300 The Movie

The Sparta people had the tradition of putting some testing to Sparta babies to see if the child would serve as a good fighter. If this baby doesn’t passed this tests, the Spartans knew that this little baby was not going to be useful as a warrior and that he won't stand in a war. Knowing this baby wasn’t helpful for Sparta, they killed the baby, but if the baby passed all the testing, he is immediately trained to be a Spartan warrior. Spartan people wanted Sparta to be very strong.

This movie, 300, is about a boy named Leonidas. Since he was just a kid He was trained to be a warrior and fight for his people. When he was already an adult, he became King.

One of the Spartans enemies were the Persians, his King, in that time, was Xerxes. Persians wanted to conquer some Greek territory. To accomplish his goal he made an army, a big and strong army to face the Spartans. He brought together like 300 000 soldiers. He had people walking, going by land and people going in boats by sea.

The Sparta army was really little. He only gathered around 300 warriors. One of the things Sparta was really afraid of was the group of Persians that were in charge of the arrows. They knew this group was pretty strong.

The battle was hard and very wild. Persians crashed with Sparta’s spears, arrows and shields. They never gave up always giving a step front instead of going backwards.

The battle was lasting longer than they expected. Xerxes realized that Spartans were doing a great job; they were killing a lot of Persians. Xerxes decided to call the group of warriors that he has saved. They were really strong and trained warriors. Xerxes thought that with this group of Persians he had already won the fight. This warriors gave their all, but they couldn’t beat Spartans. When the fight was about to finish, they noticed that there was a traitor. This traitor was Ephialtes. Ephialtes taught the Persians a path. This path could carry the Persians with the Spartans without them noticing.

That’s why Persians were going through water and through land. When they found out that Ephialtes betrayed them, the battle took force and intensity again. This time Persians beat Sparta. But the pride that Persians had obtained was better.

The film is not as the real story. One of the things that it is true in the movie is the fight between Sparta, with Leonidas as leader; and Persia with the leader Xerxes. Another thing that is true in the movie is the traitor: Ephialtes . Ephialtes really betrayed Sparta by telling the Persians the road to get to the Spartans without them noticing. A thing that doesn’t matches is the number of warriors that the Sparta army counted with. In the movie they remark that there were only 300 Spartans on the army. It’s true, there were around 300 Spartan warriors on this army but they also counted with around 700 Thespians, 400 Thebans and maybe 100 more warriors.

We can say that this move has a true story, but not the WHOLE true story. 

THIS IS MY FAVORITE PART OF THE MOVIE