Why did Hollywood change the story of Beowulf when they made it into a film ?!
Question: The story stood the test of time for over a thousand years, I know the English are universally hated by everyone nowadays but degrading one of the finest pieces of Anglo Saxon literature ever recorded is an insult to our heritage.
Answers: The story stood the test of time for over a thousand years, I know the English are universally hated by everyone nowadays but degrading one of the finest pieces of Anglo Saxon literature ever recorded is an insult to our heritage.
Because that's what they do. They do everything in their own version to make the most money out of it. the movie 300 for instant. they changed the history to their own version, to make a supposingly more interesting movie. Well, It's an OK movie, but it's not history. Similarly, they change literature or anything else, just as long as they think they can get more money if they do.
simple answer is this-----they are thick
Because that is what Hollywood does - they "reimagine" stories from books. I am hoping they don't mess too much with one my favorites, "The Lovely Bones" directed by Peter Jackson when it comes out this year. It was a great story written down, as was Beowulf. I read it for the first time in junior high, the sad part is kids today will see this Angie Jolie version and repeat that storyline as if it is accurate! LOL.
It may have not "fitted in"
or cheaper to make it without it, or edited out, or.................
Because Hollywood sucks anymore!They always take good things and make them into trash.
Because that is what Hollywood do. They shaft stories and change them into what will make them the most money.
Everyone does not hate the English. The people in Hollywood apparently thought they should change it, they were probably wrong.
cause hollywood felt that they be able to get more people to see it if they turn it in a peice of s**t
They probably just wanted to create a more personal plot line to engage to audience. Besides, this isn't the first adaptation they've made of Beowulf. I really enjoyed the novel, Grendel, by John Gardner.
Normally, I would be mad, thinking that Hollywood screwed up another piece of literature by turning it into a film, but I really enjoyed it. It did empathize some of ideas from the Anglo-Saxon times and the ideals that came through in the literature. (Besides the actual manuscript is just a reworking of a Germanic myth into Christian ideology.) This was a blessing compared to some of the other movies made about Beowulf.