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Beowulf (2007)

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Beowulf (2007)	comment	Beowulf is the 2007 film written by Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and starring Ray Winstone.It's a Motion Capture 3-D Movie adaptation of the epic Beowulf. The premise is an External Retcon: the story of Beowulf as we know grew in the telling (with a bit of help from Beowulf himself), and the "true" events are somewhat different — and, in a couple of key sequences where there were no witnesses and the story relies on the hero's word alone, very different.A novelization of the film was also written by Caitlin Kiernan.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_1183175e	type	This Was His True Form
Beowulf (2007) / int_1183175e	comment	This Was His True Form: Grendel's body "shrinks" after having his arm amputated. The dragon reveals his human form after his death.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_125a7a4e	type	Dream Weaver
Beowulf (2007) / int_125a7a4e	comment	Dream Weaver: Grendel's mother can weave nightmares, which she does to warn Beowulf of her rage.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_12f078f3	type	Artistic License – Linguistics
Beowulf (2007) / int_12f078f3	comment	Artistic License – Linguistics: Beowulf's insignia is a wolf, obviously corresponding to his name, at least the second half. But his full name actually translates as "bee wolf", a kenning meaning "bear" (because bears hunt for honey), such a tradition being relatively common these days.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Beowulf (2007) / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: Unferth yelling "Sins of the fathers!" after being burnt by dragonfire.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
Beowulf (2007) / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: The titular character fights the monster Grendel completely nude, with his goods blocked from view by his leg, a sword, and a table, among other things. The shadow of his thigh blocks his fun bits at several points. If you slow down the film, you can see there are parts where his genitals would be visible but aren't, so it seems they weren't modelled in the first place. Grendel's mother (voice, face and rendered body of Angelina Jolie) is "clothed" in weird gold water... stuff. Though this could be an example of Non-Mammal Mammaries.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Beowulf (2007) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: There's unsubtle phallic symbolism in how Beowulf's erect sword melts under the caresses of Grendel's mother.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
Beowulf (2007) / int_15b09af9	comment	Heel–Face Door-Slam: While not villainous, Beowulf is a flawed person and a liar. In an inverted example of Clear My Name, he tries to have Wealthow and Wiglaf correct the lies about him after his death and publicize that he was a normal, flawed man, but they refuse and continue to uphold his heroic tale.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Beowulf (2007) / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Takes this tack in regards to Beowulf's exploits for which there are no witnesses. Most notably, he didn't exactly "kill" Grendel's Mother. And he did more than "slay sea monsters" during that storm. Though not all of the film's divergences from the standard story can be explained this way.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Beowulf (2007) / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: In real life, it would be impossible for a beast of the dragon's size to have such a small heart due to the high pumping strength he would need to send all his blood through his body. Also, a proportionally-sized heart would be attached by tons of flesh and thus it would be almost impossible to pull out manually. (Similarly, a correct heart would be probably located deep into the ribcage and not in the center of the neck, making it much less reachable through his throat hole.) These biological oddities are roughtly justified, however, because he is a supernatural creature whose dragon form is implied to be a magic work. The sea serpents are apparently reptilian predators, yet they have a single, large and very human-like eye. Without mentioning the eye number issue, an eyeball that large and exposed is an evolutionary nuisance, especially in a sea creature: it would hinder their swimming ability and at the same time would make an incredibly easy target to any hunting opponent. Also, the creatures would have to be Made of Plasticine for a man to be able to bore a tunnel through their palate in mere seconds and using just a sword.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Beowulf (2007) / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: Beowulf fights Grendel naked to show off by fighting on equal ground.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Beowulf (2007) / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: Beowulf does this. Wealthow also screams Hrothgar's name when the latter jumps to his death.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
Beowulf (2007) / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Grendel chuckles at Beowulf challenging him in the nude, but is eventually put on the ropes so badly by his naked opponent that he tries to flee.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Beowulf (2007) / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Wealthow, most of the time, with a bit of Stoic Woobie thrown in.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
Beowulf (2007) / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Grendel has the power of reanimating fire and turning it white and wild, although it seems to be unintentional on its part.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Beowulf (2007) / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Grendel inflicts a few of these. He impales a thane on a candelabra, tears another in half, and bites off Hondshew's head.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Beowulf (2007) / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Beowulf claims to have killed nine sea serpents in his swimming race, while Wiglaf recalls he said only three the last time. Assuming the onscreen battle is what really transpired (and it might perfectly be, as it shows a moment of the fight he notably omitted from the tale - the mermaid), he actually slew seven, if every gruesome eye-shot was a kill. Nevetheless, given that the theme of the movie is precisely that stories of heroism are often untrue, you never know. This is averted in the novelization, where he slays three and it is the number he says to Unferth. Why the horn glows in the darkness is not addressed in the film, implying that it is magical and has that property, or maybe that it reacts to the presence of Grendel's mother. Again, this is explained in the novelization, which shows Beowulf realizing it was actually a magic trick done by Grendel's mother herself to guide him to her through the cave.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Beowulf (2007) / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Hrothgar is implied to have entered into one with Grendel's mother when he fathered Grendel. Beowulf does so when he confronts her in her lair, giving her a son and the horn in exchange for peace and prosperity. This results in him fathering the dragon and her giving the horn back as subtext for the dragon to attack Heorot.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Beowulf (2007) / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Both in the poem and film, the dragon only attacks Heorot after the drinking horn is stolen, which in the film is interpreted as a breaking of their pact. However, in the novelization the dragon implies he deliberately left the horn to be found in order to invoke the situation and have an excuse to kill Beowulf. He also states he isn't acting on behalf of his mother, but because he hates Beowulf for giving him a life as a Child of Two Worlds unable to fit in either, making him much more vicious than the relatively reactive dragon from the film and poem.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_229ffe84	type	Hot in Human Form
