@las Shrug'd

[Rusty Shackleford]

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[L.A.P.]

Is this a joke? The idea of making business people and industrialists with shit loads of money look like heroes who are the backbone of human society is even more laughable on film.

[Lobotomy]

lol that trailer basically told 1/3 of the whole story.

[Rusty Shackleford]

well 2/3rds of the film are going to be monologues of course. they couldnt make it look boring.

[Unclebananahead]

Aww jeez. Ugh. In theaters April 15th.

[Unclebananahead]

I lawled at this comment on the trailer at the website:


I see it this way. Anyone who understands, fully believes in, and tries to live their life according to Ayn Rand's philosophy, will do everything possible, everything within their power to adapt the novel to cinematography, and they will do so by utilizing the best of their abilities. That includes the actors, the producers, the screenwriters, the director and all others involved in making the film.

Just be prepared for the onslaught of negative reviews, the shunning of the film by the motion picture industry, the Screen Actor's Guild (unions in general) and every moocher, every anti-capitalist, every elitist and all those who eschew achievement and the concept of being rewarded for the fruits of one's labor.

Dagny Taggart once told Hank Rearden, "Don't ever get angry at a man for stating a truth."

Wait for it. There is going to be a LOT of anger for the simple reason that this film will state the truth. That anger will come in the form of vindictive reviews and vicious condemnation of all involved with the film as well as those of us who celebrate it's creation.

Nevertheless, a seed will be planted in the minds of many who have never read Ayn Rand's seminal work. If the film accomplishes that, then it is a success. But my fervent wish is that this film also makes spectacular profits for everyone involved.

Lastly, thank you to all who had the courage to make it.

[Os Cangaceiros]

The poor persecuted mega-wealthy...if only they had a say in the affairs of our national government! If only!

[renzo_novatore]

It's ridiculous - hollywood makes movies that are radically capitalistic - but they, as far as I know, have not in a long time at least made a movie that would promote socialism - let alone revolutionary socialism (michael moore doesn't count).

There's no war like class war.

[Catmatic Leftist]

Aww jeez. Ugh. In theaters April 15th.

It's ironic how it's released on tax day :blink::blink::blink:

[Rusty Shackleford]

It's ironic how it's released on tax day :blink::blink::blink:
it was planned to be that way.


it was announced at a CPAC conference (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cpac-gets-sneak-peek-of-new-atlas-shrugged-film/) or something


Conservative activists poured into a standing-room-only hotel conference room Friday afternoon for a brief glimpse of the long-awaited movie adaptation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/) of “Atlas Shrugged,” Ayn Rand‘s 1957 philosophical novel about how government intervention and collectivism wipe out society’s creativity, innovation and industry. The Washington Post quite rightly compared (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021106215.html) the scene to a screening of Harry Potter at Comic-Con.
Appropriately enough, the film is set to debut April 15 and filmmakers were on scene to promote it to some of the country’s most die-hard Rand supporters. “Hollywood does not think enough people” are interested in the message of “Atlas Shrugged,” executive producer Harmon Kaslow announced to the room. But with support of CPAC-goers, growing demand for the film could prove them wrong.
Like the book, the film is set in the not-too-distant future. American Spectator’s Philip Klein was privileged to preview a few choice scenes on Thursday night and says (http://spectator.org/blog/2011/02/11/cpac-bloggers-given-sneak-peak) filmmakers went for a “ripped from the headlines” feel, with “images of the economy tanking, the country’s infrastructure collapsing, protests raging in the streets, Congress passing statist legislation, and a TV news anchor leading a panel discussion between some of the book’s characters.”
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“It is a movie that freedom fighters have been waiting decades for,” said (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021106215_2.html?sid=ST2011021007428) Max Pappas, the vice president of public policy for FreedomWorks, which co-sponsored the CPAC screening. “I‘m pretty sure that it’s the best-selling book of the 20th century that has not yet been made into a movie.”
With sufficient support and financial backing, the filmmakers hope “Atlas Shrugged: Part I” will be followed by two sequels.

