my speed is as the speed of ten

[Jonathan Lighter]

My Short Theme on  the Movie Grendel.

The hidden meaning of the movie was shown in the scene near the beginning
when Beo had to kill a practice monster that was terrorizing a community of
about a dozen people. A funny old man led Beo to the monster, like a big
snake or something.  As soon as he was gone Beo said to his friend, "Stay
away from that Raffel. He's very odd."

In my opinion I think this meant that people should stay away from the
translation of Beowulf by Burton Raffel who is old now because it is odd.
The scene was saying that other translations are better or that the movie is
more like the story.

The Internet says that Raffel in the movie is spelled Rafel but in my
opinion that doesn't matter because of symbolism.  Many movies have hidden
symbolism and meaning and this is one of them.

JL
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Scot LaFaive <slafaive at gmail.com> wrote:

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> You just blew my mind.
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> BTW, I too watched that movie. Well, some of it. Until I couldn't take
> anymore and had to turn it.
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> Scot
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> > Sci-Fi Channel's 2007 film _Grendel_ begins with a voiceover explaining
> > that
> > Beowulf of the Geeks ( he says /gits/ but few will hear it that way) had
> > the
> > "strength of ten and the speed of a hundred."
> >
> > So if you line up a hundred fat guys who can barely move and have them
> > race,
> > that's _at least_ how fast Beowulf was.
> >
> > With a small head start Beo could beat the Flash, because by the time the
> > Flash could make up half the distance, Beo would have moved ahead even
> > farther, _ad infinitum_.  That's just logic!
> >
> > _Ad infinitum_ -- and beyond!
> >
> > JL
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