G3 Magazine/movies/NOAH
ISSUE 3
NOAH
T
he movie starts with Noah as
a young boy witnessing his
father, Lamech, killed by Tubal-Cain. Many years later, Noah(Russell Crowe) is living with
his wife Naameh and their sons
Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After
seeing a flower grow instantly
from the ground and haunted
by vivid dreams of a great flood,
Noah takes his family to visit his
grandfather, Methuselah(Anthony Hopkins).On the way, they
happen to come upon a group of
people recently killed, and helps
the lone survivor, a girl named Ila.
Noah and his family are chased by
Tubal-Cain’s men and seek refuge
with the fallen angels known as
the ‘Watchers’, confined on Earth
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as stone golems for helping humans banished from the Garden
of Eden. Methuselah gives Noah
a seed from Eden, from which an
entire forest grows within seconds, whose trees Noah’s family
and the watchers cut to build Noah’s Ark. As the Ark nears completion, animals of various species
enter the ark and are put to sleep
by incense. With Ila having fallen
in love with Shem, Noah goes to
a nearby settlement to find wives
for Ham and Japheth, but upon
witnessing cannibalism, he abandons the idea. Methuselah cures
Ila of sterility. Ham, searching for
a wife on his own behalf and acquires the refugee Na’el, but when
Tubal-Cain’s followers attack the
Ark, Noah forces Ham to save
himself and leave Na’el to die. All
of Noah’s family enter the Ark
except Methuselah, who remains
behind. The Watchers sacrifice
themselves to protect the Ark
from the mob, and ascend to
Heaven as the flood drowns the
remaining soldiers, Tubal-Cain
climbs onto the Ark . Ila becomes
pregnant as rains stop, but Noah,
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, Ila and Shem build a small
raft to escape Noah’s resolve, but
Noah burns it after discovering it.
Ila then gives birth to twin girls.
Meanwhile, Tubal-Cain, Ham,