Beowulf and the Dark Knight (batman)

Introduction

Is your class reading a short story or novel that was adapted for the silver screen? If so, you might be able to enliven your literature study with an activity outlined in Notes Plus. The same happened here when two epic stories came head to head, but on the silver screen. It was an encounter between the Dark Knight and Beowulf. Starring with legendary actors delivering their best, chice gets difficult

The two movies can be termed as the clash of titans, both derived from epics and produced with extreme latest technologies, one gets quiet confused in deciding which movie holds the upper hand. And the reality isn't much different, its hard to separate both as both are master class movies produced with extreme perfection. As an attraction of computer graphics "Beowulf" can be termed more or less successful, especially titles in 3D. But at some poisnt on the screen there is a wall of water and it seems that it pours right down the middle of the hall, but the movie succeeded only "more or less" for several reasons.

Beowulf clashes Batman

It is only now I realize that Batman has hit the target, which others can not reach. My most cherished fantasy was guessed very simply, just a typical teenage fantasy. In addition to Batman, she has read two dozen superheroes, it still gives the bread and butter for two powerful publishing corporation - Marvel and DC (Detective Comics). And it is very thick piece of bread with a thick layer of oil. Is not this interesting? (Harper, pp 384)

The idea is that I was protected by a heavy armor of Russian and Soviet culture, to me that Batman could not get to that - but podi you, got to the heart. An year later the product of Union artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger becomes Batman. Marvel provides on-mountain Captain Marvel, Captain America, and superheroes in general fill the market. Here we must note the following phenomenon: whenever and wherever young people dreaming "about courage, heroism, glory” it will be US they will actually go for.(Duncan, pp 64-88)

Before you wrinkle your nose at the taste of "blunt amerikosy, pay attention to one simple and obvious thing: the US does not and never have been a literary epic.But from the archetypes of the collective unconscious cannot get away. The hero of the people wants, because stamped in the sub cortex. And the people, break into heavily reinforced and generally laid the foundation broke into their mentality, to read clever books once - and that's the collective unconscious to rivet the heroes of the material at hand: the newspapers.

Billy the Kid, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde. But they are too real for the archetypal, mythical hero. Conan is quite archetype - but he is "not Americanism," Dumped on the US Clark Kent, baby, with the exploded planet Krypton. Has all the characteristics of the ancient hero demigod: and nemerenoe strength of Hercules, and the performance of Perseus, and ...