201 --> 01:26:51,032 -Dilios... - -772 -01:26:52,738 --> 01:26:54,865 -...let's take a walk. - -773 -01:26:56,342 --> 01:26:58,401 -Yes, my lord. - -774 -01:27:00,813 --> 01:27:03,475 -But, sire, I am fit and ready for battle. - -775 -01:27:03,649 --> 01:27:06,777 -That you are, one of the finest. - -776 -01:27:07,086 --> 01:27:10,681 -But you have another talent -unlike any other Spartan. - -777 -01:27:13,392 --> 01:27:16,828 -You will deliver my final orders -to the council... - -778 -01:27:16,996 --> 01:27:19,487 -...with force and verve. - -779 -01:27:22,001 --> 01:27:24,265 -Tell them our story. - -780 -01:27:24,437 --> 01:27:28,965 -Make every Greek know -what happened here. - -781 -01:27:29,809 --> 01:27:32,437 -You'll have a grand tale to tell. - -782 -01:27:34,246 --> 01:27:35,941 -A tale of victory. - -783 -01:27:36,615 --> 01:27:38,173 -Victory. - -784 -01:27:42,221 --> 01:27:44,212 -Yes, my lord. - -785 -01:27:49,895 --> 01:27:52,261 -Sire, any message...? - -786 -01:27:55,134 --> 01:27:56,499 -For the queen? - -787 -01:28:18,958 --> 01:28:21,392 -None that need be spoken. - -788 -01:28:36,509 --> 01:28:38,909 -Hundreds leave. - -789 -01:28:39,545 --> 01:28:41,979 -A handful stay. - -790 -01:28:47,153 --> 01:28:49,781 -Only one looks back. - -791 -01:29:00,099 --> 01:29:02,294 -Spartans! - -792 -01:29:03,369 --> 01:29:06,532 -Ready your breakfast and eat hearty... - -793 -01:29:06,705 --> 01:29:10,641 -...for tonight we dine in hell! - -794 -01:29:19,518 --> 01:29:22,180 -May I give the floor now... - -795 -01:29:22,354 --> 01:29:26,791 -...to the wife of Leonidas -and queen of Sparta. - -796 -01:29:38,504 --> 01:29:40,233 -- What's this? -- This is nothing. - -797 -01:29:40,406 --> 01:29:42,237 -Councilmen... - -798 -01:29:42,408 --> 01:29:46,174 -...I stand before you -not only as your queen. - -799 -01:29:47,046 --> 01:29:49,776 -I come to you as a mother. - -800 -01:29:51,050 --> 01:29:53,450 -I come to you as a wife. - -801 -01:29:55,254 --> 01:29:57,779 -I come to you as a Spartan woman. - -802 -01:30:02,795 --> 01:30:05,889 -I come to you with great humility. - -803 -01:30:09,335 --> 01:30:11,735 -I am not here to represent Leonidas. - -804 -01:30:11,904 --> 01:30:14,668 -His actions speak louder -than my words ever could. - -805 -01:30:15,007 --> 01:30:17,407 -I am here for all those voices -which cannot be heard. - -806 -01:30:17,576 --> 01:30:20,101 -Mothers, daughters, fathers, sons. - -807 -01:30:20,279 --> 01:30:23,248 -Three hundred families -that bleed for our rights... - -808 -01:30:23,682 --> 01:30:26,879 -...and for the very principles -this room was built upon. - -809 -01:30:27,486 --> 01:30:29,579 -We are at war, gentlemen. - -810 -01:30:30,022 --> 01:30:32,547 -We must send the entire Spartan army -to aid our king... - -811 -01:30:32,725 --> 01:30:35,819 -...in the preservation of not -just ourselves, but of our children. - -812 -01:30:36,395 --> 01:30:39,523 -Send the army -for the preservation of liberty. - -813 -01:30:39,698 --> 01:30:42,030 -Send it for justice. - -814 -01:30:42,201 --> 01:30:43,828 -Send it for law and order. - -815 -01:30:44,370 --> 01:30:46,565 -Send it for reason. - -816 -01:30:46,739 --> 01:30:50,835 -But most importantly, -send our army for hope. - -817 -01:30:51,010 --> 01:30:54,571 -Hope that a king and his men have not -been wasted to the pages of history. - -818 -01:30:55,414 --> 01:30:58,850 -That their courage bonds us together. - -819 -01:30:59,151 --> 01:31:02,348 -That we are made stronger -by their actions... - -820 -01:31:03,355 --> 01:31:07,451 -...and that your choices today -reflect their bravery. - -821 -01:31:09,395 --> 01:31:11,056 -Three hundred. - -822 -01:31:13,399 --> 01:31:15,230 -We must send them. - -823 -01:31:19,004 --> 01:31:20,835 -Moving... - -824 -01:31:21,173 --> 01:31:24,074 -...eloquent, passionate. - -825 -01:31:24,476 --> 01:31:28,640 -But it doesn't change the fact -that your husband has brought war upon us. - -826 -01:31:28,814 --> 01:31:31,248 -You are wrong. -Xerxes brought it forth... - -827 -01:31:31,417 --> 01:31:33,885 -...and before that, -his father Darius at Marathon. - -828 -01:31:34,053 --> 01:31:35,782 -The Persians will not stop... - -829 -01:31:35,955 --> 01:31:39,322 -...until the only shelter we will find -is rubble and chaos. - -830 -01:31:39,725 --> 01:31:43,456 -This chamber needs no -history lesson, my queen. - -831 -01:31:43,963 --> 01:31:46,158 -Then what is the lesson -you would like to leave? - -832 -01:31:46,332 --> 01:31:48,425 -Shall I begin to enumerate all of them? - -833 -01:31:48,834 --> 01:31:52,270 -Honor. Duty. Glory. - -834 -01:31:52,538 --> 01:31:57,566 -You speak of honor, duty and glory? - -835 -01:31:58,877 --> 01:32:00,105 -But what of adultery? - -836 -01:32:00,279 --> 01:32:02,747 -- How dare you. -- How dare I? - -837 -01:32:03,182 --> 01:32:06,174 -Watch her carefully. - -838 -01:32:06,352 --> 01:32:09,321 -She is a trickster in true form. - -839 -01:32:09,488 --> 01:32:12,651 -Do not play with the members -of this sacred chamber, my queen. - -840 -01:32:12,825 --> 01:32:15,919 -Just hours ago, -you offered yourself to me. - -841 -01:32:16,095 --> 01:32:20,532 -Were I a weaker man, -I would have her scent on me still. - -842 -01:32:20,699 --> 01:32:23,691 -- This is outrage. -- Oh, the hypocrite speaks! - -843 -01:32:23,869 --> 01:32:26,861 -Did you not receive a similar payment, -which you took... - -844 -01:32:27,039 --> 01:32:30,270 -...in exchange for her having an audience -with these noble men? - -845 -01:32:30,442 --> 01:32:32,205 -- That is a lie. -- Is it? - -846 -01:32:32,378 --> 01:32:36,144 -Was he not, by your invitation, -asked to come to the king's bedchamber? - -847 -01:32:36,682 --> 01:32:41,312 -The very bed where you attempted -to negotiate with me so vigorously? - -848 -01:32:43,956 --> 01:32:47,414 -You look shocked. -A bribe of the flesh, gentlemen... - -849 -01:32:47,593 --> 01:32:50,892 -...while her husband -promotes anarchy and war. - -850 -01:32:53,832 --> 01:32:55,026 -He speaks truth. - -851 -01:32:55,634 --> 01:32:58,831 -Words escape -even the most cunning tongue... - -852 -01:32:59,004 --> 01:33:01,063 -...my little whore queen. - -853 -01:33:05,811 --> 01:33:07,642 -What queen-like behavior. - -854 -01:33:09,348 --> 01:33:12,476 -Remove her from this chamber -before she infects us further... - -855 -01:33:12,651 --> 01:33:15,643 -...with her inglorious and shabby self. - -856 -01:33:22,461 --> 01:33:24,053 -This will not be over quickly. - -857 -01:33:25,397 --> 01:33:28,924 -You will not enjoy this. -I am not your queen. - -858 -01:33:51,090 --> 01:33:53,024 -Traitor. - -859 -01:33:53,559 --> 01:33:58,360 -Traitor! Traitor! Traitor! - -860 -01:33:58,630 --> 01:34:00,894 -Traitor! - -861 -01:34:37,936 --> 01:34:43,932 -Leonidas, my compliments -and congratulations. - -862 -01:34:44,109 --> 01:34:47,772 -You surely have turned calamity -into victory. - -863 -01:34:47,946 --> 01:34:50,938 -Despite