Category: Literary
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Too much violence, not enough sex
My wife Crystal asked me how I would do Noah differently. There are three vices a writer may choose: profanity, violence, and sex. It seems Aronofsky falls squarely into the violence camp. One thing I learned from writing my first novel (SuSAn) is that I much prefer sex. Think about it! A small band of…
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Noah is an idiot!
I went with my wife to watch Noah this weekend. I really looked forward to the movie, because the trailers seemed to promise a grand epic and an interesting hero’s journey. Set free of Biblical constraints, they could weave in other ancient flood stories, all the apocalyptic genre (movies like Knowing and 2012), and really…