![]() ![]() Crichton's novel uses two real sources as a basis or beginning for novel: a narrative of a journey with the Northmen by Ahmad ibn Fadlan and the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. ![]() The movie stays close to the novel's storyline, though, and provides excellent visuals of the primeval Nordic forests, the small sailing craft battling the inexorable sea, and the warrior culture of Europe in the 900's. ![]() The second time around, viewing the movie first, I realized that the archetypal forces that Crichton was utilizing could hardly be matched by movie special effects-the imagination deals with archetypes on too personal a level. When I first read The Eaters of the Dead and then viewed the movie, my experience was that the characterization of the antagonists in the movie did not match well enough how I had imagined the wendol in the novel. It was a better experience the second way around. This time I did it backwards, the movie, The 13th Warrior, and then the novel, The Eaters of the Dead. Year's ago I read the book and then watched the movie. ![]()
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