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inglor
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 Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 3:18 pm Post subject: Tolkien and Beowulf |
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Watching History Channel last night about a program on Dragons. They mentioned Beowulf and the fact that in the 30's our Prof was a key individual in making it a work that folks should study. They went on to say that Dragons were key figures in his works but not before stating that it was his interest in Beowulf that "resurrected" it from obscurity and basically put it on our reading lists.
I did not know that.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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It's being re-run Sunday, 8/7 at 12PM EST. Thanks for alerting us to it, Inglor. I'll be watching... the show, that is, not you. I'm not that creepy. 
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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Cool! I love things like that. Thanks for letting us know. I will also be watching.
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Eruanna
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:15 am Post subject: Classics |
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A lot of "classical" legends are being brought to the fore via TV and film.
In 2006, a movie about the legend of Tristan and Isolde is scheduled to be released.
This is a Sir Ridley Scott venture (of Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven fame) so it should be filled with lots of swords! 
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FallingIntoStrangers
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| Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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OOOO theres also a Beowulf movie coming out starring the ever luscious Gerard "Phantom of the Opera" Butle. I haven't seen a trailer yet, only pics, but it looks pretty good... excpet ofr the horribly miscast and added in love interest...
But oh well, I have been waiting 15 years for a decent filmed Beowulf, so yippeeeeeeee..... woot.... and of course having yummy Gerry... oh that is just the icing on the cake... ooo and it has Stellan Skarsgaard.. who I freaking luve like crazy... brilliant actor....
Ta! 
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NeumeIndil
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Slightly  , but after the dragons show on Sunday came a show about hell and how literature (Dante's Divine Comedy, John Milton's Paradise Lost etc.) has coloured religious and popular perceptions of the after life. As a VV author, I found that rather ironic timing.
Can you keep us posted on the Beowulf movie? I read the poem in Old English for an Early British Lit. class last year and think a film of it would really help teachers make it easier to understand.
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FallingIntoStrangers
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| Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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As far as I know, it is finished, titled "Beowulf and Grendel" and is having a premiere in late Septmeber. But that is all I know. It probably won't be a big movie, seems like it isnt getting any talk or advertising so far.
Also, ANOTHER Beowulf movie is due to come out in 2007, that will be Americanized with a star cast... the one with Gerard was done in Iceland, by Icelanders...
Anyhoo if I hear anything I will let ya know.
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ghettoelleth
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Sorry some of the links don't work, I went in manually for Tristan and Isolde but damn, that's alot work so...
"The "Kingdom of Heaven" DVD, which will retail for $29.98, also features five hours of other bonus materials, including a streaming text commentary with historical notes about the Crusades, an A&E "Movie Real" feature titled "History vs. Hollywood," interviews with Bloom and Scott and a preview of Fox's upcoming feature "Tristan & Isolde," starring James Franco"
Oh yeah, the release dates on KoH are 10/3 in the UK and 10/11 I think, in the states.
here;s a couple to try for Tristan and Isolde. There's just not much for public posting because its still filming.
http://joblo.com/upcomingmovies/movies.php?id=223
http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/archive/moviearchive.php/Tristan_and_Isolde/3070
http://movies.about.com/od/tristanandisolde/
http://thecia.com.au/reviews/t/tristan-and-isolde.shtml
http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/tickermaster/listing.cfm?TMID=2512
http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=7643
http://www.geocities.com/vue2sewell/TristanIsolde/lordmarke1.html
http://www.ioncinema.com/beta/movie.php?id=972
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movies.php?id=1382
http://www.up4u.net/cms/go.php?pagename=Movie.TristanAndIsolde
release date is feb. 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:01 am Post subject: Movie |
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I've seen the trailer at the theatre for the movie Beowulf. Hard to say if this will work of not...you know...trailers sometimes don't do a movie justice OR they show the only 30 seconds of the flic you would want to see. The trailer for Narnia, on the other hand, has me back reading the books and looking oddly at the old pine wardrobe in the front porch 
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