Star Talks Film and Spirituality Emma Watson is just one of the stars in thenew film Noah that premiered this weekend in theaters across the country. Duringone of her interviews touting the film she talked about the liberties directorDarren Aronofsky took in translating the Bible story for telling on the bigscreen. ''Darren does these very dark, very intense, very gritty, very real films,''Watson http://www.moncleroutletvip.com/explained. ''And then Noah is kind of you see this guy with the longbeard and there's the animals. You can't really picture it.'' already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual thanspecifically religious. I really interested in those things that are morefarreaching than culture, nationality, race, religion, she said. Darren Aronofsky has come under considerable fire from several Christiangroups who have accused him of taking way too many liberties with the biblicaltext. Watson weighed in on that as well. You would have been watching a silentfilm. None of the women are really spoken about in the biblical story. Therewouldn't have been any women in it. He had to adapt it for the screen, shesaid. And that makes perfect sense, too. Anyone who has read the Old Testamentaccount of Noah knows that the entire tale is summed up in very few passages.There is no way to extract a film worth of story line from the biblicalaccount. In addition to Emma Watson, Noah also stars Russell Crowe and JenniferConnelly. The hype about this film alone may draw viewers to the box office. Thespecial effects are said to be second to none as well. Noah appears to have what it takes to dictate many people weekend plans. EmmaWatson seems to have played a role in drawing in at least a fair portion of thefilm soontobe fans. |