Each your answers to these questions on the movie versions of Each your answers to these questions on the movie versions of Beowulf and Much Ado About Nothing should be 100 words long, for a total of 500 words. Feel free to exceed the word count, but if you’re short you will be penalized for brevity. Turning in this assignment late will result in severe late penalties.
1) Describe the setting and the dress of Whedon’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s play. How is it different from Shakespeare’s vision? Why do you think Whedon does this?
2) Why is the costume party in Much Ado About Nothing so compelling for modern viewers? What aspects of it draw the modern viewer in?
3) Discuss the scene in which Claudio is in the pool in a snorkeling mask. Why would Whedon place him there and what is the effect?
4) How is the depiction of Grendel’s mother very different in the movie than it is in the poem? Why do you think the Zemeckis changes things?
5) Beowulf’s motivations in the movie are also different than they are in the poem. What does he want in the movie that he doesn’t want in the poem? How does this affect your interpretation of his actions?About Nothing should be 100 words long, for a total of 500 words. Feel free to exceed the word count, but if you’re short you will be penalized for brevity. Turning in this assignment late will result in severe late penalties.
1) Describe the setting and the dress of Whedon’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s play. How is it different from Shakespeare’s vision? Why do you think Whedon does this?
2) Why is the costume party in Much Ado About Nothing so compelling for modern viewers? What aspects of it draw the modern viewer in?
3) Discuss the scene in which Claudio is in the pool in a snorkeling mask. Why would Whedon place him there and what is the effect?
4) How is the depiction of Grendel’s mother very different in the movie than it is in the poem? Why do you think the Zemeckis changes things?
5) Beowulf’s motivations in the movie are also different than they are in the poem. What does he want in the movie that he doesn’t want in the poem? How does this affect your interpretation of his actions?
only source and use these two films “Beowolf Robert Zemeckis” and “Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing”
