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The Beowulf poem does not find its way to screen unmolested. Several alterations have been made. Numerous characters and events have been deleted. But, what is, perhaps, most shocking is not what has been excluded, but what has been added. Screenwriters Roger Avery (Pulp Fiction) and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman (Stardust) examined the legend on a cellular level and decided to address the glaring inconsistencies, disjoined plot points and unreliable narration that have always plagued the work and earned the ire of certain academics. They have created a "unified field theory" that not only draws disparate stories together and elucidates plot holes, but actually contributes to the existing scholarship.
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The actual author of Beowulf is unknown. The original poem was written down on thin sheets of shaved leather. It was later copied and re-copied over the next two hundred years. By the 900s, it had been collected in a volume that ... contained the story of San Christopher, a collection of outlandish anecdotes about the Far East, an alleged letter from Alexander the Great and a poem about the Biblical heroine Judith.
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Based on the famed epic poem, Beowulf & Grendel tells the astonishingly dull and hopelessly irrelevant story of a legendary warrior named Beowulf who must hunt down and kill a murderous troll before it does any more damage. Review by David Nusair.
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The Odyssey and The Iliad were written down centuries before Beowulf. It is believed that Beowulf was first written down some time in the 8th or 9th centuries AD; the two Greek epics were written down by Homer several hundred years BC. All three stories are probably much older than that, handed down through oral traditions.
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