I think it's pretty neat...and the graphics (of her...) look incredible!!!
I think some people may have had a different "mental" envision, when reading the poem (which I haven't...) but I have no problem with her in the role....shoot, I'll take as much Jolie as I can get!!!
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jespah
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Sat 20 Oct, 2007 06:09 pm
I just started reading the Seamus Heaney translation. Jolie as a troll? Wacky.
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barrythemod
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Sun 21 Oct, 2007 07:43 am
Those clever guys at IMAX have turned it into 3D.Search HERE.
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Diane
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Sun 21 Oct, 2007 12:59 pm
I'm with Jespah. Jolie as a troll doesn't even come close to what Grendel;s mother represented.
Have you read Grendel by John Gardner? It was a wonderful depiction of the monster discovering his humanity along with his need to be accepted. Grendel is a very sympathetic figure from this point of view and his mother is far more monstrous than in Beowolf.
Take the time to read it. Both perspectives make for a complex, but enjoyable analysis of both sides.
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George
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Mon 22 Oct, 2007 06:51 am
Yes, Diane. I read that some years go and loved it.
How about "Eaters of the Dead"?
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Diane
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Mon 22 Oct, 2007 08:48 pm
Never read it, George, because the title would have scared me off, pathetic wimp that I am.
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George
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Tue 23 Oct, 2007 07:03 am
They made it into a movie and re-named it "The Thirteenth Warrior".
Would Antonio Banderas scare you off?
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kermit
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Wed 24 Oct, 2007 11:58 am
Quote:
Those clever guys at IMAX have turned it into 3D.Search HERE.
Yeah, that IMAX should be pretty cool.
Plus, I wouldn't give-up on Jolie just yet.
I swore I saw a quick-clip of Beowulf fighting a HUGE beast with the same shiny-gold skin that Grendle's Mom had on one of the 1st trailers...
Maybe she transforms or something??!?!
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JLNobody
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Thu 1 Nov, 2007 10:42 pm
I too loved Gardner's Grendel. THAT ruined my chances of accepting Jolie as his mother. Can't see her in her bone cave. Except, maybe, for the lips.
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kermit
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Fri 2 Nov, 2007 03:05 pm
Really!?! I mean...I never read the poem or anything...so I'm not coming into this with any mental pre-conceptions...but I can definitely see Jolie in that role...I feel like too many people are associating her voice as that of a seductress...
Who knows, maybe she changes form or something...I mean she is Grendels Mom, after all...
Plus, I'm not sure how much we actually know, just based off-of the trailers...
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Lightwizard
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Wed 7 Nov, 2007 09:40 am
They make trailers to give you an appetizer -- only the reviews will really reveal how the film turned out, but Zemeckis is an excellent director for this sort of tale, maybe as good as Jackson. The refined process of converting the live actors to computer animated quasi-reality was made possible by Jackson's conception of Golem in LOTR.
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JLNobody
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Wed 7 Nov, 2007 11:30 am
Jackson's Golem was excellent. I still smile when I remember it.
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Lightwizard
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Wed 7 Nov, 2007 11:37 am
Well, sometimes Golem wasn't a creature I'd smile about, more likely grimace, and especially his betrayal in the end (which I saw coming in the book when I first read it).
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joefromchicago
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Wed 7 Nov, 2007 12:41 pm
Lightwizard wrote:
The refined process of converting the live actors to computer animated quasi-reality was made possible by Jackson's conception of Golem in LOTR.
Let's be clear here.
Golem:
Gollum:
This will be on the quiz.
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kermit
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Wed 7 Nov, 2007 02:49 pm
joefromchicago wrote:
...This will be on the quiz.
HA!
I thought that spelling looked a little-off...
But yeah, I feel like I've been seeing Beowulf posters like EVERYWHERE this past week...it's pretty cool actually.
Premiered in the UK last night,Nov 11th,at The Empire,Leicester Square.
In a "red carpet interview",Ray Winston described the whole film as comparing silents to talkies and black and white to Gone With The Wind."
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