[Magón]

And this movie will tank when seen by the average movie goer. Critics will give it a 2/5 stars, just to be nice, and those critics who are payed off will give it a 4-5/5 stars.

[Red Commissar]

I wonder how the long-ass monologue will be worked in.

[Unclebananahead]

I wonder how the long-ass monologue will be worked in.

Probably a montage

[Aloysius]

I'd rather see an adaptation of Anthem, or maybe The Fountainhead.

[RedHal]

looking at the cast, they have one black actor playing the loyal uncle tom character:laugh:

[Unclebananahead]

Have many of you have read the rather entertaining 'abridged version' of Atlas Shrugged?


ATLAS SHRUGGED: THE ABRIDGED VERSION (with spoilers)

AYN RAND
Hello, I'm Ayn Rand. I wrote a novel based on my Objectivist philosophy called The Fountainhead, but I don't think 700 pages was quite enough to get my point across, so I will write the exact same novel, only it will take 1100 pages this time.

READERS
Hey, great.

HEROINE
I'm Dagny Taggart. I am a railroad tycoon, woman-in-a-man's-world, stunningly beautiful heroine. I am the only person capable of running this railroad. I am the only woman in the universe worth a damn. I am also the only woman in the universe with a real job. I am basically the only woman in this novel.

LOVE INTEREST #1
I have worshiped you, the only woman in the universe worth a damn, from afar for my whole life.

HEROINE
That's nice.

LOVE INTEREST #2
I have worshiped you, the only woman in the universe worth a damn, naked on the forest floor. Yet I will nobly step aside in the name of noble idealism, despite the fact that I love you and want you, the only woman in the universe worth a damn, desperately.

HEROINE
Okay.

LOVE INTEREST #3
I worship you, the only woman in the universe worth a damn. Let us have creepy rape fantasy sex now. I will not ask permission to do all these kinky things to you, but luckily you want to be forced into all the kinky things, you dirty *****.

HEROINE
This is clearly true love! Stick it in me.

ALL
Who is John Galt?

AYN RAND
I am not telling. Instead, please listen to someone pontificate about my Objectivist philosophy for a while.

SOMEONE
[Pontificates]

VILLAINS
There are many of us, but we are all exactly the same. We are caricatures of evil socialists and embodiments of pure evil. Let us create a perfect socialist world order ruled by the inept! We all suck! Socialism sucks! Ha ha!

HEROES
We are all exactly the same. We are noble and perfect and have very angular and insolent faces. We can read each other's minds and the minds of everyone else in this novel, leaving less room for misunderstanding and more room for pontificating. And we are all in love with Dagny Taggart, the only woman in the universe worth a damn.

ALL
Who is John Galt?

VILLAIN
[Threatens hero.]

HERO
[Flips coin]
If it's heads, I will gaze apathetically. If it's tails, I will laugh heartily.

VILLAIN
Although these are the only two things any of you heroes have done for the past 800 pages, I am shocked at this response! How could you! How dare you!?!

HERO
I will now pontificate about Ayn Rand's philosophy. It has been at least 50 pages since you've heard it.

AYN RAND
It is so convenient that all of my heroes are in perfect agreement about my philosophy so that their pontificating is so interchangeable.

ALL
Who is John Galt?

JOHN GALT
Hello. In this, the culmination of all the pontificating, I will explain Ayn Rand's philosophy for a full 57 pages. No, I am not kidding. This one monologue will last for 57 pages. Oh and also, I love Dagny.

DAGNY
I love you too. Man, this is really going to suck for Love Interest #3.

LOVE INTEREST #3
Despite my passionate love for you and enjoyment of our rape sex, and the fact that there is no other woman on earth worth a damn, and the fact that I sacrificed my life's passion on your behalf, and that I spent my entire fortune to get a divorce to be with you, I will now nobly step aside in the name of noble idealism.

DAGNY
Great! I will miss our creepy rape sex. Farewell.

LOVE INTEREST #3
Bye.

READER
Wait, what?

