Religious tide turns against 'Noah'

Whenever Hollywood makes a movie from a well-loved story or saga — Batman, Tolkien, "50 Shades of Grey" — there's usually a period of ... well ... let's call it adjustment, along with a "spirited" give-and-take among fans over such things as casting, content and approach.

Usually, though, the material's devotees don't believe the filmmakers will burn in hell if their ideas are ignored. (OK ... maybe the Dark Knight crowd does. We all know they can get a little intense.)

But that's precisely the belief with "Noah," Darren Aronofsky's $130-million retelling of the Old Testament account of apocalyptic deluge and a floating ark that opens on March 28. The same people who gripe that Hollywood never makes any faith-based movies are complaining because Hollywood has gone and made a religious movie, albeit one that might not be as literal-minded as they'd like.

"It's tough to make movies for the easily offended," Pepperdine University communications professor Craig Detweiler said. "Studios assume these biblical stories are public domain, but a lot of believers consider the Bible their private property, and if you don't interpret them the same way they've been taught, they're going to speak out."

Hollywood and religious groups have long been leery of each other, often with good reason. Cecil B. DeMille invited a host of religious representatives — Catholics and Protestants along with Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Christian Scientists — to offer blessings on the first day of filming "King of Kings," his epic on the life of Christ. And what did DeMille do after receiving the consecration? He opened "King of Kings" with an orgy scene that set up a love triangle among Jesus, Judas and Mary Magdalene. The man knew you needed more than just salvation to sell tickets. You needed a little sin too.

Great movie. Saw it this morning. Be sure to read what most evangelicals ignore “This movie was INSPIRED by the biblical account of Noah”. Absolutely great special effects and Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly should be nominated for academy awards.

I see what you are trying to do here. If what you are trying to imply was true then why was it named NOAH of all names,and advertised as if it were about the character NOAH himself, a very biblical and Christian name instead something more like BOAT or even ARK or some innocuous name. No, the producers knew exactly what they were doing and when called out on it they started craw fishing.

An excellent and spot on review.

This movie is nothing more than anti-God and anti-Christian propaganda, serving to continue to further the lie that Christians who are God fearing, Bible believers are dangerous terrorists who are intolerant and violent. The Illuminati shills in Hollywood are doing the bidding of their masters very well.

Hollyweird is still peddling its lies and vapid distortions about the Bible and Christians. Don't be fooled. Read the Bible for yourself if you want to know about the real NOAH and the Christ himself.

For information on Noah or any other Biblical character try reading the Bible and quit expecting you’re going to get 100% gospel from a damn movie.

I have and do read it. When news first started leaking out about this movie it was being passed off as a Christian based and themed about NOAH. I remember but a lot others seemed to have forgotten, maybe on purpose perhaps. But as more and more of it started to come to light over the preceding weeks and months the Christian community started to object and the makers of the film started back peddling and changed it to a loosely based movie made with great artistic license was being taken to make it.

That's much different than what was being peddled at the beginning several months back. Get your facts straight.

Yes. I intially wrote my feelings about the movie here on this thread...and it was based on what I had heard from Beck and others. I went to see the movie in order to add my own voice to the chorus, and was going to detail the things I felt were terribly wrong with it.

Then I did see the movie and found that the negatives were, IMHO, over-stated, and over blown.

There are issues with the story and I detail them in that link which has my own review after watching the movie myself. but I also found that the sttory has a LOT of good info in it that is very much in agreeement with the Biblical account, and in the end, the biggest issue (Noah misinterpreting God’s mission for him in the movie) is resolved and Noah and his family come through the flood and are blessed to mulitpl and replenish the earth.

So, I decided to write that review at the link you mentioned.

A lot of folks do not agree with it. But, it is based on my own viewing of the movie and not what someone else said about it.

Despite the issues with the movie, it does depict the earth as being created by God, the Creator (which it calls him throughout the movie) and having made man (ADam and Eve) in his own image. when Adam and Eve partake of the forbidden fruit in the GArden, they are cast out.

Their son Cain kills their son Abel and Cain and his descendants multiple and become universally corrupt and wicked. Through Seth, Adams third son, a rightous group of people are raised up, ultimately through Mthuslah and his grandson Noah.

Noah is told by God to build the Ark. He and his sons do so. The animals come to the Ark as commanded by God and enter in. Mankind ultimately wants to take the Ark but the flood comes and destroyes them. NOah and his family survive, bring the animals and theirselves to the other side, and are ultimately blessed.

The movie definitively tells those things...all of them. But in telling it, in several areas (and I point them out in my review) they depart from the Biblical account. In the end, it is all resovled and I felt the movie was decent in that respect.

I am very conservative and have been involved directly in the fight against environmentalism, Agenda 21, and US government agencies attempting to implement them. This movie does have some of that message in it...but it is not over-riding. The over-riding message is the message of the flood, and NOah being called to bring his family and the animals through it while God destroyes the wicked. I felt that was strong enough throughout the movie, despite the departues, to recommend it.

That’s how my oringial statments and my own review came about.

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