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* BlackComedy: The film borders on ''[[{{Anvilicious}} Anvil-esque]]''. Sturla Gunnarsson's borderline demented optimism in the face of disasters which in other circumstances would be dramatic gives the film a comedic tone.
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* BlackComedy: The film borders on ''[[{{Anvilicious}} Anvil-esque]]''. Sturla Gunnarsson's borderline demented optimism in the face of disasters which in other circumstances would be dramatic gives the film a comedic tone.
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* EvilIsNotAToy: At one point a [[DissonantLaughter chuckling]] Gerard Butler recounts Rory [=McCann=]'s statement that rather than blessing the production, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (head of the Icelandic Ásatrú Association) might have accidentally [[TheProductionCurse cursed the film]].
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* EvilIsNotAToy: At one point a [[DissonantLaughter chuckling]] Gerard Butler recounts Rory [=McCann=]'s statement that rather than blessing the production, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (head of the Icelandic Ásatrú Association) might have accidentally [[TheProductionCurse cursed the film]]. [[invoked]]
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->'''Opening narration''': Eary july 2004. After 6 years in development Sturla Gunnarsson has arrived in Iceland to make an epic movie called Beowulf & Grendel, and on this beautiful summer day [[TemptingFate no one can see anything wrong with shooting this movie on top of a mountain facing the open Atlantic]].
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->'''Opening narration''': Eary july July 2004. After 6 years in development Sturla Gunnarsson has arrived in Iceland to make an epic movie called Beowulf ''Beowulf & Grendel, Grendel'', and on this beautiful summer day day, [[TemptingFate no one can see anything wrong with shooting this movie on top of a mountain facing the open Atlantic]].
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* BlackComedy: The film borders on ''[[Film/Anvil ''[[{{Anvilicious}} Anvil-esque]]''. Sturla Gunnarsson's borderline demented optimism in the face of disasters which in other circumstances would be dramatic gives the film a comedic tone.
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* EvilIsNotAToy: At one point a [[DissonantLaughter chuckling]] Gerard Butler recounts Rory McCann's [=McCann=]'s statement that rather than blessing the production, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (head of the Icelandic Ásatrú Association) might have accidentally [[TheProductionCurse cursed the film]].
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Was the film cursed by the gods or was it simply shooting in Iceland during the autumn?
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Was the film cursed by the gods or was it simply shooting in Iceland during the autumn? autumn just poor timing?
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* ThePollyanna: Both Sturla Gunnarsson and Gerard Butler appears to be this. According to Ingvar Sigurdsson (Grendel) this is [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror typical Icelandic behavior]].
* TrashTheSet: Halfway through production a gale comes and thrashes the sets. Said gale also destroys 8 production cars and sends rocks flying toward one of the producers. Sturla Gunnarsson comments while [[DissonantSerenity laughing]]: ''Thor got drunk''
* WasItReallyWorthIt: Asked by producer Paul Stephens at the end of the film, to which he flatly answers: ''No''.
* TrashTheSet: Halfway through production a gale comes and thrashes the sets. Said gale also destroys 8 production cars and sends rocks flying toward one of the producers. Sturla Gunnarsson comments while [[DissonantSerenity laughing]]: ''Thor got drunk''
* WasItReallyWorthIt: Asked by producer Paul Stephens at the end of the film, to which he flatly answers: ''No''.
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* ThePollyanna: Both Sturla Gunnarsson and Gerard Butler appears to be this. According to Ingvar Sigurdsson (Grendel) (Grendel), this is [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror typical Icelandic behavior]].
* TrashTheSet: Halfway throughproduction production, a gale comes and thrashes the sets. Said gale also destroys 8 right production cars and sends rocks flying toward one of the producers. Sturla Gunnarsson comments while [[DissonantSerenity laughing]]: ''Thor "Thor got drunk''
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* WasItReallyWorthIt: Asked by producer Paul Stephens at the end of the film, to which he flatly answers:''No''."No."
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'''Wrath of Gods''' is a 2006 of Icelandic documentary by Jon Gustafsson that chronicles the [[TroubledProduction troubled production]] of the 2005 film ''[[Film/BeowulfAndGrendel Beowulf & Grendel]]''. Following several years of development Sturla Gunnarsson has finally financed his dream project: an epic adaptation of ''Beowulf'' to be shot in his homeland of Iceland after a career in Canada. However, as production draws near problems with said financing ends up postponing the filming causing it to eventually start filming in autumn as the weather is getting increasingly worse.
