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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.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Start spreading the gnus................
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(82,333 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)But I really do like the film, The Noah.
Here is the whole film.
rug
(82,333 posts)Thanks, I never heard of this one.
it's a little bit experimental and not particularly religious except maybe in some sense it is.
rug
(82,333 posts)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.
Jgarrick
(521 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Sad to say, I'll probably see it anyway.
I also saw The Lego Movie.
Jgarrick
(521 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)LostOne4Ever
(9,290 posts)Might have to see it once its out on DVD.
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(82,333 posts)MFM008
(19,818 posts)Blue Owl
(50,485 posts)Didn't the whole freakin' fable come from the Bible?
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)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)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)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)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.
Brettongarcia
(2,262 posts)temporary311
(955 posts)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.
rug
(82,333 posts)You've intrigued me. I'll probably see it too.