A composite reply:
1. Loved Mark's 2-line summary, but tend to be more
sympathetically moved myself by Beowulf's description
of poor dead Grendel crumpled up in a corner with one
arm missing (hanging, as it is, like a stuffed moose
head back at Heorot). How about a POV along these
lines:
Watered Grendel's mere
With Grendel's tear?
Ok, ok, not funny, I know....
2. "the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother"--what got
to _me_, Robin, was the description of Hrothgar as
"corrupt." Come on. The guy's a bit of a wuss,
admittedly, but there's nothing "corrupt" about him.
3. Peter Cudmore asks, "How do you turn it into a
comedy?" It sounds like that's exactly what they've
done, but they'd have done better to make a film of
John Gardner's _Grendel_.
4. I confess to being most curious about the
soundtrack (bang! bang! bang!).
Candice
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