“Confronting the Fabled Monster, Not to Mention His Naked Mom” contains and abundance of
spectacular detail, but the author’s predominant purpose was to criticize the film. Throughout the
article the author, Dargis, uses astounding figurative language, comical phrases, and humorous
tone.
She writes in a humorous tone, using such phrases as, “You could poke your eye out with one of
those things! Which is precisely what I thought when I first saw Ms. Jolie’s jutting breast too.”
Right when you think she’s pushing towards the movie Dargis she slips in a negative opinion.
Dargis is very clever on how she use her words, because her opinion seems like their given facts!
She continues to say “I don’t yet see the point of performance capture, partially given how ugly
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The author also shows comparison between the film and Seamus Heaney’s written
version of the story, and describes innumerable scenes in significant detail, but her purpose was
to criticize the film. Throughout, “Confronting the Fabled Monster, Not to Mention His Naked
Mom,” Dargis uses comical phrases to criticize the film. She does this in a phenomenal way and
it very through in her efforts. Sprinkled throughout the article you will find humorous insults of
the movie such as “this film version of “Beowulf” doesn’t offer much beyond 3’D Ooh’s and
Ah’s, sword clanging and a nicely conceived dragon, which probably explains why Mr.
Zemeckis and his collaborators have tried to sex it up with Ms. Jolie, among other comic cook