There have been many different versions of the Beowulf story with each different Beowulf movie. The Beowulf movie is fun to watch, but to really appreciate the Beowulf story and understand the Beowulf movie, one should read the original Beowulf poem. ...
Yet Another Beowulf Adaptation... Sooner or later I am going to read the poem, although I am fairly certain I won't like it, being a poem and all. But as movies go I've seen a lot. Beowulf with Cristophe Lambert, the movie that made shiny leather a thing of the past (by introdu...
With 2007’s Beowulf, Robert Zemeckis adapted the classic epic poem for the modern age. When a misshapen monster named Grendel (Crispin Glover) terrorizes a Danish realm, Prince Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) sends out a call for a hero to slay the beast. Into this setting comes manly-man Beo...
CHRISTY LEMIRE
How and why we assign those roles is at the heart of the first-ever serious adaptation of the anonymous poem. The movie systematically leads us through a labyrinth of History, Cultures, the psycho-social reaction to Outsiders and the unfortunate results of those actions to the inescapable ...