> Incidentally, the popular book/film 300, which focuses heavily on the bravery and martial ethos of the Spartans, instead depicts the Persian fleet as being destroyed by a storm prior to the decisive battle. This makes for a simpler story, but at a rather significant loss of historical accuracy.
I'm pretty sure the film stopped caring about historical accuracy when they created a wall out of dead bodies, samurai-ninja-trolls attacked at night, and an executioner with swords-as-arms appeared on screen.