tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35035203.post7637439256831120997..comments2023-11-03T05:43:21.258-07:00Comments on Tony's2Cents: He got off the ark, got drunk, got naked, and started over. Tony's 2 Centshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14285095161415312225noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35035203.post-61413873487443358542014-04-01T18:43:16.690-07:002014-04-01T18:43:16.690-07:00I haven't seen the movie. I was talked out of ...I haven't seen the movie. I was talked out of it. Maybe I will. Maybe I won't (Russell Crowe's butt?) Ha! All I know is that Tony's blog on the subject was very wonderful. I loved reading this. JillyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35035203.post-33848782159524451352014-04-01T10:44:23.161-07:002014-04-01T10:44:23.161-07:00Thanks Tony for sharing your thoughts. I loved you...Thanks Tony for sharing your thoughts. I loved your note about an artists creating a movie, not the Truth, not a life guide, but a movie that falls into a structured model intended to entertain us and convey a message. That's it. It seems like he did a good job as a storyteller. Maybe it is not entirely how most people understand the flood, but it is Aronofsky's interpretation and he has the freedom to create art based on his perceptions and inspirations. Now, we get to do the same. How we interpret the movie and what we take out of it is entirely up to us. Haha, I kind of am curious to watch the movie myself now. <br /><br />- OlaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35035203.post-93221982887966192014-03-31T19:41:35.951-07:002014-03-31T19:41:35.951-07:00Tony!!!
Somebody move the brother away from the co...Tony!!!<br />Somebody move the brother away from the cotton candy machine! WTFrick is right!! Check out my review for a more biblically perspicacious view:<br /><br />“NOAH” Movie Review<br /><br />If you can make it thru the first 10 seconds without throwing your hands up to gain ejection momentum from the seat, chances are good you can sit thru the entire 139 minute production of writer-director Darren Aronofsky’s neo-biblical epic, “Noah”. <br /><br />Granting that director Aronofsky uses biblical Noah only as framework for his story (recent marketing materials have added such a disclaimer), immediate suspicion arises that an antithetical message is waiting to unfold. <br /><br />To wit: a post-modern interpretation of Noah’s voyage comes in the first ten seconds with a voiceover changing Genesis 1-1 to: “In the beginning.........there was nothing.” <br /><br />Whoah! Still in your seat? <br /><br />After the beginning, the breadth of creative license expands to ‘flesh out’ the film’s biblical framework, incorporating computer generated imagery (CGI) of rock monsters called “The Watchers” who are fallen angels banished to earth, teaming up with Noah as a last resort for redemption. <br /><br />Liberties continue to abound around the number and ID of passengers riding in the Ark, further burdening the framework. <br /><br />In the positive column, compelling photography, sophisticated use of CGI portraying the animals, great acting by Russell Crowe and especially Jennifer Connelly and Emma Watson are ‘high water’ marks; although, the script takes a peculiar, dark turn towards its conclusion. <br /><br />In a lengthy, uncomfortable plot development, the ‘bad’ Noah cruises the ark, announcing his intention to kill his newborn grandchild, in order to ‘complete his task’; ostensibly, on orders from God.<br /><br />That development set’s up Noah’s ‘redemption’ post-flood; coming to realize the inherent good and innocence in others and himself. Remember folks, it’s only a movie! The wolves are behind the camera!<br /><br />My main problem with “Noah” are the lengths Aronofsky and co-writer Ari Handel travel, using familiar biblical framework, to lure the unprepared viewer to a purposeful message AGAINST God.<br /><br />The prime example is a recurring image of the well-known Garden of Eden snake and its molted skin, several times used as a totem, indicating the passage of ‘The Creators’ spiritual lineage. That image leaves no room for doubt that the spirit being passed is not the spirit of the God of the Old Testament.<br /><br />In fact, the void of honest biblical characterization with this motif could suggest the notion of the film as a paean to Earth as “The Creator”. That would be in-line with the production abetting environmentalism as the post-modern neo-religion.<br /><br />Another example of the film’s scriptural juxtaposition is in the scene towards the climax where “The Watchers” are released from their rock-body banishment after ‘doing good’ for humans… jetting up to heaven in new, diaphanous bodies and demonic faces, having earned their redemption by their good works on Earth.<br /><br />In conclusion, it seems plausible that Aronofsky used a massive budget and great technical filmmaking to rub the nose of his audience in disdain for the God of the Bible, using Old Testament Noah as the pretext to deliver an environmental sermon.<br /><br />It is unfortunate that not only audiences, but even the director himself, unfamiliar with sound biblical revelation, may not perceive that “Noah” ultimately uses the framework of biblical Noah to deliver the message that Satan is a friend of man. <br /><br />The prophet Hosea said, “My people die from a lack of knowledge.” -Hosea 4:6<br /><br />Paying hard earned money to watch “Noah” will do nothing to rectify that situation.<br /><br />However, I think it likely the storm clouds surrounding this film, in addition to the film itself, will motivate some to investigate the story of Noah as written in the Old Testament. <br /><br />As we are told by Our Creator: “How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways.” <br />-Romans 11:33<br /><br />“NOAH” Rating: *½ star<br /><br />Written by Dennis Shanahan<br />dgshanahan@gmail.comShanRockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068426776083530420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35035203.post-42814557633409453082014-03-31T16:10:35.019-07:002014-03-31T16:10:35.019-07:00thank you for the blog Tony, I agree with what you...thank you for the blog Tony, I agree with what you said in so many ways......but the one thing that sticks out for me is when you said....Thanks for causing us to open up our Bibles to read and wrestle with truth.<br />AMEN!!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05462903941671698119noreply@blogger.com