Okay so I read Beowulf and it was an interesting story filled of testosterone and males fighting and monsters. Looking at the movie gave me better imagery for the thrilling adventure of Beowulf. However I couldn’t help but notice a slight difference between the movie and the story. One of the many differences could be seen when Beowulf goes to kill Grendel’s mother.
In the story when Beowulf goes down to the murky waters to fight Grendels mother. Grendels mother lunges as him and brings him down to her court and other sea creatures attack him as well. Of course Beowulf being who he is grabs a sword and slices the mothers neck. He goes back to land a hero.
What I thought was interesting was in the movie Beowulf, he is captured by Grendel’s mothers beauty. She comes out and promises him so much and then they have a love scene. Which then leads to him having a son by her. This redirects the whole story because later on in the movie the king commits suicide, when in the book he dies in battle. The change of that one scene changes the whole story. There is still a dragon that comes for the land however in the movie the dragon is portrayed as the son of Beowulf and Grendels mother. This takes the whole book out of content but I guess makes it seem a bit more interesting.
