Grendel’s Dam Gets a Makeover
The trailer for the new Beowulf movie is out, and the producers are leading off with the most titillating scene they could come up with: a sultry CGI-enhanced Angelina Jolie, rising from a shimmering pool and murmuring seductive offers to the hero Beowulf.
Angelina Jolie seems to have developed a tail and a very pleasant mostly-Danish accent that sounds exactly like Mrs. Olsen in the old Folger’s coffee commercials. Alas, in the original poem Grendel’s mother (aka ‘Grendel’s dam’) was not a hot ticket but a repulsive monster whom Beowulf dispatched directly. But it’s always fun to rewrite your sources to draw a new audience. Hot dam!
Michelle on 15 Aug 2007 at 10:54 am #
This is not the first time that Grendal’s mother became a pretty lady.
The Christopher Lambert version of Beowulf used a seductress for Grendal’s mother.
nicola on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:21 pm #
i am infirst year of high school and i have just started history tollund man is our 1st subject and it is really interesting x