Kozaites: Beowulf's Emotions

In regards to further enhancement of a particular scene, I would have to argue that I would enhance every scene featuring a human, by changing the human character from a computer generated image to an actual person. Furthermore, I believe actual sets and locations would have further enhanced the reality of the story. The use of these graphics are detrimental to the overall film, as it seriously limits the acting range of clearly excellent performers. I understand some of these technological inventions were largely essential for the plot, in order to present the grotesqueness of the monsters and severity of the action, however I do not think it was at all necessary to make the entirety of the film animated. I would assert that the film could very well have been both live action and animated, as was done in Robert Zemeckis’s previous film ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’(1988) , to an extent.

In this scene however, Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) is showing Beowulf (Ray Winstone), the mystical golden horn, that serves as a major plot device throughout the film. We our first drawn to Hrothgar’s face, who is looking at Beowulf, who is looking at the horn, which causes us to look at these things in this pattern, ultimately being drawn to the bright horn. Beowulf is the dominant figure in this scene, hovering over Hrothgar. Meanwhile Hrothgar is framed by darkness in the upper left corner, and bright gold in the lower right. All in all this scene suggests that Hrothgar wields a power, that will soon be in the possession of Beowulf, however there is a dark foreshadowing to it.