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The clip relates to the text by portraying the god in the original text, as one that is “pure” and “stainless” by wearing the color white.

The color white is associated with goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity. It is considered to be the color of perfection.
White means safety, purity, and cleanliness. As opposite to black, white usually has a positive meaning. White can represent a successful beginning. In heraldry, white depicts faith and purity.

When the lord tells Noah to build an ark in the original text, Noah does so without asking any questions on how to build an Ark or anything. He shows 100% co-operation, Where in The clip he isn’t sure why he is building an ark, he asks god what he’s going to do, and asks god how to build an ark, prompting the “How to build an Ark for Dummies” which I’m sure Noah didn’t have in the original story. This shows the original text in a more modern sense and a more human response to gods request to build an ark.

As you can kind of see in the background here. Noah had white long hair and a white long beard. In the clip, The Noah figure “Evan” grows a long white beard and starts wearing wool clothing and sandals because that is the image of most biblical people.

The clip also shows all the species of animals in pairs of two, male and female. Just like God requested in the original text.

In this clip the Noah figure manages to save everyone that is there and near to the ark, where as in the original text the flood kills everyone except Noah’s Family.
And in the original text it rains for 40 days and 40 nights but in the movie a damn breaks and floods the town.
So there are lots of similarities between the movie and the text, but there are also some differences, but the Movie is an allusion to the Original bible text.

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