For those of you who don't know about this story you can watch the trailer of the movie (above).
The religious views in the movie where displayed thought out the whole movie. Unlike in the book it only talked a little bit about the different gods. One character that was added into the movie to help display the Pagan Anglo-Saxon religion, was a witch. This shows that not only did they believe in god they also worshiped mythical creatures, they also believed in fate and destiny. That it was someones time when the "gods" are ready not when the person is ready.
Some changes that they did in the plot of the movie was showing, Grendel's father killed in front of the little kid. Which then caused Grendel to grow hatred towards the men who had killed his father. I like how there are a lot of twists and turns, in the book after a while it can become predictable and you can sort of guess what is going to happen next. But because there was so many twists and turns in the movie it was hard to comprehend the different stories that where going on. Beowulf had a little love story, and then it would switch to another story, then another. It got confusing after a while as to how everyone is suppose to be connected. The movie was way to slow at the beginning it took a while to actually get into the story. I was expecting more action and battle scenes. I was disappointed that Grendel wasn't an actual monster, he was just a human. I think that they should of had him as a monster in the movie. I liked how in the movie they had made Beowulf a little humble, in the book he automatically starts bragging about how awesome he is.
Overall, I personally liked the book better then the movie but isn't that how all movies are. Although it was cool to see the different twists that could come out of the story, it was confusing after a while. The movie had way to much relation to the Christian religion, everything and anything could some how relate back to the Christian religion.
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