The phrase is a mockery of Vladimir Putin's famous quote from 2018, commenting on a possibility of a nuclear war: "In case of a nuclear war we'll become martyrs and go to heaven, but they'll just croak". Made by Weekly18, reposted by various meme channels in telegram

Disclaimer: I would not want to take away the fun from anybody who enjoys a non-PC and over-the-top Leni Riefenstahl remake for a laugh 👍🏼 (Edit: Riefenstahl was Hitler's technically ingenius yet blind to everthing else female film director). BUT...

People also tend to be "inspired" by this movie without seeing that it resembles a fascist propaganda film to the smallest detail.

Since most comments under most reviews on YT don't seem to notice this at all - it is to me a cautionary tale why to this day Nazi propaganda films in Germany are only published with commentary - because they still bloody work.

300: This film is literally about the invention of nationalism where the good guys kill babies for eugenics, where politicians, the clergy, disabled, effeminate men and foreigners drag the state down and it has to be saved by military rule.

(In detail: The messengers are killed by protagonist which is usually something despicable. The politicians are weak useless talkers unable to take action. The priests have to be paid and are desease riddled lepers licking and soiling the marble white girl. The traitor Ephialtes is disabled and can be bought for sex with deformed ladies. Traitor at home has darker skin then everybody around, effeminate by wearing jewellery and mascara, he can be bought and is a rapist. Same style for Xerxes - and although he offers the Spartans to live as they please only to be part of a wider alliance he is the baddy because this is a insult to the their national pride. Nationalism is the driving force here.

Another point would be to go into the "homo - but no homo" thing: While the shaved and oiled bodybuilders penetrating each other in slow-mo are deeply homoerotic we have the one scene where the king is standing butg naked in the moonlight (gay as can be) but then hilariously does the queen in 17 different positions in 30 seconds to drive home the point: The Alpha is the only one with "clean" sex, everybody else is perverted (see descriptions above).

Then the military ruler ignores the impotent senate and "saves" the Nation.

Cheers.