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thedarkagesApparently, a movie version of Beowulf is opening this weekend. For some reason, no one has mentioned the book tie-in.
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Date: 2007-11-16 03:12 am (UTC)I wonder what liberties they're gonna take in the movie...you *know* they have to change something, somehow. Maybe they make Grendel's mom Angelina Jolie or something, and she and Beowulf have a torrid romance that goes all wrong?
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Date: 2007-11-16 02:41 pm (UTC)Manohla Dargis thinks the movie is stoopid, which comes as no surprise: http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/movies/16beow.html?th&emc=th
Holy crap indeed!!
Date: 2007-11-18 04:14 pm (UTC)I'm kind of sad that it looks like a waste of space, movie-wise. Beowulf is such a good story on it's own; it didn't need doctoring and dragons and hot Angelina Jolie and whatnot...*shakes head irritably*
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Date: 2007-11-16 02:14 pm (UTC)