Zemeckis's use of 'performance capture' animation introduced in his The Polar Express (2004) gives the film a more realistic look than other cartoony styles, encouraging the audience to expect believability in the characters.
So the writers have poured on the blood and leavened the lean poem with bawdy talk and plenty of earthy lust among the medieval Danish swains and wenches who live in fear of the monster Grendel. The script for Zemeckis's twist on the Beowulf story by the novelist Neil Gaiman ( Sandman) and Roger Avary ( Pulp Fiction) presupposes that the epic poem preserved in manuscript by monks was censored in the process. The celebrity-driven gamer public outside the US should not be underestimated. Video-gamers are another potential global market for this movie, which looks a lot like a video game. Zemeckis's fans, not being as Beowulf-wary as the rest of the general public, could rally for his version of the tale, and the tech-savvy crowd may come out of curiosity to see the epic in high-budget IMAX 3-D. The new 3-D animated Beowulf by Robert Zemeckis reaffirms that persistent stigma.Īudiences who already endured any of the previous attempts at filming Beowulf won't be rushing out to witness another try, although the chance to see an animated Angelina Jolie as a shapely sea monster may lure the testosterone youth to this one. Beowulf may be the oldest surviving poem in what was to become the English language but the heroic epic about a courageous Viking who slays a monster and then battles the monster's mother is now best-known as the adventure story that no one can seem to make into a respectable movie.
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