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FWIW, my priest and I are both quite happy to put this story in the same category as those poetic but scientifically incorrect references in the liturgy to pelicans feeding their young with blood from their breasts<\/a>, but the part of me that likes to separate fact from fiction still feels the line here is a tad blurry for my tastes. And it doesn\u2019t help that I have actually come across more fundamentalist types \u2014 only online, not in person, thank God! \u2014 who have actually insisted on this story\u2019s historicity and said, \u201cHow do you know<\/i> there weren\u2019t any dragons?\u201d Oy vey.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, I was reminded of all that today when I read an item at FilmStew.com<\/a>, which states that David Auburn, the playwright behind Proof<\/a><\/i> (my review<\/a>), is now working on a script for a movie called St. George and the Dragon<\/i>. Apparently this film is the brainstorm of Doug Wick, who saw a painting based on this legend three years ago; the IMDB<\/a> lists Wick as a producer of Gladiator<\/a><\/i> (2000; my review<\/a>), Hollow Man<\/a><\/i> (2000), Bewitched<\/a><\/i> (2005) and Stuart Little<\/a><\/i> (1999-2002; my comments<\/a>), among others.<\/p>\n

As one might expect in this day and age, this new film will not be a straightforward telling of the heroic tale. Says Wick: \u201cSt. George and the Dragon<\/i> is the enduring myth of a knight\u2019s struggle to save a feudal princess from a fearsome beast. In Auburn\u2019s retelling, the knight will be not so chivalrous, and the princess not so chaste.\u201d Perhaps the beast will not be so fearsome, either, then?<\/p>\n

And FWIW, I say this just one day after seeing Sturla Gunnarsson\u2019s Beowulf & Grendel<\/a><\/i>, which does its part to deconstruct the mythmaking process and the demonization of enemy beasts, and to blame at least part of the mythmaking process on Christianity. More on that later, as the Vancouver film festival approaches.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"