Grendel Grendel Grendel- Part 10

[@PerceptivePastMismatch330]

If they had included Gardner's ending ("So may you all.") it would have flavored the entire film differently. Still love it.

[@Bandersnatch41]

Jeremy Geragotelis it's incredibly weird that they chose gardeners Tale to be a Kids film at all it's I mean the source material is just coated with adult themes not a lot of levity to towards kids film

[@omnis8511]

Grendel looks so cuddly in here

[@ezrastardust3124]

Omnis ikr I wanna give him a hug he’s so cute 💖

[@thorneosgard]

I love how this follows the book. Really awesome.

[@DebraWilson1981]

Watched it start to finish... By the time the end comes around, I felt really bad for Grendel. The book gives you a bit of that, but this really makes you feel bad for the poor guy.

[@ThornUvDaath777]

"...so may you all"

[@stephensczurek6286]

What? Was Grendel angered at finding Umfirth dead? At 3:43, even Hrothgar seems shocked by Beowulf's actions and attitude.

[@vincentvorse]

Poor Grendel had an accident...so may we all

[@missmoonjelly]

I wonder how John Gardner would feel about this. It's very hard to put together the movie's intentions.

[@Bandersnatch41]

missmoonjelly it is an odd choice for a Kids film I mean they do make things a lot more silly at the same time they do keep in a few dark Concepts white Grendel biting people's heads off and stuff like that but at the same time to make Grendel too cute

[@TS2dethmonkey]

I hate to sound like one of those people, but I preferred the book. I think this film made Grendel a little too sympathetic and made Hrothgar far too villainous (and stupid for that matter). In the book it felt like that it was a little more grayer, with Grendel becoming more villainous (though still sympathetic due to the fact that his villainy is driven by an insanity due to his loneliness, inflated ego and unhealthy brand of nihilism) while Hrothgar becoming more sympathetic and pitiful, making both characters no different from each other. That and I liked that there was a sense that in the novel, Grendel was a unreliable narrator.

[@victorm152]

you make a good point. I ouhgt to reread that book again at some point

[@victorm152]

TS2dethmonkey Secondly, if it ever got a live action adaptation, Guillermo del Toro would be the perfect director. He's often had a fondness for storytelling in which the focus is on the monsters/creatures, to whom he gives a lot of humanity

[@Bandersnatch41]

TS2dethmonkey no I totally agree with you the book is a million times better than this in fact it's a very odd choice for a Kids film considering the heavy adult themes in the source material. but they could have done a whole lot worse

[@chozenknight260]

Bandersnatch41 Even though this is animated it is not a kids film.

[@joncarroll2040]

The one part where the movie does better than the book is Beowulf who comes off more like Hannibal Lecter and in a lot of ways is all the rough edges of Gardner's Grendel without any of the sympathetic bits.

[@SuperCaders]

i feel really sorry for Grendel. i don;t care how evil and sadistic and insane he is said to be, i still think he is an amazing character. And i was sad that Beowulf had to kill him.

[@SuperCaders]

In this, Grendel is depicted as a sympathetic, poetic and more human-like character in a plot that revolves around his point of view on Hrothgar and the Danes. At the very end after Beowulf kills him, I thought about the saddest moments in my life watching Grendel succumb to his wounds outside and helplessly cry for his mama.

[@Bandersnatch41]

Cade Terry in the novel it's a lot more gray area he still a murderous bastard at the same time he still sympathetic it depends on how you view the book

[@ezrastardust3124]

Cade Terry I agree with you there, it honestly makes me cry whenever I watch it

[@Maximus1Decimus]

I'm still trying to figure out how he ended up toward the window. I mean Grendel looks strong enough to where he can shoulder rush Beowulf into the wall hard enough to kill him. And the dog? Pft..all he had to do was lift his foot and step on him, the whole scene seemed pointless to me. But I suppose he had to die somehow, even if it didn't make sense. I agree though, Poor Grendel. .-.

[@nathancaldwell5443]

@@Maximus1Decimus The book was far more brutal, Grendel tried to do that, but Beowulf only fastened his grip, and managed to brutalize and torment the monster. Grendel at one point has a vison of the dragon in Beowulf's place, mauling him.

[@BatSnakegirl]

Eeee, Beowulf after tearing off Grendel's arm makes me...really, really glad we don't see the fight with Mama!

[@11338325]

They should make a LEGO stop motion adaptation of this film

[@Slothgreedenvy]

4:55 Poor Grendel, and that song.

[@BatSnakegirl]

@inkdork Oh, boy, if you've read the book, I feel a bit more pity for him, as it has more on his disconnection from his mother after the event with the tree. And BOY, was that a traumatic even for him! He was only a child when that happened. But, eventually he "puts her aside" to go the the Shaper's funeral, ultimately breaking away from his mother entirely. And then he gets his arm pulled off and THEN he really wants her. That's the part that sort of gets to me :( . Poor Mama.

[@jimcorraoJaahsLament]

Thank you for uploading these.

[@georgemiser]

that WAS unferth. the king had him assassinated by Beowulf.

[@victorm152]

georgemiser for me, he was the only likable human character of the film

[@nathancaldwell5443]

He was the only one with a conscience

[@avosmash2121]

Was he that way in the book?

[@joncarroll2040]

​@@avosmash2121the humans in general are much more sympathetic in the book but book Unferth is just genuinely ineffective and useless.

[@bahamutkod]

Interesting that as thought-provoking as this all is, we have just traded one monster for another and have just put human traits on Grendel while damning humanity.

[@Bandersnatch41]

bahamutkod in the original story it's a lot of Grey area at the same time you hate Humanity for what they've done to him at the same time Grendel is also evil for what he has done to the people of the mead-hall both are sympathetic and hateable for different reasons this movie it's blurring the line too much

[@innervolume]

At 1:36 it appears he was knifed as some kind of bait for Grendel.

[@stephensczurek6286]

I always wondered about that. Yet Hrothgar wanted Umfirth dead.

[@ezrastardust3124]

Grendel crying for his mama breaks my heart 😭

[@FatimaLim]

poor grendel,,,,

[@MerryMohProductions]

Now I really, really wish I was never born. /_\