Beowulf's Grendel, Dumbledore's Grindelwald

MOVIE REVIEW: Beowulf

WARNING: Pictures portrayed in this article might contain nudity

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Speaking of immortality, the Beowulf legendary tale certainly has its own rights in claiming that- enduring centuries to be the only surviving Anglo-Saxon work of heroic poetry. So for those ignorant ones out there, this movie was based on this piece of crap poem dated back to the 8th Century.

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Beowulf's Virtual Attraction

As you can see they did attempt to expand the duration and depth of the story a little bit, despite its adaptation limits, and got literary scholars excited when they made the warrior have sex with the monster's mommy. Many did not really like the film but i thought it was brilliant. The premise intriuging, the graphics excellent. Instead of fitting in CG characters into action films (Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four, Yoda in Star Wars, Gollum in LOTR), or great CGI backdrops (Star Wars, 300), why not an entire movie? I guarantee reviews would have been bad if the exact same thing was made into a real action film, with Gerard Butler as Beowulf? (Instead of "This...is...Sparta!!", "I am...Beowulf!!!") But damn, the voice cast relation to their on-screen animation was superb, and Angelina Jolie, was simply, real.

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Beowulf's Grendel inspired Harry Potter's Grindelwald

However, what actually draws me to the movie was not all that digital techno mambo jambo. When i first read of its production what got my attention was that they are making Beowulf. Yes Beowulf per se, because i recalled that name somewhere. And yes it was our dear Harry Potter, or to be exactly, the creative juices of JK Rowling. I did read somewhere that Dumbledore's famous fight with evil wizard Grindelwald was based on Beowulf's slaying of the monster Grendel. I have since tried to find that source again but to no avail.

Most Harry Potter fans would (or shall i say, should have) known that Grindelwald, despite having a prominent role in the last book, was already mentioned in the very first book. It was written in the Chocolate Frog Card, on the description of Albus Dumbledore -
"Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times, Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945..."

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Beowuld-Dumbledore, Grendel-Grindelwald

Though not much was known about this "dark wizard Grindelwald" before the publishing of the last book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, many has gathered that Grindelwald was a powerful dark wizard who would has done his fair bit of terrorising the wizard community, since he was defeated in 1945, the same year Nazi Germany's Hitler fell. Grindelwald was also likened to the monster Grendel due to the likeness of the name, and that Dumbledore's full name (Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore) has "Wulfric" in it, which in Anglo-Saxon means "wolf power" or "wolf ruler". Beowulf on the other hand, derive from "Wolf of the Germanic god Beow" or simply "bee-wolf". So there you have it. Since i do not personally know of the Beowulf legendary tale itself, i thought it was real cool for them to have it depicted in a CGI film. Now we get to see the inspiration for the Dumbledore-Grindelwald fight.

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Must we be Gay to be caring?

And yes obviously now that we're on the subject it would be ridiculous not to mention it. As much as i had wanted to refrain from touching on the topic, JK Rowling's outing of Dumbledore, and that he had had homosexual feelings for Grindelwald, is too irresistable a subject to be ignored. Whatever people's views would be, readers would certainly question the Headmaster relationship with Harry now. Suddenly it all seem to make sense Dumbledore's over-protectiveness over Harry. Must that always be the case? Does this really proves that there is no such thing as being platonic, that that the only way someone truly cares is when there's love involve, gender regardless?

There is completely no way around it now. Even a seemly harmless picture above, which would otherwise be a completely innocent picture before Rowling opens her big witch mouth, now looks super wrong. Dumbledore's caring "I care for you too much Harry" has now evolved to something more.

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The Naked Truth: Dumbeldore Strips Naked to Fight Grindelwald!

Taking the cue from Beowulf who strips naked to fight the monster Grendel (which was indeed based on the original poem), perhaps Rowling too envisioned Dumbledore and Grindelwald in the birthday suits duelling. We saw Harry naked in his stupid horse play. It's high time for Dumbledore too i guess. I just can imagine the awkward acting in the future movie adaptation of the last book. And hell, i reckon Gellert Gridelwald now to be a smashingly handsome hot evil wizard whom a young white Albus had the hots for. Be naked. Maybe that was the only way you could defeat a dark wizard. You never know.