Cascioppo - Beowulf

I must admit I came into the screening of Beowulf with a bias. A bias because I had previously seen the somewhat entertaining, live action film Beowulf & Grendel(2005). I found that comparing the CGI buffet that was Beowulf (2007) with the foreign film proved unfavorable for the former because of both the use of recognizable actors and the CGI thing. By using real, expensive, well known actors (Ray Winstone, Angelina, Anthony Hopkins) Robert Zemeckis is causing the audience to notice the horrible waxy, totally unbelievable appearence of them that he has portrayed. I believe the film team behind Beowulf would have been better off using little known actors so that the audience could have just abandoned any attempt at seeing the characters onscreen as "realistic". But, because films are supposed to make money, I can see why the big names had to get dumped into this technologically advanced cesspool of a film. There are entertaining moments. Sea Monsters are scary. Trolls are scary. Mermaids as well. But overall the dead-faced moving figures on screen are too bizarre to make this corny film into an enjoyably-silly-corny film.

The dominant of the above scene is the sea monster. The proxemics are public. The lightning in the background enhances the collision that is about to happen and also gives Beowulf a Zues-ian appeal. The sea in the background suggests an ominous abyss (the home of the monster). Overall, the scene here represents clash of the good forces from above and the evil forces of below.