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Post by dash on Aug 21, 2005 19:59:21 GMT -5
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Post by vanhagar3000 on Aug 21, 2005 20:44:14 GMT -5
Marty McFly as Beowulf then?
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Post by dash on Aug 21, 2005 20:49:20 GMT -5
grendel!
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Post by In_Stereo on Aug 21, 2005 21:05:22 GMT -5
Yes, but of course Beowulf will be a woman who fights for equal rights as she goes on her quest, and the battle with Grendel's mother will be eliminated, so as not to offend woman (she will be replaced by a monster with huge ears called Jorjbusheth). And of course Hygelac is a black man, played by Cedric the Entertainer. BTW, the anonymous monk who wrote Beowulf gets his own IMDb page: www.imdb.com/name/nm1511619/ Check out this bizarre sentence from his biograpical info: "He is almost certainly not the original writer of Beowulf, but he transcribed an earlier Anglo-Saxon poem and may have been the one to imbue it with Christian sensibilities."  How can you say that someone you don't know was most certainly not the author? Maybe "anonymous" refers to the author of that earlier poem; but that's the point, fellas, we don't know! Just makes my hair all orange... Ineth Ineth Stereoeth Stereoeth |
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Post by Mr. Atari on Aug 21, 2005 21:19:52 GMT -5
I really want to get excited about this.
But one sentence really disturbs me about it:
"Directed by Robert Zemeckis."
Everything this guy has done since the Back to the Future trilogy has been schmaltzy, Hollywood, Oscar-baiting, cliched, pandering crap.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Aug 22, 2005 18:34:28 GMT -5
Yes, but of course Beowulf will be a woman who fights for equal rights as she goes on her quest, and the battle with Grendel's mother will be eliminated, so as not to offend woman (she will be replaced by a monster with huge ears called Jorjbusheth). And of course Hygelac is a black man, played by Cedric the Entertainer. BTW, the anonymous monk who wrote Beowulf gets his own IMDb page: www.imdb.com/name/nm1511619/ Check out this bizarre sentence from his biograpical info: "He is almost certainly not the original writer of Beowulf, but he transcribed an earlier Anglo-Saxon poem and may have been the one to imbue it with Christian sensibilities." How can you say that someone you don't know was most certainly not the author? Maybe "anonymous" refers to the author of that earlier poem; but that's the point, fellas, we don't know! Just makes my hair all orange... Ineth Ineth Stereoeth Stereoeth No *one* person wrote it. It circulated orally for years before someone bothered to write it down, a lot like "Homer." There's evidence in older texts of mentions of it and pieces of the story (especially the non-monster bits). So the "author" is not only anonymous but probably a whole tradition. An analogy would be like if someone bothered to write down a version of Little Red Riding Hood and it somehow got considered the "official" version. |
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Post by DC on Aug 23, 2005 21:22:50 GMT -5
Yes, but of course Beowulf will be a woman who fights for equal rights as she goes on her quest, and the battle with Grendel's mother will be eliminated, so as not to offend woman (she will be replaced by a monster with huge ears called Jorjbusheth). And of course Hygelac is a black man, played by Cedric the Entertainer. Yeah, sad how this sort of thing happens. But if Neil Gaiman is adapting it, I'm in. |
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How can you say that someone you don't know was most certainly not the author? Maybe "anonymous" refers to the author of that earlier poem; but that's the point, fellas, we don't know! Just makes my hair all orange...
