There is much excellent smiting, some of it unfortunately toned down a little in order to keep a PG-13 rating - so we don't actually get to see Grendel biting men's heads off, just people's reactions to him doing so. Most importantly, the story is not a travesty of the original....
The dialog is like bad Shakespeare. The actors try to match the dialog. It mostly feels like a stage play. The director doesn't take full advantage of the cinematography of the vast landscape. The lack of CGI also held it back some. It looks like a movie with more ambition than budget...
Born March 31, 1927—William Daniels, 95. He’s the voice of KITT on theKnight Riderseries on the movie came afterwards. He also has genre appearances inThe Ghost & Mrs. Muir, the originalKolchak: The Night Stalker,The Incredible Hulk,Galactica 1980,Faerie Tale Theatre,Touched by an Angel...
The original poem exists only in manuscript form. Narrator? A Christian narrator telling a story of pagan times Point of View? The narrator recounts the story in the third person, from a generally objective standpoint—detailing the action that occurs. The narrator does, however, have access to...
As a digitally created movie,Beowulflooks as good as it should do considering that the DVD was probably mastered from the original files before the theaters even took delivery of their old-fangled film prints! The 2.35:1 ratio brings Beowulf’s murky and shadowy world to life, and the film...
Thefirstthreelinesoftheoriginalpoemaregivenhereasspecimen. •Hwaet!WeGar-Dena(ingear-dagum •peod-cyningaprymgefranon, •hupaaeblingasellenfremedon. •(Lo!WeSpear-Danesindayslongpast •Ofwarriorkingsgloryhaveheard, •Howtheprinceswroughtdeedsofprowess.) Onepeculiarcharacteristicofstylein“Beow...
The second, the fall of a last defender of a people’s liberty, leaving them without hope. Beowulf the bear-man, the giant-killer comes from a different world: fairy-story. Scedeland contains the Old English form of the very ancient name seen now in the name Scandinavia. Its original fo...
The original manuscript of Beowulf, contained in the Nowell Codex, is preserved at the British Library. Beowulf is a fascinating text to study to learn about Anglo-Saxon culture and values, as well as early Christianity. The structure of Beowulf is very much aligned with Joseph Campbell's ...
The Old English epic poem Beowulf has an established reputation as a canonical text. And yet the original poem has remained inaccessible to all but experienced scholars of Old English. This book aims to present the poem to readers who want to know what makes it such a remarkable work of art...
The first three lines of the original poem are given here as specimen. Hwaet! We Gar-Dena (in gear-dagum peod-cyninga prym gefranon, hupa aeb lingas ellen fremedon. (Lo! We Spear-Danes in days long past Of warrior kings’ glory have heard, How the princes wrought deeds of prowess....