300 movie review

            In this article I am going to do a review of the movie 300. The movie starts out with a messenger coming to Sparta to ask the Spartans to surrender. The Spartans refuse and kill the messenger. The king must climb to the top of a mountain and consult the elders. They say no because it is way too dangerous and they need Sparta’s troops because there are only 10000 of them. But Leonidous disobeys there orders.  Then king Leonidous takes 300 of the best of Sparta’s warriors to meet the Persian army at Thermopylae. The 300 Spartans fend off thousands and thousands of the Persians king’s slaves with only taking very few casualties. They also try an arrow attack and some Spartans laugh because one Persian said “our arrows will blot out the sun” then one of the Spartans say “then we will fight in the shade” Then they start to send in animals such as rhinos and elephants. Then the Persian king gets angry and sends in Persia’s elite guard, The Immortals. This is where the casualties start to roll up and Leonidous loses more men. They eventually fight off the Persians but they realize that they are going to die. Their allies abandon them and they get flanked and trapped. The Persian king thinks he is a god and he thinks he cannot be hurt but at the Spartan’s last stand Leonidous refuses to surrender and throws a spear and cuts the king. At the end the Spartans do what they were trained and taught to do, the most heroic, honorable, and glorious thing in Spartan Culture. Fight to the Death. There were no survivors.

This movie is based on a true event but some things have been altered.