Noah is a 2014 American biblically inspired epic directed by Darren Aronofsky, written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel, and based loosely on the story of Noah's Ark. The film stars Russell Crowe as Noah, along with Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, and Anthony Hopkins. The film was released in North American theaters on March 28, 2014, in 2D and IMAX, while several countries released a version of the film converted to 3D and IMAX 3D.
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Produced by: Scott Franklin, Darren Aronofsky, Mary Parent, Arnon Milchan
Written by: Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Anthony Hopkins
Music by: Clint Mansell
Cinematography: Matthew Libatique
Edited by: Andrew Weisblum
Production company: Regency Enterprises, Protozoa Pictures,
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release date(s): March 10, 2014 (Mexico City premiere), March 28, 2014 (United States)
Running time: 138 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $125 million
Box office: $359,200,044
Source: Wikipedia n IMDB
Plot:
As a young boy, Noah (Dakota Goyo) witnesses his father, Lamech (Marton Csokas), killed by Tubal-cain (Ray Winstone). Many years later, an adult Noah (Russell Crowe) is living with his wife Naameh (Jennifer Connelly) and their sons Shem (Douglas Booth), Ham (Logan Lerman), and Japheth (Leo McHugh Carroll), but after seeing a flower grow instantly from the ground and haunted by vivid dreams of a great flood, Noah takes them to visit his grandfather, Methuselah (Anthony Hopkins). On the way, they come upon a group of people recently killed and adopt the lone survivor, a girl named Ila (Emma Watson). Noah and his family are chased by Tubal-cain's men but seek refuge with the fallen angels known as the "Watchers", confined on Earth as stone golems (nephilim) for helping humans banished from the Garden of Eden. Methuselah gives Noah a seed from Eden and tells Noah that he was chosen for a reason. Returning to his tent that night, Noah plants the seed into the ground. The Watchers arrive the next morning and angrily discuss how they shouldn't help Noah until they see water spouting up from spot that Noah planted the seed. An entire forest grows quickly, and the Watchers state that they will help Noah do the Creator's bidding. These trees are cut by the Watchers to build Noah's Ark with the help of Noah and his family. After the arrival of birds to the Ark, Tubal-cain arrives with his followers and confronts Noah about his purpose for building the Ark. Noah defies Tubal-cain and remarks that there is no escape for the line of Cain. Tubal-cain retreats and decides to build weapons to defeat the Watchers when the rain starts, and the Ark must be taken. As the Ark nears completion, animals of various species enter the Ark and are put to sleep by incense. With Ila having become enamored of Shem, Noah goes to a nearby settlement to find wives for Ham and Japheth, but upon witnessing cannibalism by a starving mob, he abandons his effort and begins to believe that the creator wants all of humanity dead, even Noah and his family. Thereafter, Methuselah cures Ila of sterility. Ham, searching for a wife on his own behalf, befriends the refugee Na'el (Madison Davenport). The rain starts falling, and Tubal-cain becomes angry that he wasn't chosen to be rescued. The followers of Tubal-cain make a run for the Ark. In the meantime, Noah finds Ham in the forest and forces Ham to save himself and leave Na'el to die when she is caught in a metal trap set for an animal. All of Noah's family enter the Ark except Methuselah, who purposely remains behind in the forest, (after finally obtaining a berry that he had sought since Noah arrived), and is swept away by the rushing waters. As the deluge begins, the Watchers hold off Tubal-cain and his followers as long as possible but in the end, sacrifice themselves to protect the Ark from the mob. Upon doing so, they ascend to Heaven after leaving their mortal stone form. As the flood drowns the remaining humans, an injured Tubal-cain climbs onto the Ark and solicits Ham, playing on anger toward Noah for allowing Na'el to die. Ila becomes pregnant as rains stop, and begs the creator to let the unborn child live. However, he interprets the ending of rain to mean he must carry out the execution, and against his wife's dissuasions, resolves that if the child is a girl, he will kill her to satisfy the Creator's wish to destroy humanity. Months pass, and Ila and Shem build a small raft to escape Noah's resolve, but Noah burns it after discovering it. Afterwards, Ila gives birth to twin girls. Meanwhile, Tubal-cain convinces Ham to help kill Noah, who is then attacked by Tubal-cain, Ham, and Shem. As they fight, the Ark hits a mountain, and Ham kills Tubal-cain. Noah seizes Ila's twins, but he spares them upon looking at his grandaughters and only feeling love.
Upon exiting the Ark, Noah goes into isolation in a nearby cave and starts to drink wine. His sons discover him, without clothes and in a drunken stupor. Afterwards, Ham leaves his kin to live alone. Having reconciled, at the behest of Ila, Noah blesses the family as the beginning of a new human race, and all witness an immense rainbow.
