Tubal-cain

He calls it Tubal-Cain, a name taken from a descendant of Cain found in Genesis in the Bible.

Here, as played by the fiercely swaggering Ray Winstone, Tubal-Cain is not only the thug chieftain of the city sinners, leading the charge on the ark, but also the man Noah saw kill his own father.

From Genesis 4 the movie borrows the character of Tubal-Cain, “the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron.”

Tubal-Cain may be a brute and a deceiver, but his nemesis is, at least potentially, a genocidal lunatic.

But Tubal-Cain is also something of a humanist, or at least a proponent of the idea that humanity, for all its cravenness and corruption, might be worth saving.