Credit Victor Davis Hanson for 300 film

Posted by: Ion | March 7th, 2007 · 7:28 AM

Frank Miller, on what persuaded him to approve a film adaptation of 300:

I met [director] Zack Snyder…It turns out we shared the same favorite historian, Victor Davis Hanson. I realized, I’m dealing with a kindred soul here. So I did the only sensible thing, which was to say yes.

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Hanson on 300:

My daughter and son and I are going to the premier of the 300 this Monday in Hollywood. After watching a rough cut CD last October, I wrote the introduction to the picture book accompanying the film.The key to remember is that Zack Snyder’s film is, in the tradition of Frank Miller’s comics, a stylized adaptation, not intended to follow exactly the story right out of the pages of Herodotus and Plutarch. Its heroic nudity (e.g., the warriors often fight bare-chested) reminds me a lot of hoplites on Greek vase-paintings, and some of the cinematographic rules are sort of like the conventions of Greek drama. But the message of Herodotus comes through the impressionism, especially its unapologetic affinity with the Spartans and Thespians holding the pass.

I’m looking forward to seeing the final edited version on Monday, and will post something on the screening then.

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