Atlas Shrugged movie trailer

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Atlas Shrugged movie trailer

 

[TrainTrac]

:supercool: Can't wait! Part one of three.



Embedded for the lazy.:cheeky: Who is John Galt?

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[WILL E]

I re-read the book about two years ago. It's a good read and should be read by all.



Hopefully the movies will do it justice. The trailers look like they are close.

 

[Kevin Lang]

I just can't see Hollywood doing the book justice. It goes against everything Hollywood stands for.



The message of the book was well done, but the book has some issues. Dagny Taggart is a Mary Sue being the main one.



Also, in the modern era, what will they do with the "anti-feminist" themes of the book, and the implied homosexual relations? Subduing one and amplifying the other would kill the flow of the narrative, but I could see Hollywood doing just that. Gotta keep it PC.



Atlas Shrugged was also famous for inventing many "futuristic" science fiction devices, which are now commonplace. The "futuristic" devices were key to the novel. Since biometric locks are now commonplace, will the movie "up the ante" and invent its own future technology to preserve the narrative?



The book looses much of its allegorical value as America is no longer a manufacturing powerhouse; we don't have factories for John Galt to close down. How will the movie deal with that?

(Though Europe has pretty much fallen, that prediction was right.)



Excellent book, I predict a crap movie though.

 

[TrainTrac]

From what I've read about it thus far, it's getting great reviews. It wasn't financed/produced by "Big Hollywood", so the producers have pretty much stayed true to the book, with just a few exceptions. One being that the movie is set in the near future-2016. It will be three-part trilogy. The producers decided that it would be impossible to cram this momentus story into just one two-hour movie.



More info on movie linked below.

 

[WILL E]

It will be interesting to see how they handle the 'John Galt radio message'. It was long in the book and would be way too long in a movie.



There is still a lot of manufacturing going on in the USA. And there was a big part of it about moving wheat (vs soy). And the message of a few 'in power' (government) using that power for their own gain and to pick the winners and losers (in the name of 'fairness') seems to have been kept.



I liked the book. There were certain parts that really hit home.



It will be interesting to see how it does and if the message comes across.

 

[Kevin Lang]

It will be interesting to see how they handle the 'John Galt radio message'. It was long in the book and would be way too long in a movie.

Ah yes, the single worst thing in the whole book. Galt's 3 hour speech that basically explicitly restated everything the book was trying to say up to that point. The "built-in Cliffs Notes", as I've heard it called.

It will be three-part trilogy.

Hopefully minus the "This Is John Galt Speaking" recap, or at least a shorter version of it. Part III will be interesting as it won't give closure...the movie makers had better not try to give it closure. I suppose that if Fight Club's ending could happen, Atlas Shrugged's could be preserved, but I don't have hope.



Here's another issue--the book was written with many people still using passenger rail. In the modern age, airplanes have taken over, and passenger rail is by and large a novelty.



If the passenger railroads died today, it wouldn't be a big deal. Sure, freight rail is quintessential, but the death of it lacks impact as it does not have the "human" factor.

There is still a lot of manufacturing going on in the USA.

Not to the extent that there was in the book. There is no "Rearden Steel" in America today. Our steelmakers are bit-players in the world based on output.

It wasn't financed/produced by "Big Hollywood"

I don't know how to take that. Most "Big Hollywood" movies are crap, and after the 2010 True Grit remake, I have no faith in them to pull something like Atlas Shrugged off. However, I can't name very many good independent movies. District 9 & Black Dynamite are the only ones that come to mind, and they aren't exactly Atlas Shrugged level.

 

[Kevin Lang]

Why does Taggart drive a Toyota Camry? Something seems wrong about that.



Why'd they have to use CG? It looks better than many other movies in terms of CG, but CG created scenes always look fake & cheesy, not what this movie needed. Did Inception teach the world nothing?



Still, now that I have actually seen the trailer, it looks far FAR better than I feared, but we'll see.



So, think they'll keep the stuff about Mexico nationalizing American property in? :banana:

 

[TrainTrac]

Here's another clip from the movie, in which Dagny confronts the union leader:

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"Atlas Shrugged, Part I" opens appropriatly on 15 April, 2011-Tax Day.

 

[TrainTrac]

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Take the quiz at: <A HREF="http://www.freedomworks.org/atlas-is-shrugging">Atlas is Shrugging</A>

 

[Mark K 2]

I gave up on the trailer when they showed a diesel Acela-type train. Too many incorrect train details to be worthwhile.