Watch: Gerard Butler Goes Full On 300 While Visiting Sparta

Demented fantasy motion transfer 300 is remembered for exactly two issues: ridiculously jacked males preventing relentlessly whereas sporting little or no, and Gerard Butler’s King Leonidas kicking an emissary of the advancing warlord Xerxes right into a properly after the person calls for submission, declaring “This! Is! Sparta!” in his distinctively broad West of Scotland accent.

The actor lately had an opportunity to reference his infamous position upon a go to to the historic Greek metropolis as a part of the Torch Relay forward of the Olympic Video games to start in July in Tokyo. The remainder of the deliberate relay has now been cancelled on account of the chance of spreading the Coronavirus as a result of crowds the occasion attracts, with the viability of the Video games themselves going forward being presently unsure, however assembled followers have been left with a memorable second as Butler spoke of the settlement’s synonymy with braveness and heroism.

Gerard Butler in Sparta, below the statue of Leonidas, this morning.#Greece_under_attack #IStandWithGreece#ThisIsSparta pic.twitter.com/VJKilzErmM

— The Duke (@john_wayne_gr) March 13, 2020

300 was launched in 2006, when director Zack Snyder was merely the man who had helmed the first rate remake of Daybreak of the Lifeless and Gerard Butler was that beefy Scottish dude you might need remembered from Dracula 2000, Reign of Hearth or Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life. The movie itself is now thought of, when considered in any respect, as a throwaway story riddled with historic inaccuracies and misrepresentations, and an early instance of the CGI overkill that was to grow to be an indicator of Snyder’s directorial type.

The second of Butler’s speech was decidedly tacky and given the selection of the 300 star as torch bearer was almost definitely deliberate out properly upfront, however to invoke the final stand of a hero of antiquity, by an actor who as soon as performed him, beneath a statue depicting him within the metropolis he as soon as dominated, it was however a stirring second acknowledging the everlasting place in historical past Sparta holds, and the way its tradition has remained related proper to the fashionable day.