The 300 film escalated Persians from effeminate to demonic monsters

Evidence

While the graphic novel portrayed the Persians as effeminate (in contrast to the overly masculine Spartans), and in the case of the Immortals, sinister, the film presents them as demonic, monstrous and mutant-like. The narrator further brings fantasy-like beasts into his account: the mammoth elephants of the graphic novel are even bigger and are joined by a giant rhinoceros in the film. The film further supplies Persian magicians that hurl sparkly grenades, the Immortals let loose the savage and gigantic Uber Immortal (as he is generally referred to by fans), and the axe-man, with whom a displeased Xerxes executes his generals, turns in the film into a mutant-like creature with Paleolithic-like axe appendages for hands. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 674

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why does adaptation to film require escalation from effeminacy to full demonic mutation? What does moving image demand of the monster?