Gerard butler 300 movie#
Perhaps the biggest problem with the movie 300 is that the film leaves the audience believing that the Spartans were the only Greek force to lead an attack against the Persians. Murdering a slave was meant to train you in the art of evasion.ĭid Sparta go up against the Persians alone? If you were discovered, then you would be punished severely, not for taking the life of another human being, but rather for getting caught. A Spartan boy's right of passage was not to kill a wolf, it was to sneak out and murder a slave (Helot). Conversely, a respectable man who admired someone else's wife noted for her lovely children and her good sense, might gain the husband's permission to sleep with her - thereby planting in fruitful soil, so to speak, and producing fine children who would be linked to fine ancestors by blood and family." But if it was puny and deformed, they dispatched it to what was called 'the place of rejection', a precipitous spot by Mount Taygetus, considering it better both for itself and the state that the child should die if right from its birth it was poorly endowed for health or strength." Plutarch also wrote about various other customs that the Spartans used to ensure their "good stock": "If an older man with a young wife should take a liking to one of the well-bred young men and approve of him, he might well introduce him to her so as to fill her with noble sperm and then adopt the child as his own. 127 A.D.) spoke of the Spartan practice of eugenics in his writings: "If after examination the baby proved well-built and sturdy they instructed the father to bring it up, and assigned it one of the 9,000 lots of land.
The official is inspecting the newborn to decide if it should be discarded. In the movie, we see a government official holding King Leonidas' (Gerard Butler) newborn son above a cliff. I made them as cruel as I thought a modern audience could stand."ĭid the Spartans really discard their unfit offspring? I couldn't show them being quite as cruel as they were. I didn't want to render Sparta in overly accurate terms, because ultimately I do want you to root for the Spartans. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. Frank Miller, author of the graphic novel 300, talked about the nature of the Spartans in an interview, "The Spartans were a paradoxical people. Many of the Greek soldiers, who fought with the Spartan elite at the Battle of Thermopylae, were forced to fight because they were slaves.
Greeks, including the Spartans, conquered neighboring areas to acquire more land and to build their slave labor force.
The Spartans were not as 'good' as the movie portrays them to be.
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