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General Discussions => Inner Glimpse => Topic started by: jocelyn on October 23, 2007, 07:04:33 pm
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Speaking as the token Saxon (apparently my family are listed in the Domesday Book as "minor yeomanry"!! ;)), Beowulf is one of the greatest works written in any language and the translation by Seamus Heaney is not just a translation, but THE translation to read.
It makes me very happy to hear someone as enthusiastic as I am about Beowulf. :D :D :D
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strangely enough, Im reading the Seamus Heaney translation for Medieval History class right now. its really good. something
Yep that is the translation I read. Didn\'t read it for school though... just read it because... well... I don\'t know why really.
Speaking as the token Saxon (apparently my family are listed in the Domesday Book as "minor yeomanry"!! ;)), Beowulf is one of the greatest works written in any language and the translation by Seamus Heaney is not just a translation, but THE translation to read.
As for the cast in this, it\'s a real pity this is animated and not live action - Ray Winstone is probably the nearest Britain has ever had to a De Niro. He would bring just about the right amount of grit to the role, without sinking to caricature. He has a fantastic acting career, starting in things like Quadrophenia and the Sweeney, a show to which he might indeed return for the new film version. Also watch out for him in the new Indiana Jones film. One of my favourite roles of his was in the TV drama Vincent, shown last year in the UK.
I don\'t go to see animated films in the cinema as a rule, but with Neil Gaiman (co-author with Terry Pratchett of Good Omens and author of Stardust and the excellent Anansi Boys and American Gods) also having written the screenplay, this has some potential and I may make an exception.
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strangely enough, Im reading the Seamus Heaney translation for Medieval History class right now. its really good. something very fascinating to me about archaic literature music and art. i guess thats why im a history major. the thought of cheating and seeing the movie hasnt even crossed my mind. im so proud of myself.:biggrin:
Yep that is the translation I read. Didn\'t read it for school though... just read it because... well... I don\'t know why really.
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Has anyone seen it? I saw a "Canadian Film" version of this on an Air Canada flight a few years back and even low budget and done by hockey lovers, it was a sick movie.
I am not quiet sure what I think of the whole thing being done in CGI. Maybe the director is trying to do something with fantasy/reality with real film/CGI, but, eh, I dunno.
I am probably still going to go see it, or at least DL it.
It is supposed to be some new form of 3d from what i have heard / read
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Has anyone seen it? I saw a "Canadian Film" version of this on an Air Canada flight a few years back and even low budget and done by hockey lovers, it was a sick movie.
I am not quiet sure what I think of the whole thing being done in CGI. Maybe the director is trying to do something with fantasy/reality with real film/CGI, but, eh, I dunno.
I am probably still going to go see it, or at least DL it.
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I love grendle. I model myself after him. Don\'t care for his mom though.
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strangely enough, Im reading the Seamus Heaney translation for Medieval History class right now. its really good. something very fascinating to me about archaic literature music and art. i guess thats why im a history major. the thought of cheating and seeing the movie hasnt even crossed my mind. im so proud of myself.:biggrin:
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It was originally written as an epic poem in Old English. Not all poems rhyme....
now that\'s confusing, who thought of that?
I was never a fan of english class
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Yeah it definitely does. That\'s what made me think it may be bad.
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anyone else think it looks like a videogame? i wasn\'t sure if the actors were "real"
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It was originally written as an epic poem in Old English. Not all poems rhyme....
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I read the book in high school which was actually pretty good. didn\'t know anything about a poem tho
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so this is some sort of book or something?
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The adds make it look pretty good, not gonna rush out to the theatre (the theatre is pretty rare for me)
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You don\'t know who Ray Winstone is? How about the greatest actor ever, self taught, no thanks to his father,
:liar:
you sir, know nothing of film...
you sir, are correct.
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You don\'t know who Ray Winstone is? How about the greatest actor ever, self taught, no thanks to his father,
:liar:
you sir, know nothing of film...
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Starring:
Angelina Jolie ... Grendel\'s Mother
Anthony Hopkins ... King Hrothgar
Ray Winstone ... Beowulf
Robin Wright Penn ... Queen Wealthow
Crispin Glover ... Grendel
John Malkovich ... Unferth
Greg Ellis ... Garmund, Golden Man
Thanks for looking that up. Gives me a little more confidence in the movie.
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You don\'t know who Ray Winstone is? How about the greatest actor ever, self taught, no thanks to his father,
:liar:
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Ray Winstone? WOOT!
I\'m not sure, but he\'s got 91 acting entries, in IMDB, that date back to \'76. Most recently, he\'s been in the departed. He\'s gonna be in the new Indiana Jones movie.
Are you ser???
You don\'t know who Ray Winstone is? How about the greatest actor ever, self taught, no thanks to his father,
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Ray Winstone? WOOT!
I\'m not sure, but he\'s got 91 acting entries, in IMDB, that date back to \'76. Most recently, he\'s been in the departed. He\'s gonna be in the new Indiana Jones movie.
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Starring:
Angelina Jolie ... Grendel\'s Mother
Anthony Hopkins ... King Hrothgar
Ray Winstone ... Beowulf
Robin Wright Penn ... Queen Wealthow
Crispin Glover ... Grendel
John Malkovich ... Unferth
Greg Ellis ... Garmund, Golden Man
Pretty good line up.
Nice to see Ellis getting other work.
Ray Winstone? WOOT!
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Starring:
Angelina Jolie ... Grendel\'s Mother
Anthony Hopkins ... King Hrothgar
Ray Winstone ... Beowulf
Robin Wright Penn ... Queen Wealthow
Crispin Glover ... Grendel
John Malkovich ... Unferth
Greg Ellis ... Garmund, Golden Man
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read it in high school.
too bad I had little care for it then.
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Just saw a commercial for a movie coming out based on the epic poem Beowulf. I have no idea if it will be any good or not. It probably won\'t be able to do justice to the epic... but it is certainly a story that could become a fantastic movie. It is a poem, originally written in what has become known as Anglo-Saxon, or Old English. Some consider it to be the greatest complete work in Old English. It is about a Scandanavian prince who manages to kill a monster who has been terrorizing/killing the Danes. Of course, as in any epic, the hero\'s troubles extend long after his first heroic deed. I am curious to see what they make of this...
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