Thursday 26 July 2007

I'm here to kill your monstah


http://www.beowulfmovie.com/

Oh that brings back happy memories of Andy Orchard saying "let's do some original research!" in supervisions, and typing lofgeorn, eager for praise, into the Toronto Dictionary of Old English database, and pointing out that it's almost always used in a prose, negative context, therefore maybe implying criticism of Beowulf. That was a good teacher! He deprived the town-dwellers of their ale-benches, etc. Later he wrote a book called Pride and Prodigies which is an excellent title. This is most of what I can remember from my Part II Beowulf course: it's about pride, the monstrous, and Christians dealing with the pagan past. It looks like this might even be a reasonably good film.

1 comment:

  1. Well OF COURSE it will be good: it has Angelina Jolie in it!

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