The movie theme song is ironic
Does anyone else find it funny that the movie used the song "A Hero Comes Home" in a movie where the hero dies at the end?
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It is not ironic - it just proves once again that the movie is subtle pro-christian propaganda. Just read the lyrics and imagine not Beowulf but Jesus.
shareI think it's ironic as Beowulf is a flawed character whose sins came back with great consequence. One could say that the ending song martyring him as a pure hero is an extension of how easily information and stories get distorted and changed throughout the years.
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How is this pro-christian propaganda? Half the theme of the movie is about Christianity invading and forcing the pagans to adopt Christ as a god. They show it as an intrusive viewpoint on their already established religions.
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Which further reinforces the main theme of the story: distorting what has happened into something more appealing. The Beowulf poem has a lot of Christ-like qualities to it, which is possibly because of Christian intentions intervening in what may be the original pagan story. This movie takes it back before this, hence the emphasis on human flaws.
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I think that the popular version of the original poem is pro christian propaganda(Yay Jesus!), but this movie seemed anti christian if anything, like when they proposed to pray to "the new christian god as well" the idea was dismissed, and near the end the least favorable character, Unferth, becomes a priest, and his church gets wtfpwnt.
I don't see any of that as pro christian.
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