{"id":13516,"date":"2014-02-10T23:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T07:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=13516"},"modified":"2014-02-11T00:25:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T08:25:40","slug":"noah-interview-round-up-emma-watson-on-the-films-length-darren-aronofsky-on-the-films-use-of-cgi-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/02\/noah-interview-round-up-emma-watson-on-the-films-length-darren-aronofsky-on-the-films-use-of-cgi-animals.html","title":{"rendered":"Noah<\/i> interview round-up: Emma Watson on the film’s length, Darren Aronofsky on the film’s use of CGI animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Just one more Noah<\/a><\/i>-themed post before I go to bed.<\/p>\n

The Harry Potter fansite Snitchseeker<\/a> has posted excerpts of an interview with Emma Watson and Douglas Booth (who play Ila and Shem in Noah<\/i>) that recently appeared in Wonderland<\/i> magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watson and Booth don\u2019t say much about the content<\/i> of the film; their conversation is limited mostly to discussing the shooting conditions, the filmmakers\u2019 reliance upon practical effects (instead of digital effects) wherever possible, director Darren Aronofsky\u2019s insistence that the crew not drink bottled water because of the film\u2019s environmental emphasis, and so on.<\/p>\n

But at one point, Watson lets slip that the film may be as epic in length as it seems to be in scope. Discussing how Aronofsky expanded the original biblical story, she says: \u201cHe made a three hour movie from three paragraphs\u2019 worth of storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is the context in which she makes that remark:<\/p>\n

Wonderland: Darren has said that he wanted to tell a heavily embellished version of the biblical story \u2013 he is, after all, an irreligionist\u2026
\nDouglas:<\/b> For me, I didn\u2019t necessarily sign up to make an environmental movie, I just signed up to work with Darren Aronofsky. I\u2019m such a huge fan.
\nEmma:<\/b> Darren wrote the script with Ari Emanuel, his writing partner. They did a huge amount of research into various versions, scriptures, writings and different telling of the story \u2013 from King James\u2019s Bible to other editions. The main problem is that, in the Bible, the story of Noah\u2019s Ark covers about half a page. He made a three hour movie from three paragraphs\u2019 worth of storytelling.
\nDouglas:<\/b> But everything he did take from it was deadly accurate. The measurements for the ark were exactly the same as it was in the Bible \u2013 the exact shape and dimensions. Darren is one of the best filmmakers out there, and it was down to his bizarre imagination and creativity to bring a story like that to life.
\nEmma:<\/b> To me Noah as a story is very much \u201cdoves and rainbows\u201d \u2013 it\u2019s a little cheesy in an hilarious kind of way. Mixing that with someone like Darren Aronofsky \u2013 who is the lord of darkness and angst \u2013 makes for a really interesting dialogue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, is Noah<\/i> really going to be three hours long?<\/p>\n

Maybe, maybe not. The biblical story<\/a> certainly takes up more than three paragraphs, so if Watson wasn\u2019t speaking literally on that<\/i> point, then she might not have been speaking literally on the other point, either. Certainly Aronofsky has never made any particularly long films before \u2014 according to the IMDb, his longest film to date is The Wrestler<\/a><\/i> (2008), which clocks in at 109 minutes, or a bit less than two hours \u2014 but perhaps the subject matter here called for something bigger. We shall see.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, one other Noah<\/i>-themed interview popped up online today. All Animals<\/a><\/i>, a publication of the Humane Society of the United States, posted an interview with Aronofsky in which he discusses his reasons for using CGI animals<\/a> rather than the real deal. (Apparently he doesn\u2019t always<\/i> prefer practical effects to the digital kind.) He also talks about his history with the School for Field Studies<\/a>, which goes back to his high-school days \u2014 kind of like his interest in the story of Noah itself.<\/p>\n

And yes, these interviews both appeared online today, as did that Rolling Stone<\/i> article I linked to earlier today<\/a>. The publicity campaign for this film is warming up!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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