Beowulf (2007) / int_229ffe84	comment	Hot in Human Form: While we never get a clear look at Grendel's mother in her true form, she appears to be a monstrous golden serpent with limbs. In human form, she appears as a nubile young woman wearing only a constantly-shifting gold liquid who is able to seduce both Beowulf and Hrothgar.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Beowulf (2007) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Grendel's exposed eardrum, and the royal dragon horn. Beowulf discovers that Grendel's exposed eardrum is his weak point, and punches it repeatedly to get the upper hand on Grendel during their fight. The royal dragon horn is given to Beowulf by Hrothgar for defeating Grendel, and it's taken by Grendel's mother to maintain their deal before it's abandoned decades later. Despite everyone using a "short sleeve" version of mail, when Beowulf fights the dragon he puts on mail that has a long left sleeve and a short right sleeve. The climax of the fight is only possible because of that one long mail sleeve.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Beowulf (2007) / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The film expands on several aspects of the poem, like the role of the monsters or the characters's personal lives, while the novelization expands on the film itself.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Beowulf (2007) / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: Beowulf and his "bedwarmer" Ursula after Wealtheow learned that he had a fling with Grendel's mother, she became emotionally estranged from him and gave him the Lysistrata treatment, like with what happened between her and her late first-husband/Beowulf's predecessor Hrothgar, for the same reason.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_23dcc97f	type	Circling Monologue
Beowulf (2007) / int_23dcc97f	comment	Circling Monologue: Grendel's mother does this to the titular hero. She promises the trifecta of Sex, Money, and Power, strumming every chord of this flawed hero's heart and pride as she circles him in a Ghostly Glide.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_24067bb9	type	Related in the Adaptation
Beowulf (2007) / int_24067bb9	comment	Related in the Adaptation; Grendel is now Hrothgar's son. In the original poem, the dragon was a separate threat from Grendel and his mother. Here, the dragon is reworked into the plot by being the offspring of Beowulf and Grendel's mother.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Beowulf (2007) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Wiglaf is this compared to Beowulf and his former group of warriors. He is the only one who took the preparation for Grendel seriously, as he also played a pivotal role in Grendel's defeat.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Beowulf (2007) / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The film features Christianity becoming established in Denmark in the 6th century (which actually happened in the 10th) and has references to Vinland, Iceland, Orkney and Norway centuries before they were established or became relevant to the Danes.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
Beowulf (2007) / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: The movie gives Grendel's Mother the power to assume the pleasing form of Angelina Jolie, but she has a prehensile and whip-like ponytail, as well as humorously High-Heeled Feet.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_27b94f39	type	Serendipitous Survival
Beowulf (2007) / int_27b94f39	comment	Serendipitous Survival: After killing Grendel, Beowulf wakes up to find to his horror that all his men have been murdered and their bodies hung up in the rafters. Obviously Beowulf was left alive, but Wiglaf only survived because he had been down at the beach preparing their boat for departure that morning. He would have been killed too had he been in the hall with the rest of them.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_28848c12	type	Life-or-Limb Decision
Beowulf (2007) / int_28848c12	comment	Life-or-Limb Decision: Beowulf cuts the tendons in his own arm in order to reach the dragon's heart.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_28e90e30	type	More than Mind Control
Beowulf (2007) / int_28e90e30	comment	More than Mind Control: It's easy to guess Grendel's mother used magic to entice Beowulf, a theory supported by the novelization, but the weight of his acceptance of her pact comes clearly from her promises of glory.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Beowulf (2007) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Grendel and his mother speak Old English, the language of the original poem.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_2969dda7	type	Nightmare Fetishist
Beowulf (2007) / int_2969dda7	comment	Nightmare Fetishist: Beowulf's hidden side. He is attracted to beautiful creatures, which is shown by the mermaid and exploited by Grendel's mother.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Beowulf (2007) / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Beowulf has this before he discovers the corpses of the guards hanging from the rafters of the castle.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Beowulf (2007) / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: The novelization gives insight to many characters's heads compared to the film. For instance, it shows Grendel knowing the Norse gods thanks to having been taught by his mother, Wiglaf worrying at the beginning of the story that Beowulf might have legitimately gone a bit off his rocker after so many battles, Beowulf himself believing he might have been cursed by Grendel's blood, Wealthow pondering that dragons and supernatural beings should be just left alone instead of exterminated, and the dragon lamenting that he doesn't know his place in the world due to his dual nature and heritage.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_2ec87029	type	Sadly Mythtaken
Beowulf (2007) / int_2ec87029	comment	Sadly Mythtaken: Hrothgar killed a dragon whom he calls Fáfnir. The dragon Fáfnir belongs to The Saga of the Volsungs and was slain by the hero Sigurd.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_2fb585fb	type	Final First Hug
Beowulf (2007) / int_2fb585fb	comment	Final First Hug: It is revealed the dragon Beowulf fights to the mutual death is actually his own son, by way of the same creature that was mother to Grendel. After the climax of the movie, wherein the dragon has mortally wounded Beowulf, and he has torn out the dragon's heart, they both crash-land on the beach. There, the dragon's form melts away into the waves, revealing a shiny, golden-skin humanoid. It's not quite a hug, but Beowulf looks his son in the eyes and lays a hand on his shoulder before his corpse washes away.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_303079ba	type	Phallic Weapon
Beowulf (2007) / int_303079ba	comment	Phallic Weapon: Beowulf's sword Hrunting is given this treatment (or a rather exaggerated version) for visual poetry while talking to Grendel's Mother, who gives the sword a long caressing which makes the weapon's tip "ejaculate" liquid metal before flowing off entirely. It foresees Beowulf succumbing entirely to her charms and promises, as well as having sex with her and impregnating her with a child.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_30e222a1	type	Censor Steam
Beowulf (2007) / int_30e222a1	comment	Censor Steam: Beowulf fought the monster Grendel unarmed and completely naked. When smoke (from a barrel overturned into the fire) isn't around, most of the battle consists of Beowulf jumping around like a circus monkey playing "Hide the Sausage."
