Posted by
Conservative Swordfighters Club on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:52:54 AM
rhetorical questions:
Would you say Beowulf is Republican or Democrat?
Would you say the John Malkovich character in Beowulf is Republican or Democrat?
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screenwriters are clever, but they're usually liberal.
the screenwriters cleverly fixed a hole in the original story. but they did it in a liberal way, i.e. a way that made beowulf less heroic.
SPOILER BELOW
the hole is that the story of beowulf is two unrelated incidents decades apart (grendel and the dragon are these two bookends).
the way the screenwriters linked the two: in the backstory, hrothgar was seduced by the female demon and sired grendel. then the same happens to beowulf and he sires the dragon.
I like the batman movie with michael keaton because batman and the joker create each other, they create their own nemeses.
but the plot idea for beowulf is not as good. it's okay to make beowulf a bit more "human" but not at the expense of making him less heroic.
--Swordfish