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Come on, the Spartans were awesome, the movie Spartans even more so, but do you really think that from a quarter-mile away Leo intended only to wound Xerses?
The Spartans all knew it was the end, and that they would never surrender, and were simply planning to sell their lives as dearly as possible. Leo was trying to spear X, missed, and finished up by doing as much damage as he could before the bitter end.
Yes, when your position is defendable by a 30-wide line of men, any crack in that position is going to greatly weaken the advantage.
They didn't really portray the key strategies of the real battle very well at all. But a phalanx is not as sexy to watch as a much of individual (gorgeous) fighters on an open field, which is exactly opposite of what happened. But you gotta do stuff like that for movies.
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