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'''Wrath of Gods''' is a 2006 of Icelandic documentary by Jon Gustafsson that chronicles the [[TroubledProduction troubled production]] of the 2005 film ''[[Film/BeowulfAndGrendel Beowulf & Grendel]]''. Following several years of development Strula Gunnarsson has finally financed his dream project: an epic adaptation of ''Beowulf'' to be shot in his homeland of Iceland after a career in Canada. However, as production draws near problems with said financing ends up postponing the filming causing it to eventually start filming in autumn as the weather is getting increasingly worse.
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'''Wrath of Gods''' is a 2006 of Icelandic documentary by Jon Gustafsson that chronicles the [[TroubledProduction troubled production]] of the 2005 film ''[[Film/BeowulfAndGrendel Beowulf & Grendel]]''. Following several years of development Strula Sturla Gunnarsson has finally financed his dream project: an epic adaptation of ''Beowulf'' to be shot in his homeland of Iceland after a career in Canada. However, as production draws near problems with said financing ends up postponing the filming causing it to eventually start filming in autumn as the weather is getting increasingly worse.
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* TemptingFate: At one point a crewman says that everything that at least the local volcano hasn't erupted. GilliganCut to an Icelandic news report the following day about the eruption of said volcano.
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* TemptingFate: At one point a crewman says that despite everything that has happened, at least the local volcano hasn't erupted. GilliganCut to an Icelandic news report the following day about the eruption of said volcano.
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* ThePollyanna: Both Sturla Gunnarsson and Gerard Butler appears to be this. According to Ingvar Sigurdsson (Grendel) this is [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror typical Icelandic behavior]].
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* BlackComedy: The film borders on ''[[Film/Anvil Anvil-esque]]''. Sturla Gunnarsson's borderline demented optimism in the face of disasters which in other circumstances would be dramatic gives the film a comedic tone.
* LemonyNarrator: Jon Gustafsson's narration is very matter of fact, but there are several occasion were he makes very dry humorous remarks.
* NightmareFetishist: Despite the horrible environmental conditions, Gerard Butler admits that Iceland reminds him so much of his native Scotland that he feels right at home.
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* TrashTheSet: Halfway through proaction production a gale comes and thrashes the sets. Said gale also destroys 8 production cars and sends rocks flying toward one of the producers. Sturla Gunnarsson comments while [[DissonantSerenity laughing]]: ''Thor got drunk''
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'''Wrath of Gods''' is a 2006 of Icelandic documentary by Jon Gustafsson that chronicles the [[TroubledProduction troubled production]] of the 2005 film ''[[Film/Beowulf and Grendel]]''. Following several years of development Strula Gunnarsson has finally financed his dream project: an epic adaptation of ''Beowulf'' to be shot in his homeland of Iceland after a career in Canada. However, as production draws near problems with said financing ends up postponing the filming causing it to eventually start filming in autumn as the weather is getting increasingly worse.
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'''Wrath of Gods''' is a 2006 of Icelandic documentary by Jon Gustafsson that chronicles the [[TroubledProduction troubled production]] of the 2005 film ''[[Film/Beowulf and ''[[Film/BeowulfAndGrendel Beowulf & Grendel]]''. Following several years of development Strula Gunnarsson has finally financed his dream project: an epic adaptation of ''Beowulf'' to be shot in his homeland of Iceland after a career in Canada. However, as production draws near problems with said financing ends up postponing the filming causing it to eventually start filming in autumn as the weather is getting increasingly worse.
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->'''Opening narration''': Eary july 2004. After 6 years in development Sturla Gunnarsson has arrived in Iceland to make an epic movie called Beowulf & Grendel, and on this beautiful summer day [[TemptingFate no one can see anything wrong with shooting this movie on top of a mountain facing the open Atlantic]].
