Posted on 03/21/2014 5:57:38 AM PDT by C19fan
Darren Aronofsky wrestles one of scripture's most primal stories to the ground and extracts something vital and audacious, while also pushing some aggressive environmentalism, in Noah. Whereas for a century most Hollywood filmmakers have tread carefully and respectfully when tackling biblical topics in big-budget epics aimed at a mass audience, Aronofsky has been daring, digging deep to develop a bold interpretation of a tale which, in the original, offers a lot of room for speculation and invention. The narrative of the global flood that wiped out almost all earthly life is the original disaster story, one that's embraced by most of the major world religions, which means that conservative and literal-minded elements of all faiths who make it their business to be offended by untraditional renditions of holy texts will find plenty to fulminate about here. Already banned in some Middle Eastern countries, Noah will rile some for the complete omission of the name “God” from the dialogue, others for its numerous dramatic fabrications and still more for its heavy-handed ecological doomsday messages, which unmistakably mark it as a product of its time.
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I’m surprised Crowe went along with this version.
He has gone on record as believing in Heaven but I don’t know if he embraces all the rest of Christianity...
Too bad because this movie could’ve been wonderful.
.... by far the most startling apparition in this context are the Watchers, the so-called Nephilim, or fallen angels only glancingly mentioned in the Bible. Here they take the form of giant, ferocious-looking rock people (given great, gravelly voice by Nick Nolte, Mark Margolis and Frank Langella, no less) who not only come to Noah's aid by doing the heavy lifting in building the ark but cut down, stomp on and otherwise decimate the hordes who eventually besiege the ark in hopes of climbing aboard at the last minute.
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Or some Christian that doesn’t share your interpretation.
Actually, the sins and violent evil of people has everything to do with the flood, which is dealt with in the movie. What are you talking about?
Then I hope their “allegorical” Jesus saves them from their “allegorical” sin.
It is well with my soul.
Somebody could make a fairly low budget Biblical epic right now that would seriously kick the leftists in the neuts.
The movie would be about Nimrod, king of Shinar, and the Tower of Babel. And, oddly enough, as an allegory of Al Gore.
According to extra-Biblical sources, Nimrod suffered from the same arrogance as Lucifer, vanity, figuring that he could build a tower all the way to heaven, then he could climb it and “be like God”.
The allegory of Al Gore comes into play as just the opposite. First he imagines himself to “be like God”, then proclaims he has the power to control the weather. Vanity in another form. The whole MMGW thing. How tiny humanity creates a fraction of a trace gas that somehow leverages control over the immense climate. Vanity incarnate.
In such a movie, the tower itself could just be a painted backdrop, because the purpose of the movie is the dialogue showing the utter arrogance and vanity of Nimrod. And Al Gore. Stomping around proclaiming how mighty they are, and how they intend to take God’s place in the scheme of things.
The movie is a rebuttal to atheistic socialism, which imagines for itself mankind as Leviathan, in the center of the universe. A rewriting of the Bible to put mankind in the place of God.
So the movie could be made on a shoestring, even as a stage production. And unlike “Noah”, God would be front and center, with the pathos of men trying and failing to usurp what is vastly beyond them.
How is that possible?
This movie could breath new life into “In Search Of”...
How hard would it have been for him to check his facts?
The Nephilim are not the fallen angels, they are the sons of the fallen angels with the daughters of men.
Genesis implies very strongly that the Nephilim would have been much more likely to oppose Noah than support him. That the violence and evil of the world of their day was largely perpetrated by the fallen angels and their offspring, the Nephilim.
There are other ideas on who the Nephilim and the "sons of God" were, but this is the one I buy into.
That's for sure. Satan and his boys were trying to corrupt the Adamic race seedline from which Christ would eventually come. Noah and his family were the only pedigree linkage back to Adam, all the rest were hybrids at the time of the flood.
Very few historical epics worth watching now
Fags and Christ haters destroy them
Fembots too
All agenda foremost
White Queen was good....Stars...ironically
I tried to watch Black Sails...
Went lesbo and PC on slavery right away
Just junk
The lead captain was good though..
I wonder what Aronofsky does with Genesis 6:5?
I don't think that conclusion is supported by Genesis. Noah's line of descent is given, but it doesn't say others weren't equally "pure" of blood.
At the very least, Noah and his sons had wives, and their families would have had to be "pure" by your definition.
The Bible speaks of a corrupt and violent culture and society being the problem, not universally corrupt blood lines.
In fact, there is very little support in the Bible, even in the OT, for the notion that God cares much at all about bloodlines. None at all in the NT.
Excellent point, and I agree with you. The story could be much more exciting and even a bit techno-savvy with the facts.
Well it didn't take God long to get around to mentioning it. Even Christ mentioned the seedlines of the Kenites jn 8.44 and his own back to David.Rev.22.16
Genesis 3:15 "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her Seed; It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel."
Yes, cosmic. Accident? Who knows.
Quite true. Possibly I should have said God doesn’t appear to care much about purity of bloodlines. Belief not blood.
Christ’s own pedigree, for instance, shows that he descended in the direct royal line from Rahab the harlot, Ruth the Moabitess, and two of the most evil women in the whole Bible, Jezebel the Canaanite (Phenician) woman and her daughter Athaliah, who murdered all her son’s children, her own grandchildren, or thought she did, so she could usurp the throne.
There were no doubt many other non-Israelite women in His ancestry that were not mentioned.
I’m in search of finding out about the city of Nod and how people came about to being there after Able slew Cain. He was exiled there with a mark on his forehead. Where did those people come from since Able and Cain came from Noah’s family?
From the commercials on this movie there were too many snakes coming to it and I’m sure the Biblical account says the creatures came two by two to the ark. So, it exaggerates the truth once again.
Rahab was a Canaanite, which evolved from Ham. Everyone you listed appears to be a Semitic . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people
I wasn't interested in running them down in character. My point was that no Nephilim blood is involved with Christ, only Semitic blood.
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