Darren Aronofsky’s film “Noah,” had rock monsters, armadillo-looking deer, horse creatures with scales, and a crapload of berries, but nary a Black person (or an Asian, or a Latino for that matter). How to explain such a thing?
Co-screenwriter Ari Handel fielded the question during an interview with The High Calling (via Indiewire).
“From the beginning, we were concerned about casting, the issue of race. What we realized is that this story is functioning at the level of myth, and as a mythical story, the race of the individuals doesn’t matter. They’re supposed to be stand-ins for all people. Either you end up with a Bennetton ad or the crew of the Starship Enterprise. You either try to put everything in there, which just calls attention to it, or you just say, ‘Let’s make that not a factor, because we’re trying to deal with everyman.’ Looking at this story through that kind of lens is the same as saying, ‘Would the ark float and is it big enough to get all the species in there?’ That’s irrelevant to the questions because the questions are operating on a different plane than that; they’re operating on the mythical plane.”
Do you agree?
Source: uproxx.com