Russell Crowe

It's not quite enough.

Go and talk to people.

Go and talk to people who've got a perspective.

I would have probably wanted to spend a little bit more time with some Jewish scholars because there's a lot of writings adjunct to the Torah about Noah and get to the bottom of that.

But I really didn't have the time, so I just had to sort of...

plow into it with what I had, which is a beautiful two-volume Old Testament and New Testament that Darren got me.

So that was the beginning of the research.

But there's not really much else you can do because you can't go and

look up, you know, old photos or anything, you know, pretty much stepping into that world.

So we're trying to understand Darren's perspective on it and what he was trying to show that, you know, there had been a big civilization already.

So there was a civilization prior to Noah.

So you're already talking about, you know, a post-apocalyptic world that they're living in and another apocalypse is coming, you know, and it's all based on, um,

You know, human behavior and what have you.

There's a sequence in the film that some people miss where, like, Noah is looking into these people who are all, you know, sort of the ones who've allowed themselves to give in to their base desires or what have you.

And within the group of people, he sees a man who looks like a rat, you know, gnawing away at the body of something, possibly another human.

And it's him.

So he sees himself on the other side of that.

So Darren had a lot of cool things going in the movie, a lot of great ideas.

And Outside of America was a huge hit, a massive hit in places like Russia or Brazil or whatever.

But I don't think it's really considered to be a hit because it didn't hit the box office in the United States.