your insufferable arrogance... - -864 -01:34:51,116 --> 01:34:55,280 -...the god-king has come to admire -Spartan valor and fighting skill. - -865 -01:34:56,021 --> 01:34:57,386 -You will make a mighty ally. - -866 -01:34:57,556 --> 01:34:59,285 -Yield, Leonidas. - -867 -01:35:00,459 --> 01:35:03,326 -Use your reason. Think of your men. - -868 -01:35:06,165 --> 01:35:07,792 -I beg you. - -869 -01:35:08,367 --> 01:35:10,335 -Listen to your fellow Greek. - -870 -01:35:10,502 --> 01:35:14,199 -He can attest -to the divine one's generosity. - -871 -01:35:14,373 --> 01:35:18,833 -Despite your several insults, -despite your horrid blasphemies... - -872 -01:35:19,745 --> 01:35:22,942 -...the lord of hosts -is prepared to forgive all... - -873 -01:35:23,182 --> 01:35:26,208 -...and more, to reward your service. - -874 -01:35:26,485 --> 01:35:27,816 -You fight for your lands. - -875 -01:35:28,520 --> 01:35:30,351 -Keep them. - -876 -01:35:31,056 --> 01:35:33,024 -You fight for Sparta. - -877 -01:35:33,192 --> 01:35:37,185 -She will be wealthier and more powerful -than ever before. - -878 -01:35:37,396 --> 01:35:39,330 -You fight for your kingship. - -879 -01:35:40,232 --> 01:35:43,201 -You will be proclaimed warlord -of all Greece... - -880 -01:35:43,368 --> 01:35:47,668 -...answerable only -to the one true master of the world. - -881 -01:35:48,040 --> 01:35:52,773 -Leonidas, your victory will be complete... - -882 -01:35:52,945 --> 01:35:55,539 -...if you but lay down your arms... - -883 -01:35:55,714 --> 01:35:58,877 -...and kneel to holy Xerxes. - -884 -01:36:29,381 --> 01:36:34,318 -It's been more than 30 years -since the wolf in the winter cold. - -885 -01:36:34,486 --> 01:36:39,048 -And now, as then, -it's not fear that grips him... - -886 -01:36:39,224 --> 01:36:44,389 -...only restlessness. -A heightened sense of things. - -887 -01:36:45,163 --> 01:36:49,964 -The seaborne breeze coolly kissing -the sweat at his chest and neck. - -888 -01:36:50,135 --> 01:36:51,625 -Gulls cawing... - -889 -01:36:51,803 --> 01:36:56,035 -...complaining even as they feast -on the thousands of floating dead. - -890 -01:36:57,643 --> 01:37:02,706 -The steady breathing -of the 300 at his back... - -891 -01:37:03,482 --> 01:37:06,940 -...ready to die for him -without a moment's pause. - -892 -01:37:09,554 --> 01:37:10,919 -Every one of them... - -893 -01:37:12,391 --> 01:37:14,325 -...ready to die. - -894 -01:37:29,841 --> 01:37:32,776 -His helmet is stifling. - -895 -01:37:53,465 --> 01:37:56,298 -His shield is heavy. - -896 -01:38:03,909 --> 01:38:05,274 -Your spear. - -897 -01:38:14,086 --> 01:38:15,519 -You there... - -898 -01:38:15,954 --> 01:38:17,945 -...Ephialtes. - -899 -01:38:23,061 --> 01:38:25,325 -May you live forever. - -900 -01:38:32,738 --> 01:38:35,036 -Leonidas, your spear. - -901 -01:39:42,274 --> 01:39:43,866 -Stelios! - -902 -01:39:53,885 --> 01:39:55,477 -Slaughter them! - -903 -01:39:58,857 --> 01:40:00,449 -His helmet was stifling. - -904 -01:40:00,625 --> 01:40:03,753 -It narrowed his vision, -and he must see far. - -905 -01:40:05,063 --> 01:40:08,931 -His shield was heavy. -It threw him off balance... - -906 -01:40:09,100 --> 01:40:12,763 -...and his target is far away. - -907 -01:41:17,335 --> 01:41:21,897 -The old ones say we Spartans are -descended from Hercules himself. - -908 -01:41:23,375 --> 01:41:27,709 -Bold Leonidas gives testament -to our bloodline. - -909 -01:41:27,879 --> 01:41:32,009 -His roar is long and loud. - -910 -01:42:02,113 --> 01:42:03,705 -My king. - -911 -01:42:15,961 --> 01:42:19,590 -It's an honor to die at your side. - -912 -01:42:21,166 --> 01:42:25,660 -It's an honor to have lived at yours. - -913 -01:42:46,591 --> 01:42:48,684 -My queen! - -914 -01:42:56,935 --> 01:42:58,664 -My wife. - -915 -01:43:10,115 --> 01:43:11,912 -My love. - -916 -01:45:38,329 --> 01:45:40,456 -"Remember us." - -917 -01:45:42,133 --> 01:45:45,569 -As simple an order -as a king can give. - -918 -01:45:47,138 --> 01:45:50,335 -"Remember why we died." - -919 -01:45:52,343 --> 01:45:56,370 -For he did not wish tribute or song... - -920 -01:45:58,216 --> 01:46:02,414 -...nor monuments, -nor poems of war and valor. - -921 -01:46:05,290 --> 01:46:07,588 -His wish was simple. - -922 -01:46:12,964 --> 01:46:15,023 -"Remember us"... - -923 -01:46:16,067 --> 01:46:17,796 -...he said to me. - -924 -01:46:19,470 --> 01:46:21,665 -That was his hope. - -925 -01:46:21,873 --> 01:46:25,604 -Should any free soul -come across that place... - -926 -01:46:26,377 --> 01:46:29,710 -...in all the countless -centuries yet to be... - -927 -01:46:30,148 --> 01:46:32,708 -...may all our voices... - -928 -01:46:32,884 --> 01:46:36,945 -...whisper to you -from the ageless stones. - -929 -01:46:37,922 --> 01:46:41,551 -Go tell the Spartans, passerby... - -930 -01:46:41,893 --> 01:46:47,763 -...that here, by Spartan law, -we lie. - -931 -01:46:50,535 --> 01:46:53,231 -And so my king died... - -932 -01:46:54,105 --> 01:46:56,733 -...and my brothers died... - -933 -01:46:59,110 --> 01:47:01,578 -...barely a year ago. - -934 -01:47:05,516 --> 01:47:10,749 -Long I pondered my king's -cryptic talk of victory. - -935 -01:47:10,989 --> 01:47:13,617 -Time has proven him wise. - -936 -01:47:14,525 --> 01:47:17,551 -For from free Greek to free Greek... - -937 -01:47:17,729 --> 01:47:22,325 -...the word was spread -that bold Leonidas and his 300... - -938 -01:47:22,500 --> 01:47:24,491 -...so far from home... - -939 -01:47:24,669 --> 01:47:28,070 -...laid down their lives -not just for Sparta... - -940 -01:47:28,239 --> 01:47:32,039 -...but for all Greece -and the promise this country holds. - -941 -01:47:32,944 --> 01:47:38,007 -Now, here on this rugged patch of earth -called Plataea... - -942 -01:47:38,182 --> 01:47:43,176 -...Xerxes' hordes face obliteration! - -943 -01:47:44,856 --> 01:47:48,257 -Just there the barbarians huddle... - -944 -01:47:48,426 --> 01:47:53,295 -...sheer terror gripping tight -their hearts... - -945 -01:47:53,464 --> 01:47:55,364 -...with icy fingers... - -946 -01:47:55,533 --> 01:47:58,764 -...knowing full well -what merciless horrors they suffered... - -947 -01:47:58,937 --> 01:48:01,462 -...at the swords and spears of 300. - -948 -01:48:02,874 --> 01:48:08,437 -Yet they stare now across the plain -at 10,000 Spartans... - -949 -01:48:08,613 --> 01:48:11,912 -...commanding 30,000 free Greeks! - -950 -01:48:18,723 --> 01:48:22,625 -The enemy outnumber us -a paltry three to one. - -951 -01:48:22,927 --> 01:48:24,918 -Good odds for any Greek. - -952 -01:48:25,630 --> 01:48:30,329 -This day, we rescue a world -from mysticism and tyranny... - -953 -01:48:30,501 --> 01:48:34,870 -...and usher in a future -brighter than anything we can imagine. - -954 -01:48:39,310 --> 01:48:40,800 -Give thanks, men... - -955 -01:48:41,512 --> 01:48:45,278 -...to Leonidas and the brave 300!. - -956 -01:48:45,450 --> 01:48:48,180 -To Victory! 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