This adaptation of the epic poem of legendary hero Beowulf. A 2007 motion capture performance film based on the old poem of the same name.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film was created through a motion capture process The cast includes Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich and Angelina Jolie. Motion capture is a digital term used to describe the process of recording movement and translating the movement onto a digital model. Used in many formats, including filmmaking and computer games Recording the actions of human actors, and using that information to animate digital 3D character. Beowulf does not appear on screen as he was described in the
poem. This is the first of many steps in this latest adaptation. A story so and often retold and so many times to become a world record holder. Dating back in its orginal poem form to the 8th century and describing events in what is now Denmark . Within this poem, no distinction is made between history and myth, although it is now read as though it were history with exagerrated story elements. The poem begins with a gilded palace, after many years of peace and tribesman collecting treasures to pay off their local monster and ends with Beowulf’s death in front of the dragon’s den Beowulf himself was born in about the year 495. The Geats were
Beowulf’s clan a, seafaring tribe coming from the north of ADAPT OR DIE Denmark. He defeats Grendel and his mother to save Hroðgar’s kingdom in 515. He becomes king of the Geats in 520. Fifty years after that, the poem says that Beowulf is killed by the dragon.
The poem gives us an accurate if fantastic view of early German Culture? Or is it more likely an
adaptation by them to create a more glorious past? Adaptation became the strong
hold of this tale as it was retold over the years again and again. Constantly rewritten to
suit the culture of that time. There have been so many authors spanning over six
centuries that the orginal authorship still remains in question. Beowulf has been the subject of
much study and speculation. With over 3000 lines, it has plenty of room for misunderstanding and therefore authors have adapted it or it would have long since died away.
In this more modern digital age filmmakers and Video games manufacturers have taken this
tale to a new story board and once more adapted to suit a new medium and modern culture.
Motion capture can animate characters like Beowulf and Gollum, The Mummy, and King Kong. Adapting hero and villains of the past into new images of the future. Giving audiences an adaptation so far removed from the original story as to be a completely new tale and questioning many of the adaptations . In the last two hundred years alone this tale has been rewritten over twenty times in several languages from 1805 Sharon Turner translated into English. John Conybeare into English and Latin in 1814. Frederik Grundtvig 1820 into Danish. William Morris published the ninth English translation in 1895. In the 20th century, Frederick Klaeber’s Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, became the main adapation used by students for the study of the poem. Seamus Heaney’s version of Beowulf was published in 1999 and includes “Northern Irish diction and turns of phrase.” Today the Beowulf epic has been adapted for a number of films, Beowulf & Grendel 2005, Grendel 2007, Beowulf 2007 and Beowulf, Prince of the Geats 2008, and so the story goes on like tales around the camp fire, passed down from Father to son, adapting all the time.