Perhaps the "hottest" movie to be released recently is called "Noah". Having just seen Hollywood's most recent effort at drawing believers into the theaters with the false hope of viewing a reasonably accurate representation of a great Bible story, I can't help but feel guilty about spending money that will help to enrich the people in Hollywood who belligerently continue to plagiarize stories from the Bible and twist them around until they barely resemble the real biblical account at all. Yes, that's my take on their product; people, save your money! And "P.G. 13"? I'd call it a "P.G. 18", at best! There is a brain-numbing amount of violence, with lots of stabbing , cutting, and bashing, but since no blood is shown (like the westerns of the fifties and sixties) this movie gets a "P.G. 13" rating. That, along with the typical trickery of having the actors talking quietly, frequently whispering just before a crashing explosive noise that is a decibel level just below eardrum-bursting, followed by loud, tension producing music that is intended to grate on the nerves, and does, I wonder if the producer was trying to create an atmosphere that was conducive to causing little children to become Demon possessed! The producers of this movie have butchered a Biblical account, again (and again, ad nauseam). They are so desperate for profits that they must produce a trashy story that does not make the non-believers uncomfortable enough to boycott their movie. And they know that we, the believers, are so desperate for real quality entertainment to come out of Hollywood that we will endure the false doctrine that inevitably comes with it, if all they do is use a name (like "Noah") that peeks our Biblical curiosity. What a condemnation, not only of Hollywood as an industry, but of ourselves as a nation that the same movie production companies, or their successors, that gave us such blockbusters as the "Ten Commandments", and "Ben Hur", and "The Robe", can't manage to turn a buck today without taking a Biblical story, and twisting it into something that is hardly recognizable. All because they are deathly afraid to do anything that will remotely seem to give God any of the glory that He deserves. And in this movie, it's a wonder that "Noah" actually believes in God since He doesn't ever talk to him, as He does in the Bible, but He sends "Noah" crazy nightmares about a flood, and instantly this "Noah" understands everything about building an Ark, even though his God never gave him any instructions.
Fortunately though, God can turn things like this around to use for His Glory, in spite of the producer's belligerence. In this case He will probably provoke many of the non-believers who do see it to be curious enough about the story to want to read the Biblical account, just to see where the differences lie. Who knows if this may cause some to keep reading the Bible. But watch out folks, this may cause some of you to become "infected" with that dreaded disease called "faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior". But rather than catching a disease that can kill your body forever, this "disease" will actually cause your spirit to live forever. I'm sure the Hollywood producers would be horrified at that thought.
Where do "the differences lie"? All through the movie, and boy are there plenty of lies! It begins with a typical narration, explaining the "Biblical" setting in which the story resides. We know that Adam and Eve sinned in eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and that their first two sons fought, with Cain murdering his brother, Abel. For his punishment God banished Cain, who was then protected by the Fallen Angels whom God banished from Heaven for their rebellion, which were then called the "Watchers", and...Whoa!!! Wait a minute...Hold on there just a second! Run that by me again, and this time quote me Bible verses to back that up!
Um... well, I guess the Producers just kind of slipped that one in there, hoping we were so bloated with popcorn, and candy that we wouldn't notice. Yeah, right!
But that's what they had the authoritative sounding narrator say, and he went on to say that these Fallen Angels fell to earth and landed in a slimy clay pit, and promptly became covered with clay which hardened over there entire "bodies" (I thought Angels were spirits, and didn't have bodies???), including their wings, making them unable to fly. So, now these "Watchers" are about 30, to 40 feet tall, and they're covered in rock-hard clay, making them look surprisingly like the mechanical "Transformers" that have starred in previously successful childrens' movies. And these "Rock-like Transformers" decide later that they will help "Noah" build his Ark. After they build it, there is a war with the wicked people of the world who want to seize the Ark, and the good-old-boy Transformers (I mean Demons, er... I mean "Watchers") fight to keep them away, until the flood comes. At this point the "Watchers" explode out of their Rock shells and ascend to Heaven in a beam of light where they are forgiven for their previous rebellion!
Interesting! I was under the impression that God's forgiveness did not extend to Satan, or his demons, and that they spent their time on earth trying to disrupt the things of God, and confound His people (by doing things like influencing Hollywood Producers), knowing that their eventual fate was to spend eternity burning in the "Lake of Fire" along with the Antichrist. I'm sure glad that Hollywood came along to set me straight on the matter!
Well, I think you folks are kind of getting the picture (pardon the pun). I could go on about the discrepancies, like Shem taking Emma Watson to wife (she of recent Harry Potter fame; another crass effort to lure the childrens' attention by identifying with previously successful childrens' movies). I was also surprised to learn that Ham and Japheth did not take wives on board the Ark; Ham being a young man, and Japheth being an adolescent, even though the Bible says they were born about 100 years before the flood! Not to worry though, Emma Watson has two twin daughters while on board, so I guess that Ham and Japheth merely had to wait a couple hundred years for them to grow up, so they could marry their nieces, and re-populate the world!
Thank God for Producer/Writer/Director Darren Aronofsky who corrected all of my misconceptions which I got from the Bible. I've heard he used the Jewish "Kabala", which is considered an occultic counterfeit of the Bible, as his source for correcting all of our misconceptions. But I still think that they should not have called this movie "Noah". Perhaps a more accurate name would have been, "Some Other Guy Called Noah"!
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