Beowulf Book Vs Movie Analysis

Beowulf is a narrative poem that it introduces an epic hero who has fought with mysterious creature. The poem was written in England but it describes event that take place in Scandinavia around the 500 among two groups; the Danes of Denmark and the Geets of Sweden. The story was believed that it was written by a monk because has some Christian references. In the 2007 film it shows different perspective of Beowulf than in the story. In the book he was describe more in a way of an animal demand. In the film he is shown to be more of an old, tall, skinny character.
Some unexpected things that happened in the film that wasn’t describe in the book was for example the way Beowulf lies about killing the mermaid sea that had attack him in the water, but in the film she was Beowulf’s mother. I honestly wasn’t expecting that to be in the film. …show more content…
Grendel really attacks everyone on the hall. Another difference was Beowulf never kills Grendel mother like he said he did, instead he made a deal with her to have a normal king life without any fights or problems while his a king in the reign, but in order to have that he was going to give her a son and leave the gold horn with her. He did agree to follow her rules and for many years everything was fine.
The version that I like the most was the film. In the film it’s more intense than in the book. I like the fact that I read the book before watching the film, but I honestly like the way the film adds more to it to makes the film more interesting. My favorite part of this film was how at the end we find out that the dragon was Beowulf real son that was really unexpected and crazy to see how he actually had the idea on agree with her and have a baby together. I don’t understand how he did that to the queen. At the end of the story he dies and he will forever been