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rug

(82,333 posts)
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 03:41 PM Mar 2014

Noah is 'the least biblical biblical film ever made', says director

Film sees Noah as the 'first enviornmentalist'

Tuesday 25 March 2014
Christopher Hooton

Noah director and self-professed atheist Darren Aronofsy has managed to make a secular film about a Bible figure, painting Noah as an "environmentalist" in a film that doesn't mention God once.

Given that he is best known for Requiem For A Dream, Black Swan and The Wrestler, Aaronofsky's decision to make an adventure epic about the Bible's most CGI-friendly of events, Noah's flood, was met with a collective "Really?" last year.

To the delight of the atheist and the concern of the pious however, Aronofsky's film is pushing an environmentalist rather than religious agenda.

He described Noah to The Telegraph as "the least biblical biblical film ever made", and sees its protagonist (played by Russell Crowe) as the "first environmentalist".

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/noah-is-the-least-biblical-biblical-film-ever-made-says-director-9214686.html



At least it wasn't Michael Bay.
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Noah is 'the least biblical biblical film ever made', says director (Original Post) rug Mar 2014 OP
Was it filmed in New York dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #1
I can't wait for the soundtrack. rug Mar 2014 #2
I think the film The Noah is great. This other film looks like junk. CBGLuthier Mar 2014 #3
Bookmarked. rug Mar 2014 #4
Few have. CBGLuthier Mar 2014 #5
Now you've got me intrigued. rug Mar 2014 #6
Dear God (so to speak), this film looks terrible. Jgarrick Mar 2014 #7
Welcome to DU. rug Mar 2014 #8
Thanks! I actually wouldn't mind seeing The Lego Movie...was it any good? Jgarrick Mar 2014 #9
Surprisingly, yes. My daughters wanted to see it. rug Mar 2014 #10
Heard nothing but good things about that movie LostOne4Ever Mar 2014 #19
It's a fun way to spend an hour and a half. rug Mar 2014 #22
I just want to see everyone drown. MFM008 Mar 2014 #11
Who doesn't? rug Mar 2014 #12
Pfffttt, whatever... Blue Owl Mar 2014 #13
No, it predates the (Christian) Bible by thousands of years. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2014 #14
It is actually a Babylonian myth edhopper Mar 2014 #15
Yes. In that way, it's not quite Jewish or Christian; the Noah tale predates all that Brettongarcia Mar 2014 #16
The Bible added the bit edhopper Mar 2014 #17
God also seems eager to punish the people he himself made, for being bad.... Brettongarcia Mar 2014 #18
Saw it tonight, temporary311 Mar 2014 #20
Thanks for the review. rug Mar 2014 #21

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
3. I think the film The Noah is great. This other film looks like junk.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 03:58 PM
Mar 2014

But I really do like the film, The Noah.
Here is the whole film.


CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
5. Few have.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:02 PM
Mar 2014

it's a little bit experimental and not particularly religious except maybe in some sense it is.

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
6. Now you've got me intrigued.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:06 PM
Mar 2014
The Noah is a post-apocalyptic fiction film written and directed by Daniel Bourla, starring Robert Strauss in his final film performance.

Noah (Strauss) is the sole survivor on our planet after a nuclear holocaust. To cope with his loneliness, he creates an imaginary companion, then a companion for his companion (played by off-screen voice performances by Geoffrey Holder and Sally Kirkland) and finally an entire civilization - a world of illusion in which there is no reality but Noah, and no rules but those of the extinct world of his memory.

The film was shot in Puerto Rico in 1968, but was not screened until 1975 and it was never released theatrically. The Noah remained unseen until 1997, when it was featured on a film classics appreciation program broadcast in New York by CUNY TV, the cable television station operated by the City University of New York. A 2005 article on Film Threat and a follow-up interview on the same site with Bourla resulted in its DVD debut in 2006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noah


Experimental films in the late 60s were either crap or genius. I value your recommendation.

Donald Ian Rankin

(13,598 posts)
14. No, it predates the (Christian) Bible by thousands of years.
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 04:59 AM
Mar 2014

It's in the Pentateuch, which is in the Torah, and it wouldn't surprise me if it were older than that.

edhopper

(33,604 posts)
15. It is actually a Babylonian myth
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 09:04 AM
Mar 2014

and is part of the saga of Gilgamesh.
Like a lot of the OT it was adopted by the Hebrew people from the time they were in Babylonian, this included the story of Moses.

Brettongarcia

(2,262 posts)
16. Yes. In that way, it's not quite Jewish or Christian; the Noah tale predates all that
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 09:12 AM
Mar 2014

If it is religion at all, it is religion from the time when nature and the supernatural were indistinguishably intermixed in popular imagination. So it has a strong natural element; regarding floods and rains and so forth.

edhopper

(33,604 posts)
17. The Bible added the bit
Wed Mar 26, 2014, 09:44 AM
Mar 2014

about destroying sinful mankind. Because the omnipotent creator of everything, who overseas a Universe of a trillion worlds, that is billions of years old, seems to mainly be concerned with the morals of a few tribes in the iron age middle east.

temporary311

(955 posts)
20. Saw it tonight,
Sat Mar 29, 2014, 05:01 AM
Mar 2014

thought it was fairly good. It does mention god fairly frequently, though, don't know why the article says otherwise.

For the movie itself, I really dug the Watchers. Aronofsky really took one of the weirder bits of the Bible and somehow made them even weirder, but also I think much greater. They definitely had what I thought were some of the best moments of the film. Creation was also done wonderfully, as well.

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