Beowulf (2007)

Beowulf is a perfectly good story just as it is. It's lasted through the ages just fine with the exception of the intrusion of Christian references fairly early on. It's a hero tale, and I would think it would translate well to the big screen. Why, then, do they always insist on changing it to make Grendel a sympathetic figure or to make Beowulf not so much of a Hero or to make the King responsible somehow for the evil the monster brings upon the land? Why?

This version is the 2007 motion capture film. It casts Anthony Hopkins as the King who bring's the monster's curse on himself. Ray Winstone is Beowulf, who starts off heroic enough but has a tragic fall from grace and carries the curse himself through the remainder of his days.

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It just irritates me so, that we can't just have a traditional tale of good defeating evil. We have to have all this angst and tortured struggle.