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To avoid any legal trouble or being thrown in jail, Leonidas works around the corruption that prevented him from sending his army north and puts together a group of Sparta’s finest 300, to ‘go for a stroll’ and ‘stretch their legs’.
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As king he does not have limitless power, so he does what he sees necessary to gain approval to send an Army north and fight the Persian Army – and he is rejected. However, as King of Sparta there are still channels Leonidas must go through to see this happen. When the freedom of the Spartan’s is threatened by The Persian Army, a gigantic combination of all the nations conquered by Xerxes, the king of Sparta Leonidas (Gerard Butler), decides that something must be done to fight off an invasion and save Sparta.
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As all Spartan’s were soldiers by trade first, they were professional fighters and warriors more so than most other armies. From childhood they are trained in combat, and put through rigorous tests and punishment to toughen them up for a lifestyle as a Spartan warrior. The movie starts with an introduction into the upbringing of a Spartan man.Īt birth they are inspected with only the most physically healthy specimens being kept.