Review: Beowulf and the Dark Knight

Introduction

Batman hit utter shock. The biggest shock was - as how the wizard (I did not know that his name was Tim Burton) guessed my most secret childhood fantasy? Be strong and under the guise of a mysterious and beautiful mask for good and justice in the name of ... Memory tells "In the name of the moon, but it's getting late layering: if" Sailor Moon "until we have not yet reached. In short, just do good and to dissolve into the night, without waiting for word of thanks (I was even more naive then than now), "Dark Knight" conquered.

As an attraction of computer graphics, "Beowulf," of course, more or less successful, especially titles in 3D, but at some point on the screen there is a wall of water and it seems that it pours right down the middle of the hall, but succeeded only "more or less" for several reasons.

Batman versus Beowulf

It is only now I realize that Batman has hit the target, which could not reach. My most cherished fantasy was guessed very simple - just a typical teenage fantasy. In addition to Batman, she has reared two dozen superheroes, it still gives the bread and butter two powerful publishing corporation - Marvel and DC (Detective Comics); and it is very thick piece of bread with a thick layer of oil. Is not this interesting? (Harper, pp 384)

The idea is that I was protected by a heavy armor of the Russian and Soviet culture, to me that Batman could not get it - but podi you, got to the heart.

A year later, DC becomes Batman, the product of Union artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. Marvel provides on-mountain Captain Marvel, Captain America, and superheroes in general fill the market. Here we must note the following phenomenon: whenever and wherever young people dreaming "about courage, heroism, of glory, but only in the US it has become a form. (Duncan, pp 64-88)

Before you wrinkle your nose at the taste of "blunt amerikosy, pay attention to one simple and obvious thing: the US does not and never have been a literary epic. It was a very classy attempt to create it - "Hiawatha," but she remained a "plaything of intellectuals" - Indian epics do not have white, and Indians, "Hiawatha", I suspect, and does not read. In the United States do not have an epic ...