{"id":18472,"date":"2014-05-10T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T17:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=18472"},"modified":"2014-05-10T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T22:23:13","slug":"creation-evolution-the-fall-and-more-in-a-new-noah-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/05\/creation-evolution-the-fall-and-more-in-a-new-noah-clip.html","title":{"rendered":"Creation, evolution, the Fall and more in a new <i>Noah<\/i> clip"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2014\/05\/vlcsnap-2014-05-10-08h40m48s229.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2014\/05\/vlcsnap-2014-05-10-08h40m48s229-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"vlcsnap-2014-05-10-08h40m48s229\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18473\"><\/a>Six weeks after <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/noah-2014\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Noah<\/a><\/i> came out in theatres, the filmmakers have released another clip \u2014 and it\u2019s one of the best sequences in the entire film. The Creation sequence begins with a single shot that captures billions of years of evolution, from the Big Bang to the mammals that existed just before humanity came along, and it goes on to show the Fall, Cain killing Abel, and the violence that has continued throughout human history right up to the present day. You can watch the video \u2014 and read a few thoughts I have about the significance of this clip \u2014 below the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First, the video itself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title='Noah Movie - \"Creation\" Clip' width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OwSWRdbSQK0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few points are worth making here.<\/p>\n<p>First, it is striking to see how the film reconciles the biblical and scientific accounts of Creation \u2014 and how it bends the biblical text, which was written within a particular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/12\/ancient-and-modern-cosmologies-in-aronofskys-noah.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">ancient cosmology<\/a>, to fit the current scientific paradigm.<\/p>\n<p>I especially like the way the \u201cfirmament\u201d that God created on the second day is reinterpreted here as the \u201csubstance and shape\u201d that the \u201cformless light\u201d began to take on immediately after the Big Bang. The ancient Hebrews understood the \u201cfirmament\u201d as a sort of barrier in the heavens that kept the water out, while the film defines \u201csubstance and shape\u201d as the formation of galaxies, stars and planets \u2014 but in both cases, the basic meaning is the same: the bringing of order out of chaos.<\/p>\n<p>It is also interesting to see how the film sometimes revises the biblical chronology and sometimes doesn\u2019t. For one thing, it switches the third and fourth days, so that the sun and moon are now created <i>before<\/i> the land is separated from the oceans \u2014 but Noah\u2019s narration sticks to the biblical chronology when it comes to the creation of animals, so that fish and birds are created on the same day but the land animals come later.<\/p>\n<p>Some people might slam this film for revising the biblical order of things, but I think it\u2019s worth noting that even films that have been very popular with evangelical audiences \u2014 such as last year\u2019s mini-series <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/bible-2013\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Bible<\/a><\/i>, or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/02\/darwin-shaw-on-playing-st-peter-and-a-lego-bond-villain.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">prologue sequence<\/a> that was added to the Campus Crusade <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/jesus-1979\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus<\/a><\/i> film several years ago \u2014 have moved the sun, moon and stars to an earlier point in their own Creation sequences.<\/p>\n<p>Like it or not, modern audiences \u2014 Christian or otherwise \u2014 simply can\u2019t conceive of an Earth that existed in space without all those other bodies to keep it company, any more than they can conceive of an Earth that is not spherical in shape.<\/p>\n<p>Debates might still exist about the <i>biological<\/i> origins of life, but the <i>astronomical<\/i> origins of our planet seem to be pretty widely accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Second, as my friend Steven D. Greydanus has pointed out, the emphasis in this film \u2014 and in this sequence \u2014 is on the glorious nature of Creation <i>before<\/i> mankind came along, which is not quite how the Bible tells the story.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis+1&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Genesis 1<\/a>, each of the things God creates is \u201cgood\u201d, but it isn\u2019t until after he makes mankind that Creation is deemed \u201c<i>very<\/i> good\u201d. In the film, on the other hand, the emphasis is on how the world <i>without<\/i> mankind was \u201ca jewel in the Creator\u2019s palm,\u201d and how mankind ruined it shortly after we came into existence.<\/p>\n<p>To what degree this reflects the jaundiced view of Noah, the character, rather than <i>Noah<\/i>, the film, is a point to consider.<\/p>\n<p>Third, the tension between evolution and creation in this sequence \u2014 summed up, perhaps, by the way the film clearly presents Adam and Eve as specially created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/04\/no-noah-is-not-gnostic-say-that-ten-times-fast.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">beings of light<\/a>, rather than the next generation of hairy mammal \u2014 has interesting implications for the film\u2019s vegetarian message.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve talked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/two-more-op-ed-pieces-by-christians-who-have-seen-noah.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a> about the fact that God, in the Bible, does not permit humans to eat meat until <i>after<\/i> the Flood. But director Darren Aronofsky has taken this idea even further in recent weeks \u2014 in presentations <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/24\/darren-aronofsky-on-floods-fanaticism-the-big-bang-warming-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/04\/noah-news-round-up-oscar-buzz-environmental-panel.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> \u2014 and stated that the animals in the Garden of Eden didn\u2019t eat meat either.<\/p>\n<p>There is certainly a basis for this in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Hebrew prophets like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Isaiah+11:6-9,65:17-25&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Isaiah<\/a> looked forward to the day when \u201cthe wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent\u2019s food\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, modern scientific evolutionary theory absolutely assumes the existence of carnivorous activity. The consumption of other animals is absolutely built into the digestive systems of many species, including our own.