Watching the Film and reading the poem, they are completely different. Hollywood put their own spin on the story. Difference and similarities between the characters, themes, battle, and the main point of the story. In the Film Beowulf’s heart was the same, he had the same passion like in the poem. Also the king in the Film seemed like he shouldn’t have inherited the crown at all. In the same way Beowulf had heart and passion for saving the Danes’ before saving him, also like in the Film he had the same passion. He battled the same characters Grendel, Brecca, and the Shape Shifter. He cut off his arm and kept it for proof for the king, but he was upset because he wanted the head. He went looking for Brecca in her cave, but he didn’t kill her …show more content…
Grendel does break through the door in the beginning. He attacks because the noise is loud. His ears are very sensitive to noise. Grendel is smaller and wear than his mother Brecca. Beowulf still cut his arm off, and he left a bloody trail. He ends up killing Beowulf’s men, when the celebration was over when he battled …show more content…
In the beginning of the Film Unferth is mocking Beowulf’s battle in the past. Beowulf knows what he is saying is true. Beowulf make up this lie to cover Unferth’s story and while he’s telling this made up story there’s a flash back where it shows him falling in love with a monster. In the Film he didn’t kill Brecca like it stated in the poem. Brecca persuaded him with becoming king for sex and keeping the gold horn under her possession. When Beowulf found Brecca’s cave he found all the treasure. In another way Hrothgar in the Film, and Hrothgar in the poem was he was very different. He didn’t seem serious at all, he didn’t take being king serious. In the poem the writer did not mention a wife named Wealhþeow, He was unfaithful to her. Hrothgar doubted Beowulf when he said he killed Brecca. Grendel is Hrothgar’s son in the Film. Hrothgar killed himself by falling off a cliff, because he couldn’t deal with the guilt that Grendel was dead. He pushed all his problems on Beowulf, because deep inside him knew that Beowulf was lying about killing