 Dana Stevens of Slate states , " 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 . 
