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[holytoastr]

I would like for a weekend where my dog does not wake me at 9am. She is cruel and smacks me in the face.

I think it is delightful that the national zoo has a wish list for their animals.

Ben and I just got back from seeing beowulf. We opted out of the 3D version which would have been $5 more per ticket. I had a hard time telling if it was a parody or a dark re-telling of the poem. Sometimes I was laughing out loud and other times it was too gruesome to look at the screen.

However, I am extremely disappointed that there were no bees in the film. That is my favorite part of the poem. But the movie has no bees!

I may have to write to neil gaiman about this. No bees! Can you believe it?

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Bees?

[gender107.livejournal.com]

I saw Beowulf with Tara on Saturday!
We were squealy Neil fan girls it was fun!
We were walking into the theater trying to figure out the story. We both had a hard time trying to remember what we "read" in Sister Karen's class. I like to call her version the "Fast forward approach" to great literature. Seeing as how for Beowulf, The Iliad, and The Odessy we got those photocopied hand out and she just told us the basics of the stories.
But I did remember about the loss of limb = death.
And Tara thought there was something about bees.
You're going to have to let her know she was right after all.

Re: Bees?

[holytoastr.livejournal.com]

I read the full version in college. The real version is really funny cause beowulf is such a jerk and so conceited and so greedy, but he always triumphs!

Beowulf, the real version:
1. King Hrothgar has a fancy hall that he uses for parties every night. It gets attacked by grendel. Everyone is sad and dead so hrothgar offers up half his kingdom's gold if someone will kill the monster.
2. Beowulf likes gold so he visits hrothgar and offers to kill grendel.
3. Beowulf boasts for what feels like 100 chapters on how great he is. Clearly he is full of himself.
4. Beowulf and his warriors have a big party cause beowulf is so great. The party angers grendel and the hall gets attacked again.
5. Beowulf chops off grendel's arm. Naked. (The movie got that part right!) Grendel runs away and bleeds to death in the swamp.
6. Another party to celebrate beowulf, which lasts many many days. Plenty of time for grendel's mom to show up and slaughter more people.
7. Hrothgar tells beowulf to kill grendel's mother or else no gold. Beowulf likes gold. He agrees.
8. Beowulf chops off grendel's mother's head with a magic sword he finds in her treasure horde.
9. Beowulf goes home with half of hrothgar's treasure after another party and much boasting by beowulf about how great he is.
10. Beowulf becomes king of his own country and grows old.
11. A slave steals a gold cup from a dragon near beowulf's home. The dragon goes into a rage and attacks all the nearby villages.
12. Beowulf devises a plan to kill the dragon. It involves wrapping bees in tasty sacks for the dragon to eat.
13. The dragon eats the bees and is stung from the inside.
14. Beowulf stabs the very distracted dragon.
15. Beowulf dies from exhaustion.
16. Several million chapters about beowulf's funeral and how great he is.

Re: Bees?

[taraisagoddess.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad I remembered something. Other than the bees, I literally remembered almost nothing about that story.