Have many of you read Altas Shrugged? I made it through the book in about 6 months. It's a very long and, sometimes, tedious read. All capitalists are good and all socialists are bad but it does a good job of driving home the evils of socialism and virtues of capitalism. Rumors were that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt would play Dagny and Galt but that has changed.

 

I guess I'll go see it. I feel it an obligation...

 

Down in Florence, NJ the road that goes from Rt. 130 to the Florence River Line train station just south of Bung's is named John Galt Way. It always makes me smile when I drive past there.

 

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Great book, can't wait for the movie.

I wonder how they went from Angelina and Brad to nobodies?

The movie will be better without brand name stars, I bet. If you have great source material, you don't need brand names. I wonder who wrote the screenplay? It doesn't really matter what the book says or how great it is, because it's going to be entirely translated by the screenwriter.

 

The IMDB page doesn't seem to have a screenplay credit, although they do list a large "animation department." Also, IMDB lists this film as "Atlas Shrugged, Part I" so they're not going to get it all into a single film...

Excellent!!! I've made it through 3/4 of the book so far. I have to finish it before the movie comes out.

Who is John Galt?

I read lots of books and I've read Atlas Shrugged. There is really no way to adequately move the book to the screen in a single 90 minute movie. The book is really 3 acts, and a big chunk of the 3rd is John Galt droning on and on for 70 pages and it really takes you out of the book. Aside from that, there are other issues I have with Rand's Objectivism which is a subset of secular humanism.

 

In her objectivism, she relishes the industrialist, the capitalist and the leader of industry and derides all the collectivists and looters. I'm all on board with that.

 

The problem is that there is no middle ground. There can only be a handful Hank Reardons in any industry and yes, they should reap the benefits of their labors and ideas, the problem is you can't make Reardon metal with one man. It requires collective work to provide private profits. I don't know what the answer is, but "stealing from the Rich" ain't it nor is Wesley Mouch and central planning. Her whole "I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." is admirable but at some point, someone has to take one for the team or else the system is non functional.

Meh, Atlas Shrugged is the kind of book that seems really profound when you're in college. Now that I'm older and more mature I only like books or movies with nudity, aliens or zombies.

I read lots of books and I've read Atlas Shrugged. There is really no way to adequately move the book to the screen in a single 90 minute movie. The book is really 3 acts, and a big chunk of the 3rd is John Galt droning on and on for 70 pages and it really takes you out of the book. Aside from that, there are other issues I have with Rand's Objectivism which is a subset of secular humanism.

 

In her objectivism, she relishes the industrialist, the capitalist and the leader of industry and derides all the collectivists and looters. I'm all on board with that.

 

The problem is that there is no middle ground. There can only be a handful Hank Reardons in any industry and yes, they should reap the benefits of their labors and ideas, the problem is you can't make Reardon metal with one man. It requires collective work to provide private profits. I don't know what the answer is, but "stealing from the Rich" ain't it nor is Wesley Mouch and central planning. Her whole "I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." is admirable but at some point, someone has to take one for the team or else the system is non functional.

 

The movie that will be released April 15 is part 1 of 3.

I read lots of books and I've read Atlas Shrugged. There is really no way to adequately move the book to the screen in a single 90 minute movie. The book is really 3 acts, and a big chunk of the 3rd is John Galt droning on and on for 70 pages and it really takes you out of the book. Aside from that, there are other issues I have with Rand's Objectivism which is a subset of secular humanism.

 

In her objectivism, she relishes the industrialist, the capitalist and the leader of industry and derides all the collectivists and looters. I'm all on board with that.

 

The problem is that there is no middle ground. There can only be a handful Hank Reardons in any industry and yes, they should reap the benefits of their labors and ideas, the problem is you can't make Reardon metal with one man. It requires collective work to provide private profits. I don't know what the answer is, but "stealing from the Rich" ain't it nor is Wesley Mouch and central planning. Her whole "I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." is admirable but at some point, someone has to take one for the team or else the system is non functional.

 

You read Galt's speech? I just skimmed over that part.

You read Galt's speech? I just skimmed over that part.

 

I read about 15 pages of it...skipped ahead to see where it ended and kept reading from there. It's very unlike me. I can read just about anything but Galt was killing me.

 

 

 

Talk about tedious.

There only making the money so the movie company doesn't lose the rights to it. They had a big budget planned but couldn't get it all together at once. I loved the book to. That and the Fountain Head were two of my favorite books

I have the Fountain Head on DVD.

I have it on an old VHS tape. Movie was actually decent. Skipped a lot but it's kinda hard not to.