Nail 'Em to the Wall
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- Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
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Song
Screenplay - Language(s)
- English
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- Songwriter
- Gaiman, Neil
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- Contained in
- Beowulf: The Script Book, by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary
- Location Details
- Page 264
- Publisher
- HarperEntertainment
- Date
- 2007
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- Relationships
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Collocates with -> We Are Beowulf's Army, Gaiman, Neil (2007)Collocates with -> Beowulf, Gaiman, Neil (1997 (published 2007))Collocates with -> Concept Art [for 2007 Beowulf film], Avary, Roger (2007)Collocates with -> Beowulf, Gaiman, Neil (2005 (published 2007))
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- Identifying Numbers
- ISBN: 9780061350160
- Descriptive Notes
Book is viii + 164 pages, portions unpaginated; b/w illus. The book is a compilation, to accompany the 2007 film release of Robert Zemeckis, dir., Beowulf, of both the original draft of the screenplay (1997) and the final draft (2005), together with concept art, two songs, and various notes of explanation.
The two "rude songs" (in Gaiman's characterization, p. 262), "We Are Beowulf's Army" and "Nail 'Em to the Wall," are presented as an appendix to the book, whose major content is the two screenplay drafts and the concept art. Only "We Are Beowulf's Army" was used, in part, in the film.
"Nail 'Em to the Wall," indicated below its title to be "from a lost draft" of the screenplay, begins:
Hrothgar is a hero
Hrothgar is a king
He's not afraid of dragons
Or any other thing (264)And ends:
Ooohh …
Nail it to the wall
Nail it to the wall,
He ripped its evil head right off and nailed it to the wall … (264; ellipses and italics as in original)- Authentication
BAM.
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- Last Updated
- 04/04/2022