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| (Painting by Edward Hicks, 1846) |
Those who picture Crowe as simply a barroom-brawling brute may be shocked to learn of this biblical role.
However, Crowe’s spiritual side could perhaps be as strong as Noah’s human one. As the saying
goes: We are not essentially
humans having a spiritual
experience, but rather Spirits having a human one.
During a murphsplace.com interview with Paul Giamatti, Crowe discussed his spiritual leanings. His parents were both baptized, but preferred that Crowe make that decision for himself. Crowe took this decision-making seriously. He began visiting various type services, such as Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican, Baha’i, etc. Not following
one particular doctrine, he instead drew inspiration from a number of religious traditions.
He also believed in a “karmic cycle,” which he called “very, very obvious.”
Crowe stated that the Ten Commandments seem as though they were written “by somebody other than a human being” – and that if we were to just adhere to these “10 really basic rules,” then thousands of laws could be removed from the books. He
concluded that these Ten were foundations upon which a society could be built.
When Crowe was a young struggling actor, he starred in a Seventh Day Adventist pastoral-recruitment film titled A
Very Special Person. Adherents.com reports that Crowe played the part of “a farm worker who decides to devote his life to the church.”
Perhaps Crowe’s role in Noah is not such a stretch, after all.
Perhaps this is just Crowe returning to his roots – spiritual as well as secular.
Resources
http://www.christianpost.com/news/russell-crowe-confirmed-to-play-noah-in-film-73718/
http://www.murphsplace.com/crowe/interview2.html
http://www.adherents.com/people/pc/Russell_Crowe.html
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