learn a couple lines of OE, I think, not the whole damn language.
I feel more & more doubtful about this film, & yet masochistically I
keep wanting to see it a little more
KS
On 21/11/2007, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From the Melbourne Herald Sun
>
> IT WAS Angelina Jolie the mother, the actor and the artist who made the
> decision to take on the role of Grendel's mother in the new feature film
> Beowulf.
>
> Angelina Jolie jumped at the chance to star in the unique Beowulf .
>
> ģI have kids and I thought, 'That's so great. That's so bizarre. I am going
> to be this crazy reptilian person and creature','' she says.
>
> ģI was very excited. She is one of those fun characters. She's evil. She's
> temptation,'' Jolie says.
>
> The movie, based on one of the oldest stories in English-language history,
> includes an eight-day battle between Beowulf and the creature known only as
> Grendel's mother.
>
> The story has been changed for the movie: Grendel's mother is a little more
> temptress than warrior.
>
> The actor in Jolie wanted the opportunity to work in the unusual filmmaking
> style. Director Robert Zemeckis created the film using a motion-capture
> computer program.
>
> The actors worked in an empty room wearing nothing but body suits covered
> with hundreds of yellow dots. Those dots were used to record the information
> needed to make the animated version of the actor's performance.
>
> Jolie says she was excited about the opportunity to work with Zemeckis, the
> man behind such films as Back to the Future and The Polar Express.
>
> She was so excited about the opportunity, Jolie was agreeable to anything
> tossed her way.
> ģI was told I was going to play a lizard. Then I was brought into a room
> with Bob and all these pictures. He showed me this picture of a woman
> half-painted gold, then a lizard,'' Jolie says.
>
> Who wouldn't want to play a role that at times is a green, slimy creature
> who lives in the water and at other times looks like a Victoria's Secret
> model who forgot to dress for work?
>
> The character in the animated film is a lizard-like shape shifter who takes
> on a revealing human form when she tries to seduce Beowulf.
>
> Jolie worked only a few days on Beowulf, but that doesn't mean the shoot was
> not demanding.
> She had to wear a harness to pretend to swim and fly. Zemeckis even had the
> actor learn Old English, to use when talking to Grendel.
>
> Beowulf opens in Melbourne on November 29.
>
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