Posted on 11/15/2007 6:22:06 PM PST by DogByte6RER
3D again! I’m there!
count me in!
So it’s basically 3D rotoscoping, which I don’t think is new since A Scanner Darkly did the same thing (amongst others) only it was a lot more stylized.
>>>>There is a lot of parody and silly humor sewn into this movie based on the epic poem they force you to read in high school. <<<<<
Wait a second here! I teach “Beowulf” to high school sophomores, using the version from Dr. David Breeden down at the University of Texas (and available online). Students like it, and most of the boys in class absolutely love it. For boys, especially, it’s a great story with a lot of crude violence, and, surprisingly, some moral lessons about arrogance and virtue. Certainly it’s no PC epic. (Or to put it in the words of a 15-year-old guy: “I’m really tired of reading that the monster and the hero have to be friends, and the hero is some Amazon girl.”)
The movie sounds like someone finally understands “Beowulf” is supposed to be a ripping yarn. I’m going to get a big bag of popcorn and enjoy myself.
Hwaet, we gar-dena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas, syððanærest wearð
feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þah,
oð þæt him æghwylc ymbsittendra
ofer hronrade hyran scolde,
gomban gyldan; þæt wæs god cyning!
Pings and greetings to all the Germanic philologist Freepers!
Sigh. I figured this was not something I could take my 12-year-old daughter to. A bit of a shame. She knows the story and is interested, but I guess Hollywood had to make it “interesting”. Guess I’ll see it without her.
When I attended community college and since Western Civ History was required of me, had to deal with the book version of the story which is not easy to read or understand. It is supose to be the first real book of western civ after the start of the dark ages.
I think you mean the Epic of Gilgamesh, which at 5000 years is the oldest Western literature.
I read Beowulf in my senior year of high school, and absolutely loved it. The rest of the class didn’t share my enthusiasm for it, except one girl who brought in the bilingual translation by Seamus Heaney instead of reading the cheap classroom version we had. I loved that one even more, and now own a copy. It even turned out to be the required version for my medieval history class. The TA even read us parts of the poem in the original Old English, and it sounded like Elvish... it was the one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard.
I love Heaney’s translation as well, and if that were the one taught in high school I’m sure there would be more fans of the legend.
The Seamus Heaney translation is in modern English and is very good.
Thanks for the correction. “Beowulf” can be honored for it being the first form of writing after the end of the Roman Empire and the start of the middle ages, a masterpiece from the dark ages.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is more or less lyrical, considering it is very ancient. Plus it introduced me to Iraq, a country in which would figure bigtime in a few short years latter in current events.
Thank-you. :)
I think a lot of the rotoscoping, ( 3D and non 3D ) can be found in digital programs such as Director and others.
Cartoon nudity is goofy. Put some clothes on!
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