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Book Vs. Movie

10/22/2018

49 Comments

 
Daily Literary Quote
“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.”
-Stephen King

Journal Prompt
Discuss some of the differences between the text of Beowulf and the 2007 film adaptation. What do you think these changes show about our society?
49 Comments
Joe
10/22/2018 10:40:45 am

In the movie Beowulf didn’t kill grendels mother like he did in the book.

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Konner
10/22/2018 10:48:54 am

Indeed this happened

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Nate
10/23/2018 10:05:38 am

Correct Joseph

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will
10/23/2018 10:05:56 am

Yes it does

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Kayla
10/22/2018 10:42:37 am

We definitely have our own interpretation of a story. We also change things to fit what we want and our own version of the story. It definitely shows how much we have changed.

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Nick heble
10/22/2018 10:46:09 am

The text is more appropriate than the film. Shows that our society nowadays has dirtier minds.

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Konner
10/22/2018 10:47:59 am

The text went into a lot more detail than the movie did.

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Nutt
10/23/2018 10:09:58 am

This is true. Hollywood only pics certain parts from a novel to keep unchanged to fit their desires.

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Aimee
10/23/2018 10:04:36 am

The film is much easier to understand than the text. We use more of modern language in the film than in the text. We also change some terms to things that we understand. We as a society add things that make it easier to understand because with films we don’t want to have to work to understand it.

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Cherish
10/23/2018 10:07:27 am

We definitely need ways to better understand things and changing language and dialogue is one of the easiest ways of doing so.

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Jennifer
10/23/2018 10:09:25 am

You are correct my good sir.

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Kiana Farnworth
10/23/2018 10:11:58 am

I agree, our society does not like to work for understanding they like things to put into more simple terms.

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Katelyn
10/23/2018 10:14:20 am

It’s true. People show it when they make a movie based on a book and leave some significant details out.

Hailey jo
10/23/2018 10:12:05 am

I definitely agree that the movie is way easier to follow

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Katelyn
10/23/2018 10:12:11 am

Dialects in our language change, it shows with books, movies, and even T.V. shows.

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Will
10/23/2018 10:04:53 am

In the movie Beowulf did not kill Grendel’s mother, and the dragon was Beowulf’s son. I think that this show that our society likes to exploited gaps in stories to make more money.

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Robyn
10/23/2018 10:09:17 am

Yeah most likely, although in the original there’s not really a hole in the plot there, they just kinda created one

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Alexis Anderson
10/23/2018 10:15:41 am

They made it different so people would watch the movie, it’s the climax of the movie

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Connor born
10/23/2018 10:05:14 am

In the text Beowulf didn’t fall in love with Grendal’s Mother and have a kid and hrothgar didn’t kill himself. I think it shows that people like love stories and a lot of drama.

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Kayla
10/23/2018 10:07:09 am

That is very true

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Cherish
10/23/2018 10:08:58 am

People do like a good love story that has a lot of drama in it as well.

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Brandon Westfall
1/28/2019 10:19:05 am

This is true

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Cherish
10/23/2018 10:06:14 am

The text was more developed and not as dirty minded. In the movie, Beowulf never ended up killing Grendel’s mother and the dragon ended up being his son. These changes show that society needs different ways to view things and that over time concepts evolve.

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Nate
10/23/2018 10:06:21 am

The book went into a lot more detail but I like movies cause you don’t have to read

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Aimee
10/23/2018 10:08:10 am

I agree. Not reading is nice.

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Nick
10/23/2018 10:09:50 am

Same

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Jennifer
10/23/2018 10:11:01 am

Reading can definitely be more difficult to follow than a movie.

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Brandon Westfall
10/23/2018 10:06:27 am

In the poem, Beowulf succeeds Hygelac after his death. In the film however, Beowulf succeeds Hrothgar after taking Hrothgar’s curse upon himself. Beowulf has no weaknesses in the poem and in the film his weakness is love. We as a society enjoy love stories and they are a bit of a cliche now.

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Kayla
10/23/2018 10:08:03 am

Why do you think that is?

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Brook
10/23/2018 10:08:27 am

True

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Connor
10/23/2018 10:09:17 am

True I said the same thing

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Robyn
10/23/2018 10:11:40 am

I agree with that, also weaknesses make the story more relatable though

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Alexis Anderson
10/23/2018 10:20:21 am

Why do yoU you think society swayed from battle driven and powerful stories to love stories in preference?

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Nutt
10/23/2018 10:07:09 am

The difference between Beowulf the poem and Beowulf the movie is that the poem sounds like a captivating folk lore and the movie was made by someone who abuses psychedelics. The movie was visually appealing and amusing and in today’s society most would rather have a Hollywood crew set up the imagination for us instead of creating our own from reading.

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Brandon Westfall
1/28/2019 10:20:10 am

I agree

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Sarah
10/23/2018 10:07:27 am

I was taking a test during the movie so I didn't see it.

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Nutt
10/23/2018 10:12:11 am

Radical. It was a great movie, you missed out. I highly recommend watching it.

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Robyn
10/23/2018 10:07:27 am

One of the differences between the poem and the movie adaption is that Beowulf has a wife. This shows that maybe our society values having partners more than the Vikings

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Kiana Farnworth
10/23/2018 10:07:40 am

In Beowulf the movie, we romanticized the situation as well as adding a more tragic element. We as a society love movies with these elements, and I think it’s because we’re bored with our own lives and we view such things as making life more worth while.

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Jennifer
10/23/2018 10:08:16 am

The movie was definitely a lot kinkier than the text was. I think that the film shows how people’s minds change over time and how things that may not have been inappropriate back than are considered inappropriate now.

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Nate
10/23/2018 10:09:44 am

Definitely true

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Aimee
10/23/2018 10:10:32 am

I agree that the movie was a lot more suggestive then the text was.

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Nick
10/23/2018 10:11:28 am

That’s what I was thinking

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Hailey jo
10/23/2018 10:13:26 am

You can definitely see the change in minds 😂

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Kiana Farnworth
10/23/2018 10:14:06 am

I agree, we due tend to sexualize things that were seen as innocent back in the day.

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Alexis Anderson
10/23/2018 10:09:56 am

Books allow more imagination so naturally people prefer most books. I preferred the Beowulf text over the movie, I got to use what it’s thought they should look like and act like.

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Katelyn Herbst
10/23/2018 10:10:26 am

In the text, Beowulf did kill Grendel’s mother and he wasn’t related to the dragon in anyway. Hrothgar didn’t kill himself and didn’t hand his crown over to Beowulf, who was supposed to be king of the geats after his uncle passed. Another differences was the dialogue and how the story was told in the movie. This shows how modern movie interprete old stories for modern audiences. The plot points highlight the fact that Hollywood likes to interprete more drama and romance into their movies to make more money.

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Hailey Jo
10/23/2018 10:10:47 am

The 2007 movie version added many holleywood twists. Like the killing of Grendel’s mom never happened and Beowulf didn’t go back to his land and rule.

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Saymen
10/23/2018 10:14:29 am

The movie is little bit reflect modern day movie standard. The book is still the same as it was in the old times and also had th old culture.

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