My King ! Look

Rating: 7/10 (19 April 2008)

There are many who pretend and then there are many who pretend.This film was viewed by me perhaps as many as 7 times within 6 weeks and even perhaps viewed more often than stated though it is even now still very viewable.I watched this film that often,as both Ancient Greek History as well as the attention these many reviews engendered required it.It is almost unusual to suggest that it was not this movie that made this worth watching but the defense of thermopylae that did.I did some research and even more so to learn that though this very emotional and power packed plea of the defense of Themopylae was a truly inspiring story.Its amazing underpinning lived on, as its king,King Leonidas said, "Go Tell the Spartans what happened here".It was more than a mere battle cry but a call from the heart of a King in King Leonidas to all of Greece to prepare for battle.This defense and its heroes provided for the kind of ferocious fighting that was to exemplify the ultimate victory that was to finally come when Xerses was defeated by a Greek Army force outside of Athens.This film had that much going for it and that its history was one of the more inspiring moments in all of military annals as well as the annals of the history of the world.What was to occur months and for a time to come, from that time on, was a series of small to very large engagements in which if there was death to its defenders it was committed with certainty as to glory.No defense was given without the taken of the life of the slave army of Persia.It should be further stated that this was not the only major battle that was to occur whereby the outcome was as the result of secret passage accessed by Xerses forces.There is only the echo,"Go tell the Spartans"This film became more and more a film to know, its subject matter required a better and better understanding as it did become both a demand of history and of the value of this particular motion picture.It would seem that the history cannot be denied and it is history that has made this film worth watching all these times and will allow for the watching of this film again.The 300 is characterized by excellent story telling,a most certain leader in the portrayal of King Leonidas and a demand to be up to the challenge that all freedom loving peoples should be aware of that "free men stood up against a tyrant"It is in these sentiments that this film provides its most enduring quality.It is raw and it is present and neither will it fade away.This is a permanent quality,a everlasting voice unto all of time to, "Go Tell The Spartans"This is not only an emotional appeal it is as well an inspirng story as to the very basic underpinning to the word which translated from the Greek means Democracia.This is the kind of interest that this film engendered as its place however humble is made glorious with and because of its pedigree.A natural place, a worthy chapter in the History of Civilization and never to fade even unto glory.A bright star is born in the Defense of Thermopylae.The 300 has the everlasting to thank as time will provide all the help this offer could ever require.This film is its pedigree,without it we are mere mortal with it we live forever.