...It must be considered as it is: a gimmick. A brilliant gimmick, for sure. If the movie studio wanted to spin a yarn about mythical beasts, epic battles, homicidal sea captains, and a pagan Earth god, they could have done so. They could have called it anything. They could have told their own story. But they called it Noah because they knew that the supposed connection to the Bible would garner immediate fascination. They knew there would be controversy, and controversy sells. They padded it with enough action movie clichés to draw interest from secular crowds, they hid the outright blasphemy well enough to please gullible Christian crowds, and they mocked Biblical theology blatantly enough to delight the critics. They came up with a way to make millions while exploiting the various sensibilities of different audience demographics. That was their first and primary intention, and in it they succeeded wildly. As an adaptation or retelling of Judeo-Christian theology, it’s a blatant mockery.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:08:38 +0000
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