Darren Aronofsky's big budget NOAH - pre release discussion

If done right, it can be a great story. It a story about a world that is totally evil. It is rules by men who have lived for over 8 or 9 hundred years, who enslave the young and pick and chose who will live and die. Noah was a man who spent centuries trying to change the world, and could not get one other man to go along with him. It will be interesting to see if he get the moral of the story. Most people seem to have problem understanding the moral tales in the bible, for some reason

Hah.  Oh wow.  Drawing the parallel to climate change deniers like that re: a mythical tale beloved by people who think the world is only 6000 and some years old.  Squaring that circle is making my brain all funny.

Knowing Aronofsky, assuming the movie will definitely start this spring is a big leap of faith.

Why is Noah dressed like Thor?

Long braided hear is a very old Jewish tradition. It might be better to ask why is he blond?

Prehistoric mounts and 3-armed giants... Is this a sequel to 300? Is this based on the Bible or something else entirely? That comic teaser confused the heck outta me. Not the imagery I expected. Looked more like 10,000 BC meets LOTR.

Am I the only person kinda secretly hoping for a big budget spiritual successor to The Fountain?

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Am I the only person kinda secretly hoping for a big budget spiritual successor to The Fountain?

Nope.  Big budget Fountain sounds pretty spiffy.  More money into those visuals? Phwoar, now we're talking!

Hell I'd even love to see Our Hugh as Noah.

I just can't get excited for a Aronosfsky film until he is behind camera.

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Hell I'd even love to see Our Hugh as Noah.

Oh crap, I can see the studio meetings now:

"We'll only give you the budget if Taylor Lautner plays Noah."

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Prehistoric mounts and 3-armed giants... Is this a sequel to 300? Is this based on the Bible or something else entirely? That comic teaser confused the heck outta me. Not the imagery I expected. Looked more like 10,000 BC meets LOTR.

The whole ideal of giants come from the Nephilim are the offspring of the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men" in Genesis 6:4. Be cause of creation theory, people seem to think that angles got it on, and then there were giants. The other view is that the Nephilim were simply the descendent of Adam, like Noah who had a large impact on the world around them.

I learned about biblical giants from Dudley Moore personally...

it been more then 20 years since I seen holy moses. so what his take on Nephilim?

I am hopeful, but hesitant about this movie. Aronofsky is a director that is hit-and-miss with me. I loved the character study that was the Wrestler and I loved the thematic elements and ambition of The Fountain even if I didn't connect emotionally with the central contemporary couple. However, Aronofsky's other films like Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan and Pi, while incredibly well made, come across, to me at least, as films that would seem 'dark and deep' to a gloomy thirteen-year-old with black nail polish. Here's hoping that Aronofsky has found something interesting in this Biblical tale. Heck, I'd even be okay if he dropped all pretense and made a 300-esque action film as the comic trailer seems to suggest. At least that would be something new and different for the director.

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it been more then 20 years since I seen holy moses. so what his take on Nephilim?

I vaguely remember Moores character discovered his ex had been living with them or something and there were many jokes about being fucked by giants even down to a giant pair of underwear hanging on a line.

That's all i got.

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The whole ideal of giants come from the Nephilim are the offspring of the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men" in Genesis 6:4. Be cause of creation theory, people seem to think that angles got it on, and then there were giants. The other view is that the Nephilim were simply the descendent of Adam, like Noah who had a large impact on the world around them.

I know about the Nephilim (Goliath was purported to be one), but I wasn't imagining anything like this. And I certainly don't remember them in the story of Noah. Maybe the sea monster Leviathan and dino-potamus Behemoth will show up too. And Noah can dive off the ark to whoop some aquatic monster's ass like in BEOWULF. "Prepare for a flood... of ass-whooping!" Or maybe Noah can boot some dragons and unicorns Pres James Marshall style: "Get off my ARK!"

Darren Aranofsky's CLASH OF THE TORAH! "Release the Krak... I mean Leviathan!"

And by the way, I'd totally watch this version.

Darren Aronofsky is one of my favorite filmmakers and to be honest, I have loved all of his films, especially Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan. So I pretty much trust him in anything he does at this point. I do not really care for the Bible or most of the stories in there but I'm sure Darren will take a fairly realistic take on the story (which is just that, a story).

I wouldn't mind seeing him give the role of Noah to Mickey Rourke! That would be pretty awesome

Have you read the bible? The stories in it are awesome. You sound like someone who only listen to some fire and brimstone preacher, and never read the book for yourself. What some TV minister says is in the bible, and what the bible really says are often two different things. The OT can be pretty brutal, but it from a brutal time. As brutal as mosaic law seem to us today, it was a mark improvement in legality of the time, even over the Code of Hammurabi, and most of the world didn't even have any thing as good as the Code of Hammurabi. Jest because, most ministers would rather have people live by mosaic law, then the Sermon on the Mound, does not mean for it time the mosaic law was not better for people in it time, then the alternatives. There is a reason way Jesus speaks of the old and new wine skin, new testament law is a lot nicer then OT law, unless you make your living by getting people to follow your every word.

I'm not sure why you would expect a realistic take on the story either. Did you see the trailer for the comic posted above? Have you seen The Fountain? The only film Aronofsky has made that could be described as realistic s the Wrestler, and that's really only because of the visual style. At heart The Wrestler is essentially a passion play.

Anyway, I'm down for some epic Noah fantasy. The Bible as a whole is a crock of shit, but it has some awesome stories in it.

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Have you read the bible? The stories in it are awesome. You sound like someone who only listen to some fire and brimstone preacher, and never read the book for yourself. What some TV minister says is in the bible, and what the bible really says are often two different things. The OT can be pretty brutal, but it from a brutal time. As brutal as mosaic law seem to us today, it was a mark improvement in legality of the time, even over the Code of Hammurabi, and most of the world didn't even have any thing as good as the Code of Hammurabi. Jest because, most ministers would rather have people live by mosaic law, then the Sermon on the Mound, does not mean for it time the mosaic law was not better for people in it time, then the alternatives. There is a reason way Jesus speaks of the old and new wine skin, new testament law is a lot nicer then OT law, unless you make your living by getting people to follow your every word.

Maybe it was being read jewish myths alongside their greek counterparts, but I've always rated some of the stories of the bible as some of my absolute favorites - the story of Moses in particular. It's right up there with The Odyssey as one of the great human myths imo.

But will he be fat?

C'mon Aranofsky, give me some fucking bonkers antedeluvian critters like 6-armed giants and shit. My body is ready.

There was a stretch where I would've said Crowe was easily the best leading man in Hollywood.  I would take him over Bale any day for a role like this.

This could be exactly what Crowe needs to remind everyone he's still, at days end, one hell of an actor.

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Deadline reports Russell Crowe has officially signed on to play Noah.

 

"At my signal, unleash rain."

The voice of Mel Gibson as God. ;)

Does everybody see Maximus in their heads when they think of Crowe as Noah?

I'm sure the wait will be well worth it though.  Funny how 2014 might just end up being littered with Biblical epics?  Spielberg's Moses epic, Gods & Kings, should hit that year................as might one of the Maccabees films (likely Gibson's) if either one of them ever gets off the ground.  It seems like epic fantasy-esque tales might be the next go-to genre in H-town.............especially since mythological/fairy tale films are all the rage right now as well (Hercules, GDT's Beauty and the Beast, Fassbender's Irish Myth, Maleficent, Oz: The Great & Powerful, Magic Kingdom, Jack the Giant Killer, etc.).