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Beowulf (2007) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Beowulf (2007) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The dragon gave Unferth a message to relay to Beowulf, then burned Unferth's family alive. Grendel drinking blood from Hondshew's decapitated body and putting himself to sleep by muttering the word "killing", shows that he actually enjoyed what he was doing.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_35e5a546	type	Digital Head Swap
Beowulf (2007) / int_35e5a546	comment	Digital Head Swap: After a fashion. The whole thing was filmed using motion capture, and Ray Winstone claimed they put his head on his eighteen-year-old body. The same sort of thing was done with Angelina Jolie, who was pregnant at the time.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Beowulf (2007) / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Like in the original poem, Beowulf dies at the end, but his death here is reworked as a Heroic Sacrifice, Redemption Equals Death, and Heel–Face Door-Slam.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_3d85c6bc	comment	Black Speech: Grendel and his mother can only speak Old English. The European Spanish dub changes it to regular Spanish splashed with Old English words.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_3fcb225a	type	OurGiantsAreDifferent
Beowulf (2007) / int_3fcb225a	comment	Our Giants Are Different: Apparently there were a tribe of them in the Orkney Island before Beowulf butchered them. As we never see them on screen, we don't know exactly what he calls a giant, or even if it happened at all.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_419f37b9	type	ShapeshifterSwansong
Beowulf (2007) / int_419f37b9	comment	Shapeshifter Swan Song: After Beowulf rips the dragon's heart out, it appears beside him in a humanoid form.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_42002878	type	I Am X, Son of Y
Beowulf (2007) / int_42002878	comment	I Am X, Son of Y: Two examples.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
Beowulf (2007) / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: The novelization states Grendel's mother is so old that she barely remembers her own past. She knows she had a mother, but cannot remember her or even her own name, and ignores if she ever had a father, suggesting that the cycle of revenge might be older than expected and that her father was a human just like Grendel and the dragon's.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Beowulf (2007) / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: At the end of the film, Grendel's mother looks at Wiglaf seductively, likely enticing him to give her a son like Hrothgar and start the cycle again. Depending of how do you interpret Wiglaf's expression, he might be considering to accept her offer, pondering about the tragedy, or expressing a subtle rage towards her. The novelization has him doing the three things before ultimately refusing, although it shows Grendel's mother smiling at the thought she might get her goal sooner or later.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_4292ebbf	type	DoppelgÃ¤nger Attack
Beowulf (2007) / int_4292ebbf	comment	Doppelgänger Attack: In the official videogame of the film, Grendel's mother attacks by summoning several translucent clones of herself called dísirs who sexually attack Beowulf.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
Beowulf (2007) / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Grendel's mother is weird example. Even though she loves her children, any hero able to kill one of them seems to intrigue her. While she does slaughter his men, she does not actually harm Beowulf himself, and is glad that Hrothgar is unharmed during Grendel's first attack. She also returns to claim both Hrothgar's and Beowulf's bodies after their deaths.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Beowulf (2007) / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Although the Zealanders speak in fake, but at least subtle, Danish accents — Grendel even speaks Old English — the Geats speak in the actors' natural accents, which means that the title character, since he's played by Ray Winstone, is a Cockney ("I'm 'ere to kiw your mhonschtah."), and Wiglaf speaks in Brendan Gleeson's usual Irish accent.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Beowulf (2007) / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Beowulf decides to fight Grendel unarmed and unarmored (read: butt-naked).
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Beowulf (2007) / int_45cec696	type	God Guise
Beowulf (2007) / int_45cec696	comment	God Guise: The novelization states Grendel's mother was worshipped as a pagan goddess by ancient men that "did not hold Odin as the highest among the Aesir", but also that she knew well she was not divine and that only feigned to be so because they wouldn't try to kill her that way.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Beowulf (2007) / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Hrothgar was never Driven to Suicide in the original poem.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_497bdeec	type	Sexy Surfacing Shot
Beowulf (2007) / int_497bdeec	comment	Sexy Surfacing Shot: Grendel's mother is introduced when she emerges her naked, gold-dripping body out from the water.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Beowulf (2007) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Subverted. We only see the shadow as Grendel tears a man in two, but right after that the severed torso flies into plain sight, innards and all.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Beowulf (2007) / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Grendel and his mother believe so, and later Beowulf himself shares the sentiment, mumbling that, with the monsters of the past gone, men like him are the new monsters. In the novelization, Grendel's mother gives her son a lecture about it.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Beowulf (2007) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: If you interpret the ending as Wiglaf falling for the offer of Grendel's mother and starting again the Cycle of Revenge with more monsters likely coming to plague the land.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Beowulf (2007) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: While speaking privately with Beowulf after the latter returns from the cave, Hrothgar asks him if he really killed Grendel's mother. When Beowulf starts again about how he fought the hag, Hrothgar has this to say:
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Beowulf (2007) / int_4e90e76c	type	Be All My Sins Remembered
Beowulf (2007) / int_4e90e76c	comment	Be All My Sins Remembered: Beowulf instructs this "Keep a memory of me, not as a king or a hero; but as a man: fallible and flawed." However, after he dies, Wiglaf and Wealthow both intend to have him remembered as a great hero. Beowulf also tries to confess his sins to Wiglaf a few times, but Wiglaf won't have any of it insisting that Beowulf is a hero, and that is all he needs to know.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Beowulf (2007) / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Beowulf becomes this towards the end, when he is unwilling to just sit back to let some other hero clean up his mess (and start the whole thing over again). He seems well aware that he's likely to pay for his past with his life.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_4fd47ee6	type	Dark Age Europe
Beowulf (2007) / int_4fd47ee6	comment	Dark Age Europe: The setting of the movie.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Beowulf (2007) / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Grendel has patches of golden skin, but otherwise shed much of it and parts of the inside of his body are visible. His skull and body are also hideously malformed, giving him the appearance of a giant zombie. And he has no cock. Grendel's horrific body serves as contrast to the dragon's human form, which is a very handsome, golden man who can best be described as physically perfect. It's the film's way of telling us that Beowulf's essence was far more potent than Hrothgar's.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
Beowulf (2007) / int_50d71a78	comment	Dual Wielding: During the battle scene in the later half of the movie, soldiers are seen dual-wielding axes.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
Beowulf (2007) / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: The Demons (Grendel, His Mom and the Dragon) in this movie, are reptilian shapeshifters whose base forms look humanoid and their battle look draconic.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_516ac9a8	type	Viking Funeral
