About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 49. Chapters: The Blood of Jesus, Beowulf, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Excalibur, List of artistic depictions of Beowulf, Troy, Beowulf & Grendel, Pan Tadeusz, Horton Hears a Who!, Gunga Din, Howl, The Humpbacked Horse, Tale of Tales, The Man from Snowy River, The Monkey's Mask, The Set-Up, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Sword of the Valiant, Winter Days, Speak White, The Night Before Christmas, The Man from Snowy River II, The Avenger, The Raven, The Sentimental Bloke, Helen of Troy, The Odyssey, The Color of Pomegranates, A Fool There Was, Dante's Inferno, List of films based on poems, Clancy of the Mounted, Grendel Grendel Grendel, The Adventure of Sudsakorn, The Shooting of Dan McGrew, Ewiger Wald, The Courtship of Miles Standish, The House That Jack Built, Over the Hill to the Poorhouse, Gawain and the Green Knight, Legend of Sudsakorn, Casey at the Bat, The Night Before Christmas: A Mouse Tale, Sweet and Low, Portrait of Chieko, In the Firelight, Gerusalemme liberata. Excerpt: Beowulf is a 2007 American performance capture fantasy film based on the Old English epic poem of the same name. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film was created through a motion capture process similar to the technique used in The Polar Express and Monster House. The cast includes Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman, and Angelina Jolie. It was released in the United Kingdom and United States on November 16, 2007, and was available to view in IMAX 3D, RealD, Dolby 3D and standard 2D format. Beowulf (Ray Winstone) is a brave Geatish warrior who travels to Denmark alongside his band of soldiers, which include his best friend, Wiglaf (Brendan Gleeson), in answer to the call of King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins), who needs a hero to slay a mon...