In the epic Grendel has no motive on why he was killing the Danes. However, in Beowulf and Grendel the film he was given a motive. In Beowulf and Grendel the film the Danes killed Grendel’s father because he took a fish from their side; that is why Grendel is now after the Danes to gain revenge for his father’s death. In Beowulf the epic they didn’t need a reason, because the audience back then they didn’t authentically look for one, but the modern audience seems to be always probing for a Cause and Effect in situations and incidencesThe modern mindset for people doesn't sanction one to just accept that he simply is after the Danes; modern media must provide an answer for their audience on why Grendel has been killing Danes. In the epic never did they mention a reason for Grendel's execration towards the Danes. However, in the film Grendel’s reasoning was proximate to …show more content…
The modern mindset is that everyone has a good side and is only betokened when others are mean to them. That is why in Beowulf and Grendel the movie, Beowulf has a compassionate side and understands why Grendel is after the Danes. Compared to as in the epic Beowulf was very vainglorious and only cared about his own reputation and willing the battle. Another example would be is that in Beowulf the epic Grendel and his mother are described as monsters who live in a cave together, but in the movie Grendel and his mother have their own caves and Grendel is independently on his own. The modern mindset in the engenderment area is why many of our classic books and short stories are transmuted to fit the screen. The reason being that media only engenders what they ken an audience would pay for and the pristine didn't have enough drama going for a modern person so the 4 extra integrated a whole incipient dimension to the movie that the epic did not provide. Both epic and movie had the same main conception, but their storyline was plenarily different from being the epic where Grendel had been just a mean monster out to kill the