Beowulf (2007) / int_516ac9a8	comment	Viking Funeral: Beowulf gets one at the end.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Beowulf (2007) / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Grendel's mother is poorly described in the poem, but is traditionally considered some ugly kind of ogress or witch. In this film she has two forms: one is a sexy siren played by Angelina Jolie, and the other is a draconic but still rather cute monster.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Beowulf (2007) / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Hondshew carries an Ulfberht sword that is two-handed. Not only is this set in the late 6th century and the Ulfberht swords were more prominent in the 9th century, there hasn't been any archaeological evidence that any of them were two-handed.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_56723175	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
Beowulf (2007) / int_56723175	comment	In the original poem, Wiglaf only joins Beowulf at the end when he fights the dragon. Here, he's Beowulf's best friend and sidekick since the beginning. This change avoids an Adaptation Induced Plothole because Wiglaf doesn't kill the dragon in the movie, unlike in the poem, yet he succeeds Beowulf as king in both.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Beowulf (2007) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Humans in the setting see monsters as something that must be exterminated, which Grendel's mother comments on.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_57df9056	type	Glamour
Beowulf (2007) / int_57df9056	comment	Glamour: The true form of Grendel's Mother is NOT Angelina Jolie with a prehensile braid. She's under a glamour to appear human, and the braid is her real form's tail. She also has a very powerful presence, and with minimal effort is able to seduce a man who had come to her lair to kill her and knew how dangerous she was.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_580be152	type	Adaptational Modesty
Beowulf (2007) / int_580be152	comment	Adaptational Modesty: The dragon in human form is described as dressed in a strapwork harness of curled leather in the novelization, but in the film he never wears any clothing. The video game lets Beowulf keep all of his clothes in his battles against Grendel and his mother.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_59619fac	type	Head Crushing
Beowulf (2007) / int_59619fac	comment	Head Crushing: Grendel crushes the head of a Screaming Woman with both hands during the first attack on Heorot. Despite the carnage that follows, this example counts as Black Comedy because he just wanted her to shut up (he's extremely sensitive to sounds because of a massively exposed eardrum sticking out from his left ear).
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Beowulf (2007) / int_599aa670	type	What the Hell Are You?
Beowulf (2007) / int_599aa670	comment	What the Hell Are You?: After Beowulf gets the better of him, Grendel calls out this (in Old English) and Beowulf responds with a Badass Boast.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_59fe174d	type	Devil, but No God
Beowulf (2007) / int_59fe174d	comment	Devil, but No God: While it is never revealed if Grendel and his kin are literal demons, they are the only supernatural creatures in the setting; the humans are left to face them with just their iron swords and the strength of their arms (a human witch capable of real magic appears in the novelization, but she's clearly not in their league). Better exemplified by Hrothgar when he says the gods won't do for them what they won't do by themselves.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Beowulf (2007) / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Played with. First, it happens to both the dragon and Beowulf. After ripping out the dragon's heart they both fall hundreds of feet to the beach below. Also Beowulf survives long enough to speak his dying words to Wiglaf. Third, Beowulf had cut off his arm and lost a lot of blood beforehand which likely hastened his death.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Beowulf (2007) / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Grendel's mother scolds him for killing humans. Not because she cares about human lives, as she really doesn't, but because humans are fucking dangerous (if not to her, at least to her offspring).
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Beowulf (2007) / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Beowulf (2007) / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: Happens twice, both in Beowulf's nightmares and accompanied by a Nightmare Face. The first is Grendel's mother in the form of Wealtheow saying, "Enter me and give me a SOOON!" The second is the dragon: "I'm something you left behind... FATHER!"
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Beowulf (2007) / int_5d397b9c	type	The Mountains of Illinois
Beowulf (2007) / int_5d397b9c	comment	The Mountains of Illinois: Denmark does have a couple of hills in real life (the highest natural point being 122.9 meters, or 403.21 feet, up), but it's nowhere near as mountainous as this film suggests.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Beowulf (2007) / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The mother's natural form can be briefly seen in the ceiling, hiding among the treasure, when Beowulf walks into her lair.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Beowulf (2007) / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Grendel's mother in turn clearly cares for him.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Beowulf (2007) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Beowulf and the thanes are very clear that they will kill the monsters or die trying. Both are the only heroic outcomes. Beowulf then pulls a straight version of the trope to defeat the dragon.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_6563aeb6	type	Shameless Fanservice Girl
Beowulf (2007) / int_6563aeb6	comment	Shameless Fanservice Girl: Grendel's mother, which is deliberate on her part.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Beowulf (2007) / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: The High-Heeled Feet of Grendel's mother were added by director Robert Zemeckis, according to Gaiman and Avary, although Gaiman acknowledged it was a nice touch as several mythological female demons have unnatural feet.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_68069489	type	Nipple and Dimed
Beowulf (2007) / int_68069489	comment	Nipple and Dimed: This film can show full frontal Jolie and still get a PG-13 rating if they cover her nipples with a bit of gold paint.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
Beowulf (2007) / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Queen Wealtheow does this to Beowulf when he starts taking off his clothes. When he drops his chainmail to the floor and stands naked in front of her, she stares at his crotch in awe and almost faints before catching herself and running out of the room.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_6858aca8	type	Punctuated Pounding
Beowulf (2007) / int_6858aca8	comment	Punctuated Pounding: Beowulf does this when he has Grendel's arm ensnared in a chain and pinned by the door.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
Beowulf (2007) / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: Grendel's arm gives out somewhat easily to the door slamming on it, being ripped out clean. However, given his clearly malformed physiology, his flesh might be effectively softer than human flesh when in normal size. It is less justifiable in the dragon, whose bizarrely diminutive heart is pulled off by Beowulf with relative ease.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_6a58a8eb	type	Draconic Humanoid
Beowulf (2007) / int_6a58a8eb	comment	Draconic Humanoid: Grendel's mother may look like a gold-painted Angelina Jolie to observers, but whenever she is seen in reflection, it becomes clear her true form is that of a dragon-like humanoid with golden scales, and what appears to be a prehensile plait is actually a reptilian tail.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_6bdfbb84	type	Prehensile Hair
Beowulf (2007) / int_6bdfbb84	comment	Prehensile Hair: Grendel's mother has a long braid that can move on its own. It's likely this was the tail of whatever her real form was.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_6c324f14	type	Talking to Plants
