A big-budget Hollywood version of Beowulf is obviously going to either be a travesty of the poem or commercial suicide.
When you hear that Angelina Jolie is embarrassed about her nude scenes in the movie, I think it’s pretty clear which one.
Posts tagged with ‘Anglo-Saxon’
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Hwaet?
7 November 2007 – 10:14 am
Anglo-Saxon names
20 May 2007 – 10:48 pm
Teju has a couple of great posts about names and what they mean (1, 2), specifically relating to Yoruba. Which set me thinking about Anglo-Saxon naming.
I have no idea exactly what relationship the Saxons had with their names, and I don’t know what academic work has been done on it—I’m just going on the impression [...]
Anglo-Saxon literature
20 July 2006 – 12:24 pm
I was lying awake last night, unable to sleep because of the heat, and wondering whether translating a bit of Anglo-Saxon poetry would get me out of my lengthening barren spell. I think the majority of people who did my degree resented having to spend such a lot of time on Anglo-Saxon, but I always [...]
In Praise of Shadows
6 July 2006 – 8:47 am
‘Modern man, in his well-lit house, knows nothing of the beauty of gold…’
From Junichirō Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows, an essay from 1933 discussing the importance of lighting in traditional Japanese aesthetics. The gold, the lacquer, Nō theatre, even Japanese make-up are all, he suggests, dependent for their effect on low, indirect lighting; bright light [...]