Book Vs. Movie

11/17/2020

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?

58 Comments

Caden

11/17/2020 12:13:00 pm

The movie took many liberties adding in details and events that were not in the book or poem. One of which being the dragon cup that the king give Beowulf

Nicki

11/17/2020 12:17:25 pm

That is true

Colton

11/17/2020 12:22:27 pm

I agree thay had different values in the movie.

Tori

11/17/2020 12:13:21 pm

The description of the character in the book compared to the movie is way different then I had pictured.

Avery Cole

11/17/2020 12:15:26 pm

Very true!

Faith

11/17/2020 12:17:33 pm

I like this!

Lani

11/17/2020 12:18:46 pm

I thought the same thing

Avery Cole

11/17/2020 12:13:35 pm

The film of Beowulf has many differences from the book. The first one is Beowulf has a son with Grendels Mother. The book talks about Hrunting a lot more then the film does.

Faith

11/17/2020 12:16:49 pm

This is very good!

Tori

11/17/2020 12:17:12 pm

That’s a good point!

Gage

11/17/2020 12:17:24 pm

Very true!

Alexia

11/17/2020 12:17:27 pm

That’s true

Kendall

11/17/2020 12:14:27 pm

The book was confusing because it was in old English and I didn’t understand it. The movie went in depth with all the details towards the book.

Colton Phillips

11/17/2020 12:14:46 pm

The movie was set much more modern than i had expected especially the way the characters spoke.

Lani

11/17/2020 12:19:07 pm

That's very true

Kendall

11/17/2020 12:15:09 pm

True.

Alexia

11/17/2020 12:15:10 pm

A different that I noticed was the interpretation of the characters grendel and grendels mother. In the book they seemed to have a monsters emotion and mentality but in the movie they have more visible humanity. This expresses the changes in our society because our imagination is so wide that not everyone interprets things the same.

Sammy

11/17/2020 12:16:19 pm

I agree, we interpret things differently now.

Nicki

11/17/2020 12:16:35 pm

True

Avery Cole

11/17/2020 12:17:26 pm

I agree!

Sammy

11/17/2020 12:15:18 pm

Some of the major differences are how they show the characters. Grendel was a monster but not the horned creatures we see in the books version. There was also major changes during specific events. Beowulf didn't kill Grendal's mother when he told everyone he had and she turned into the dragon. These changes show that our current society is romance based and doesn't always focus on the historical aspects.

Kendall

11/17/2020 12:15:44 pm

Yeah I noticed that.

Alexia

11/17/2020 12:18:29 pm

Well put, romance is big now

Faith

11/17/2020 12:15:28 pm

Some differences are that the story board in the poem flows a lot more than the movie. Also that beowolf doesn’t kill the mother. It relates to today’s society because people change their story just so others like the idea of them.

Tori

11/17/2020 12:16:17 pm

Beowulf

Gage Bill

11/17/2020 12:18:43 pm

Beowulf

Faith

11/17/2020 12:16:17 pm

Beowulf*

Anthony

11/17/2020 12:16:58 pm

It does flow a lot better.

Karissa

11/17/2020 12:17:50 pm

I agree

Sammy

11/17/2020 12:17:57 pm

That is true, people make their own stories to look better to others.

Jordan

11/17/2020 12:18:42 pm

This is true.

Miriam

11/17/2020 12:19:44 pm

I agree with that fully.

Wyatt Linger

11/17/2020 12:21:07 pm

I agree!

Anthony

11/17/2020 12:15:44 pm

The main difference is that Beowulf is seduced by Grendels mother. In the book he kills her. Society nowadays makes many audience members want a more mature or even inappropriate film.

Jordan

11/17/2020 12:19:20 pm

Unfortunately that's what the generation has turned into.

Wyatt Linger

11/17/2020 12:21:38 pm

True that!

Colton

11/17/2020 12:24:11 pm

I agree i think the movie was made for a present day audience

Nicki

11/17/2020 12:16:00 pm

In the movie Beowulf is persuaded by Grendals mother not to kill her and instead made a baby with her. This is an example on how easily it is to make bad decisions and that they do have consequences.

