If a newborn was deformed or otherwise deemed unfit it was put down. Older mentors adopted young boys as sexual objects. They periodically raided their neighbors, the peaceful Helots, for slaves. Sparta must have been a nice place to visit though you wouldn't want to live there.
Too bad they distilled Spartan culture into nothing more than a lot of heroes taking "drunk delight in battle with my peers." The Spartans certainly fought well and the battle scenes are impressive except when they lapse into very slow motion or are overcranked to lightning speed. This kind of binary thinking is dangerous because it's liable to lead us into believing that this is the way the real world works - all good versus all evil - whereas in fact God didn't make the universe in a way that renders it so easy for humans to understand. There is no overlap between good (white Spartans) and evil (black Persians). It's thought provoking but the thoughts it provokes are primitive. Turner, smoky and smudged, but slowly swirling. Can you photoshop a group scene? If it weren't for the photography and f/x it could be a sword and sandal epic from 1958 filmed in Cinecittá starring Lance Sterling (née Guglielmo Gogliucci).īut the photography alone almost redeems the film. In fact, they're built almost identically. The women are attractive and it's interesting to see that the queen has been outfitted by Dior or somebody, wearing a dress cut perilously low on her iliac crests. Some of the monsters (for that's how they're depicted) overplay their roles, if that's possible. Not midnight blue but kind of a neon blue. Images are in high contrast and tinted a kind of gold except at night, when they're tinted a kind of blue. If it has any redeeming social value it's probably that the kids who are the intended audience will learn that there was once a city called Sparta that wasn't in Mississippi.īut the photography and f/x are something special. As far as I can remember - I was there but it's been a long time - it's reasonably accurate historically although perforce some of the dialog must be fabricated. The story of Spartan King Leonidas holding the Persian Army of Xerxes at bay at the battle of Thermopylae. The Spartan defeat was not the one expected, as a local shepherd, named Ephialtes, defected to the Persians and informed Xerxes that the separate path through Thermopylae, which the Persians could use to outflank the Greeks, was not as heavily guarded as they thought. After 3 days of battle all the Greeks were killed. Xerxes waited for 10 days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw but left with no options he pushed forward. Persian King Xerxes led a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae.
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