This movie was well reviewed by critics. I didn't enjoy it at all and I was very eager too. The fact that the movie attempts to portray Noah as a murderous psychopath and God in a similar way show you how liberal Hollywood has become.
You may have actually made a compelling point if it wasn't so biased and hypocritical in itself. How Noah was portrayed in this film and how the film was received has NOTHING to do with Hollywood being "liberal" or "conservative". It has to do with Hollywood being "non religious" and "secular". Conservativism doesn't have a monopoly on religion, and being liberal doesn't mean being anti-Christian.
Many great Biblically accurate(or more accurate than this) movies have been well made and shunned by critics.
Such as? ๎
It shows a bias that Hollywood has for Christianity. Every other religion is celebrated however. It's baffling. Perhaps it could be the large Jewish population that makes up Hollywood. Before anyone takes that and runs I'm a staunch supporter of Jewish people and abhor anti-semitism.
Be that as it may, your argument is rather ignorant and ultimately self-defeating because guess what?
Your entire argument fails because its premise is based on false assumptions about Hollywood, Jews, Christianity, and liberals. In order for your argument to work, we'd first have to assume that:
A) "liberal" equals "atheist" (or anti-religious)
B) Genesis is a "Christian" work rather than a "Jewish" work
C) Jews are non-religious and anti-ChristianNone of those premises hold up as anything other than biased ignorance. I'm liberal, but I'm also a Christian. A lot of liberals are Christian, so it's foolish to assume that all or most Hollywood liberals are anti-religion. The story of Noah IS a Jewish story, not a Christian one. It comes from the Book of Genesis which is in the Old Testament, a Jewish work. And while Darron Aronofsky who is ethnically Jewish happens to be an atheist, there are plenty of Jews who are devout, who worship God, and who believe in the story of Noah as recorded in the Torah. So an over-representation of Jews in Hollywood in itself shouldn't result in stories that portray biblical accounts negatively. Ultimately, I agree with you that Noah fails as a film, despite the fact that it got good reviews from critics and that general audiences seemed to like it. But then how do you explain Exodus Gods and Kings (which was poorly received by just about everyone)?
If all of these religious themed films are celebrations of Hollywood "liberalism", then they should have both been successful and highly praised, but they weren't. Plot holes, poorly conceived characters, dark tone, and biblical inaccuracies aside, Noah was a film with very strong acting, beautiful cinematography, and an interesting, new, and DIFFERENT take on a classical story. Exodus was a retelling of the same story we'd seen done much better in many other films for over 50 years, with mediocre acting, bad pacing, and average cinematography and direction. There was nothing NEW about that story, other than it being told from an atheist perspective. Thus it served no real point! That's why it failed critically and commercially.
I didn't like either film and I agree that Hollywood is demographically liberal. But that has nothing to do with the failure or success of a film. Many religious themed films have come out of Hollywood throughout the decades, some of them highly praised by Christians. So liberalism is irrelevant. Most religious themed films that fail do so either because of their inaccuracies/inconsistencies/plot holes, or because they are either dull and uninteresting. And by the way, there has NEVER been a biblical or historically accurate bible themed film ever made for a western audience. Nearly ever bible movie I've ever seen has a bunch of Caucasian actors portraying Egyptians and Middle Eastern Jews. That is not accurate! So until someone actually makes a film that corrects that very BASIC concept, then they will all remain inaccurate. And that's only ONE element in the films that is traditionally inaccurate!
I believe in truth and justice, in the American way!
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erichill22
9 years ago
You have drawn a lot of conclusions based on the paragraph I wrote and you have attempted to insert words and ideas that I never had in your response. So I'll do my best to address your responses.
In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. That scripture states that before Genesis was ever written by man it existed. God is omniscient, omnipresent etc. Christ was God made flesh. Yes the old testament is the Torah but the Bible as a whole is a Christian work based on the fact that before Christ ever walked the earth he existed. The New Testament is a fulfillment of the Old Testament. So without getting into a theological debate one can safely say that Genesis is a Christian work.
ย The Passion of the Christ is a biblically accurate film that was bashed by critics. It holds a 47 Metascore. It conversely has a 7.1 IMDB user rating. There were people that claimed it was antisemitic because the Jewish people were responsible for the death of Christ. If that's the case then the New Testament is antisemitic.
Noah's biblically inaccurate portrayal in the film was praised by critics. So it stands to reason that the people reviewing the film and his role cared very little that it wasn't correct. If someone made a film portraying Henry the eighth as having only been married once it would be harshly criticized. That's what was done with this film, it was rewritten and that isn't ok.
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graham-167
8 years ago
You know, when Hollywood makes a book into a movie they almost always change the story, somewhat. Often they change it out of all recognition.
Do you think they always do that in a conscious attempt to insult the story?
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If I could stop a rapist from raping a child I would. That's the difference between me and god.
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Navaros
8 years ago
I'm liberal, but I'm also a Christian.
No you are not. "liberal Christian" is an oxymoron, an impossible entity.
A) "liberal" equals "atheist" (or anti-religious)
It surely does. Some liberals claim to be religious, but they are
always anti-morality, and therefore the only religion they can truly serve is one run by satan. One cannot be
legitimately religious and anti-morality at the same time...that is another impossible entity.
B) Genesis is a "Christian" work rather than a "Jewish" work
Genesis is certainly a Christian work. You are setting up a false dichotomy (i.e. you are fabricating your own false premise whilst erroneously claiming to be debunking the same thing from the OP) between "Jew" and "Christian." Judaism is the first half of Christianity, and Christianity is the second half of Judaism. They are not separate things, which is how you are misrepresenting them. They are two sides of the same one coin.
But that has nothing to do with the failure or success of a film.
Sure it does. Any
truly Christian film is
guaranteed to be universally panned by professional critics and by legions of atheists & fake Christians (of which self-proclaimed "liberal Christians" are one subset). But you are
not talking about truly Christian films, despite putting on a pretense that you are. Rather, you are talking about secular liberal-scumbag-agenda-pushing films that masquerade as religious even though they are, in fact, anti-religious. Noah (2014) is a token example of exactly that.
"Science creates fictions to explain facts" โ Gilman
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