Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Many scholars believe that the original Beowulf poem was a Christian propagandist restructuring of familiar tales to impose Christian values on them. So one can hardly blame a modern retelling for imposing current rules of cinematic story structure on the film." -- amelia_g, 2007-11-25 [in a movie review that finally made me want to go see the movie despite having thought, "oh come on, it'll be some sort of spectacular but can we trust Hollywood to do justice to a story like that without cheesing it up?" -- Amelia's review offers a mindset that might allow me to really enjoy it]

"There is some buzz about whether the technology involved in making Beowulf will ultimately somewhat replace actors, or at least turn them into licensable clip art. I will be interested to see if this sort of technology will ultimately mean that writers and scenic designers and people like that will receive more credit for how a movie turns out. Before I knew anything about how Hollywood works, it used to trouble me, as a consumer, that whether or not I enjoyed a movie depended very much on plot and story structure, only movies were never advertised as 'written by the guy who wrote that other thing you liked.'" -- ibid.

"Many scholars believe that the original Beowulf poem was a Christian propagandist restructuring of familiar tales to impose Christian values on them. So one can hardly blame a modern retelling for imposing current rules of cinematic story structure on the film." -- amelia_g, 2007-11-25 [in a movie review that finally made me want to go see the movie despite having thought, "oh come on, it'll be some sort of spectacular but can we trust Hollywood to do justice to a story like that without cheesing it up?" -- Amelia's review offers a mindset that might allow me to really enjoy it]

"There is some buzz about whether the technology involved in making Beowulf will ultimately somewhat replace actors, or at least turn them into licensable clip art. I will be interested to see if this sort of technology will ultimately mean that writers and scenic designers and people like that will receive more credit for how a movie turns out. Before I knew anything about how Hollywood works, it used to trouble me, as a consumer, that whether or not I enjoyed a movie depended very much on plot and story structure, only movies were never advertised as 'written by the guy who wrote that other thing you liked.'" -- ibid.