While Beowulf slays the competition at the local cinemaplex these days, the Boston Globe takes a look at other movies that were based on poems. Disney's Mulan was based on a 6th-century Chinese epic poem "Hua Mu Lan." Mike Kelly's poem "Casey at the Bat" has inspired a half a dozen films. "The Odyssey" has inspired several movies as well, recently (pictured above) the wonderful Coen brother movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou. I wonder if they've made a movie about one of the poems that haunts me most.
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