Posted: Oct 14, 2015 8:45 pm
NamelessFaceless wrote:I actually liked the way Noah was treated as the mythology it really is. I didn't get the impression that Aronofsky was trying to rationalize it at all. It had the "Rock Monsters" (I guess they were the Nephilim) and the freaky looking animals and stuff. It was like watching a movie based on other myths, like Hercules and Thor.
For me, actually being able to visualize the stories the way they appear in the Bible should give viewers pause to realize how unrealistic these stories really are.
I didn't see the movie but that sounds like the perfect way to do it.
If you're going to do Genesis, literally show that the world is flat and resting on foundations. Show a dome over the world with water above and to all sides of it but not under it. Show what the beliefs really were. Don't ridicule it in an obvious way. You wouldn't do that if you were doing a movie about Greek or Norse myth. That this is simply a mythical story to be enjoyed will speak for itself and any criticism can be responded to, literally chapter and verse, to show you were just being authentic to the actual myth.