Ahmed's+Work

= **__Beowulf Book vs. The Movie__** = Stories that have many charectars in them are usually quite interesting, but they don't interest the audiences as much as stories which stay on track and on focus for the entire story. The modern version of //Beowulf// (the movie) was more interesting to me compared to the movie and most probably for other modern readers likewise. Despite the poem being attention grabbing and intriguing, in the plot, I personally feel the poem was written for audiences that were present when the story was actually written, even though the translated version tries to makes the poem as modern as possible. The movie, on the other hand, mostly covers only the interesting and important parts from the original, and gets rid of the unnecessary details, and adds more things that get its audiences into it.

Examples of these are the addition of Angelina Jolie in the movie, as a sexy monster, and the mother of the first monster (Grendel). The movie connects the all the monsters unlike the poem, which drags the story and makes it long by breaking it into parts. The poem talks about Geats who weren't really important to the main plot of the story, like Beowulf's uncle, who was a former king of the Geats, The Dane king's brother, who it just says was a great warrior, among other characters. These characters are talked about in lines 110-125, 188 among others in the poem. These characters aren't mentioned in the movie, although the movie does mention Beowulf's father, just like the poem. Even though the father's character might not affect the plot, mentioning him might gives the audience an idea about Beowulf because his father was a great warrior, who just like Beowulf fought strong charectars (physically).

In Scene three of the original poem from the book in part 1, the poem talks about characters like "Healfdane, the great uncle of Beowulf" and "Higlac, the skilled brother of King Hrothgar who died" and a few others who don't ever appear in the story again, so it might have been a good choice made by the people making the movie to not have these characters included in the movie. On the other hand, the inclusion of these characters might say that family meant a lot to the Anglo Saxon people in the past, which isn't the case nowadays, as indicated by the lack of talking about family members in the story.

In conclusion, the movie is better than the poem, especially for the present day audience, because it connects all the monster's stories and also covers only the necessary amount of information, and that goes in making this version successful, unlike the book which has excessive, unneeded information.