Beowolf

[Joanne Vergin]

Mature audiences only, I would say mature high school kids.

Some nudity. Kind of like Barbie and Ken.........................

If you read the book it does not follow it closely.


With that said,















Watch it in 3-D it is so cool!
We saw it at the Imax today.

[Barbara Moulton]

Don't go see it with an English major who has written essays on it.

My daughter was completed frustrated with the whole thing and the huge departures from the original epic poem.

I found it quite gross in spots. Had to turn away from the screen.

[Ryan Scott]

My daughter was completed frustrated with the whole thing and the huge departures from the original epic poem.


I always thought the original translations were so bad, no one really knows what went on in the story.

[Barbara Moulton]

I always thought the original translations were so bad, no one really knows what went on in the story.

Spoiler alert! Details from this movie included in this post.

Well, my daughter is doing an essay on this right now. She has taken two different translations to compare how they present the story.

My feeling (based on what she has told me) is that the basic story is fairly easy to follow. But the nuances of the characters are what can be interpreted differently.

But...in no translation did Beowolf ever become King of the Danes, marry the queen and have intimate relations with Grendel's mother.

[Ken Pell]

I've been wanting to see this movie for a while. waited for video.

I was underwhelmed. I thought there was enough action in the original poem to fill a movie w/o someone needing to "improve" on it by adding the sex with a demon and Beowulf's monarchy. :gen03

I would like to have seen the special effects in 3d though. I suspect the 3d might have help keep me interested too.

I think there are some themes with this "creative adaptation" of the movie that could be explored though.

> Sin & consequence
> The allurement of temptation
> Human weakness
> Pride
> Conscience

[Susan Unger]

Don't go see it with an English major who has written essays on it.

My daughter was completed frustrated with the whole thing and the huge departures from the original epic poem.

I am that way too. My college honors class [went to a different school than ONU as a freshman] took a trip to Stratford, ON for the Shakespeare plays. I was confused the entire time. The settings and costumes were just too non-shakespearean for me. It must be the in thing though cuz when I went to Stratford-on-Avon a few years later [with ONU group], I saw a shakespearen play with the same settings and costumes. Ya know, you really haven't seen Zeus in a play til you have seen him in a WWII fighter plane rattling off the Queen's english [Liz I that is]. :rolleyes: