Amerikansk storfilm: Beowulf. Tredimensionella svenska vikingar?
En av de stora är Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf med Anthony Hopkins, Crispin Glover , Angelina Jolie och Ray Winstone.
Beowulf spelades in som en ordinarie spelfilm men dator-redigerades senare genom s.k. motion capture-tekonolgi där man bl.a. lade till en avatar av Angelina Jolie.
Manohla Dargis recenserar Beowulf i New York Times: Confronting the Fabled Monster, Not to Mention His Naked Mom
You don’t need to wait for Angelina Jolie to rise from the vaporous depths naked and dripping liquid gold to know that this “Beowulf” isn’t your high school teacher’s Old English epic poem. You don’t even have to wait for the flying spears and airborne bodies that — if you watch the movie in one of the hundreds of theaters equipped with 3-D projection — will look as if they’re hurtling directly at your head. You could poke your eye out with one of those things! Which is precisely what I thought when I first saw Ms. Jolie’s jutting breasts too.
Ms. Jolie plays the bad girl in “Beowulf,” a wicked demon, the mother of all monsters — here, Grendel, played by Crispin Glover — who can switch from hag to fab in the wink of a serpentine eye. If you don’t remember this evil babe from the poem, it’s because she’s almost entirely the invention of the screenwriters Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman and the director Robert Zemeckis, who together have plumped her up in words, deeds and curves. These creative interventions aren’t especially surprising given the source material and the nature of big-studio adaptations. There’s plenty of action in “Beowulf,” but even its more vigorous bloodletting pales next to its rich language, exotic setting and mythic grandeur.
Mytologi har blivit väldigt populär inte bara i USA med böcker som Harry Potter och nu filmer som Beowulf.
Jag har inte själv sett Beowulf, hoppas vikingarna vinner.
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