Beowulf (2007) / int_6c324f14	comment	Talking to Plants: A dying Grendel talks to the trees in his way back to the cave in the novelization, and they seem to talk back, shunning him because there was "some long-ago war with the giants and the dragons, and to them Grendel's blood stinks of both". He might be simply hallucinating due to the fear and blood loss, though.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Beowulf (2007) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Hrothgar, though other than allowing Beowulf to succeed to the throne, it is never made explicit why. The implication is that his guilt over being the father of Grendel and the knowledge that Beowulf has begun the cycle again drives him to it.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_6e23669f	type	Antagonistic Offspring
Beowulf (2007) / int_6e23669f	comment	Antagonistic Offspring: The dragon towards Beowulf. This isn't the first time something like this has happened: it turns out that Grendel is Hrothgar's son, and it's heavily implied that the anterior dragon was the old king's son as well.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_70638525	type	Luke, You Are My Father
Beowulf (2007) / int_70638525	comment	Luke, You Are My Father: The Dragon reveals to Beowulf that they are actually father and son. However this happens in a dream before their first encounter.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_735b3587	type	Naked First Impression
Beowulf (2007) / int_735b3587	comment	Naked First Impression: Beowulf presents himself to Grendel in the nude, and Grendel's mother comes to Beowulf in a human shape only covered in golden body paint, which clearly helps him to accept her offer.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Beowulf (2007) / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Grendel's Mother dies in the poem, decapitated by a sword made by giants, but survives in the movie.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_74cf734c	type	Tae Kwon Door
Beowulf (2007) / int_74cf734c	comment	Tae Kwon Door: Beowulf defeats Grendel this way. He traps Grendel in the doorway of the mead hall with a chain around his (Grendel's) wrist, and when Beowulf slams the door shut, the impact rips Grendel's arm off.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_754004a9	type	Hell on Earth
Beowulf (2007) / int_754004a9	comment	Hell on Earth: According to one interpretation by Word of God, the goal of Grendel's mother is to sire another demonkind via humans in order to repopulate the lands, as she and her race were their original dwellers. However, this seems a bit hard to accomplish the way it is shown in the story, as it seems she only seeks to mate with the current king, has one child every time, and only does it if the previous one is killed.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
Beowulf (2007) / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: A four issue one IDW Publishing.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Beowulf (2007) / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Hondshew tries to do this to Grendel, but the sword gets stuck in Grendel's scalp. Grendel doesn't take it lying down either: Grendel bites off Hondshew's head and eats it in front of Beowulf.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_7ea8f5ce	type	Knight in Shining Armor
Beowulf (2007) / int_7ea8f5ce	comment	Knight in Shining Armor: It looks like Beowulf will be this towards Wealthow. He is this to everyone in the end.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Beowulf (2007) / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Grendel comes over as this. He just has hypersensitive hearing and the feasts at the great hall therefore cause him pain. When he starts his rampages, he comes over as a crying child throwing a (very bloody) tantrum.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
Beowulf (2007) / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: An older Beowulf grumbles to his mistress that being a king isn't as fun as he supposed when he was young. She coaxes him into conceding that maybe the wenching isn't that bad.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Beowulf (2007) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: One that acts for several aspects of Beowulf's personality. His battle against the sea serpents shows that he is an almost superhumanly powerful warrior, but also that he craves for glory and he doesn't shy away from lying and exaggerating his feats, and finally that while monstruous creatures are nothing for him, beautiful ones are his weak spot.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Beowulf (2007) / int_82108e3d	comment	Grendel's exposed eardrum, and the royal dragon horn. Beowulf discovers that Grendel's exposed eardrum is his weak point, and punches it repeatedly to get the upper hand on Grendel during their fight. The royal dragon horn is given to Beowulf by Hrothgar for defeating Grendel, and it's taken by Grendel's mother to maintain their deal before it's abandoned decades later.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Beowulf (2007) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Ray Winstone as Beowulf enjoys Chewing the Scenery. He also has No Indoor Voice!
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Beowulf (2007) / int_853a0e84	type	Transformation Discretion Shot
Beowulf (2007) / int_853a0e84	comment	Transformation Discretion Shot: During the dragon's rampage late in the film, we follow the monster into the burning wreckage of a building as it assumes its human form and confronts one of the survivors (Unferth). This scene is shot from the perspective of the dragon, so the audience doesn't realize that it has transformed until a rather human-looking shadow is cast on the wall in front of it and a humanoid hand slides into view to begin gesticulating at Unferth. For good measure, this also conveniently hides the fact that the dragon is Beowulf's son until he finally announces it to Unferth.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Beowulf (2007) / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: Grendel's mother and her children. Their race is shown to be powerful, shapeshifting and clearly much older than mankind, and it enjoys toying with human men and bringing them to ruin. In the novelization, Hrothgar comments they belong to faerie lore, and a witch identifies them outright as the dökkálfar or dark elves of Nordic myth.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Beowulf (2007) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Beowulf's quote at the top of the page.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_8a9ecd0b	type	Bloody Murder
Beowulf (2007) / int_8a9ecd0b	comment	Bloody Murder: In the novelization, instead of magically evading Beowulf's strike and then melting his sword with another spell, Grendel's mother does a physical Barehanded Blade Block and the blood of her wound corrodes the blade instead.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_8f732211	type	External Retcon
Beowulf (2007) / int_8f732211	comment	External Retcon: The film presents the events told in the epic poem as a lie Beowulf told after his encounter with Grendel's mother.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_8fa861f1	type	ShamelessFanserviceGuy
Beowulf (2007) / int_8fa861f1	comment	Shameless Fanservice Guy: Beowulf shows no hesitation about stripping in front of Queen Wealtheow.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Beowulf (2007) / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: A thane in the mead hall gets this during Grendel's first rampage. He first hurls an axe into Grendel's thigh, before Grendel grabs him and tears him in half.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_958ffe8c	type	The Perils of Being the Best
Beowulf (2007) / int_958ffe8c	comment	The Perils of Being the Best: King Beowulf has become so Famed in Story that raiding parties constantly attack his lands in the hope of becoming famous as his slayer. Beowulf is so sick of this he rips off his armor and throws away his sword, daring the Sole Survivor of a Frisian raid to plant an axe in him. The Frisian isn't going down in history as the slayer of an unarmed Beowulf, so he can't do it. Beowulf then tells his men to give the Frisian a gold piece and send him home to further add to his legend.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_98591d23	type	Speech Impediment
Beowulf (2007) / int_98591d23	comment	Speech Impediment: In the novelization, Olaf, one of Beowulf's thanes, is a stutterer.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_985d6d7f	type	Master of Illusion
Beowulf (2007) / int_985d6d7f	comment	Master of Illusion: Grendel's mother, who can disguise her own appearance. In the novelization, she also torments Beowulf with shadows of his fallen thanes.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
