Class Tonight...

[liralen]

Got to see Beowulf with John and... well... I didn't like it much.

Ah well. It was very pretty and quite the adventure and very... Gaiman, I guess.

Sometimes Gaiman's sense of story, which works so well in print and on the page in text just... doesn't work in movies for me. I'm not sure why, but I think it's one of the reasons the 200 didn't work for me that well, either. Something that's moving in graphic novels is... over the top when in motion. Something about it just doesn't translate well for me.

Ah well.

I have the next chapter of Thorn and Ash partially done, but I'm going to have to go to dinner and class. Maybe I can get it out after I get back. Bah...

Comments

[thenomain.livejournal.com]

Have you seen 13th Warrior? Which I adore, even if I had to see it twice to really understand. It's dark and brooding and very apropos for the story they're cribbing from while making it as realistic as possible.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yes! I've seen 13th Warrior and actually enjoyed it quite a lot. :-) Vikings and an Arabian wise man. It's pretty cool. That movie actually really did it for me, in ways that Beowulf couldn't.

I think it had to do with the fact that even that 13th odd man out really had a relationship with the men he was with. Even when he was the butt of their jokes, there turned into some kind of mutual respect that really hit it for me.

I think that might be why Beowulf left me so cold. Beowulf himself really had no relationships, no connection. Only his own conceit and adventures. The only redeeming one was his one wise companion, who was properly horrified at the right times and the only one wise enough to bow out when it was right.

[crimini.livejournal.com]

Funny, I was thinking the same thing.