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Synopsis: In 480 B.C. a state of war exists between Persia, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Greece. At the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas (Gerard Butler), king of the Greek city state of Sparta, leads his badly outnumbered warriors against the massive Persian army. Though certain death awaits the Spartans, their sacrifice inspires all of Greece to unite against their common enemy.
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  17 wins & 45 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
R
Year:
2006
117 min
$210,500,000
Website
12,277 Views


And wave after wave of Persian attack...

...will smash against Spartan shields.

Xerxes' losses will be so great,

his men so demoralized...

...he will have no choice

but to abandon his campaign.

We must consult the oracle.

Trust the gods, Leonidas.

I'd prefer you trusted your reason.

Your blasphemies...

...have cost us quite enough already.

Don't compound them.

We will consult the oracle.

Diseased old mystics.

Worthless remnants of a time

before Sparta's ascent from darkness.

Remnants of a senseless tradition.

Tradition even Leonidas

cannot defy...

...for he must respect

the word of the ephors.

That is the law.

And no Spartan, subject or citizen,

man or woman...

...slave or king, is above the law.

The ephors choose only

the most beautiful Spartan girls...

...to live among them as oracles.

Their beauty is their curse...

...for the old wretches

have the needs of men...

...and souls as black as hell.

"Pray to the winds...

...Sparta will fall.

All Greece will fall.

Trust not in men...

...honor the gods.

Honor the Carneia."

The king's climb down is harder.

Pompous, inbred swine.

Worthless, diseased, rotten...

...corrupt.

Truly, you're in the god-king's

favor now...

...O wise and holy men.

Yes.

And when Sparta burns,

you shall bathe in gold.

Fresh oracles shall be

delivered to you...

...daily...

...from every corner of the empire.

Your lips can finish

what your fingers have started.

Or has the oracle robbed you

of your desire as well?

It would take more than the words

of a drunken adolescent girl...

...to rob me of my desire for you.

Then why so distant?

Because it seems...

...though a slave and captive

of lecherous old men...

...the oracle's words

could set fire to all that I love.

So that is why my king loses sleep

and is forced from the warmth of his bed?

There's only one woman's words that

should affect the mood of my husband.

Those are mine.

Then what must a king do

to save his world...

...when the very laws he is sworn

to protect force him to do nothing?

It is not a question

of what a Spartan citizen should do...

...nor a husband, nor a king.

Instead ask yourself, my dearest love...

...what should a free man do?

- Is this all of them?

- As you ordered. Three hundred.

All with born sons

to carry on their name.

We are with you, sire.

For Sparta. For freedom.

To the death.

He is your son.

He is too young

to have felt a woman's warmth.

I have others to replace him.

Astinos is as brave and ready as any.

No younger than we were the first time

you stood next to me in battle.

You are a good friend...

...but a better captain, there is none.

My good king.

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