Book Vs. movie

10/18/2021

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?

33 Comments

Anthony

10/18/2021 10:50:51 am

The film highlights beowulfs weaknesses better instead of making him the perfect hero and adapts well into todays society

Mason LaMont

10/18/2021 12:10:36 pm

The film lacks some of the details that are in the poem. It also adds different things and changes the story to be more presentable to the people.

Ryan Morgan

10/18/2021 12:15:25 pm

I agree, outstanding job.

Garrett

10/18/2021 12:16:25 pm

I agree it does add changes to the film.

trishelle

10/18/2021 12:18:09 pm

I agree with you!

William Rackham

10/18/2021 12:22:15 pm

I agree with your views about the different details.

Toby

10/18/2021 12:45:17 pm

I agree. That's a very good point.

Tyler Martens

10/18/2021 12:12:50 pm

The book goes into more depth than the movie and the fight between Beowulf and Grendel's mom was complete different from one another.

Ryan Morgan

10/18/2021 12:15:53 pm

I agree

Garrett

10/18/2021 12:17:23 pm

The books always go into more detail about things than movies do.

Eliza Fisher

10/18/2021 12:14:20 pm

I think that they way they talk in the story and the text are the most different. When it was first written it was in a completely different language so translating it I'm sure there was a big difference. I think that in todays society to sell a movie they have to add in the elements that they did. Not that I think it is right all the time.

trisehlle

10/18/2021 12:19:58 pm

I agree with you! I think there was a big difference too!

Ryan Morgan

10/18/2021 12:14:26 pm

The film doesn't hit all the points that was in the Beowulf text. We don't include everything.

10/18/2021 12:23:17 pm

Very true and tells a lot between them where it shouldve fit the movie better the story.

Michael Petroni

10/18/2021 12:15:18 pm

While the book was very plain and to the point with the adventure, the movie goes more into the detail of a hero which isn't so perfect. I think it displays our views as a society because the more we relate to something the more we like it.

Eliza Fisher

10/18/2021 12:16:53 pm

That is very true, people do like something to relate to.

Raven

10/18/2021 12:18:54 pm

That is true that the movie goes more into depth the the book.

William Rackham

10/18/2021 12:20:22 pm

I agree with your views.

Garrett

10/18/2021 12:15:35 pm

For starters, Beowulf doesn't get funky with Grendel's mom in the book. He also doesn't marry Wealtheow in the book. Society changes things in order to be more appealing to others. In order to make a movie everyone would like, they put in things that didn't really have to be in there.

Michael Petroni

10/18/2021 12:17:06 pm

Our society is really like that.

10/18/2021 12:22:02 pm

I like the funky scene, thats why the movie is my favorite.

Trishelle

10/18/2021 12:16:32 pm

The movie was way different from the text. They changed the movie so that people would buy it. They also changed it so the movie would be more entertaining to viewers.

Raven

10/18/2021 12:17:47 pm

There are a lot of differences between Beowulf the book and movie. One of the major differences is that in the book Beowulf kills Grendel's mother but in the movie he sleeps with her. That means in the book Beowulf never had a son but in the movie he had a son with Grendel's mother.

colter Bennett

10/18/2021 12:18:24 pm

The film used seductive imagery to keep people watching. Beowulf is shown to be more weak in the movie.

Tyler Martens

10/18/2021 12:44:07 pm

True

Eliza Fisher

10/18/2021 12:18:36 pm

That is very true.

William Rackham

10/18/2021 12:19:18 pm

The book and movie split ways when Beowulf meets Grendel's mother.The book reflets the epic the film takes a different more Hollywood style of events. The changes in the film show what people want to see I our current times.

wyatt platz

10/18/2021 12:20:03 pm

It changes the aspect of the image you put in your head when you read. It also changes the storyline slightly.

Dakota

10/18/2021 12:20:11 pm

The film brings more detail without stating the detail itself. It makes it seem Beowulf is a more human-like character which makes it more likable and relatable to our society today.

AJ Anderson

10/18/2021 12:21:29 pm

In my opinion Beowulf didn't sound like the super hero he is in the story. Nor does he have coitus with Grendel's mom in the book so there was a lot of differences in later dates of the story that changes a lot but for the most part the beginning was fairly close.

Tyler Martens

10/18/2021 12:45:17 pm

Agree

Leslie Scoggins

10/18/2021 12:21:56 pm

the movie had a lot of inappropriate clips that showed more seductive attitude where as the book was more about the action and didnt really show things like that. however das they say in hollywood sex sells. In society we now are about parties, sex and drugs. you can see this in a lot of teen movies now. ex. Mean Girls, Love Simon, Clueless... ect. We have become a very superficial and shallow society.

Toby

10/18/2021 12:34:27 pm

The movie removes plot holes in the poem, and it adds weaknesses to the hero. This shows that society changes stories/tales to appeal to their generation. The movie also gets rid of some of the aspects from the poem.

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