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In Beowulf, back in the 7th century, the very first lines of direct speech in the poem are these words of Hrothgar's herald greeting Beowulf's party:
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Over bowls of borscht that resembled the steaming blood of Beowulf's monster, Alobar consented to accompany them back to the Last Laugh Foundation.
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Beowulf's selling of his soul is depicted negatively, and he pays the price for it.
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Beowulf's selling of his soul is depicted negatively, and he pays the price for it.
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Heaney has tried to retell the poem in its own terms, and his recasting of the poet's original imagery is vivid - we can almost smell Grendel and his mother, and Smaug's hoard seems a pale reflection of the dragon which brings about the tragic end of Beowulf's life.
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Or perhaps they dislike Beowulf's Christian piety, which they've replaced with insults and snickers -- in the movie's first half, the only explicitly Christian character is a weak coward who beats his servant, and after Beowulf becomes a Christian himself, he also becomes a pedophile (I'm not kidding!).
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After Beowulf kills Grendel, Grendel's mother (Angelina Jolie) comes for revenge and slaughters Beowulf's remaining men.
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Perhaps they dislike Beowulf's simple hero-worship, which they've replaced with a moderately engaging tale of human weakness and personal tragedy.
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Somehow or other, Beowulf does manage to sire a kid on Grendel's mother, and this kid, rather than a hapless, skinless Crispin Glover, is a dragon who shows up in the twilight of Beowulf's life, and you probably know the story from there.
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A few extraneous details are thrown in, such as the Geats 'conversion to Christianity and the elderly Beowulf's cheating on his wife with a teenage girl.
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