ATLAS
[Shrugs]

THE END

[Diello]

Honestly, I am really looking forward to seeing this demented piece of shit on the big screen. I mean, really; I think I might even go see it in the theater.

[Joe Payne]

Christ, they're actually finally making this movie? This movie's been in production hell since the fuckin' 70s! Every few years you'd hear about some fuckin' moron tryin' to revive it, but I guess now they're finally doing it.

To be fair Ayn Rand despised any corporation who accepted any subsidy or any help from the government (which is ALL OF THEM so in reality she has to hate all existing capitalist enterprises). She also wasn't anti-union per se, as John Galt's origin's are working-class and he himself wasn't an owner, but an inventor that had his invention taken away by another corporation (who had a "Marxist" ideology or some nonsense).

That said, this means her ideas and books are nothing more than pure fantasy, her vision of how capitalism works never existed. Lol, and its Part I. Will Part II actually get made? We'll see how this flops first.

At least she gave us Allen Greenspan.:laugh:

Here's hoping they make a Dispossessed movie too!

[Ocean Seal]

Yes, I love the "its us who run the world". Yep John Galt is the one mining the metal, and his friend is the one building the trains.

JOHN: HELP the government is taking my metal, help. I only made 980 million dollars this year, that's 20 million dollars less than 1 billion what would you do if the government took 20 million dollars from you.

DECENT HUMAN BEING: But sir it was used to build schools, hospitals, and roads.

JOHN: But those government parasites took my metal.

DECENT HUMAN BEING: In all fairness you use their roads. Your workers use their hospitals...

JOHN: BUT, I already paid enough congressmen for this not to happen. How far can bribery get you these days. Its not fair, I worked hard to be a billionaire.

DECENT HUMAN BEING: In all fairness you haven't worked in years.

JOHN: What do you mean?

DECENT HUMAN BEING: Well, to be honest when was the last time that you even checked on your workers.

JOHN: Hey, I talked to my CFO

DECENT HUMAN BEING: No, I mean your real workers, the one's creating the profits.

JOHN: Those lazy bums?

DECENT HUMAN BEING: Actually I'm referring to the one's breaking their backs to make sure you get your 10th swimming pool this year. The one's whose union you broke this year?

JOHN: Those guys, didn't follow rational self-interest enough so I took away their union so that they could achieve their full potential.

DECENT HUMAN BEING: Hey it looks like their going on strike.

JOHN: Ungrateful bums, I don't need them. I'll send in my private army to kill them all. That'll teach them to go on strike.

DECENT HUMAN BEING: So effectively what your telling me is that, you've perverted freedom, to be freedom only for you?

JOHN: They're free from the government. They're free to get shot, to starve, and to beg on the streets.

[Red Commissar]

What about the amazing sequel?

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[Joe Payne]

Lol, that's the scene after the credits roll :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

[Amphictyonis]

The poor persecuted mega-wealthy...if only they had a say in the affairs of our national government! If only!
Those evil unions run the show. They made us outsource all of our production facilities to nations where we can kill union members in order to maintain our slave wage money making machines. Those bastard unions made the US military spread around the globe in order to open up foreign markets in so generating a big huge bill for those of us capitalists too dumb to hire a magician for an accountant. Those lazy children getting state funded education are communists and would be better served on the factory floor or at the mines hitting rocks with hammers! And don't get me started on these freeloading elderly who get cancer and then apply for government funded.....oh wait a minute.

[Sinred]

That is going to be one boring ass movie.
Capitalism indeed is wasteful with resources...

[GallowsBird]

This is going to flop. Most Objectivists/Ayn Rand-fans are either teenages rebelling but not able to commit to anything worthwhile or adult-children who want to think of themselves as tycoons.

[El Chuncho]

Is this a joke? The idea of making business people and industrialists with shit loads of money look like heroes who are the backbone of human society is even more laughable on film.

You are right, but unfortunately Ayn Rand has a sort of ''indie'' hipster vibe-thing going on with a lot of young people. It is laughable that this near fascist gets such a following with her ''Objectivism''.

I am reminded of a quote by Paul Krugman;

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."