What are the differences between beowulf the movie and beowulf the book What are the similarities?

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I read the epic poem and saw the movie. The movie stays pretty close to the movie except for two main points. Warning, these are spoilers. In the poem Beowulf goes back to Geatland to become king. In the movie he stays in Denmark and becomes king of Horathgar's kingdom. In the poem Beowulf kills Grendel's mom but that doesn't happen in the movie. Although, in the film Beowulf returns and says he kills her so I guess one could argue it stays in line with the poem that way. Also the in the poem there is a larger social backdrop of this type of society that wants peace and stability but that is at odds with a heroic culture of honor and revenge. In the movie they only touch on that very briefly when Beowulf comments on that the age of heroes is giving way to Christianity.

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