she's not *my* curse. not anymore.
Jul. 26th, 2007 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerBeen waiting for this one for some time.
BEOWULF trailer.
Written by Neil Gaiman and Roger "I actually co-wrote the PULP FICTION screenplay" Avery. Starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Angelina Jolie...
But most importantly (and not mentioned in the trailer), man-god Bendan Gleeson and... wait for it... CRISPIN GLOVER AS GRENDEL.
This looks damn interesting, I'll give it that. The screenplay should be notable at least, even if the POLAR EXPRESS animations techniques are still weird That said it worked beautifully in MONSTER HOUSE, which was one of the best films I'd seen last year. Like, top fifteen, anyway.
I haven't seen any other film of BEOWULF (not even the Christopher Lambert "Beowulf... IN SPACE!" movie), but I get the distinct impression that none so far have been any good. I'm rather fond of the original, even more so after I read John Gardner's GRENDEL and Tolkien, but I know not everyone cares for it.
I just remember this one time I went to Philly, and looked down at the train tracks to find an older copy of BEOWULF between the rails. It was clearly a school copy, several decades old, and scrawled on the cover in pen was "FUCK THIS SHIT." I wish I'd had a camera.
Oh, and last night, I performed 1.) with the flu, 2.) before a sold-out house, 3.) when it was hotter and stuffier than usual, and 4.) with no other show after mine, so I took my time, and didn't rush anything, so we went over twenty minutes.
Somewhere between those four factors, it was my best damn show yet. Go figure.
BEOWULF trailer.
Written by Neil Gaiman and Roger "I actually co-wrote the PULP FICTION screenplay" Avery. Starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Angelina Jolie...
But most importantly (and not mentioned in the trailer), man-god Bendan Gleeson and... wait for it... CRISPIN GLOVER AS GRENDEL.
This looks damn interesting, I'll give it that. The screenplay should be notable at least, even if the POLAR EXPRESS animations techniques are still weird That said it worked beautifully in MONSTER HOUSE, which was one of the best films I'd seen last year. Like, top fifteen, anyway.
I haven't seen any other film of BEOWULF (not even the Christopher Lambert "Beowulf... IN SPACE!" movie), but I get the distinct impression that none so far have been any good. I'm rather fond of the original, even more so after I read John Gardner's GRENDEL and Tolkien, but I know not everyone cares for it.
I just remember this one time I went to Philly, and looked down at the train tracks to find an older copy of BEOWULF between the rails. It was clearly a school copy, several decades old, and scrawled on the cover in pen was "FUCK THIS SHIT." I wish I'd had a camera.
Oh, and last night, I performed 1.) with the flu, 2.) before a sold-out house, 3.) when it was hotter and stuffier than usual, and 4.) with no other show after mine, so I took my time, and didn't rush anything, so we went over twenty minutes.
Somewhere between those four factors, it was my best damn show yet. Go figure.
