Noah is the titular main villainous protagonist of the 2014 biblically-inspired epic film of the same name.
He was portrayed by Russell Crowe, who also played Hando in Romper Stomper, SID 6.7 in Virtuosity, Ben Wade in the 2007 3:10 to Yuma remake, Inspector Javert in Les Miserables, Mayor Nicholas Hostetler in Broken City, Pearly Soames in Winter's Tale, Mr. Hyde in The Mummy, Tom Cooper in Unhinged and Zeus in Thor: Love and Thunder.
Biography
This version of the Biblical Noah is regarded as the darkest version of the character by far. Said to be the first environmentalist by the film director, Noah received a message from God through the shaman Methusaleh, father of Lamech and grandfather of Noah, that the world would end by a flood a few days later. The message commands for him to build an Ark, which he does. Noah then calls all of the animals of the world into the Ark, and puts them all to sleep. Noah had initially thought that God wanted humanity to die out when the flood came, so he tried to keep his sons from getting involved with women so that the human race could die out.
When Na'el, a woman that Ham fell in love with back at a camp established outside the Ark by the humans under Noah's enemy Tubal-Cain, got her foot caught in an animal trap, Noah forces his son into leaving her to die. When he discovered that his daughter-in-law Ila was pregnant after being blessed by Methuselah, he rationalized that if it was a male, he would let it live. If it was a female, he would be forced to kill it so that the human race could go extinct. Ila later tried to escape the madman by getting onto a raft, but Noah burns it before she could get into it. She soon gave birth to twin girls, but Noah couldn't bring himself to kill them. He let them live.
Noah soon found himself in conflict with the film's villain Tubal-Cain, and he and the wicked monarch engage in hand-to-hand combat. A repentant Ham betrays Tubal-Cain and mortally wounds him. When Ila confronts her father-in-law about the reasoning behind why he did not kill her children, Noah explains that he saw the goodness in mankind within them, and he grew to love them when he first saw them.
Noah then blesses them all with the future of mankind, and the film ends with the rainbow across the sky, signifying God's promise to never flood the Earth again.
Personality
According to the film and his wife Noah is a tortured soul who only wants to rest in peace, he proves to be a zombie forced according to God's orders as when he refused to take wives to his sons or when he had to murder the daughters of lla. He also has a lack of knowledge for navigation since he does not take into account during the film in the maximum capacity of the ark so much in the fact of putting precautions (Sufficient vests and lifeboats) for the passengers (Animals and their family) in case the ark sinks.
However, he is also shown to be kind and loving towards his family, and eventually redeems himself when he refuses to kill Ila's children.