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Marion Liu ’11, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Canaday Hall...
...modeled by Anthony Hopkins) is troubled by the predatory sorties of Grendel (Crispin Hellion Glover). Accompanied by his "14 brave thanes," Beowulf (Ray Winstone) comes across the sea to slay the monster and, not incidentally, add another laurel to his own legend. He repels a Grendel attack on Mead Hall, severing the beast's arm. Grendel limps back to his lair, where his mother - she has no name, so we'll call her Grendma - watches him die. When Beowulf discovers the lair, Grendma reveals herself in the form of a beautiful seductress (Jolie). He returns to Mead Hall declaring that...
...doesn't kill him; "Give him a gold piece and send him home. He has a story to tell." Before confronting Grendel, he strips himself naked. (Battling in the buff is a major motif this year, in 300 and Eastern Promises.) As Beowulf leaps from one end of the Hall to the other, the movie treats you to more cutesy-poo hide-the-penis shots than in Bart's skateboard ride in The Simpsons Movie...
...leaders have been dragged in front of the Administrative Board and threatened with every conceivable injustice, just because some weakling freshman puked in the bushes behind the Advocate or an impatient punch pissed on a patrol car outside the Fox. If we want a wholesome meal in a dining hall, we’re supposed to want it around the same time of day that our grandparents do. The list goes on and on, an endless make-work project for our self-important advocates on the Undergraduate Council...
...Robert Mellors, nestled among two-story brick homes in an ordinary residential neighborhood, has none of the grandeur and mystery of Hogwarts, let alone its cavernous dining hall. But here, as in the books from which it drew inspiration, the key to success has been the wondrous power of a child's imagination. "By the nature of the beast, children are more creative than we are," Chambers says. "So they will make the connections and do it enthusiastically." The Robert Mellors School proves that when education is packaged to encourage those connections, it can cast a powerful spell - just like...