![]() But he’s also a boundary-pushing auteur whose last film ( Black Swan) was a psychotropic nightmare featuring grisly violence and lesbian sex. Noah‘s director, Darren Aronofsky, is culturally Jewish and has long been fascinated by the Jewish narrative tradition surrounding stories like Noah’s ark. ![]() What does it mean that the director of a movie about a sacred biblical text is himself an avowed atheist? Should that fact alone make Christians question his ability to tell the story well?īoth Exodus and Noah raise interesting questions for Christians about how they respond to films about the Bible when they are made by “secular” filmmakers-filmmakers perhaps more interested in their own aesthetic vision than faith or fidelity to Scripture. After reportedly seeing the script, Christian screenwriter Brian Godawa wrote that Noah would be “an uninteresting and unbiblical waste of a hundred and fifty million dollars.” Little is yet known about Scott’s Exodus other than its impressive cast however, when asked about the film in October by The New York Times, Scott said, “I’m an atheist, which is actually good, because I’ve got to convince myself the story works.” ![]() ![]() Early Noah test screenings for faith-based audiences produced “ worrisome results,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. ![]()
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