Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:07 am Post subject: Beowulf
For those that don't know there is a big screen high budget version of the old legend coming to our screens next week. It features an all star cast including Angelina Jolie, Ray Winstone, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn and Crispin Glover (Points if you know who he is... without IMDB!).
The interesting twist in how they've produced the film is that they've used MoCap, this is where they film the actors doing all their scenes and then CGI over the top of them. Polar Express is one example of the technology and A Scanner Darkly is another example with a different look.
To me it looks pretty good even just from an animation POV so lets hope they manage to pull it off. In its favour it has Robert Zemeckis directing it and he's done some pretty good stuff in the past.
Check out the trailer _________________ Pro Massacre Boy!
i can not wait for this film, its going to rule, one of my fav tales told by such masters of there art.plus the buzz (so far) seems to be very pro the film, which is good cos i was not sure how people would take to it. ive been waiting for this film for ages,bring it on.
At first I was wary. Beowulf is one of my favourite things, and the main reason I learnt Anglo-Saxon - which I think is cool, despite the blank and confused reaction of most people when I get over excited and tell them that.
I heard about the changes to the source materials and thought "typical hollywood" but then I went to the movie site and read the thing behind what they had done to draw the threads together.
Given they had to make a coherent story out of something fragmentary it sounds like a good job has been done. I don't quite agree with what they have done with the dragon - but won't discuss that until it is out an people have seen it in case of spoilers.
I am going to see it IN 3D at the Imax at the weekend.
Well, I'm at work right now (slyly checking forum anyway) but if you want to read the text for free (old english and new) together with some background etc it is definitely worth while to get a sense of the rhythms and the darkness etc.
My favourite translation is probably by Seamus Heaney - but you'd have to buy that still I would think.
The main difference that I have heard of is the nature and relationships of Grendel's mother (played by Angelina Jolie in the film) with the human cast and how they use that to bridge a gap of many years in the recorded version of the poem we have now.
Once I've seen the film I'll do a review and make a section in that for the differences. _________________
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject: Re: Beowulf
Reaper wrote:
The interesting twist in how they've produced the film is that they've used MoCap, this is where they film the actors doing all their scenes and then CGI over the top of them. Polar Express is one example of the technology and A Scanner Darkly is another example with a different look.
Ohhhh. bluebug was saying the other day that she couldn't tell weather it was real actors or not. That'd be why then. _________________ Let There Be Lightning
meh not to bothered about it. Looks like it climb apon the myth wagon film time.
However your comment about mo cap reminded me of something, A japanse studio is creating a naruto ps3 game and they are doing the worlds first Animated mocap! yeah complex and amazing. Takes about 3 hours to do 3 seconds! just as comic people that might have future uses. _________________ Ninjarific
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