Beowulf, the movie

Shout out to High School AP English IV. Man, I miss that class. Those were the times. Makes me nostalgia since I've been watching season one of Laguna Beach (which has nothing to do with each other much except LB is high schoolish).

All I've heard about this movie is that Angelina Jolie is supposed to be in it. I think she's a mother of someone. Am I right? Have to check that. [I just read that Neil Gaiman was one of the screenwriters, and that makes me want to see it even more as I just read Stardust and loved it.]

Anyways, I definitely have to check it out. Having read it in High school English compels me to.

You know, this got me thinking that maybe a whole generation of kids who have to read it will just watch this movie instead. Hey, it is has Angelina Jolie in it, then why not, right?

I hope the movie lives up to the book. I loved studying ancient and world literature . That part of the curriculum instilled a life long fascination. It is by far more enriching than American Literature, which I studied as a junior. I don't know if it's the themes or the material chosen, but American lit, which made up a majority of AP English III, was a bore compared to the richness I found in the works I studied a year later.

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