{"id":46015,"date":"2016-05-16T21:15:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T04:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=46015"},"modified":"2016-05-16T21:15:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T04:15:36","slug":"russell-crowe-still-supports-darren-aronofskys-noah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/05\/russell-crowe-still-supports-darren-aronofskys-noah.html","title":{"rendered":"Russell Crowe still supports Darren Aronofsky’s Noah<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Several other Bible movies have come along in the two years since Noah<\/a><\/i> came out, but for my money none of them can hold a candle to Darren Aronofsky\u2019s film for sheer imagination, epic visuals and a passionate engagement with the biblical text.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m happy for any excuse to talk about that film, and today\u2019s excuse comes courtesy of Bustle<\/a>, which recently spoke to the film\u2019s star, Russell Crowe \u2014 presumably while he was promoting his new film The Nice Guys<\/i>, which comes out this Friday.<\/p>\n

The gist of the interview is that Crowe still supports Aronofsky and his vision:<\/p>\n

No matter the amount of controversy the film brewed at the time, the film\u2019s star still stands behind his director, two years later. \u201cI really appreciated Darren\u2019s perspective in that film. I thought he was being extremely brave,\u201d Crowe tells Bustle. \u201cDarren had very good reasoning for all of the decisions he made. Some of his solutions were elegant solutions considering the information that\u2019s available for that particular story. Ultimately, when I go on a film set, I\u2019m there to do the [filmmaker\u2019s] version of the film.\u201d<\/p>\n

True, a filmmaker\u2019s vision is his or her own, and how he or she makes their film is entirely their prerogative. \u201cHe studied the biblical writings. I would back Darren Aronofsky \u2014 having an intellectual conversation about Noah<\/i> and the meanings of Noah<\/i> \u2014 against anybody, whatever religious perspective. He really did the work and he knew what he was trying to say with the movie,\u201d Crowe says.<\/p>\n

Though audiences may agree to disagree, the 52-year-old star hammers home why he agrees with Aronofsky\u2019s choices. \u201cYou never saw an animal in Noah<\/i> that you recognized, because he\u2019s allowing for natural selection to take place over time,\u201d Crowe explains. \u201cHe\u2019s also cutting apart any biblical time line, saying, \u2018We\u2019re not dealing with that, we\u2019re dealing with something that could be 150,000 years ago.'\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Incidentally, the Bustle writer seems to think that the lack of non-white actors in the film was a bigger controversy at the time than its creative (some would say revisionist) use of the Bible, but that\u2019s not how I remember it. For more on that, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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