Beowulf (2007) / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: Grendel's Mother; the novelization mentions that her kind — whatever she is — were spawned in the early days of Creation.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Beowulf (2007) / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: Grendel and the dragon shrug most weapons until Beowulf attacks their weak point. The mother may be inmune to any blade for all we know.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Beowulf (2007) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Beowulf's story about his encounter with sea monsters has him claim that one of said monsters pulled him underwater, but he instantly killed it in retaliation, thus explaining why he lost the swimming race he was participating in. However, this story reveals his status as an Unreliable Narrator, because that "monster" was in fact a beautiful mermaid, with whom Beowulf apparently had sex with. This foreshadows how Grendel's mom later seduces him, as well as his attempt to cover up what really happened. Beowulf defeats Grendel in part by ripping Grendel’s left arm off (by slamming a door on it). Beowulf later has to sever his own left arm in the climax in order to defeat the dragon. The last line in Beowulf's first nightmare has Grendel's mother (in the form of Wealthow) saying, "Give me a child. Enter me and give me a SOOON!" Soon after Beowulf sleeps with Grendel's mother after venturing into her lair and begets a son.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Beowulf (2007) / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: In his naked fight against Grendel, Beowulf seems to have this if you slow down the film, as there are parts where his genitals would be visible but aren't. Another example, probably in-universe, is Grendel's Mother in human form, who lacks nipples and genitalia, although they might be there under all the liquid gold. In-universe example with Grendel, whose lack of genitals is pointed during his fight with the Geats.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Beowulf (2007) / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:
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Beowulf (2007) / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Beowulf (2007) / int_9fde2eb1	comment	Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: See the page's quote.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Beowulf (2007) / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Grendel loves his mother.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_a148f27b	type	Living Legend
Beowulf (2007) / int_a148f27b	comment	Living Legend: He plays with this. He actually does some really awesome things, but he's willing to lie to look more awesome than he really is.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Beowulf (2007) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Beowulf's flashback sees him killing sea serpents by stabbing them in the eye. In one instance, he even bursts out of one right through its eye.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Beowulf (2007) / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Grendel. He may be sterile (given his apparent lack of reproductive organs), and though it may just be because he's a monster he gives a good impression of being sickly. He's hideously deformed, has what appears to be a nasty skin condition, and is sometimes heard whimpering as if in pain (though that's probably just because loud noises irritate his super-sensitive ear). The dragon at the end of the film is also a Half-Human Hybrid, born of a mating between Beowulf and Grendel's mother. This is also very much unlike the original poem, where no human ancestry was suggested for Grendel except that he was a distant descendant of Cain, and there was no evidence of the dragon having any trace of humanity.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
Beowulf (2007) / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: A Hero Comes Home by Idina Menzel.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Beowulf (2007) / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Grendel's mother is described as "flaxen-haired" in the novelization instead of the brunette she was in the film.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Beowulf (2007) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: In the original poem, Wiglaf only joins Beowulf at the end when he fights the dragon. Here, he's Beowulf's best friend and sidekick since the beginning. This change avoids an Adaptation Induced Plothole because Wiglaf doesn't kill the dragon in the movie, unlike in the poem, yet he succeeds Beowulf as king in both. The escaped slave that steals the dragon horn (a random golden cup in the poem) and brings the dragon's wrath is just a random slave in the poem that never appears again. In the movie, the slave belongs to Unferth, and we see him several times before and after he steals the dragon horn. Wealthow is greatly expanded from the original source where she was only Hrothgar's queen and the thanes' hostess. In this version she is an unhappy wife and queen, is attracted to Beowulf, and marries him after Hrothgar's death. As a result, she still has a role in the final act of the story, unlike in the poem where she stayed in Denmark while Beowulf returned to Geatland. Unferth only has one line in the original poem, and like Wealthow, he is absent after Beowulf returns to Geatland. In the movie, he both relays the news of the horn's theft and the dragon's attack and motives. Especially ironic is his status as a token Christian in Hrothgar's court and the presumed responsible of the kingdom's conversion to Christianity during Beowulf's reign while Beowulf himself remains a Pagan: in the poem, Beowulf was the Christian (although it's speculated that this was an addition to an original, all-Pagan version) and Unferth was a thyle, one of whose proposed translations is a priest of Odin.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
Beowulf (2007) / int_a675997a	comment	Scaled Up: All three enemies, because they are related and Reptiles Are Abhorrent.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_a7acd9aa	type	ChekhovsLecture
Beowulf (2007) / int_a7acd9aa	comment	Chekhov's Lecture: Hrothgar tells Beowulf the only way to kill a dragon is to stab the soft spot in its throat. Beowulf remembers this in the climax and uses it to kill the dragon, severing his own arm in order to rip out its heart. Even though it was his own son.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
Beowulf (2007) / int_a8c6a317	comment	Super-Strength: The movie certainly implies that the title character has beyond normal strength and fortitude, though it's still to a much lesser degree than the strength of 30 men in just the grip of his hands.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Beowulf (2007) / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Beowulf has many, but Pride and Lust in particular conspire to bring him down. One is heavily foreshadowed: his weakness for women is obvious in his memory of the mermaid seducing him, and makes his eventual acquiescence to Grendel's mother easy to see coming. And just as Grendel is King Hrothgar's wild indulgence taken to its most horrific extreme, Beowulf's dragon-son is his own youthful arrogance flying out to meet him.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Beowulf (2007) / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Beowulf's attempt to strike Grendel's mother with his sword results in his sword hitting the floor of the cave when she vanishes, and she reappears behind him moments later.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Beowulf (2007) / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: If Beowulf's claims of killing a tribe of giants in the Orkney Islands are true, the experience gained in the fight was probably the reason of the skill he shows to fight a similarly giant humanoid like Grendel.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Beowulf (2007) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The Geats, save for Beowulf, when Grendel bangs on the door of the mead hall, and then when he bursts into the mead hall. Beowulf gets one when he sees the dragon about to breathe a fireball at him. Wiglaf gets one too when the dragon emerges from the cave moments later.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Beowulf (2007) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Wiglaf, as well as Unferth.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Beowulf (2007) / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "I am Beowulf," and variations upon "I'm here to kill your monster."
