Leger,+Morgan

Author of this wiki page and current filmbufff, Morgan plans to get through college in any way possible. With a webseries gaining small success, one can hope that this one will go far. Also, for those who are annoyied with the Robert Zemeckis adaptaion as I am... []

Well, I may know a lot about films and television shows from Britian, I'm curious to see what is in store for their literature. I have an inerest in basic myths, fairy tales and legends from there Medevial Era, so I think it will be interesting to see what is in store.
 * Thoughts on British Literature**

**Beowulf - Or How Rober Zemiecks Ruined Everything and Loved the Original Poem**
First, I would like to start by saying how Gareth Hinds did a a great job with the graphic novel. He remained true to the original poem (aside from some changes that mildly bugged me) and managed to depict a legend in such artisitic illustration. The design of Grendal lives up to the monster he is meant to be and Beowulf's design reflects his apperance in the poem. However, where there is a good adaptaion, there is the lower berth of it. In this case, Robert Zemeck's take on the classic that left me polarized. Now, don't get wrong. There a few things that started off like a good adaptaion. It had a great casting, good visuals, and the first half felt like it was remaining true to the source. But then by the next half, it feels like someone else took over the project and a different movie begins to play out.

The first act with Grendal was solid. The only thing I have to say about it that is negative is the fight scene. Seriously? Beowulf going fourth base and fighting this monster? If he just stripped off his armor and weapons, that would prove the point. But fighting a massive monster butt-naked is just silly and at times laughed at the self-censorship they did to avoid a "full-moon" shot. Then came the encounter with Grendal's mother and this is where my hope of the film began to fade from existance. Angelena Jolie was perfect in everywhere for the role, but the plot device left me in anger. Instead of slaying the unseen beast, he makes a pact and gets a dragon for a son? What is the wrong with this picture?

Beowulf was seen in the poem as an all-warrior and to have him contain this human flaw doesn't fit in with this adaptaion. In fact, Robert admitted that he hated the original poem and prefered a script adaptation that they used for this version. It leaves me to wonder that if they were to do such a film, should they have gone all-out and remain true to the original source and not take the "Cop-Out" and do a half-arced job? No, because that is Hollywood. In the end, I found myself lingering over how different it was from the tale I read in high school. It was a basic three trail tale of a warrior and not a tale about some Viking that battles a monster and has a "one-night stand" with some golden beauty.

This movie had potential. Even if it was done in motion capture, it still did. But overall, the result is an uneven bater of cookies with over the top acting, gritty violence, bad character choices, pretty visuals, and disapointing storyline. Take my advice. If you plan to rent it, stop it after the death of Grendal and say it's the end of the movie. Because if you continue further, your movie night will spiral down into a dark abyss where one will feel totaly smegged up out of propotion. After looking at the legend, what I find interesting the most was the tagic tone it concluded on. Throughout the story, Beowulf is seen as the ultimate hero and something flawless. By the time he is an aged king, it marks the penultimate end to a ruling era and signifies how all good things must come to an end. On a positive note, the main character himself had an honorable death rather then simply pass in bed. Now that would have been a true tadgety.
 * The Ending of Beowulf**

Thirty-one sentances, or rules, are listed on the many different takes of what love is defined as. What I find amusing about this is how it satirizes love from the negatvie aspect. By the first "rule," the reader is engaged in hearing the author's "opinions" on this big emotion. Andreas Capellanus lists many different listings for how problematic being in love is and comes off as a humorous parody of what a couple or someone goes through when they fall "head over heals in love." While the words writen of the rules are hash, I thought it was a clever spoof of it considering how some are not into that "lovey-dubby" mush. It sticks true to the theme and gets to point about how love itself can stink.
 * The Art of Courtly Love**

Near the end of part 3, there is a section in the text that presents some interesting symbolisim. Throughout the tale, there is a point when Gawain stops to rest at a king's place and both have some games to the lord's interest. This happeneds for two times where the king makes a contest that what ever he catches on the hunt, he gives to Gawain and in the oppostie aspect what ever Gawain gets, he gives to the king. For the past two days, there is a great catch of deer and boars while Gawain is tempted by the lord's lady and instead gets a kiss from her. On the third day, the same thing happends again and while Gawain is tempted a third time, the king tries to hunt down a simple fox. In a way, the two are connected together as one might argue that Gawain represents this clever and sly creature and how it tries to get away from the hunters. However, as Gawain decides to give in, the fox similtaneously is captured. This signifies how the knight himself was unfortunate to fall into a quaqmire of a problem.
 * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Fitt 3 Passage**

The article that questions the vaule of women in Sir Gawain and the Greek Knight does more then just a talk. It's a huge disection on the topic. What intersts me the most is how for the first half it mainly focuses on the encounter with the Green Knight at the end. It does into plenty of detail on how Gawain shows his true colors and presents how his heroic actions begin to level down as the he "accepts" his punishement.
 * Response to "Undressing Lady Bertilak"**

At times, it's difficult to pick from a huge cast of characters and name which is your favorite. The Canterbury Tales offer a wide variety of people that range from cynical, such as The Miller to good-natured like the Friar. However, if it was one that gained my interest the most it would probably be the Knight.
 * Favorite Pilgrim on Canterbury Tales**

"The Miller's Tale" from the Canterberry Tales is considered to some as a farce because of the cynical nature within the story. It deals with concepts of lust, adultry, and love affairs to the point where it's not close to seeing something like that in real life. It depicts love in a negatvie light compared to the light-hearted work, such as the Knight's Tale. In a way, it plays off as more of a spoof and mochary as opposed to a straight up story considering how the main character ties bath tubs to his house.
 * A Canterburry Farce**

One significant difference between the Bible passages is not only the style of writing, but the reason for these changes. One can see in theTyndale's adaptaion a great majority of detail is placed in certain sections, while other cut back or shorten some passages. An interseting alteration is that in the Tyndale's Bible, it reads that God made man "in our similitude and after our likeness." Considering the fact many believe that man was made in God's image, this line was altered throughout to avoid the fact of man being formed in the same way rather than in God's mind.
 * Biblical Differences**

The interesting thing to note in Elizabeth's speech is how she says how connected she is with her people and claims that tyrants are the ones who are lower and the ones who should feel fear. She may have been a frail queen, but her words feel like they are being spoken from a king of high measures. The speech itself really does influence and encourage those to fight not just for themselves, but for the faith in their own country as she provides her trust in her amy.
 * Troops at Tilbury Speech**

It was obvious to tell the experience Kelly had when discussing with us the vaules fo Shakespeare. His delievery and clear soucre of knowledge was proven greatly as he talked about the differences in poetry and a few running themes with Shakespeare's work. In all honesty, I felt that most of the material William did stood out form one another and didn't second think they had smiliar themes with the terms of good vs. evil and basic situations that can either change or motivate a character, as well as the structure of basic tradgedy.
 * Kelly Morgan's Lecture**

Shakespeare tends to have a way of words when it comes to his poetry. They tend to follow a basic rhyming pattern which tends to have a certain beat while reading it. An example of this is the first sonnet where one is describing someone they feel negative twoards. The first and thrid line have a word that rhymes while the second line is sandwhiched with a word that doesn't connect to the first of third.
 * Sonnets**