Exploring the movie 300

300 is one of my all time favorite movies. Mostly because it's based on actual events. No one knows for sure how the spartans actually fought because, like Xerxes said, he would destroy all records of the spartans. So the only reason we know about this war and the battle of Thermopylae, the battle portrayed in the movie, is by word of mouth that was passed down through the generations.
One question you might have about the movie is what is up with the creatures and huge monsters. Well, they all represent the evil and nastiness of Xerxes and his army. He wanted the land of sparta and the people for slaves. So putting those in the movies was just a wise way of showing how evil the persians were.
Also, you might wonder what the deal is with the ugly people at the top of the mountain Leonidas climbs at the beginning of the movie and why is there a lady dancing around in clothes you can see through. Well, the wise ugly people were ugly for a reason. They didn't like the spartans at all or there ways of life. But that is who Leonidas had to talk to so he could go to war. Now the lady that was dancing around and was mumbling stuff is a practice that the ugly wise people actually used. The odor that they unleashed was a hallucinagent that made people do crazy things. But at the time, they thought is was a why for the gods to talk to us through people. But to please the gods, they chose the most beautiful women to do this.
So I hope I cleared up some things on the movie 300 and what the directors were trying to portray.