By
James
Hirsen
Paramount
Pictures is not scheduled to release "Noah" until March 28, but the
big-screen retelling of the biblical text is already fraught with controversy.
As
an epic movie, "Noah" would have been viewed as having several
built-in marketing advantages, the thinking being that any given studio might
easily market to faith-oriented moviegoers while simultaneously attempting to
attract fans from the general contemporary film audience. The public routinely
flocks to action movies and to films with disaster themes, and the Noah
narrative inherently possesses both of these story dynamics.
However,
the scriptural account of Noah encompasses only about 2,500 words, which may
not be enough material to work with by cinematic standards. A screenwriter
adapting the biblical passages for a full-length movie would be required to use
literary imagination in order to fashion a larger plot for a feature-length
project. [more...]
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