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| Russell Crowe has met the Archbishop of Canterbury to discuss religious issues ahead of the release of biblical epic Noah in UK cinemas. | Russell Crowe has met the Archbishop of Canterbury to discuss religious issues ahead of the release of biblical epic Noah in UK cinemas. |
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| The New Zealand-born actor held a short private meeting with Justin Welby at Lambeth Palace. He was in London for the UK premiere of Darren Aronofksy's controversial film in Leicester Square on Monday night. The two men reportedly discussed issues of "faith and spirituality", presuming relating to the $130m biblical epic. Noah has just opened at No 1 at the US box office despite facing a mixed reaction from religious audiences for its fast and loose interpretation of the story of the antediluvian patriarch. | The New Zealand-born actor held a short private meeting with Justin Welby at Lambeth Palace. He was in London for the UK premiere of Darren Aronofksy's controversial film in Leicester Square on Monday night. The two men reportedly discussed issues of "faith and spirituality", presuming relating to the $130m biblical epic. Noah has just opened at No 1 at the US box office despite facing a mixed reaction from religious audiences for its fast and loose interpretation of the story of the antediluvian patriarch. |
| Crowe's meeting with Welby follows a similar encounter with the pope at the Vatican last month, the Oscar-winner having earlier courted the pontiff with a series of friendly tweets extolling the virtues of Noah and inviting him to view it. Aronofksy was also in attendance in Rome, despite having labelled his own movie "the least biblical biblical film ever made". On US TV earlier this week the Black Swan director defended his version of Noah against "environmental wacko" accusations, telling CNN's Christiane Amanpour: "It was very clear to us that there was an environmental message [in the Bible]. To pull that message out of it, we think, would have been more of an editing job than just sort of representing what's there." | Crowe's meeting with Welby follows a similar encounter with the pope at the Vatican last month, the Oscar-winner having earlier courted the pontiff with a series of friendly tweets extolling the virtues of Noah and inviting him to view it. Aronofksy was also in attendance in Rome, despite having labelled his own movie "the least biblical biblical film ever made". On US TV earlier this week the Black Swan director defended his version of Noah against "environmental wacko" accusations, telling CNN's Christiane Amanpour: "It was very clear to us that there was an environmental message [in the Bible]. To pull that message out of it, we think, would have been more of an editing job than just sort of representing what's there." |
| Studio Paramount had reportedly hoped for a successor to Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, which took $611m (£367m) worldwide in 2004 after US evangelicals flocked to see it. But Noah famously features a segment showing how Darwinian evolution has transformed amoebas into apes, and Christian audiences are said to have proved non-plussed at early test screenings. | Studio Paramount had reportedly hoped for a successor to Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, which took $611m (£367m) worldwide in 2004 after US evangelicals flocked to see it. But Noah famously features a segment showing how Darwinian evolution has transformed amoebas into apes, and Christian audiences are said to have proved non-plussed at early test screenings. |
| The studio considered revoking Aronofsky's right to final cut, and at one point tested a version which opened with a montage of religious images and ended with a Christian rock song. But executives eventually issued a statement making clear that the movie is not intended as a direct translation of the bible story. | The studio considered revoking Aronofsky's right to final cut, and at one point tested a version which opened with a montage of religious images and ended with a Christian rock song. But executives eventually issued a statement making clear that the movie is not intended as a direct translation of the bible story. |
| Rightwing US pundit Glen Beck labelled the movie "a slap in the face" and "dangerous disinformation" which taught "planet over man" last month. He said: "This movie, if it becomes successful – if we take our churches and we all go and everything else – our children will look at that as being the Noah story, and no matter what you say, they will believe this version over the version that mommy and daddy are telling them or that old, dusty Bible is telling them, because this one will come alive in their imaginations." | Rightwing US pundit Glen Beck labelled the movie "a slap in the face" and "dangerous disinformation" which taught "planet over man" last month. He said: "This movie, if it becomes successful – if we take our churches and we all go and everything else – our children will look at that as being the Noah story, and no matter what you say, they will believe this version over the version that mommy and daddy are telling them or that old, dusty Bible is telling them, because this one will come alive in their imaginations." |
| Noah stars Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson and Ray Winstone. The film has captured the imaginations of the wider US film-going public, with a haul of $44m in its opening weekend at the US box office. | Noah stars Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson and Ray Winstone. The film has captured the imaginations of the wider US film-going public, with a haul of $44m in its opening weekend at the US box office. |
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