Now that “Noah” has made over $200 million worldwide — including a top opening at the U.S. box office last month — the conventional wisdom seems to be that religious audiences are super powerful and deserve a lot of creative clout.
Except that many of them hated Darren Aronofsky‘s artistic interpretation of the biblical flood story in the first place.
So, uh, what gives?
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Jon Stewart may not have all the answers — if he did, he’d be running a studio in Hollywood, which sounds like his nightmare — but he at least finds the whole furor over the accuracy of a 5,000-year-old mythical tale funny enough to mock.