Craig Malveaux - Beowulf scene

The scene i chose to blog about is below. This scene is later in the movie and occurs outside near the sea between Beowulf and a peasant warrior. At about 2:17 in the video, you see Beowulf preparing to fight the man hoisting a battle axe of some sort. As Beowulf is ripping off his clothes, he and the man are yelling back and forth about the duel they are about to have. In the background you will see Beowulf's father and two other soldiers who are watching what's about to unfold. The scene is framed in a social proximate which implies to me that this is going to be a battle between Beowulf, his companions and the king against the one lonely man. This scene, i think, isn't as effective as the director intended it to be. If i were to direct this scene, i would tighten the frame up into a more personal proximate between beowulf and the man he is going to fight. In this scene, Beowulf is the center of attention but because the scene is of social proximate, he sort of blends in with the rest of the characters behind him. In order to show Beowulf's supremacy over the man, you could slant the camera up towards Beowulf, tighten the frame and maybe make the man a silhouette like in a scene from the movie "Gone With the Wind". This would imply that Beowulf is the most important person in the scene since he is what draws the viewer's attention. The comparison between Beowulf and the man would indicate that the man is insignificant, powerless, and would easily be defeated by Beowulf.