The Art of No Compromises

@breezecardenas3941 3 years ago

I love this scene because everything Leonidas said is true. And it wasn't said in an arrogant or demeaning way. If you can't do the job properly, you can't be apart of the team. But tending to the wounded and sick is a very noble and honorable act.

@reinforcer9000 2 years ago

"We fight as a single impenetrable unit." *Breaks formation to fight single combat in slow motion*

@tron3entertainment 4 years ago

Heck, one look at him and most would have fled in fear.

@est.sar.9276 2 years ago

Leonidas showed Ephialtes respect, but also was brutally honest towards him. I can understand Ephialtes frustration, but putting him in the phalanx would only cause him to die quickly.

@QuickDrawDuel 9 years ago

if I was Ephialtes I would of been crushed too but Giving water and clearing the dead is still honorable.

@JohnP-eg1tc 11 years ago

If ephialtes really cared about sparta he would have done what leonidas said. But no he only wanted personal glory. spartans fight for sparta not for there family

@taliawtf6944 4 years ago

This is also a nice illustration of how coddling a child when he is little can do them more harm when they get older. Coddling is a short term kindness but a long term cruelty, had his parents not told him he can be whatever he wants or encouraged him to be something he had no chance of being he may have had a better end.

@davidtendernuts6982 3 years ago

Everyone saying why didn't Leonidas just put him in front so he'd die first. That is not a real King move. He literally said he would die for anyone of his men to Xerxes. That would include the hunch back if he joined the battle. Xerxes doesn't give a damn how many people die serving him, that's why he recruited dude so easily. "You have many slaves, but few warriors." - King Leonidas

@NYG5 10 years ago

WE FORM A PHALANX, IT IS THE SOURCE OF ALL OUR STRENGTH WHICH IS WHY DURING THE BATTLES WE ALL RUN OFF AND FIGHT ONE ON ONE IN SLOW MO

@bushido7380 4 years ago

From that day on no one gave his son the name Ephialtes... Cause that name carried shame of traitor to free people of Greece And that folks is true story.

@twitchsopamanxx 4 years ago

"Very well. You will wait behind the phalanx; once we break ranks, you charge" And thus, Leonidas and his brave 300 managed to hold out, the greek fleet destroyed the persian one, Ephialtes is now a name of honor after dying to save Astinos from a persian axeman, and the greeks won the war. The end.

@sek2126 1 year ago

This scene showed Leonidas’s tragic flaw. The flaw of “unbending”... which led him to “break”.

@michaelreifsnider3182 2 years ago

Ephialtes. May you live forever

@DanielG1095 5 years ago

Won’t accept him because of how their phalanxes work yet 5 min later he goes off by himself in super slow motion killing everyone

@nx9100 1 year ago

I understand why what happened happened. But imagine this: after saying he cannot use him in the battle line, Leonidas instead askes him to lead the other Greeks through the goat path, and "show them how a Spartan fights." Thus, Ephialtes becomes critical to a Spartan victory, and dies what they call a "beautiful death" protecting his king and in his own eyes "earning his spartan name". Leonidas has him proclaimed a hero, and his name is remembered in history with honor...

@CBU2221990 4 years ago

Honestly he could have just sugarcoated him with bs by letting him join & told him to position himself in front of the battle formation so he gets killed easily so that he wouldn’t be much of a bother or burden afterwards.