Beowulf

See live, which must be their website or something.

Beowulf's lost it.

He's a nut

already.

Welcome to the Have Mandolin, Will Travel podcast.

This is Three Readings of Two Beowulfs.

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I don't think many consider it scary.

It was the animated version of Beowulf, if you've ever seen that one.

[laughs] Beowulf, okay.

I, I was just too young for that.

Yeah.

I, I had to use the bathroom, like, two or three times just so I could make it through.

But the... yeah.

Uh, not the most manly thing, but Beowulf scarred me for a long time.

Mike.

We're gonna watch another movie today.

[laughs]

We're gonna review another movie.

Oh, yeah.

And I'm gonna tell you what, this movie came out when I was a senior in high school.

So we're giving away my age right there, right? Pretty soon someone's gonna be able to steal my identity.

So, um-

What about you, Producer Grace? So I have two older brothers, so I feel like I was exposed to scary movies at a young age.

For me, it's this movie called Beowulf.

Beyond imagination.

What are you?

At least hers sounds like it's meant to be scary.

And I remember I couldn't sleep.

I thought Beowulf was coming after me for weeks.

Don't.

I mean, it just...

You, you work on The Polar Express, Beowulf, which the poster is right behind you for anyone watching this on YouTube.

I mean, that's such a crazy time to be in this field because, I mean, the technology is improving by leaps and bounds, and you have these cutting-edge filmmakers who are pushing it to its absolute limit.

And I think Attack of the Clones is kind of the first film after Jurassic Park to say, "Okay, we, we kinda know what we're doing a little bit.

Uh, Doug peeled off from Episode II, and we, um, started working, uh, with the Wachowskis on, uh, Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions.

And doing the same thing, we, we formed an art department With, uh, some of the same talented people that we had at The Ranch, and that eventually led to a small little team called, uh, Ice Blink.

We started a little studio that started working on Spielberg and Zemeckis projects, and, um, that included War of the Worlds, that included The Polar Express, um, Beowulf, and Monster House, um, were the big, the big movies that we worked on, uh, while we were at Ice Blink.

And that, that then led us to, uh, Ice Blink becoming kind of the seed team for ImageMovers Digital, which was Robert Zemeckis's attempt at creating a production, uh, studio, uh, under the Disney banner to, uh, create motion capture technology, uh, foundation animated films.

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they, they pull the Beowulf.

They pull the Polar Express.

It's that kind of thing.

Yeah, I mean, it wouldn't be the first time.

I mean, Beowulf is way worse, so.

No, Beowulf actually had a story and a script written-

That's true

... by Neil Gaiman, and it's pretty decent.