Emma Dahle

11/19/2020 12:21:19 pm

I didn’t even think about how that is an example of how easy it is to make bad decisions, great point!

Gage bill

11/17/2020 12:16:42 pm

In Beowulf he died from a bit to the neck and in the movie he cut off his arm a fell from a high place when he killed the dragon. Our society something powerful is supposed to happen to the main character and he would live or do something heroic.

Brooke

11/17/2020 12:18:49 pm

Great way of saying that.

Karissa

11/17/2020 12:17:03 pm

My opinion the book and move were a lot different especially with grendels mom. It wasn’t supposed to be a love story how it was in the movie. The changes are connected to our society because no movie or anything is complete without sexual interaction or a love story. A good books without any sexual connection can’t be turned into a movie with out any either and have the audience still think it is good.

Brooke

11/17/2020 12:19:29 pm

I like how you related that to our society.

Taylee Matthews

11/17/2020 12:21:13 pm

Yes exactly

Jordan

11/17/2020 12:17:03 pm

The movie is a lot different than the book. For starters, Beowulf killed grendel's mother in the book, but had a kid with her in the movie. In the book he also didn't lose the sword but in the movie grendel's mother got rid of it.

Emma Dahle

11/19/2020 12:22:14 pm

Those are great examples of how the movie and book are different!

Brooke

11/17/2020 12:17:20 pm

A lot of things were different between the movie and the novel that I didn’t expect. Including the dragon and Beowulf’s friend the novel made it seem like he was young not old. It relates to our society now with how everything has to be sexualized for people to watch, or how there has to be a lot of drama when it wasn’t like that during the poem.

Miriam

11/17/2020 12:18:23 pm

I definitely didn’t even think about the age differences.

Miriam

11/17/2020 12:17:34 pm

During the movie the writers of the script had to had in a “juicier” storyline for the end of the story. They added the affair between the kinds and grendel’s mother.

Taylee Matthews

11/17/2020 12:20:08 pm

Very true

Lani

11/17/2020 12:18:22 pm

The characters in the movie especially Grendel and his mother were portrayed very differently. In the movie they're more human like but in the book they are described as demons and more animal like it seems.

Emma Dahle

11/17/2020 12:24:59 pm

That's a great point, about being described as humans rather than demons and animals. I didn't even think about that.

Wyatt Linger

11/17/2020 12:18:52 pm

The movie Beowulf was different from the book in ways such as the movie showed more pornagraphic depictions of a lot of the characters that were not explained. Beowulf fighting Grendel’s mother didn’t kill her and instead made a deal with her that was different from him killing Grendel’s mom with an enchanted sword. The dragon in the end of the book was not Beowulf’s son it was just a dragon that was awoke by someone stealing treasure. He was also bitten in the neck and died of dragon poisoning instead of falling off a cliff with his arm cut off. They also added a horn piece of treasure that glowed that wasn’t in the book

Taylee Matthews

11/17/2020 12:19:37 pm

Some differences in the book and novel are Grendels mom. Also how Beowulf does not kill her like he does in the book. The movie tries to be more modern then the book so it’s easier to follow along too.

Emma Dahle

11/17/2020 12:21:49 pm

Not killing Grendel's mother was a huge change, for sure.

Emma Dahle

11/17/2020 12:20:37 pm

The book and movie, in my opinion were two different stories/plots. One big difference that stood out to me was when Beowulf, instead of killing Gendel's mother, made a deal with her. The movie shows that our society needs an entertaining story to keep interested and how our society needs a "happy ending".

Matt baldwin

11/17/2020 12:21:14 pm

The movie had several differences including the death of Beowulf and the dragon. Beowulf tore the dragons heart out and fell to his death with the dragon.

Josh Grover

11/17/2020 12:21:30 pm

In the movie he just made up the story of killing Grendel's mother.In the book he actually killed her. In the book he was a Geat helping the lord of the Danes, since he was a hero he became the king of the Geats. In the movie he became the king of the Danes.

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