'''Wrath of Gods''' is a 2006 of Icelandic documentary by Jon Gustafsson that chronicles the [[TroubledProduction troubled production]] of the 2005 film ''[[Film/Beowulf and Grendel]]''. Following several years of development Strula Gunnarsson has finally financed his dream project: an epic adaptation of ''Beowulf'' to be shot in his homeland of Iceland after a career in Canada. However, as production draws near problems with said financing ends up postponing the filming causing it to eventually start filming in autumn as the weather is getting increasingly worse.
At the start of filming Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, high-priest of the Icelandic Ásatrú Association, is hired to perform a pagan blessing on the film. Within minutes of the blessing Sturla Gunnarsson [[PortentOfDoom trips and hits his head on a rock]]. Not long after, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson also trips and fractured two rib bones. As filming starts, the cast and crew start to question what they actually might have called down upon the production...
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!!''Wrath of Gods'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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* AllForNothing: Long story short: [[spoiler: After all the cast and crew went through, the film ends up a critical and financial failure.]]
* DrinkingOnDuty: The actors playing the horsemen show up on set drunk.
* EvilIsNotAToy: At one point a [[DissonantLaughter chuckling]] Gerard Butler recounts Rory McCann's statement that rather than blessing the production, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (head of the Icelandic Ásatrú Association) might have accidentally [[TheProductionCurse cursed the film]].
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Was the film cursed by the gods or was it simply shooting in Iceland during the autumn?
* StealthInsult: Stellan Skarsgård pulls one on director Sturla Gunnarsson on camera saying that any normal person would not have filmed this.
* TemptingFate: At one point a crewman says that everything that at least the local volcano hasn't erupted. GilliganCut to an Icelandic news report the following day about the eruption of said volcano.
* TheProductionCurse: Gerard Butler says so while [[DissonantLaughter laughing nervously]].
* ThePollyanna: Both Sturla Gunnarsson and Gerard Butler appears to be this.
* TrashTheSet: Halfway through proaction a gale comes and thrashes the sets.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: Asked by producer Paul Stephens at the end of the film, to which he flatly answers: ''No''.
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->'''Opening narration''': Eary july 2004. After 6 years in development Sturla Gunnarsson has arrived in Iceland to make an epic movie called Beowulf & Grendel, and on this beautiful summer day [[TemptingFate no one can see anything wrong with shooting this movie on top of a mountain facing the open Atlantic]].
'''Wrath of Gods''' is a 2006 of Icelandic documentary by Jon Gustafsson that chronicles the [[TroubledProduction troubled production]] of the 2005 film ''[[Film/Beowulf and Grendel]]''. Following several years of development Strula Gunnarsson has finally financed his dream project: an epic adaptation of ''Beowulf'' to be shot in his homeland of Iceland after a career in Canada. However, as production draws near problems with said financing ends up postponing the filming causing it to eventually start filming in autumn as the weather is getting increasingly worse.
At the start of filming Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, high-priest of the Icelandic Ásatrú Association, is hired to perform a pagan blessing on the film. Within minutes of the blessing Sturla Gunnarsson [[PortentOfDoom trips and hits his head on a rock]]. Not long after, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson also trips and fractured two rib bones. As filming starts, the cast and crew start to question what they actually might have called down upon the production...
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!!''Wrath of Gods'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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* AllForNothing: Long story short: [[spoiler: After all the cast and crew went through, the film ends up a critical and financial failure.]]
* DrinkingOnDuty: The actors playing the horsemen show up on set drunk.
* EvilIsNotAToy: At one point a [[DissonantLaughter chuckling]] Gerard Butler recounts Rory McCann's statement that rather than blessing the production, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (head of the Icelandic Ásatrú Association) might have accidentally [[TheProductionCurse cursed the film]].
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Was the film cursed by the gods or was it simply shooting in Iceland during the autumn?
* StealthInsult: Stellan Skarsgård pulls one on director Sturla Gunnarsson on camera saying that any normal person would not have filmed this.
* TemptingFate: At one point a crewman says that everything that at least the local volcano hasn't erupted. GilliganCut to an Icelandic news report the following day about the eruption of said volcano.
* TheProductionCurse: Gerard Butler says so while [[DissonantLaughter laughing nervously]].
* ThePollyanna: Both Sturla Gunnarsson and Gerard Butler appears to be this.
* TrashTheSet: Halfway through proaction a gale comes and thrashes the sets.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: Asked by producer Paul Stephens at the end of the film, to which he flatly answers: ''No''.
