Waterworks
Yes, I’m linking to the Escapist’s “Moviebob” again. This time, he seems to be having a few hard-to-follow “motormouth” outbursts during this week’s “The Big Picture.” But I digress.
Its a look at the controversy surrounding Darren Aronofsky’s Noah. (despite not being released yet) While adding his two cents, he also provides some extra context such as:
- a very brief history of Hollywood’s old-school bible spectacle films, (they were excuses to get away with more sex and violence than non-biblical stories could) and
- the apocryphal (oldest known written versions) biblical texts were alot more mythical before they were “sanitized” into the versions found in the bible today. Noah’s story was originally about god drowning not just garden variety sinners, but also angels, demons, giants, etc.
The point is that Darren Aronofsky’s version of Noah seems to be based on apocrypha. In other words, its intended as old-school mythic spectacle rather than biblical propaganda. I’m interested in seeing it, and I’m an atheist.