While realism is important, exaggeration to create dramatic effects helps in perking interest to even more audiences. Troy modify things such as gory battle scenes, high tension between characters like King Menelaus and Achilles, and the Greeks and Trojans, which creates more intense atmosphere. For 300, more exaggeration is shown to show the audience how tough the Spartans were at the time. Scenes such as young Leonidas I surviving in the snowy environment and encountering a beast-like wolf shows how intense their survival skill must have been along with foreshadowing the events later on. This scene may have shown the character of who Leonidas I may have been, but in reality, Sparta would not have snow due to their warm climate all year round,
