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The New Beowulf movie.
TheFuriousWombat:
--- Quote from: SusurrusIgnoramus on 19 Nov 2007, 11:45 ---i'm aware of that. all i'm saying is, having two completely detached plots like that would seem out of place in the movie. so, i like how they conected the two.
you guys are acting like the book was a seamlessly crafted masterpiece to begin with... it was transcribed from pre-christian oral tradition... which probably had counless different versions, then the transcriber(s) added christian bits... then all but one copy of it was lost, and even then, it was partially burned... so what if they took liberties? it's an entertaining movie. if you want the exact story as we have it, read the book.
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Oh....I thought you were being sarcastic when you said you loved that part. Trying to make the plot coherent is fine but taking such absurd liberties as Grendel being the father of the dragon (that seems to be what your post said and I still hope I'm reading it wrong) is fairly insane and, to be kinda blunt, stupid.
Dissy:
I read Beowulf for fun nearly a decade ago. I'm looking forward to seeing the movie.
I like Zemekis, I think he's a pretty good director, I just hope he stays away from Quantum Mechanics and time paradoxes.
Boro_Bandito:
I'm not entirely sure how you got that, but if that is in fact what he's saying Grendel was definitely not the father of the dragon.
What do you mean Hrothgar was Grendel's father? or that Beowulf was the dragon's father? What? Grendel is descended from Cain, and the way it goes in the 1960's book Grendel, the dragon is as old as time, knows all time, including his own death, and gave Grendel his power of not being able to be hurt by any sword. If they wanted coherence and connectivity, they should have gone with that.
TheFuriousWombat:
I mis-typed. I meant to type "Beowulf was the father of the dragon" in disbelief because that is indeed what the post says: "the whole thing where Hrothgar was Grendel's father and Beowulf was the dragon's." Correct me if I'm wrong but...this is ridiculous.
MusicScribbles:
I'm disappointed in Neil Gaiman. I liked Stardust a lot and this sounds like a step back from the potential shown in Stardust.
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