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Messenger:
Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king. King Leonidas:
[to himself: thinking]
"Earth and water"? [Leonidas unsheathes and points his sword at the Messenger's throat] Messenger:
Madman! You're a Madman! King Leonidas:
Earth and water? You'll find plenty of both down there. Messenger:
No man, Persian or Greek, no man threatens a messenger! King Leonidas:
You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same! Messenger:
This is blasphemy! This is madness! King Leonidas:
Madness...? [shouting] King Leonidas:
This is Sparta! [Kicks the messenger down the well]
Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king. King Leonidas:
[to himself: thinking]
"Earth and water"? [Leonidas unsheathes and points his sword at the Messenger's throat] Messenger:
Madman! You're a Madman! King Leonidas:
Earth and water? You'll find plenty of both down there. Messenger:
No man, Persian or Greek, no man threatens a messenger! King Leonidas:
You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same! Messenger:
This is blasphemy! This is madness! King Leonidas:
Madness...? [shouting] King Leonidas:
This is Sparta! [Kicks the messenger down the well]
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Oh I've chosen my words carefully Persian
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Perhaps you should have done the same
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This is blasphemy This is madness
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Madness
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This is Sparta
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Movie Summary
King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

