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To: DMaA who wrote (4406)	11/26/2007 11:33:05 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) of 5290

Sounds great. "In The Chronicle of Higher Education, film critic and philosophy professor Stephen T. Asma said that the film transports the poem, with its pagan values, into a Christian world -- and in the process makes it a story about 21-century guilt. "Zemeckis's more tender-minded film version suggests that the people who cast out Grendel are the real monsters. The monster, according to this charity paradigm, is just misunderstood rather than evil. The blame for Grendel's violence is shifted to the humans, who sinned against him earlier and brought the vengeance upon themselves. The only real monsters, in this tradition, are pride and prejudice.... In the original, Beowulf is a hero. In the new film, he's basically a jerk, whose most sympathetic moment is when he finally realizes that he's a jerk. It's hard to imagine a more complete reversal of values from the original Beowulf story." en.wikipedia.org

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