History Film / ThreeHundred

---> '''Dilios:''' Just there, the barbarian's halar. ''Sheer terror'' gripping tight. Their hearts, with icy fingers, knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of three hundred. Yet they stare now, across the plain, at ''ten thousand Spartans'', commanding thirty thousand free Greeks! ARROH!!
---> '''Greek Soldiers''': ARROH!! ARROH!
*** A slightly more subtle one that manages to apply not just to the Spartans, but to all of Greece itself: when Dilios is wrapping up, he mentions, in a purely motivational moment, that "The enemy outnumbers us a paltry three-to-one. Good odds for ''any'' Greek".

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The Ephors are grotesque, pl lecherous and corrupt. Many of the villainous Persians are freakish and inhuman. Ephialtes betrays his fellow Spartans when they do not accept him for his deformity. By contrast, the heroic Spartans are all either good-looking beefcake men or (especially in the case of Queen Gorgo) dazzlingly beautiful women.

* BlockingStopsAllDamage: The film takes this to parodic levels. Anything behind the shields is basically invulnerable.

* ConservationOfNinjitsu: 300 vs 1,000,000. There were a few thousand Arcadians but they get three seconds of screentime.

** A slightly more subtle one that manages to apply not just to the Spartans, but to all of Greece itself: when Dilios is wrapping up his account at the end as a prelude to the Battle of Plataea, he mentions, in a purely motivational moment, that "The enemy outnumbers us a mere three-to-one. Good odds for ''any'' Greek".

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The Ephors are grotesque, lecherous and corrupt. Many of the villainous Persians are freakish and inhuman. Ephialtes betrays his fellow Spartans when they do not accept him for his deformity. By contrast, the heroic Spartans are all either good-looking beefcake men or (especially in the case of Queen Gorgo) dazzlingly beautiful women.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Leonidas and his 300 (save for Dillios) are dead. But their HeroicSacrifice inspires all Greece to unite against the Persian invaders.]]

** Leonidas asks the Arcadian soldiers what their professions are, resulting in many admissions that the Arcadians were largely just tradesmen (such as artisans and blacksmiths), then turns to his own men.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The Ephors are grotesque, lecherous and corrupt. Many of the villainous Persians are freakish and inhuman. Ephialtes betrays his fellow Spartans when they do not accept him for his deformity.

'''Leonidas''': You see, old friend? I've brought more soldiers than you did.[[note]]Also very much TruthInTelevision, as Sparta was the only city-state known to have who trained their men ''from birth'' to be warriors first and foremost at the expense of learning any other skill (those were handled by Spartan slaves), while every other Greek city-state simply added combat training to additional skills, with practically everyone else in Greece being a tradesman first and soldier second.[[/note]]

** Leonidas asks the Arcadian soldiers what their professions are, resulting in many admissions that the Acadians were largely just tradesman (such as potters, artisans and blacksmiths), then turns to his own men.

'''Leonidas''': You see, old friend? I've brought more soldiers than you did.[[note]]Also very much TruthInTelevision, as Sparta was the only city-state known to have who trained their men ''from birth'' to be warriors first and foremost at the expense of learning any other skill (those were handled by Spartan slaves), while every other Greek city-state simply added combat training to additional skills, with practically everyone in Greece being a tradesman first and soldier second.[[/note]]

** Leonidas asks the Arcadian soldiers what their professions are, then turns to his own men.

'''Leonidas''': You see, old friend? I've brought more soldiers than you did.

%%* TheBerserker: The Uber-Immortal.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The Spartans are portrayed overall as good guys, but the story still contains reminders of their bloodlust. It opens with one of them lovingly describing mass ritual infanticide (which [[TruthInTelevision actually happened]], by the way).

* HeDidntMakeIt: Extreme case. [[spoiler: Few of the Greeks survived]]. Reinforced with the fact that Dilios was the sole survivor to return, making him the deliverer of the bad news.

* LeaveNoSurvivors

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Both sides hack a lot of limbs and heads off quite cleanly like a hot knife through butter, despite having only iron weapons.

* Several Spartans join Stelios and Astinos in laughter while arrows continue to fall*

* DreamCrushingHandicap: Sorry Ephilates, but you're too deformed to join the 300 Spartans.

* RefugeInAudacity: Leonidas' plan to use LoopholeAbuse to get around the fact he legally ''can't'' go to War. He's simply going for a walk, perhaps to the Hot Gates, whilst accompanied by 300 [[BlatantLies "bodyguards"]]. …what's illegal about ''that''?!