We all love to watch movies, but many of us forget that the inspiration for the movies we love can be based on real characters in history.

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From real life spirit walks to moving tales of heroism. This is our list of the top eight movie characters that you didn’t know were based on real people. Stay tuned to find out which of our characters was forced to amputate a part of his own body!
8. King Leonidas, 300
The year is 480 B.C. The massive Persian Empire is closing in on the free states of Greece. In the North, Athens is the home of democracy and the Western World’s best chance for freedom to extend into the future. And yet, Athens and the rest of the Greek States are divided, and if Persia is allowed to make landfall and invade mainland Greece, then hundreds of years of wisdom and free- thinking could be lost before they’re ever allowed to grow and flourish. Further south, the Greek city state of Sparta angers and denies the Persians demand for submission. War ensues and soon the Persian Empire’s ships are making ground fall at the nearby coastal pass of Thermopylae. This is the setting for the movie 300, which was based on the real-life battle of Thermopylae, which took place in 480 B.C. The movie dramatizes and makes things a bit more simple and theatrical than the reality of battle between 300 spartans and an army of Persions. Yes, there were 300 spartans that made one of history’s most famous last stands in a small, narrow, valley against the much larger force of Persians; however, when King Leonidas and his spartans were cornered, there were actually 1,100 other Greek soldiers who died fighting by their side, and before that there were over 7,000 men under Leonidas’ command. It was only after the Spartan King realized that the Greeks would lose to the Persians that he pulled back his army into a small coastal valley and dismissed the bulk of his men, before fighting to the heroic end, giving the rest of the Greek forces time to retreat.
7. Spartacus, Spartacus
The 1960’s production Spartacus is an epic tale that reminds us of the true price of freedom. The movie’s titular character, Thracian Spartacus, is a man who was born into slavery.
After a time, Spartacus is sold to a Gladiator trainer, a man named Batiatus. Spartacus spends weeks training in the harshest of conditions, side by side with other slaves. Tired of a life of servitude, and with his newfound combat skills, Spartacus turns on his masters and rallies the rest of the gladiators into rebellion.
The rebels escape Batiatus’ home and sweep the countryside, being joined by other like minded slaves who thirst for a fresh drink from the cup of freedom. With Spartacus at the head of their forces, the slaves make their way further South into Italy, where they cross the sea and seek freedom across the waters.
In the real world, there are many things that we don’t know about Spartacus. Historians generally agree that he was at one time a roman soldier, who was then sold into slavery. It was then that he became an indentured Gladiator. Desiring his freedom, the real-life Spartacus -- just like his movie counterpart -- convinced his fellow slaves to fight their way to freedom -- which they did by seizing kitchen utensils and then stealing carts of gladiator equipment.
Spartacus is said to have been a great military leader and led the men under his command to a number of victories against the highly trained, highly effective, and brutally powerful Roman Legions.
6. Hachi: A Dog’s Tale
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale is a cult classic that many look back upon favorably. In the movie, a professor named Parker Wilson finds an abandoned dog on the tracks of a local railroad station. The dog’s owner can’t be found and the man ends up adopting the small dog. Over the next year, Professor Wilson and the dog, who he names Hachi, become close.
Hachi doesn’t act quite like a normal dog, he doesn’t do tricks and he doesn’t perform for others, but is he is very loyal. The dog follows his master to the train station every day and waits for him to return from his work. One day, though, Hachi’s master never comes home -- and the dog never leaves the train station, he refuses to not find his owner, even though he knows that it will never happen. The movie was based on the story of a dog named Hachiko, a dog that was born in the Eastern city of Ōdate during the years of the 1920s. The story goes that when Hachiko’s master, Hidesaburō Ueno, died in 1925, the dog would visit the Shibuya train station every day for over nine years, until he died in the March of 1935.
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