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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?
40 Comments
sienna
10/18/2021 10:37:53 am
The movie was a lot more sexualized for whatever reason and was dramatized a lot more than the text. But if they copied the poem completely it probably would have been boring.
Kota Eagle
10/18/2021 10:44:20 am
agreed
Rory Wilson
10/18/2021 10:48:57 am
I agree, people these days do not find fighting and death all that interesting.
Keltonn
10/18/2021 10:39:36 am
The book Beowulf kills the mother and in the moving Beowulf sleeps with her.
Brenden
10/18/2021 10:43:25 am
Beowulf gets around
connor telford
10/18/2021 11:20:52 am
thats crazy
sienna
10/18/2021 10:44:26 am
hes making moves
aden murphy
10/18/2021 10:40:15 am
In the text it says he gets killed by the dragon by getting bit. In the movie he gets killed the the dragon by cutting his arm to get to the dragons heart by doing this he get burnt and falls with the dragon out of the sky.
Keltonn
10/18/2021 10:47:28 am
good details
Hunter Bingham
10/18/2021 10:40:30 am
One of the differences between the poem and the film is that instead of killing grendal's mother he had a child with her that ended up to be the dragon. This shows that people will change a historical poem for the sake of entertainment.
Madeline
10/18/2021 10:42:21 am
I like your take on what this says about people.
brenden
10/18/2021 10:44:33 am
fax homie.
Kota Eagle
10/18/2021 10:45:03 am
I agree
TJ
10/18/2021 10:41:13 am
The movie was far off of the text and the movie was like a mild porno kinda sus. But they made it more interesting.
connor telford
10/18/2021 10:43:42 am
cool story bro
Madeline
10/18/2021 10:41:24 am
The main difference that I observed between the poem and the movie was simply the difference in details. The movie had many aspects of the poem but purposefully left out bits and pieces as well as adding in others. The poem gave a more broad description of the events while the movie seemed to make up its own details.
Olivia Lynch
10/18/2021 10:42:55 am
The poem had a lot of loop holes that were open for interpretation.
sienna
10/18/2021 10:44:58 am
I agree with that
Mason Semmler
10/18/2021 10:51:19 am
Yeah good point.
Olivia Lynch
10/18/2021 10:41:38 am
Well for one, Beowulf slept with Grendel's mother instead of killing her like in the poem. I think this is in reference to how people would rather watch drama than watch a good heroic story.
Rory Wilson
10/18/2021 10:47:09 am
I agree, I think this might be because we are not familiar with heroic stories in our day to day lives, we are comfortable with drama.
Keltonn
10/18/2021 10:48:12 am
That's fair
Keely
10/19/2021 10:40:13 am
The drama is definitely preferred.
Brenden
10/18/2021 10:42:41 am
In the movie Beowulf instead of fighting Grendels mom the scene turned sexual and instead she wants his baby.This shows our society sexualizes everything.
Jaylee
10/18/2021 10:43:01 am
The movie changed the scene with Grendal's mother and how Beowulf dies. In the book he killed Grendal's mother and he dies by getting bit by the dragon.
connor telford
10/18/2021 10:43:01 am
the poem was boring but the movie really brought it to life and was alot more intersting
Trinity
10/18/2021 10:43:15 am
In the movie Beowulf sleeps with Grendals mother and in the book he kills her.
jerry Carlton
10/18/2021 10:43:32 am
In the text your able to tell what the characters are thinking and you cant get that in movies. It could show how we never know what people are going thorugh.
Tallon Aldous
10/19/2021 10:47:17 am
I liked that too!
Kota Eagle
10/18/2021 10:43:37 am
One of the differences was that he slept with Grendels mother instead of killing her. This showed that he is also human and fell into temptation.
Tyler J Fitte
10/18/2021 10:44:06 am
Some of the difference was that is was a lot more sexualized. like in the book he kills the mother, but in the movie he has a kid. So that was a big twist.
Rory Wilson
10/18/2021 10:44:52 am
In the text, honor was a major virtue that people respected. Everything they did was for honor. In the movie however, it is clear that honor is no longer of that much importance, everyone lies to one another. Without the lies in this film, it really wouldn't be much of a story. The film relied on loopholes and inaccuracies to make it more interesting to modern society.
Olivia Lynch
10/18/2021 10:46:12 am
I really like your outlook.
Madeline
10/18/2021 10:48:02 am
This is a really accurate way to look at it that I hadn't thought of before.
Roahn
10/18/2021 10:45:10 am
In the movie Beowulf has the dragon with Grendel's mothers instead of killing her so this shows that people want more flaws and weaknesses in a hero in present times.
Mason
10/18/2021 10:50:05 am
The movie was very different from the book in the way between Beowulf and the relationship he had with Grendel's mother. In the book he kills her and in the book they have some kind of weird romantic love story, I enjoyed how the movie was very more descriptive as far as charechters and events.
Keely
10/19/2021 10:39:20 am
Their relationship was quite odd indeed.
Keely
10/19/2021 10:38:44 am
I felt that the film and poem differed in romance references. A sexual drive was definitely in kind when the movie was made. This does not surprise me as our society today is more inclined and not embarrassed as much by these things.
Tallon Aldous
10/19/2021 10:48:27 am
I noticed that too!
Tallon Aldous
10/19/2021 10:45:43 am
In the movie they made Grendel's mom a pretty and made Beowulf fall for her instead of killing her like in the text. Leave a Reply. |
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