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Long time ago, there was a story about Beowulf in Anglo-Saxon culture. People wrote a poem about Beowulf and also they made movie about it. We watched movie in class and we could find some differences between the poem and the movie. The movie Beowulf was really interesting but I thought movie focused on visual effects more than real fact in the poem. Usually, many movies that made based on a poem or a novel always delete many details and focus more on the visual effects.That is because the movie makers wanted to attract people's attention more closely to the movies.

In the movie, Angelina Jolie acted as the monster, Grandel's mom. When we read the poem, we would probably never think that monster will be Angelina Jolie in the movie. In the poem, it is just a monster, however, in the movie it made this monster to be a sexy gold monster. We can tell this is kind of exaggeration and changing in physical features of main characters. We often see that in the movies, they made up the characters' appearence. This effect can make people pay attention to the scene better.

Also in the movie, they mainly focused on the battle scene. While I was watching the movie, they really exaggerated the scene which Beowulf fighting with the Grendal. They trying to make Beowulf look more strong and heroic. During the battle scene people will watch more into to the movie because the scene fast. In order to show more of battle scene, they deleted unnecessary details in the poem.

Althought there is now a modern version of Beowulf, the original Beowulf is written in Old English.The movie can help people with understand more better of the poem. However, if the movie deleted too much details and overexaggerated the characters, then people could maybe misunderstand real meaning of the poem. Therefore, in my opinion, I would rather read a poem first and then watch movie for the better understand because the movies always made up things.