Beowulf Movie??!!!

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Postby Britomart » Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:38 pm

Yo all! I just found out that they are trying to make a Beowulf movie, and it's filming right now! :dance: I just read that story for the first time a couple of days ago and I thought it was SO COOl! I'm just really into that kind of thing, and I can't wait to find out more about it!
Ok, so I just found out, again, that their is a really lousy version of Beowulf, and some other people are just trying to remake it. sorry :bang:
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Postby CDLviking » Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:46 pm

There has already been at least one Beowulf movie (though I hear it was pretty awful) and I'm sure there are others. It would be nice if they made it a good movie this time.

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Postby Hitokiri » Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:56 pm

CDLviking wrote:There has already been at least one Beowulf movie (though I hear it was pretty awful) and I'm sure there are others. It would be nice if they made it a good movie this time.


It is veeeerrryyy bad and corny and fake. I had to eatch it for english. :eh:
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Postby Technomancer » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:50 pm

Hitokiri wrote:It is veeeerrryyy bad and corny and fake. I had to eatch it for english. :eh:


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As far as the original story goes, the movie is a travesty. In some ways though, it's a classic of bad film-making, and can be a fair bit of fun if you watch it with the right mindset.
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Postby CDLviking » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:56 pm

This is the Christopher Lambert one you're talking about?
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Postby SwordSkill » Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:14 pm

Wasn't there a movie that was kind-of, sort-of loosely based on Beowulf years ago? The Thirteenth Warrior or some other, starring Antonio Banderas. Seemed to me to be too much like Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai.

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Postby CDLviking » Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:44 pm

Thirteenth Warrior was based on Michael Creighton's (sp?) Eaters of the Dead, if I'm not mistaken. The western The Magnificent Seven actually was a western remake of The Seven Samurai.
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Postby Jaltus-bot » Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:25 pm

You are not mistaken about Thirteenth Warrior being based on Eaters of the Dead.

A couple of years ago I saw a slightly post noclear styled, slightly altered version of a Beowolf movie. I rather liked it. I've never heard of any other version of Beowolf movie than that one.
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Postby Aka-chan » Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:48 am

My friend (a Brit Lit teacher who goes through Beowulf every year with her classes) said that 13th Warrior is based loosely on Beowulf, though there are obvious changes as well as easy-to-see parallels. I haven't read Eaters of the Dead, but I would think it was at least inspired by Beowulf if 13th Warrior came from it.
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Postby SwordSkill » Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:03 am

Yep to what Aka-chan said. That's the reason why we had to watch 13th Warrior for school after taking up Beowulf. I haven't read Crichton's book yet, though I was aware of it after watching the movie and when I had to do a paper on the film. Hehe, it's all coming back to me now. :lol:

And 13th Warrior still reminds me a lot of Seven Samurai, quite personally, what with all that rounding-up-of-warriors-to-save-another-land theme going around. XD And no, I've never heard of The Magnificent Seven.
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Postby Technomancer » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:00 am

Aka-chan wrote:My friend (a Brit Lit teacher who goes through Beowulf every year with her classes) said that 13th Warrior is based loosely on Beowulf, though there are obvious changes as well as easy-to-see parallels. I haven't read Eaters of the Dead, but I would think it was at least inspired by Beowulf if 13th Warrior came from it.


I have to admit, I really don't see the similarity, other than that both involve iron age Scandanavia.


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That's the one.
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Postby Britomart » Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:37 pm

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Yes! Now I know 3 people who know who I am! :dance:

And thank you all for the infromation. Does anybody know where I can get more information on the NEW Beowulf movie?
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Postby Kisa » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:17 pm

My brother loved this book, so it will be interesting to see a movie about it.
There is a older Beowulf movie too . . . can't remember what year, actors, ect . . .
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Postby glitch1501 » Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:10 pm

we read excerpts from it in english, and i liked it alot, i hope this new movie is good, my english teacher said that the previous movie was horrible

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Postby PumpkinKoRn52 » Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:39 pm

If this movie does come out, I wanna see it. The old one is good for laughs.
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Postby PumpkinKoRn52 » Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:41 pm

Oh, by the way, the 13th warrior is loosely based on beowulf, but is primarilly based on Eaters of the Dead. An AWESOME book. Chrichton might have based it on beowulf though.
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Postby Kisa » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:08 am

Yea the older movie was bad, we turned it off in the first few minutes of it and returned it to the rental store . . .
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Postby greyscale42 » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:27 am

Britomart wrote:Yo all! I just found out that they are trying to make a Beowulf movie, and it's filming right now! :dance: I just read that story for the first time a couple of days ago and I thought it was SO COOl! I'm just really into that kind of thing, and I can't wait to find out more about it!
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I hope they do it right. I loved the story but thats still no gaurantee that its gonna be a good movie.

But heres hopin :).
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