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Student’s Name The Differences between the Flood Scene in the Noah Movie by Aronofsky and the Bible The movie Noah released in 2014 and directed by Darren Aronofsky is based on the biblical story found in Genesis 6 – 9. There is an additional and replacement of some information in the movie compared with the story’s narration in the bible. The primary purpose of writing this paper is to discuss the accuracy of Noah’s film directed by Darren Aronofsky based on the biblical text as it appears in the bible with a primary focus on the flood scene. In the film, Noah discovers concerning the flood through the two different prophetic dreams, where in both of them he finds himself submerged in water. In the first dream, he sees dead people while in the second one he sees animals in the water swimming towards a ship. However, in the Bible, God directly tells Noah that He is going to destroy the earth because it is filled with violence (Gen. 6:13). Therefore, God requests Noah to build an ark and gives him specific dimensions and directions on how to construct it. Also in the movie, Methuselah who is Noah’s grandfather gives Noah a seed that he claims is from Eden that Noah plants after returning to his family and grows to become a forest overnight. The forest supplies all the construction materials they required for the ark. However, the bible does not give a reference to where Noah gets the material to build the ark. In the movie, Noah, his family members, and the watchers assist in the construction of the Ark. However, the bible does not give the specific people who did the building except that Noah did as God had commanded him (Gen. 6:22). Also in the movie,
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