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Beowulf (2007) / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: The old Beowulf complains that being king was not like what he imagined when he was young.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Beowulf (2007) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Played with. Grendel's mother seems quite harsh towards him and he fears her almost as much as he loves her, but she is quite right in her belief that, if Grendel disobeys her by disturbing humans, they will come and try to kill them (or at least him, who is not a magic user like she).
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b1bf431c	type	Go for the Eye
Beowulf (2007) / int_b1bf431c	comment	Go for the Eye: Used by Beowulf against the sea serpents, which help by having a single, giant eye in their heads.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b1c7f430	type	Sea Monster
Beowulf (2007) / int_b1c7f430	comment	Sea Monster: The cyclopean sea serpents, which are described in the novelization as "the ravenous children of great Jörmungand, who holds all Midgard in his coils... The spawn of matings between Loki's dragon child and all manner of eels and sharks and hideous sea worms".
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Beowulf (2007) / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Beowulf exploits this on Finn of Frisia. After Finn loses the battle he led against King Beowulf, Finn demands a fight with Beowulf. Beowulf disarms himself and strips his armor, daring Finn to plant an axe in his chest. Finn threatens to kill Beowulf but ultimately can’t bring himself to murder an unarmed man begging to be slaughtered. Beowulf reacts with disgust at his men taking their sweet time beating up Finn of Frisia, chastises them for it, and orders them to kill Finn quickly so he may die with honor.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Beowulf (2007) / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Hondshew, in fighting Grendel, attempts to slam his sword into Grendel's head. It works, but the sword gets stuck. Grendel simply pulls it out, throws it away, and bites Hondshew's head off.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b52d28a6	type	Gorgeous Gorgon
Beowulf (2007) / int_b52d28a6	comment	Gorgeous Gorgon: Grendel's mom evokes it.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b552b24	type	Truer to the Text
Beowulf (2007) / int_b552b24	comment	Truer to the Text: The video game adaptation of the film has Beowulf rip Grendel's arm with his bare hands like the original poem and that is the only part of the game that follows the poem.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b6126b8	type	High-Heeled Feet
Beowulf (2007) / int_b6126b8	comment	High-Heeled Feet: While in her disguised form, Grendel's mother has natural high heels in her bare feet.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
Beowulf (2007) / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: Hrothgar killed a dragon (implied to also be descendant of Grendel's Mother), and then went to fight Grendel's Mother. She seduced him and gave birth to Grendel who then plagued the lands. Beowulf killed Grendel, his mother killed Beowulf's men. He went to kill her, but was also seduced by her and their child became a dragon, who also ravages the land. Beowulf even states that he won't send someone else to kill the dragon, as that will simply start the cycle all over again. Beowulf kills the dragon, but dies in the process. The film ends with Grendel's Mother beckoning to Wiglaf, so it's unclear whether or not the cycle ends.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Beowulf (2007) / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: In the second act, the King, the Queen, and the Royal Concubine.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
Beowulf (2007) / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: While many of the actors in the film are animated to look completely different than their real-life appearance (especially Ray Winstone), several actors are accurately depicted by their CG counterparts, namely Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright, John Malkovich and Brendan Gleeson. Even Grendel resembles Crispin Glover under all that deformity.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b8f5a02	type	Non-Standard Character Design
Beowulf (2007) / int_b8f5a02	comment	Nonstandard Character Design: Grendel is the only one of his race that isn't draconic, although his few patches of skin seem to feature golden scales. The implication seems to be that his deformed body is because Hrothgar and the Mother's genetics did not mix well at all.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b9918c48	type	Nobody Here but Us Statues
Beowulf (2007) / int_b9918c48	comment	Nobody Here but Us Statues: Grendel's mother hides from Beowulf in her treasure cave by pretending to be an idol.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_b9fc31d3	type	Victoria's Secret Compartment
Beowulf (2007) / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: The beginning scene shows a girl sneaking a gold coin down her corset.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Beowulf (2007) / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: The dragon gives Beowulf one in his second nightmare by asking him, "Which one do you think I should kill first? Your pretty little bed-warmer, or your wise queen?"
