Beowulf

     Needless to say, the movie was completely different from the story. The movie seemed to go on about the religion Christianity and how great it was opposed to the Pagen religion. The book did have references to both religions but besides a few references to how great Christianity is, overall it wasn't a very important matter. The religions, in my opinion, weren't that big of a matter that the movie tried to make it out to be. The point of the book was to get rid of the killer monster, not to convert all the people who hear it.
     The people who created the movie tried very hard to insert twists to the story to keep it interesting. They made Grendel almost human and even added a baby Grendel in the story as well as having the baby's mother being the town's witch. They also had a major problem of not being able to catch or find Grendel. It was no longer just about this evil monster that killed people, it was a angry looking guy, known as Grendel, who was avenging his father's death.
     The changes they made to the move weren't very effective overall and it left me feeling like it dragging on unnecessarily sometimes. Between going on about the religions and the attempt to somehow keep it interesting for viewers with random twists to the story, they lost my attention. They payed so much attention to things like that that when they actually killed Grendel and his mom it ended quite fast compared to the rest of it. I did like Beowulf's personality better in the movie then in the story though. He was more human and humbler in the movie when in the story he was unnaturally amazing and proud.