This is clearly a battle between the two most significant supernatural beings in the Christian Faith. For each of the climaxes where the vampires Lucy or Dracula are killed, the crucifix plays a major role. The evil forces are scared of the crucifix; they cover at the very sight of it, for it represents God and all that is good and pure. The Devil hates what it represents so it tries to remove all signs of it. Even After Lucy died, Van Helsing placed "a small golden crucifix over her mouth" in attempts to save her soul.
Soon, he befriends another slave and the oracle takes notice in him from a vision she has by touching him. She decides to escape with Theseus and a few slaves determined to kill Hyperion. Another of the Oracle's visions tell her that Theseus needs to bury his mother, and when he does, he finds the Epirus Bow, but is attacked and poisoned by Hyperion soldiers . After defeating them, the oracle cures him and has sex losing her visions powers. They return to the oracle temple and find it filled with enemies who capture the Bow.
However, Outside in the darkness, lurked the monster Grendel. He gets angry, comes to mead hall, and starts killing people, but Hrothgar remained unharmed because he was protected by God. The coming of Beowulf was also similar with text by introducing Beowulf sailing across the sea to Hrothgar when help was needed to kill Grendel. Both in the text, and in the movie, Beowulf unlocked words deep from his hearts and talked about the Geats and his father, a famous soldier, Edgetho. Then that night Beowulf was awake, eager to meet with Grendel.
The owl appears after Lupito’s death when Antonio is grieving and when Ultima and Antonio are healing is uncle the owl scares off the coyotes brought by the Trementina sisters who are believed to be witches. Also, the owl was able to gouge out Tenorio’s eye because he was going to hurt Ultima. At the end of the novel, when Tenorio kills the owl he literally destroys Ultima’s life force and this leads very quickly to her death. The significance of Ultima’s owl helps Antonio by comforting, protecting him from evil, and teaching him important lessons for the future. The first significant trait of Ultima’s owl is being able to comfort Antonio when Ultima is not there.
Also, in Luhrmann’s version there is more drama such as when Juliet wakes up and can see Romeo drinking the poison. This adds to the person’s emotion making them feel sorry for Juliet having to see Romeo die in front of her. In Zefferelli’s film there isn’t much drama or action. Another reason for Luhrmann’s version being the best is that he uses visual thoughts. For example, when Romeo has a dream that he goes inside a church and then he dies will show the viewer how Romeo enters the church and know what it will be like inside.
One part of the hippo's back has the outline of what looks like flowers in the blue copper salt decoration. The description of the piece informs that this type of sculpture was often mass-produced and placed in tombs as a reminder of the Egyptians' love of hunting. However, the legs of the hippos were broken to ensure they would be no threat in the afterlife. Apparently, herds of hippos were damaging to farmers' fields. The hippos became associated with chaos and the hunt for hippos became a metaphor for how the pharaohs could conquer evil.
One of the most important things in the Anglo-Saxon culture is family unity. Beowulf travels across the world in order to help another community who is being terrorized by monsters. Once he gets there, he goes and talks to a king named Hrothgar. Hrothgar asks Beowulf if he could go into the town and defeat the monster that was terrorizing the mead-hall. Beowulf accepted with great joy and waited until later that night to go into town, because he knew without a doubt that the monster would likely be there.
At one point in the film, the audience was supposed to feel sympathetic towards Grendel because of his pain from hearing the loud noises coming from Herot. However, in the poem, I felt no sympathy for Grendel whatsoever because he wasn’t a childish monster, he was the ruthless demonic beast he was supposed to be. Another example is Wilglaf’s role. In the poem, Wiglaf played a huge part because he is this brave warrior who was Beowulf’s right hand man. In the movie, Wiglaf only had a small role which doesn’t make sense because later on, Wiglaf becomes the King of Geats.
The motion picture Beowulf directed by Robert Zemeckis has some significant alterations in plot events compared to the epic poem. The film does an excellent job showing the terror that Grendel imposes on the Danes with his monstrous raids on Herot. It also supports the epic poems famous battle between Grendel and Beowulf with the epic hero killing the monster. But following this battle, major plot events has some key changes contrary to the epic poem Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel. Beowulf kills Grendel’s mother in the epic poem but in the movie he makes a deal with demon leading to his downfall.
The top priest, Father Merrin is called to rid the child of the demons that possess her. With a story line that is based on exorcisms, this movie has a strong sensitive subject matter. Movies such as The Exorcist can be a controversial topic when it comes to religion. An exorcism is a serious matter, if it isn’t handled properly, consequences such as injury and even death may occur.