A Whole New Story
Culture has always been around and has evolved immensely over the years. “This can be seen through the ideas that our culture embodies today,” perhaps a better alternative because you no longer see people uptight or strict about certain values . An example of this would be how plays, films, and books all vary from one another in realism from what they used to believe back then, on the other hand effects have changed the view of the watcher due to the immense amount of money that has been put into it just to make it believable. Even though the film Beowulf and Grendel (Gunnarsson 2005) was a low budget film, it depicted many cultural differences between the modern views of life and the views that were established when Beowulf …show more content…
This being said the producer gave him more human characteristics rather than god like characteristics. Throughout the film you begin to pick out little things that catch your eye’s attention when it comes to him. Beowulf in the film was not depicted as a prideful Geat like in the epic, where all you heard were his great boasts. In the film son of Ecgtheow was more relaxed and humble especially when he spared Grendel’s son life. If that was the actual Beowulf that they had addressed in the epic that boy would have stood no chance. In the film there wasn’t really a sign of Beowulf getting a reward like it said in the epic where he received land from Hrothgar as well as a sword when he chops off Grendel’s arm. In the final fight scene of the movie when he fights against Grendel’s mother the giant’s sword, which was used to slay giants, was on a pile of loot instead of it being on the wall, and after he killed Grendel’s mother the sword was suppose to melt, in this case it did not. The most likely reason for this would be due to the fact that they were trying to make this film look realistic by leaving out the reason why the sword melts when Grendel’s mother’s blood is left on the blade. Perhaps this is why one of the major differences was the way his religious faith was in the epic. The Geats relied on the faith of God …show more content…
In the epic the Geats and Danes displayed the image of Grendel to be ruthless, disgusting, and certainly not human. They made him seem like an actual monster or myth because after all he was a demon spawn who lived in a lake infested by monsters. Grendel was picture by the reader to be fifteen feet tall with big drooping arms which he would use to tear his victims limb from limb. The film does not do a good a job of portraying this because they make Grendel appear as a six ft troll which, once again, in modern day view is enormous to us but small in Beowulf’s eyes. The one characteristic that made Grendel a monster was his sense of smell when one of Beowulf’s soilder breaks the skull of Grendel’s father and Grendel was able to know who did it, giving him the ability of a blood hound. That’s why in the scene where Beowulf and Grendel are suppose to be fighting one another,they display Grendel as someone who is out for revenge because he only goes there to kill the man that broke his father’s remains. Once that was done Grendel tries to run away but Beowulf does not let that happen. In the epic it reads that Beowulf cuts off Grendel’s arm but in the film Grendel does it himself with an arrow. Showing us that sometimes when we are desperate we turn into savages because to the viewer it made it seem like something
Culture has always been around and has evolved immensely over the years. “This can be seen through the ideas that our culture embodies today,” perhaps a better alternative because you no longer see people uptight or strict about certain values . An example of this would be how plays, films, and books all vary from one another in realism from what they used to believe back then, on the other hand effects have changed the view of the watcher due to the immense amount of money that has been put into it just to make it believable. Even though the film Beowulf and Grendel (Gunnarsson 2005) was a low budget film, it depicted many cultural differences between the modern views of life and the views that were established when Beowulf …show more content…
This being said the producer gave him more human characteristics rather than god like characteristics. Throughout the film you begin to pick out little things that catch your eye’s attention when it comes to him. Beowulf in the film was not depicted as a prideful Geat like in the epic, where all you heard were his great boasts. In the film son of Ecgtheow was more relaxed and humble especially when he spared Grendel’s son life. If that was the actual Beowulf that they had addressed in the epic that boy would have stood no chance. In the film there wasn’t really a sign of Beowulf getting a reward like it said in the epic where he received land from Hrothgar as well as a sword when he chops off Grendel’s arm. In the final fight scene of the movie when he fights against Grendel’s mother the giant’s sword, which was used to slay giants, was on a pile of loot instead of it being on the wall, and after he killed Grendel’s mother the sword was suppose to melt, in this case it did not. The most likely reason for this would be due to the fact that they were trying to make this film look realistic by leaving out the reason why the sword melts when Grendel’s mother’s blood is left on the blade. Perhaps this is why one of the major differences was the way his religious faith was in the epic. The Geats relied on the faith of God …show more content…
In the epic the Geats and Danes displayed the image of Grendel to be ruthless, disgusting, and certainly not human. They made him seem like an actual monster or myth because after all he was a demon spawn who lived in a lake infested by monsters. Grendel was picture by the reader to be fifteen feet tall with big drooping arms which he would use to tear his victims limb from limb. The film does not do a good a job of portraying this because they make Grendel appear as a six ft troll which, once again, in modern day view is enormous to us but small in Beowulf’s eyes. The one characteristic that made Grendel a monster was his sense of smell when one of Beowulf’s soilder breaks the skull of Grendel’s father and Grendel was able to know who did it, giving him the ability of a blood hound. That’s why in the scene where Beowulf and Grendel are suppose to be fighting one another,they display Grendel as someone who is out for revenge because he only goes there to kill the man that broke his father’s remains. Once that was done Grendel tries to run away but Beowulf does not let that happen. In the epic it reads that Beowulf cuts off Grendel’s arm but in the film Grendel does it himself with an arrow. Showing us that sometimes when we are desperate we turn into savages because to the viewer it made it seem like something