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Beowulf (2007) / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Beowulf (2007) / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: The film posits that stories of heroism are basically lies told in order to cover up questionable or outright shitty behavior, and by the time you realize you shouldn't have told your own in the first place, you'll be too old and filled with regret for it to matter. See Plato's The Republic for more on the dangers of "true" heroic stories.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
Beowulf (2007) / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: In the original poem, Beowulf travels to Denmark to fight Grendel and his mother, returns to Geatland, wins a massive battle against the Swedes, becomes king of the Geats, and fights the dragon years later. In the movie, Beowulf becomes king of Denmark after fighting Grendel and his mother, and fights the dragon there years later. The battle against the Swedes in Beowulf's youth is replaced by a battle against the Frisians in his old age.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_c0abbbc2	type	Serkis Folk
Beowulf (2007) / int_c0abbbc2	comment	Serkis Folk: Everybody on the film is made through motion capture.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Beowulf (2007) / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Beowulf has to do this in the cave when the dragon breathes fire at him. Partially justified in that he turns and starts running when the dragon inhales.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Beowulf (2007) / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: John Malkovich's performance was quite wooden - whether due to being unused to voice-acting or something else is unknown, but hearing him "rant" at Beowulf for an insult in a monotonous tone while his character model is fairly animated is off-putting.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Beowulf (2007) / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Beowulf and his right-hand man Wiglaf are always together even in combat, and it is their teamwork that ultimately defeats Grendel. Beowulf trusts Wiglaf so much that before facing the dragon, he tells Wiglaf that he will succeed him as king in the case of Beowulf's death. This is what happens.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Beowulf (2007) / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: You sure didn't want to see Hrothgar and specially Grendel, naked.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_c6d11745	type	Telepathy
Beowulf (2007) / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy: How Grendel's mother and the dragon communicate in the novelization.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Beowulf (2007) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To Conan the Destroyer, another film where a loincloth-wearing, headband-sporting, sword-wielding hero must infiltrate an underwater lair and fight an enemy immune to sword slashes who wants a golden horn. According to Roger Avary, the scene of Beowulf fighting naked was inspired by Richard Corben's comic book Den, as well as the real life tradition of berserkers.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_c84e56a2	type	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You
Beowulf (2007) / int_c84e56a2	comment	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: The movie poster where Beowulf points his sword at you.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Beowulf (2007) / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Just as in the poem, neither Grendel's mother or the dragon are named, they're only referred to as 'Grendel's mother' and 'dragon'. The novelization of the film even implies Grendel's mother has forgotten her own name; it explains that ancient men who worshipped her called her Hertha, Nerthus or Njördr, names of heathen goddesses, but it adds that none of them was her true name and she was no goddess. Otherwise, she is just referred to as the "merewife", "demon wife" or "aglaeca" (a real term from the poem whose meaning is a headache for modern linguists).
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Beowulf (2007) / int_cbf9d0fe	type	Sour Supporter
Beowulf (2007) / int_cbf9d0fe	comment	Sour Supporter: Wiglaf. His reactions when Beowulf tries to tell him the truth of his "fight" with Grendel's mother indicate he already suspected something from the start, yet he's not interested in the truth and only wants to follow Beowulf and preserve his legacy.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_cdd76441	type	Big Guy Rodeo
Beowulf (2007) / int_cdd76441	comment	Big Guy Rodeo: Happens when Beowulf clings himself to Grendel's back.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Beowulf (2007) / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Grendel's mother's true form is only glimpsed in reflections. (And if you are really curious◊, a figure sculpt was released.) Grendel's mother can be seen in full rather briefly; when Beowulf wanders through her cave, she can be seen among the gold, hanging from the ceiling. However, her skin's color makes it rather easy to miss on initial viewing.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Beowulf (2007) / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: The movie is named after The Protagonist, Beowulf.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Beowulf (2007) / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: When Beowulf fights Grendel when Grendel attacks the mead hall the second time, Beowulf rips Grendel's arm off by trapping Grendel in the doorway and slamming the door on it. At the end, Beowulf amputates his own left arm so he can rip out the dragon's heart with his right hand. In Grendel's case, the arm is later seen above the mead hall's door.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_d2a11313	type	Death of the Old Gods
Beowulf (2007) / int_d2a11313	comment	Death of the Old Gods: Beowulf laments that "the time of heroes is dead, the Christ-God has killed it, leaving nothing but weeping martyrs and fear and shame." Probably an allusion to how the original poem is believed to be an ancient Pagan work that got Christianized over time, presumably losing all the elements that didn't appeal to the Christian transcripters.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Beowulf (2007) / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: The dragon is similar to a wyvern, with two hind legs and two batlike wings for forearms. The one we see also has fins on his tail to help with swimming, and may be fully amphibious. It's unclear if this is standard for dragons in the setting, or if he's part sea serpent due to his mother's aquatic heritage. Aside from him, another dragon is mentioned and yet another is spoken of in the novelization.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_d9e946ae	type	Cute Monster Girl
Beowulf (2007) / int_d9e946ae	comment	Cute Monster Girl: Grendel's mother, as well as the mermaid.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_dae0cfd5	type	Something Else Also Rises
Beowulf (2007) / int_dae0cfd5	comment	Something Else Also Rises: Grendel's Mother caresses Beowulf's sword while talking to him, emitting some magical light from her fingers, and at the end of the talk the weapon melts off from tip to hilt. This is obviously a visual metaphor for seduction of Beowulf and his eventual sexual capitulation.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_dbd2c15e	type	Everyone Can See It
Beowulf (2007) / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: Beowulf and Wealthow fall in Love at First Sight with each other. When Wealthow asks one of the horny wenches if she wants to get in bed with Beowulf, she says that it is not her whom he has the hots for. Hrothgar also notices it right away but he cares very little, going as far as "willing" his queen to Beowulf along with his kingdom before he jumps to his death.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Beowulf (2007) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Wealtheow takes on a motherly role to Ursula. There's nothing to be gained by being unkind to her husband's concubine, especially if she's just some poor kid caught up in Beowulf's grand tragedy, but Wealtheow takes it an extra step, and it pays off later.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_dd3969b	type	Hijacked by Jesus
Beowulf (2007) / int_dd3969b	comment	Unferth only has one line in the original poem, and like Wealthow, he is absent after Beowulf returns to Geatland. In the movie, he both relays the news of the horn's theft and the dragon's attack and motives. Especially ironic is his status as a token Christian in Hrothgar's court and the presumed responsible of the kingdom's conversion to Christianity during Beowulf's reign while Beowulf himself remains a Pagan: in the poem, Beowulf was the Christian (although it's speculated that this was an addition to an original, all-Pagan version) and Unferth was a thyle, one of whose proposed translations is a priest of Odin.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Beowulf (2007) / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: The people here speak modern English, except for Grendel, who does speak Anglo-Saxon.
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Beowulf (2007) / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Hrothgar believes that, her sons gone, Grendel's mother is the last of her race. She believes it too in the novelization.
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