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Originally Posted by LustyBucks
Great trailer! I hope the movie will be even better. Although it is more fantasy movie, not a historical one  |
That may be but it's based on actual events. I have studies a lot about Spartan culture and history and I can tell by the previews that there are already some things in it that stay true to the events as we know them.
Persia had conquered almost all of the known world at the time. You can see in the previews that the Spartans fought several armies in those 3 days. King Xerxes threw a different army at them each day and night. They fought the Egyptians, Greeks that had been subjugated, East Indian armies, Persian tribes, A viking like race and the immortals themselves. The immortals where an elite fighting force taken from the kings own personal best. They where the best fighters of the time and called the immortal because they where almost never killed in battle. You can see them from the masks on their heads in the trailer. Even though they where renowned throughout the world as supreme warriors the Spartans still kicked their asses. It was them in the end that defeated the Spartans though. They found a way to outflank them and in the end they where coming at them from both sides. The Spartans where betrayed by a former Greek who had told the Persian king about a goat path that could be used to go around the Spartan army and attack from behind.
In those days attacking a Spartan Phalanx from the front would be like an infantry unit attacking a row of tanks head on, complete suicide. When the Spartans formed up in ranks they where known as the milling machine because everything in their path was cut to pieces