<\/p>\n<p>So to the extent that the film has a vegetarian message, it actually relies upon the creationist imagery, rather than the evolutionary imagery, to support that theme. One could even ask if drawing a vegetarian moral out of the story would be taking the creationist imagery \u201cliterally\u201d, with all that that implies.<\/p>\n<p>Things arguably get even more complicated when you consider how the Noah of this film consistently defines the animals as \u201cinnocent\u201d, versus the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/02\/new-pictures-music-and-a-dialogue-clip-at-the-noah-website.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">wickedness of the humans<\/a>, because \u2014 as Ila puts it in a clip that was first posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/noah-our-first-clip-from-the-film-and-a-new-tv-spot.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">two months ago<\/a> \u2014 the animals \u201cstill live as they did in the Garden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Does this mean that none of the animals in this film are carnivorous themselves? Did some of the animals only become carnivores <i>after<\/i> the Flood? Is our current world even <i>more<\/i> fallen than the world of Noah\u2019s day?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure the film knows how to resolve all these tensions. But I do like the way it stirs them up and gets us to think about them.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I seem to recall, from viewing the film in the theatre, that there is a pinprick of light at the centre of the screen just before the Big Bang happens \u2014 but I can\u2019t make it out on my laptop, even when I stream the clip at the highest resolution possible and play it fullscreen. I wonder if it will be noticeable on the Blu-Ray.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I get a kick out of the fact that the entire screen goes black when Noah covers the glowing bowl. I mean, there <i>is<\/i> a furnace right behind him.<\/p>\n<p>Check out earlier videos and my shot-by-shot trailer analyses here:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/11\/the-noah-trailers-a-shot-by-shot-analysis.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The first domestic and international trailers<\/a> (November 14, 2013)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/11\/just-a-little-extra-footage-in-todays-new-noah-trailer.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The second international trailer<\/a> (November 29, 2013)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/12\/noah-the-japanese-trailer-is-now-online.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Japanese trailer<\/a> (December 3, 2013)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/01\/family-and-fallen-angels-in-the-noah-super-bowl-tv-spot.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Super Bowl TV spot<\/a> (January 29, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/02\/two-new-tv-spots-for-noah-more-trees-more-violence.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Russian TV spots<\/a> (February 6, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/02\/noah-some-new-trailer-images-and-a-new-magazine-article.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Brazilian trailer<\/a> (February 16, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/02\/noah-faces-tubal-cain-in-new-tv-spot-for-noah.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Tyrant\u2019 TV spot<\/a> (February 24, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/02\/new-pictures-music-and-a-dialogue-clip-at-the-noah-website.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Beginnings\u2019 page on the movie\u2019s website<\/a> (February 27, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/02\/noah-a-new-tv-spot-a-new-magazine-article-and-one-mans-list-of-five-positive-things-about-the-film.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Protect\u2019 TV spot and \u2018The Flood\u2019 motion poster<\/a> (February 28, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/take-a-look-at-how-the-noah-team-built-the-ark.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Ark\u2019 featurette, the \u2018Ark Experience\u2019 page on the movie\u2019s website, the \u2018Growth\u2019 motion poster and the \u2018Chosen\u2019 TV spot<\/a> (March 6, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/noah-our-first-clip-from-the-film-and-a-new-tv-spot.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018We Build an Ark\u2019 clip and the extended international TV spot<\/a> (March 10, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/new-noah-trailer-looks-at-noahs-sons-and-daughter-in-law.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The second domestic trailer with Emma Watson intro<\/a> (March 11, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/new-images-and-soundbites-in-five-new-tv-spots-for-noah.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Begins\u2019, \u2018Live\u2019, \u2018Storm\u2019, \u2018Redemption\u2019 and \u2018Survive\u2019 TV spots and the <i>Empire<\/i> motion poster<\/a> (March 13, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/more-shots-of-noahs-children-in-a-tv-spot-from-peru.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Peruvian TV spot<\/a> (March 15, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/noah-video-round-up-new-clips-b-roll-footage-and-more.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018It Begins\u2019 clip, some Emma Watson soundbites, some B-roll footage and the first two Damaris Trust videos<\/a> (March 19, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/two-new-noah-videos-a-featurette-and-more-b-roll-footage.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Tubal-Cain\u2019 featurette and some more B-roll footage<\/a> (March 20, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/noah-video-round-up-a-new-clip-a-new-music-video-and-soundbites-from-faith-leaders-and-filmmakers-alike.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018I\u2019m Not Alone\u2019 clip, the music video, the faith leaders video and the EPK<\/a> (March 24, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/noah-video-round-up-tubal-cain-rallies-the-troops-in-a-new-clip-plus-a-new-featurette-on-the-animals-and-a-new-tv-spot.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018We Take the Ark\u2019 clip, the \u2018Animals\u2019 featurette and a TV spot<\/a> (March 25, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/03\/a-new-noah-clip-and-an-early-box-office-report.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018The Flood\u2019 clip<\/a> (March 28, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/04\/noah-music-round-up-a-featurette-on-clint-mansells-score-an-interview-with-patti-smith-and-a-ccm-music-video.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Clint Mansell\u2019s Score\u2019 featurette and the Kim Walker-Smith music video<\/a> (April 3, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/04\/noah-news-round-up-a-new-tv-spot-an-update-on-which-muslim-countries-are-banning-the-film-and-more.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The critics\u2019 quotes TV spot<\/a> (April 8, 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