Details, credits, errata: This week we watched the extremely lurid and silly 2007 Robert Zemeckis CGI movie Beowulf, easily the best of on-location shoots in the uncanny valley, starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Crispin Glover, and John Malkovich, and written by Neil Gaiman (
I would LOVE to ask Ethan Campbell - WHY did Grendel become angry when the heroes sang a hymn about creation? Is it because he is destruction? Is it because THEIR hymn of creation, like the Babylonian myth, describes the destruction of another monster to make the world?
I agree with Sam - you CAN'T give Neil Gaiman too much credit. I have no doubt in my mind that Neil meant that bird flying into and out of the mead hall. The man is insanely well read.
I would LOVE to ask Ethan Campbell - WHY did Grendel become angry when the heroes sang a hymn about creation? Is it because he is destruction? Is it because THEIR hymn of creation, like the Babylonian myth, describes the destruction of another monster to make the world?
I agree with Sam - you CAN'T give Neil Gaiman too much credit. I have no doubt in my mind that Neil meant that bird flying into and out of the mead hall. The man is insanely well read.
I could listen to Ethan Campbell talk forever. I really enjoyed learning about Bede the Venerable and Dream of the Rood on Wikipeida.