So I was watching Beowulf and I realized something

Stephen Hawking is Grendel!

Grendel


Stephen Hawking

 

Lol

 

It was actually a pretty good movie if you asked me... Completely impressed by how it composed.

 

HAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahah............you'll burn in hell for that!...and since I only laughed I'll just get a smack on the hand................with a sledge hammer...lol.

 

hahahahahahaha evil.... i like it

 

OMG thats wrong!FUNNY....but wrong......lol

 

What is beowulf?

 

A movie based off a mythological character I believe????

 

yup

 

I know I had a video game back in the day called beowulf lol...it sucked.

 

jolie looked 100X better in this movie than anything else she has come out with recently. leave it to artsy geeks to go ape shit on the animation for her scenes.

 

Beowulf was an Old English epic poem. Possibly the most difficult reading I ever encountered in college. Written in Old English and a significant part of English Literature classes, it was drudgery personified, and the author is unknown.

Here are the initial stanzas from the Prologue:

Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,
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monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð
feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,
oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra
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ofer hronrade hyran scolde,
gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!
Ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned,
geong in geardum, þone god sende
folce to frofre; fyrenðearfe ongeat

Modern Translation (doesn't help me much!):

LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls. Since erst he lay
friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,
till before him the folk, both far and near,
who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate,
gave him gifts: a good king he!
To him an heir was afterward born,
a son in his halls, whom heaven sent
to favor the folk, feeling their woe
that erst they had lacked an earl for leader
so long a while; the Lord endowed him,
the Wielder of Wonder, with world's renown.


Needless to say the bookstore at the University made a fortune from selling Cliff Notes on the poem.

The Movie Beowulf, was wonderful and not only because of the presence of Angela Jolie.

 

yeah, i never read the book either in college. i was an absolute believer in cliff notes.

english class was never a main concentration of mine, girls were.....and i guess thats where angie jolie comes into play here. i had a TA that looks a bit like her.... :bigwink:

 

I hated my English Lit Professor...then the damn guy writes a book and becomes very famous, has an affair with Cybil Sheppard and wins the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Lonesome Dove." Larry McMurtry, (Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, and about 20 other best sellers) Guess that tells you about my taste in teachers!

 

haha, omg thats an amazing story. im a big fan of lonesome dove. my grandfather would love to hear that story. hes an absolute lonesome dove fanatic since he read the book, then watched the series.

 

Larry has book stores in Denton, Texas and Washington, D.C.

I thought McMurtry was a nerd weirdo he spoke with his teeth clinched and pulled the hair on his skinny legs while he lectured...I worshiped Sonny Gibbs our 6' 7" All-American Quarterback. Last I heard Sonny Gibbs had failed in the Canadian Football League and was driving a cement truck in south Texas.

 

la suerte de la fea, la bonita lo de sea. :book:

 

haha!! good movie! never made that connection but I can see it.

 

hmmmm cant say I have seen this movie.......maybe in the future sometime.........

 

Read the work Kym...there is so much more in the real words...