tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post8659797560287112926..comments2024-03-02T17:35:58.818-08:00Comments on Spike is Best: Locus Focus - Grendel's MerePaul Stilwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-22012057771604232082010-08-18T23:27:16.388-07:002010-08-18T23:27:16.388-07:00Too true. It makes me sad when I think the same ab...Too true. It makes me sad when I think the same about The Lord of the Rings, though all in all, TLOTR didn't play as fast and loose with the story (though they did plenty of damage) as they - who did Beowulf again, Zemeckis? - did with Beowulf. For starters, they f-ed it up by setting it in an A.D. timeline rather than B.C.Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-70429452214373918152010-08-17T01:14:43.794-07:002010-08-17T01:14:43.794-07:00+JMJ+
Okay, I didn't teach it as much as help...+JMJ+<br /><br />Okay, I didn't <i>teach</i> it as much as help my students revise for uni entrance exams that were sure to ask them about it. (<i>Beowulf</i> is the one text we can't really take off the third-year curriculum here because the fourth years will need it for their entrance exams.)<br /><br />But that was also the year the animated <i>Beowulf</i> movie with Angelina Jolie s Grendel's mother came out, and my students were livid at how fast and loose it played with the story. I told them, "You're probably the last class I will ever teach who will not see that movie in their minds when I talk about Beowulf."Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-48880359134694646562010-08-16T12:29:50.318-07:002010-08-16T12:29:50.318-07:00Honestly, the first time I read it I wasn't bo...Honestly, the first time I read it I wasn't bowled over or anything; it struck me as...somehow prosaic, if I remember right. Have you read Tolkien's essay on the poem?<br /><br />Curious, what was student response like to the poem?Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725975489373372070.post-69190205789968309392010-08-16T07:23:06.824-07:002010-08-16T07:23:06.824-07:00+JMJ+
Oh, how did I forget this setting??? I did ...+JMJ+<br /><br />Oh, how did I forget <i>this</i> setting??? I did teach <i>Beowulf</i> once, too. I guess it wasn't that memorable the first time. =( That makes me feel bad. I should reread the poem.Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.com