Frederik Willem de Klerk was Staatspresident van Suid-Afrika . Plus I like many of Zemeckis other films, I like the poem, and theres a lot of potential for a good adaptation. "[53], Scholars and authors criticized the changes done upon the poem's story. The creation of additional rendering nodes throughout Culver City, California was necessitated by the movie's production. So its a credit to the studios when they produce something that rise above the rest. In addition, this essay will apply Baz Luhrmann's unique director style to the 2012 dystopian film, The Hunger Games (which is based off of Suzanne Collins's novel of the same name), in order to for the film to agree with the criteria of Luhrmann's Red Curtain Style. Why in the world would they make the HD version PG-13? I've never seen a 3-D movie pop with this kind of clarity and oomph. Now Available: Tech Talk Podcast with Scott Wilkinson, Episode 19. Instead, she seduces him with promises to make him king in exchange for the drinking horn and a son to replace Grendel, which Beowulf agrees to when they both kiss. Just thought I'd throw in my 2cents. However, the movie was heavily edited in order to cut the film down to a length that the studio felt was appropriate. [55], However, there were also positive academic reviews. Naipaul's 20th century novels. He recounts embellished stories of a fight, claiming he left the sword impaled in the body of Grendel's mother and lost the golden drinking horn in the battle. In his cave, Grendel's mother swears revenge over his corpse. What the heck??? As with keyframe animation, some shots have just been blocked initially, without facial movement, offering a cruel comparison to the finished film and begging the question of if they forgot to add the required data to the faces in some of the finished scenes too. [26], At Comic-Con International in July 2006, Gaiman said Beowulf would be released on November 22, 2007. There seem to be a couple of conflicting reports on how different the two cuts are. Once again, the technology, which really should have come on leaps and bounds since Final Fantasy ten years ago, fails us as an audience and Zemeckis and his hard working crew. They would rip you in the BD forums for that. As with Transformers, say what you want about the film, but this is a solid extras package that, like that film, invite discussion and reappraisal, even if youll likely end up at the same disappointing result. He doesn't have to worry about lighting. The director's cut of this movie features several new scenes and storylines that explain character actions far more clearly than the original cut, showing that the director's cut ofKingdom of Heaven is a true cinematic masterpiece. Hrothgar says all that matters is that Grendel is dead and the curse of Grendel's mother is no longer his to bear. It's outrageously entertaining. I'm wondering if this is just an excuse to insert a few extra frames of footage,. Beowulf returns to Herot, the castle, and becomes king. Southern Methodist University's Director of Medieval Studies Bonnie Wheeler is "convinced that the new Robert Zemeckis movie treatment sacrifices the power of the original for a plot line that propels Beowulf into seduction by Angelina Joliethe mother of the monster he has just slain. In the cases that using cached data was not possible, the scenes were rendered using foreground occlusion, which involves the blurring of different overlays of a single scene in an attempt to generate a single scene film. thanks for this thread, makes me want to blind buy this title just based on PQ! This often leads to the 'director's cuts' being released for home video. Why not just shoot the whole thing with real actors and the odd bit of CGI, a la 300, a film that the marketing for Beowulf desperately wanted us to remember. Your choice will be averaged with the other votes to calculate the AV Readers' Score. Produced by Shangri-La Entertainment and Zemeckis' ImageMovers, it features characters animated using motion-capture animation, which was previously used in ImageMovers' The Polar Express (2004) and Monster House (2006). The director's cut of the movie was released in order to coincide with aGrand Theft Autorelease, though this cut unnecessarily messed with the pacing and visuals of the film, resulting in a cartoonish mess. Some other interesting aspects of the project are explored in The Art Of Beowulf (5:25), combining a look at the films admittedly impressive computer designed locations, including peeks at concept art and miniature approximations, with the historical research that went into their fabrication, both in real world textures and computer renderings. Beowulf is an epic poem of more than 3,100 lines originally written in Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) about a Scandinavian prince of the same name. Beowulf is a braggart and a self-promoter, but not one without self-reflection or eventually, humility, and his journey is to discover the price he pays for his ambition. Again, the solution here is to use physical performers for the capture data and those with the more powerful voices to convey the emotions. The original version ofSuperman IIwas started by Richard Donner, but completed by Richard Lester, who opted to focus on a more comedic version of Superman. The actors don't have to hit marks. Well, lets stick with the violence for a moment. What a difference. [24], However, the main difference from the poem is portraying Beowulf as a flawed hero destroyed by his own negative qualities,[15][20] like lust for power and unchecked male desire,[18] which raises questions about the morality underlying heroism. It goes someway to making up for the Beowulf-Grendel battle earlier on. Because of the expanded budget, Zemeckis told the screenwriters to rewrite their script, because "there is nothing that you could write that would cost me more than a million dollars per minute to film. As Pixar preached long ago, the story needs to push the technology, but it also needs to nestle with it. [33] In the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America gave the film a PG-13 rating for "intense sequences of violence including disturbing images, some sexual material and nudity". Share Improve this answer Follow While these director's cuts have a reputation of being superior to the original cut of the movie, this is not always the case as director's cuts can often have several superfluous scenes that add little to the movie. I wanted to like Beowulf. However, the film is more than a simple action flick, with Deckard questioning himself while on this mission. Clearly the BBFC didnt feel the bolder, never-before-seen images were any more unsuitable for kiddies than the originals. Its not all bad. Critics and even some of the actors expressed shock at the British Board of Film Classification rating of the film12Awhich allowed children under twelve in Britain to see the film if accompanied by their parents. They even came up with a new term to describe the better-than-mo-cap technique that would translate each and every nuance of the actors movements into the computer rendered realm, performance capture. Well, now you know. All those people on IMDb who whined that it was animated and you couldnt do an animated action movie for adults annoyed me something rotten, and I really wanted them to be proved wrong. Unfortunately, this doesnt lend itself well to the final result: mo-cap, whatever fancy name you give it, is like old-school pencil drawn rotoscoping, where the movement is so tailored to reality that it then doesnt actually fit in a cartoon world. i loved what Final Fantasy did with similar technology so hopefully this will impress me just as much. Focusing on the lead character himself rather than as the project as a whole, Creating The Ultimate Beowulf is short (at just 1:56) and ultimately not so sweet, coming over as the most back-patting of all the supplements. I never heard of a Scottish Cockney before! Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, Proud member of American Coaster Enthusiasts (ACE) Woodies Rule!