Dana Stevens: A Movie Only a Spartan Could Love

(From when it was originally released. Courtesy of Stephen Groening.)

A Movie Only a Spartan Could Love: The battle epic 300.
by Dana Stevens
Slate



If 300, the new battle epic based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, had been made in Germany in the mid-1930s, it would be studied today alongside The Eternal Jew as a textbook example of how race-baiting fantasy and nationalist myth can serve as an incitement to total war. Since it's a product of the post-ideological, post-Xbox 21st century, 300 will instead be talked about as a technical achievement, the next blip on the increasingly blurry line between movies and video games.

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