beowulf compare and contrast

Compare and Contrast Between Beowulf Poem & Film.
Beowulf the movie and Beowulf the poem stay pretty close in comparision except for a few details. In the film, Grendel is a troll who basically wants revenge on the Danes for the death of his father. The Danes kill Grendel's father because he took food from them. Although in the poem, Grendel is just described as a blood thirsty monster. Also, in the movie Grendel is a little more like a human. He speaks to Selma and tells her why he will not fight Beowulf but, in the poem he is more monster like. Grendel actually has a reason to want revenge in the movie while in the poem he is just killing the Danes because he is a monster and that is his nature. In the film, Grendel does not want to harm Beowulf or the Danes because they did no wrong to him, unlike in the poem where he kills just to do it. Another difference from Beowulf would be that in the poem, Beowulf goes back to his homeland of Geatland to become king, but in the movie Beowulf stays to take over for Hrothgar in Denmark after his death. Beowulf then becomes king of Hrothgar's kingdom. The poem and the movie have different ways that they end. This is another way each are different. In addition to the big differences there are also more not so important differences between the poem and the movie. One of these differences happens to be in the poem, Grendel kills the Dane who wronged him and proceeds to get away from Beowulf, but as Grendel is running away Beowulf catches his arm. Although Beowulf catches his arm in the poem, this is not what happens in the film. In the film, Grendel runs and Beowulf gets a rope around his wrist and as Grendel jumps out of the building he gets caught on the rope, then Grendel proceeds to cut his own arm off in order to get away from Beowulf and the other Danes. In the movie Beowulf has no part in cutting off Grendel's arm. Another point in the movie that is different from the poem is while Beowulf and theDanes are on the boat