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Not your English teacher’s Beowulf: Grendel’s mom was a hottie?

I taught "Beowulf" to seniors for seven years... I also had to read/interpret/analyze/compare/contrast the crap out of it in college... I don't remember Grendel's mom being a MILF.

In fact, she was a nasty old sea hag. Ahh well, bygones...

Beowulf opened this weekend. Review here...

Review excerpt:

By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: November 16, 2007/New York Times

You don’t need to wait for Angelina Jolie to rise from the vaporous depths naked and dripping liquid gold to know that this “Beowulf” isn’t your high school teacher’s Old English epic poem. You don’t even have to wait for the flying spears and airborne bodies that — if you watch the movie in one of the hundreds of theaters equipped with 3-D projection — will look as if they’re hurtling directly at your head. You could poke your eye out with one of those things! Which is precisely what I thought when I first saw Ms. Jolie’s jutting breasts too.


QUESTION: Has anyone seen it or do they intend to? How was it compared to the epic poem you were forced to read in English class?

In 2006, then-editor Steve Smith of The Spokesman-Review had the idea of starting a publication for an often forgotten audience: teenagers. The Vox Box was a continuation of the Vox, an all-student staffed newspaper published by The Spokesman-Review. High school student journalists who staffed the Vox made all content decisions as they learn about the trade of journalism. This blog's mission was to give students an opportunity to publish their voices. The Vox Box and the Vox wrapped up in June 2009, but you can follow former staffers' new blog at http://voxxiez.blogspot.com.