Movie Review 1

300 (filmed in 2006)

This movie starts with how strict spartan survival law was, like if a baby boy was born sick, puny or weak, is to be discarded. By the time the boy could stand, he starts a warrior-training and learn the golden rule: never to retreat and never to surrender and how dying in the battlefield is the highest glory achieved. When the boy reaches the age of 7, he is forced into the a" battlefield", starved, learned to steal food, and if necessary, to kill. When he comes of age, he is thrown into the wild to learn survival skills. The young boy who is King Leonidas slayed a wolf and survived, returning to Sparta as a king.

The movie continues with spartan who has an eye-patch telling a story to his soldiers. It is a story about Persians under the rule of King Xerxes have already taken over some of the Hellenic city-states, and now threaten Sparta and Athens. King Leonidas is faced with threats by a messenger but kills him instead as no Sparta surrenders.

Brave Ling Leonidas brings his "personal body guard army" composed of three hundred warriors to defend the passage of Thermopylae, the only way by land to reach Greece. He only brought 300 as the holy saints who were supposed to give him blessings were corrupted.

Using courage and the great battle skill of his men, he defends Thermopylae until a treacherous Greek citizen tells King Xerxes a secret goat passage leading to the back of Leonidas's army. Meanwhile, his wife Queen of Sparta tries to convince the council to send the Spartan army to fight against the Persians. He then sent a Spartan back to Spartan who has lost an eye. ( The story teller)

King Leonidas bowed down before King Xerxes but it was only part of his plot. He then throws his spear at him which grazed King Xerxes. He and his man was then killed in a wave of arrows. Before he died, he showed his only regret, leaving his wife.

It is then led back to the story-teller. He then boosts the army's morale about how 300 Spartas did well, and how 10000 is going to make a difference.