Compare the Beowulf poem and the 2007 Beowulf film. How the explicit nature of the film, which provides graphic visual detail of all events in the story, contrasts with literature, which leaves many details up to the imagination of the reader.
Comparing the Beowulf poem and the 2007 Beowulf film
1) How the explicit nature of the film, which provides graphic visual detail of all events in the story, contrasts with literature, which leaves many details up to the imagination of the reader.
2) How the differences between how Beowulf’s encounter with Grendel’s mother is portrayed in both the poem and the film may be rooted in the different moral expectations of the eras in which these two works were produced.
3) How the differences between how Beowulf’s battle with the dragon is portrayed in both the poem and the film may be rooted in the different cultural expectations (with regards to aging) of the eras in which these two works were produced.
Beowulf Poem brief: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50114/beowulf-modern-english-translation
In the name of the mighty Odin, what this movie needs is an audience that knows how to laugh. Laugh, I tell you, laugh! Has the spirit of irony been lost in the land? By all the gods, if it were not for this blasted infirmity that the Fates have dealt me, you would have heard from me such thunderous roars as to shake the very Navy Pier itself down to its pillars in the clay.
To be sure, when I saw “Beowulf” in 3-D at the giant-screen IMAX theater, there were eruptions of snickers here and there, but for the most part, the audience sat and watched the movie, not cheering, booing, hooting, recoiling, erupting or doing anything else unmannerly. You expect complete silence and rapt attention when a nude Angelina Jolie emerges from the waters of an underground lagoon. But am I the only one who suspects that the intention of director Robert Zemeckis and writers Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary was satirical?