The end fight scene with Beowulf and his son, the dragon, lacks proper digital enhancing. While most of the movie has been fully digitally enhanced, this last scene lags behind the rest of the movie, as far as digitally enhancing scenes goes. The frames of each shot move too quickly and, as a viewer, you never get a good look at the dragon's face. Thus, the viewers are left with this image of the dragon's body, while trying to see his face. The frames just move too quickly for one to really get a good look at the dragons face. This is why I believe that these scenes could be better digitally enhanced, having slower frame to frame movements, allowing the viewer to enjoy each scene.
Due to the frame to frame movement being so fast, the viewer can never really understand how Beowulf is staying on/hold on to the dragon. I was left very confused at how Beowulf held on for so long. The frames moved too quickly for me to really see what was going on and I believe they did this on purpose. These last few scenes with the dragon weren't digitally enhanced enough, therefore the moved from frame to frame quicker.
There is also too much in one frame. The scene where, the dragon is about to blow flames on the bridge where Beowulf's wife and mistress are standing, is too cluttered. There is too much trying to be shown in this scene and because of this not everything that is supposed to be shown is seen. This also creates confusion among the viewers as they are trying to understand what is happening in this cluttered scene while trying to see the dragons face fully, this is too much work for a viewer. Viewers should be able to sit back and relax and enjoy the show, instead in Beowulf, viewers are forced to look at cluttered frames and un-enhanced dragons.
I would change the scene by having a better depiction of the dragon. I would move the frames slower, allowing the viewer to fully see the dragon and his movements, thus creating a less cluttered frame. I would enhance the dragons features, his movements and Beowulf's movements and by doing so each frame could last a little longer. By enhancing the dragons features and movements the fight scene could then be more enhanced, having a longer fight to draw out the suspense. This would both amplify and draw the viewers in for a more suspenseful ending.
Good point about slower frame to frame movements. Much of the scene might be better expressed in slow motion. it is interesting that the father-son conflict, so itense at the end, is not really foreshadowed in the film.
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