Fascinating perspective! By "these 2 movies" to you mean MirrorMask and Pan's Labyrinth or MirrorMask and Coraline? I was really bugged by the portrayal of the mother in Pan's Labyrinth, but hers is a different, more passive, kind of evil.
I had forgotten about Gaiman's involvement with the Zemeckis Beowulf. The winter before last I saw about half of it with Sharee in the theater before she dragged me out because she was not digging it and was falling asleep from jetlag besides. It's been years since I read Beowulf (although I occasionally like to shout "hwat!" just for the hell of it), but I sure don't remember the part where Grendel's dam takes the form of a naked woman with bodacious ta-tas. Not the sort of thing I *think* I would have missed. My impression is that the movie also makes the king Grendel's father, so that the "evil" is all in the family, which is also not in the poem.
I actually haven't read anything by Gaiman except for a couple of issues of Sandman, so I have no idea how much the evil mother motif pops up in his work.
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Date: 2009-07-12 03:18 pm (UTC)I had forgotten about Gaiman's involvement with the Zemeckis Beowulf. The winter before last I saw about half of it with Sharee in the theater before she dragged me out because she was not digging it and was falling asleep from jetlag besides. It's been years since I read Beowulf (although I occasionally like to shout "hwat!" just for the hell of it), but I sure don't remember the part where Grendel's dam takes the form of a naked woman with bodacious ta-tas. Not the sort of thing I *think* I would have missed. My impression is that the movie also makes the king Grendel's father, so that the "evil" is all in the family, which is also not in the poem.
I actually haven't read anything by Gaiman except for a couple of issues of Sandman, so I have no idea how much the evil mother motif pops up in his work.