NOAH - Russell Crowe’s version of Road Warrior has everything you could want in a movie. Perhaps just not in the same movie. Expecting NOAH to be a good biblical epic, I watched 2 plus hours of a very sketchy Apocalyptic, Hobbitesque, Sci-Fi story from Hollywood. Only some of the names and terminology were borrowed from the bible and Charlton Heston would have probably declined the starring role, maybe. Wardrobe and props were from an industrial 1930’s movie that included well-fitting knit blouses, boots, iron-smelting masks and a type of flaregun -firearm, the story line was pretty darn original, too. The Bible does say that giants existed in those days; however, the movie had giant warped stonemen, which was helpful, because they actually did all of the manual labor in building the ark The main character, Noah, was not only dark and mysterious but also a devout vegan. His belief, per director, Aronofsky, was that man was to be deleted from the earth. And while the Genesis referred to a new contract with man - Noah and his sons and “his sons’ wives” -plural. Noah was having none of that, the plan was that a least two of his sons were to die, celibate, and that would be the end of mankind. One of the more creative “monkey-wrenches” thrown into the plot, adding to the story’s unique originality, or blasphemy, depending on how you look at it, was that the antagonist, a warrior-king carnivore, was able to hack his way into the ark and hide out among the snoozing mammals. Guess what he does. Not only did the movie-characters possess a number of magical exploding, light-producing, fast-growing chemicals and flare-guns, Dramamine must have been available as well. It seems that it was easier to give the characters magic beans than to actually address some of the more realistic problems with the script. In the end … the movie was actually released. While most of the Arab world has banned the movie - citing that portrayal of a prophet is an insult to God - or to the prophet - or in this case, to the viewer. I’d imagine that the real their argument is that God wouldn’t pay the $10.50 to see the flick, opting wait for its release by Netflix.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:47:40 +0000
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