Look I was there at the original battle and I can assure you all that there
was a lot of violence but I don't remember any film cameras around perhaps a
camera obscura and a nifty monk painting it all up??cheers
P the elder
Lowering tone of debate --back to cleaning the loo
-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Joanna Boulter
Sent: 19 October 2007 09:17
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Subject: Re: Beowulf
Depends how much violence has been done to the original tale. I don't
suppose for one minute the film follows the poem accurately. "Nah, you gotta
get some SEX into this or it'll never sell."
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: Beowulf
> The bit that got me was "the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother". You'd
> have to be really seriously into S&M to think that.
>
> But then ...
>
> R.
>
>> Well at least for the next few years fewer teenagers will need to ask,
>> "uh, whut's a beowulf?..."
>
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