Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan, after having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent to the land of Tossuk Vlad as ambassador by the Caliph of Baghdad. A country far north. He has been banished from his home and from all that he has. He journeyed on camelback many months into the land of barbarian people. Accompanied by Melchisidek, an old friend of Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan's father. They stop at a Viking village port to restock supplies. Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan finds himself unwittingly embroiled on a quest to banish a mysterious threat to a distant Viking land with twelve Vikings because the 13th man must not be a Northman. King Hrothgar's village in the north that is menaced by an ancient evil, a terror, a terror that has no name, a terror that must not be named. The 13 men have arrived to the village to help the king and during the night they are attacked by the wendols. The day after they build a fence around the village and at night the Wendols attack again by cavalry and torches, they burn the village during the attack. .
Afterwards they find a couple of dead bodies near the fence and see the wendols are not bears but human beings. They are clothed with bearskin in order to look like bears and to scare the Vikings. They seek an old woman for her wisdom, they show her a little sculpture dropped by one of the Wendols. The old woman says to the twelve Vikings and the one Arab that they have to kill the mother of the Wen and their leader. They follow the track of the wendols and come to a cave where they live. They sneaking into the cave and Buliwyf kills the Wen's mother and they run away from the Wendols and come back to their village, but one of the Vikings Helfdane dies in the cave. The wendols attack the village again at night to take revenge of the Wen's mother and during the attack Buliwyf kills their leader. Now the Wendols run away and Buliwyf dies in the battle. After the terror of the Wendols and Buliwyf 's funeral is over Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan returns home.
The 13th Warrior Vs. ... The warriors of "The 13th Warrior" and Beowulf, clearly, had incongruous reasons for fighting the bear men. ... Beowulf was supercilious unlike the men in "The 13th Warrior." ... There are a few scenes in "The 13th Warrior" that are comparable to scenes in Beowulf. ... The Anglo-Saxon code relates to many characters in Beowulf and "The 13th Warrior." ...
In the 1990s "The 13th Warrior" was made. ... Buliwyf, the protagonist of "The 13th Warrior", chooses eleven of his fellow Vikings to accompany him on his quest. ... In the "The 13th Warrior" there is a scene that is a creation of the filmmakers, in which a full-scale army of the bear-men attack the Danish stronghold a second time; this time using fire. ... On the surface, Beowulf and "The 13th Warrior" are two very different epics. But as one delves deeper they find that in fact "The 13th Warrior" is essentially a more believable version of Beowulf. ...
The 13th Warrior The Anglo-Saxon's wrote an epic poem more than 1200 years ago then around 1997, a movie, The 13th Warrior was produced based on Michael's Crichton's best-selling novel Eaters of the Dead. ... Beowulf contained three battles, while The 13th Warrior contained four battles. ... In The 13th Warrior the location of the battles follows a somewhat different pattern of locations. ... While in The 13th Warrior, Buliwyf has a army of men who fight with him. ... Spears and swords were the weapon of choice for the warriors of The 13th Warrior. ...
The 13th Warrior was written as Eaters of the Dead, by Michael Crichton, in the 1990's. ... Both Beowulf and the 13th Warrior are adventures of a hero whose actions determined a nation's fate. ... In the movie, Buliwyf single handedly kills the head warrior of the opposing enemy. ... Both the epic poem of Beowulf and the movie The 13th warrior hold some form of supernaturalism. ... One can find many similarities in the way the events occur in The 13th Warrior and Beowulf, the reader gets insight on the entire picture from two different sides. ...
New Zealand Film : Stereotyping The International Film Industry is primarily a business that entertains. ... It compares and contrast Once Were Warriors' and Whale Rider . ... Both films come from books by two Maori novelists Once Were Warriors was directed by Lee Tamahori, who is part Maori, and Whale Rider directed by pakeha Niki Caro ( who indicates the film was as authentic as possible regarding Maori culture.) ... Once Were Warriors is a gritty film about urbanised Maori, separated from their culture and family. ... This alludes to the stereotypical view th...
People of Color in Cinema Film Critique School of Rock versus the Warriors. ... The two films I chose are School of Rock (2003) directed by Richard Linklater and written by Mike White, and The Warriors (1979) directed by Walter Hill. ... The next film I will dissect is The Warriors, by Walter Hill (1979). ... However, the blame is put on the Warriors, an interracial gang. ... The film The Warriors, ends up taking a theme of gangs in New York and making it a white issue. ...
Multi-Sequel Horror Films Multi-sequel horror films have greatly decreased in the amount of fright they produce. ... Horror films no longer contain the necessities to induce fright. Recently Freddy Vs Jason has been released into the theatre, which is a movie where Freddy Kruegor the villain from the Nightmare on Elm Street saga uses Jason Voorhees the villain from the Friday the 13th saga to come back and haunt his town again. In the original films these characters where very scary, and it was a great thrill-seeking trip. ... "The match-up of two of film's most enduring serial killers,...
introduction ONCE WERE WARRIORS is a powerful, explosive film that captures the reality of domestic violence and alcoholism within a family home. ... body This film deals with many issues, which in essence, make it a great watch. ... Maori people were once fine warriors, but the film shows us of how the generations have changed as the Maoris of today have different beliefs and respect from their ancestors. ... "Our people once were warriors. ... ONCE WERE WARRIORS contains many brutal scenes which critics debated over. ...
Once Were Warriors is the story about a Maori family struggling to survive in a New Zealand that is governed by Whites. The film explores the search for identity by contemporary Maoris, such as warrior violence juxtaposed to a culture stripped of its pride and honour. ... (O"Shaughnessy 1999, p.220) This concept is specifically dealt with in Once were Warriors and it is because of this factor that it can be concluded that the film is directed toward Maori audiences, or toward White New Zealanders in an effort to raise awareness of disadvantages faced by the Maori community. ... (O"Sh...
