Movie Review

There were a lot of conflicts and misunderstandings in Beowulf. Several examples include Beowulf not seeing himself as a specific religion but yet King Hrothgar announces that he is the king of Danes, and also when he uses the word "Holy God", which is a christian term. And you can tell by seeing the movie that Beowulf doesn't live by the standards and expectations of Christianity. But at the same time he does. Like helping people. As he sailed across the sea to help people with their problems, such as Grendal. He doesn't seem to want to live life after earth, and seems to mainly want to leave a legacy behind rather than giving glory to God. Throughout the movie he is related as a God, which when is faced with the Dragon he dies, which proves he isn't a God. 

The movie left out some stuff that i noticed from the passage in the text book. The movie left out the battle of the dragon, which told nothing of any treasure that Beowulf would have received. In the text book, characters had a different physical description than in the movie. In the text book it said Grendal was like a demon. Big and fierce, with big teeth. And so was Grendal's mother, with long claws. In the movie they're just like regular people. Except for Grendal which was like a troll. 

I think these changes weakened the emphasis on Christianity because the way the characters are described in the book makes it more like a battle between Beowuld(God) and Grendal(Devil). Making the characters in the movie more human-like really takes away that sense of dark and evilness.