A many-framed version, featuring
all the original robust language, made
by Peter Greenaway... much in the mode
of Prospero's books.
Gerald S.
> How about shooting it in AngloSaxon with subtitles?
>
>
> At 09:37 AM 10/19/2007, you wrote:
>>The other model would be that recent movie 300, or whatever it was called,
>>the film approximately about the Spartans at Thermopylae. How would you
>>re-tool Beowulf to tap into Merican popular-culture anxieties about
>>furriners?
>>
>>That said, given Bob Zemackis' track record, how do you turn it into a
>>comedy?
>>
>>P
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> > On
>> > Behalf Of Roger Day
>> > Sent: 19 October 2007 10:20
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: Re: Beowulf
>> >
>> > It's directed by Roger Zemeckis - director of such "classics" as
>> > Forrest Gump, Who Shot Roger Rabbit and Back To The Future 1, 2 & 3. I
>> > predict the following:
>> >
>> > 1. Sex will be present, but only of the nudge-nudge wink-wink variety.
>> > Expect lots of soft-focus shots of Angelin Jolie et al half-undressed
>> > in furs and leather.
>> >
>> > 2. No characterisations worth a damn. It will be a live-action cartoon
>> > of the sort Richard Lester used to do so well.
>> >
>> > 3. A happy ending. The critics will describe it as "tacked-on".
>> >
>> > 4. The hero gets to kiss the heroine
>> >
>> > 5. Lots of slow-mo violence, no blood
>> >
>> > 6. It will be seen as a fable of the current administration's policies
>> > by liberal critics; as a "good romp" by the rest.
>> >
>> > 7. Violence on a massive scale will be done to the original; only the
>> > names will be the same. Only the "brand" will remain, a hook for the
>> > following ...
>> >
>> > 8. English teachers will take their students to see the film, if only
>> > to try and awaken *some* interest in literature. "Look, look, englit
>> > *can* be sexy".
>> >
>> > 9. I'll download it at some stage so that I can laugh at it over a
>> > beer.
>> >
>> > 10. Lots of bad acting done by great actors.
>> >
>> > I've been trying to work out how, where and when Zemeckis was
>> > "ground-breaking". I've come to the conclusion that it was in his
>> > garden with the work being done by his Hispanic gardener.
>> >
>> > Roger
>> >
>> > On 10/19/07, Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > > 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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>> > "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
>> > Roman Proverb
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