Anyone who is even barely culturally literate will know the story of Noah. Those "executives" would have to be pretty ignorant not to know it. I think he stretched the truth a little far.
Kirk made this part of the movie to be thought of as if the Hollywood producers had never heard the story of Noah's Ark. The idea is to just imagine the scenario that they do not know about it.
Then it is just to show what would happen in real life if someone were to come to Hollywood with such a story that no one has ever heard about, and pitch it as a movie, with no changes to the story.. God tells Noah to build a boat and obtain every animal from the earth, male and female, and take him, his wife, his three sons and their wives, but that is it, onto the boat, and the remainder of the people on earth will be wiped out by a flood, and all die.
The moral is that no one in Hollywood would ever go for this because that is not what people want to see.. they do not want to see the Hero (God) in a movie kill everyone on the earth, and save only a few. So these producers try to change the story in different ways, to make it better, but Kirk says that it has to be the way that it was written, but they still don't get it.
In reality, it is a true story out of the Bible, and it is a fantastic story! God sees that the people on earth have become terribly evil, except for Noah and his family, so he wipes them all out except for Noah, because he is good, and they alone can start a new, good world.
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erikpandimensional
8 years ago
"The moral is that no one in Hollywood would ever go for this because that is not what people want to see"
The reason that no-one would ever go for it because even as a fictional film it would stretch credibility beyond breaking point. The idea of fitting two of every species on a craft of those dimensions - plus all the food they would need for forty days - is laughable, as is the idea of predator and prey being cooped up in a giant floating zoo with only 8 zookeepers who had never sailed on water before, let alone experienced a flood, and somehow every animal surviving.
Ironically, if it hadn't been written into the bible, you would laugh at people for believing something so ridiculous, just as most Christians think other culture's myths are ridiculous - unless they agree with ideas in their own myths of course!
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