Noah

                Earlier this year, the movie Noah came out. This movie was released in March and was distributed by Paramount Pictures. This movie grossed over $362 million worldwide. It was written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and starred Russell Crowe as Noah.

                Noah is an epic that is based off the biblical story of Noah’s Ark. In this movie, as well as in the biblical story, Noah receives a message from God. This message says that God plans to destroy the Earth with a flood to get rid of all the bad people who broke away from God. The message also says that Noah must build an ark that will hold two of every animal on Earth. God wants to save the animals because they are innocent and haven’t done anything wrong.

                Noah and his family start to build an ark with the help of the Watchers who are fallen angels that are trapped in stone. When they are getting close to being done with it, animals come in giant groups to board the ark. When they get on the ark they are put to sleep. When all the animals get on board, the rain starts to fall. When this happens a gigantic army of people who are supposed to die in the flood, come and try to forcible get on the ark. The Watchers manage to hold off the army until they are swept away by the water. Noah’s daughter-in-law gets pregnant on the ark. However since Noah believes that God wants all humans to die, including them, he says that he will kill the child if it’s a girl.

                This movie was interesting because it is based off a story that almost everyone knows. However seeing the story made into an epic that has action and drama makes you look at the story in a different light. The creators of this movie did a really good job of sticking to the story of Noah’s ark. They had all the facts right including small things such as the names of Noah’s kids. Even though they stuck to the story they were still able to throw some Hollywood flair on it. They were able to make the viewers be engaged throughout the entire movie. They did a really good job of making their movie not be just a boring bible story.

                There were some weird and kind of awkward editing decisions in this movie. Especially in the beginning, it felt to me like there were a lot of cuts to a black screen. A cut to a black screen can be very effective in adding to the tension of the movie and creating more suspense. However if it is used too often it seems repetitive and pointless. In the beginning part of Noah, it felt like the screen cut to black every 30 seconds. To me it felt really dumb and took me out of the immersive experience that movies are supposed to be. However this only really happened at the beginning of the movie and the rest of the movie’s editing was good. 

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