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Screenplays by Neil Gaiman (Study Guide): Neverwhere, Beowulf, Mirrormask, Coraline, Day of the Dead, a Short Film About John Bolton, Statuesque
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-14.
ISBN 9781155268835
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Neverwhere, Beowulf, Mirrormask, Coraline, Day of the Dead, a Short Film About John Bolton, Statuesque. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Beowulf is a 2007 American performance capture fantasy film that is based on the Anglo-Saxon English epic poem of the same name. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film was created through a motion capture process similar to the technique used in The Polar Express and Monster House. The cast includes Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman and Angelina Jolie. It was released in the United Kingdom and United States on November 16, 2007 and was available to view in IMAX 3D, RealD, Dolby 3D and standard 2D format. Set in Denmark in the 6th century, the film opens with King Hrothgar celebrating the construction of his mead hall, Heorot. However, the noise disturbs and enrages the monstrous creature Grendel, who attacks the mead hall and slaughters nearly all of the people there. He retreats to his mother's cave when Hrothgar challenges him to fight. His mother, a water-demon, takes interest in Hrothgar's presence. Hrothgar has the mead hall sealed and offers half of the gold in his kingdom for a hero to kill Grendel. Beowulf and his group of Geats arrive by ship, and Beowulf agrees to slay Grendel. The Geats bed down in the mead hall when challenged by Unferth, Hrothgar's skeptical advisor. Their singing attracts Grendel, and Beowulf mortally wounds him in unarmed combat by breaking his left arm off. Grendel crawls back to his cave and later dies under his mother's caresses. Grendel's vengeful mother kills all the rest of the Geats except Beowulf and his friend Wiglaf. Hrothgar reveals that Grendel's mother killed t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2572851
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