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Originally Posted by Nesacat  The movie got a 'U' rating here. I don't know how but it did. So all the children got to see people being eaten and torn apart and everything. |
It wasn't a matter of animation/reality. It was a matter of shown/hidden. When Grendel pulled someone in half, they cut to shadows on a wall instead of showing it actually happening directly. When Beowulf cut into his own arm, they showed the blade approaching the target but then cut away from there at the last moment. They were rather creative about finding ways to communicate to the audience that things had happened which weren't actually shown.