Beowulf (2007) Beowulf (2007)Beowulf is a 2007 animated film adaptation of the Old English epic poem of the same name. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film was created through motion capture, a technique similar to that used by the director in The Polar Express. The cast includes Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Alison Lohman, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Brendan Gleeson, and Angelina Jolie.
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
Enraged with her son's death, Grendel's mother flies to Heorot. She distracts Beowulf in a dream in the guise of Wealtheow, whom the warrior has fallen for. When Beowulf awakes, he finds that all of his men are dead, except Wiglaf, who had been at the beach preparing their ship for departure. Beowulf confronts Hrothgar, who tells Beowulf that Grendel's mother is the last of the monsters. Unferth apologizes to Beowulf for having doubted him, and offers his sword Hrunting for use in slaying Grendel's mother. Beowulf and Wiglaf find the cave. Beowulf enters it alone, eventually confronting Grendel's mother. She appears to him as a beautiful nude woman with golden liquid dripping from her skin. She offers him fame and power if he will give her a son. She also demands the Horn of Hrothgar with the promise that as long as it is in her safekeeping, Heorot will be safe.
Beowulf returns to Heorot, claiming to have slain Grendel's mother. He shows them Grendel's head as proof, and says that he lost both Unferth's sword and Hrothgar's Horn during the battle. King Hrothgar names Beowulf heir to the throne. He then leaps from the balcony and falls to his death. His body is reclaimed by Grendel's mother. Beowulf is crowned king, and takes Wealtheow as his wife.
Many years pass. King Beowulf is unable to enjoy his power and glory, and his relationship with Wealtheow has also grown cold. When Unferth's slave Cain finds the Horn of Hrothgar on a barren hill, Beowulf understands that Grendel's mother has ended their deal. That night he dreams of his son by Grendel's mother. The son, who appears as a golden youth, threatens to kill both Beowulf's wife and his young mistress Ursula. The next day, a fierce dragon attacks a village outside of Heorot. The dragon gives a message to Unferth for Beowulf: "The sins of the father!"
Beowulf and Wiglaf ride to the cave of Grendel's mother and Beowulf confronts the dragon. The dragon flies to Beowulf's castle, but Beowulf is able to cling to its back. The dragon spots Wealtheow and Ursula on the castle wall and attempts to burn them. Beowulf finally manages to slay the dragon, losing his own arm in the process. The two fall to the shores far below. The dragon's form changes to that of the golden man of Beowulf's dreams. Wiglaf arrives at the beach in time to hear Beowulf's last words. He leaves his kingdom to Wiglaf. Beowulf receives a Viking funeral. As Wiglaf watches the burning boat that serves as Beowulf's funeral pyre, he sees Grendel's mother kissing the corpse. Grendel's mother then appears in the water in human form and beckons to Wiglaf.
Beowulf (1999)A sci-fi update of the famous 6th Century poem starting Christopher Lambert, Rhona Mitra, Layla Roberts. In a beseiged land, Beowulf must battle against the hideous creature the Grendel and his vengeance seeking mother.
In a medieval land, a outpost is surrounded by a army so all those who lives in the outpost cannot leave alive as a flesh-eating creature called Grendal is killing off all those who live in the outpost. That is until the arrival of Beowulf, a mysterious mercenary who offers Hrothgar, the outpost's ruler, help to hunt Grendal and knows what has been happening in the outpost. Hrothgar, Roland, Master of Arms and Kyra, Hrothgar's daughter thinks Beowulf has been hired by the family of Kyra's murdered husband to avenge the death of their son. But Beowulf has dark secret, he can sense Grendal's presence in the outpost and he can heal his wounds very fast. Where Beowulf not only does battle with Grendal, he also fights Grendal's evil mother and reveals to Kyra who has fallen in love with him, who he is.