To my fellow Christians criticizing the Noah movie for not having enough biblical material: you do realize that the entire Noah story consists of only FOUR chapters in the book of Genesis, right? And that a huge chunk of those four chapters do not even consist of a story, but of measurements and cubits and description of animals and rain, right? Go back and read the text. Of the bible! Not Sunday school supplementary materials. Theres nothing there. Four chapters! Thats it. I think people do what Christians have done for centuries. Theyre filling in the gaps of the biblical narrative with extra-biblical material they got from sermons, or classes, or other movies or their imaginations etc. The actual narrative is short and Noah is not a character. Hes just the least evil guy on earth! Thatd make for a great story! Of course there is going to be artistic license! There isnt even enough source material to give us an episode of Doctor Who, let alone a two hour epic film. And unless youre willing to give the same amount of criticism to say Son of God (which I could rant about its heretical theology for a week) then just lighten up folks. Hollywood made an epic film out of one of your beloved short stories -- they had to pad it out with, you know, not boring stuff like Noah measuring wood for twenty minutes. I mean, Russell Crowe is a talented guy, but I dont think he could have made that interesting. He isnt Tom Hanks, who actually did make measuring stuff for twenty minutes interesting in Castaway! So please, just chill out. Weve already had three Christian based movies this year. Not to mention the ones last year, like Jesus of steel -- er, Man of Steel! Later this year we have a new Moses film, and who knows what else. Just chill. Enjoy that Russell Crowe is making a boring character appealing to a mass audience. I could see if it was a story with lots of narrative that Hollywood altered, like Joseph or...you know...JESUS (and again, where are the outcries about Son of God?) but Noah? Come on! Remember.... FOUR CHAPTERS!!!!
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 12:18:33 +0000
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