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‘Atlas Shrugged’: The First Tea Party Movie?
bighollywood.com ^
| April 7, 2011
| Hollywoodland
Posted on 04/08/2011 5:28:03 PM PDT by PROCON
About 9 million adults are active Tea Partiers, and 45 million support the movement, a CBS/New York Times poll says.
Atlas Shrugged, a novel in which society’s most productive citizens choose to disappear, was published in 1957, and filmmakers have spent nearly every year since trying to adapt it. They finally succeeded, and the first part of what’s planned as a trilogy comes out April 15. If you didn’t know that, it’s likely you’re not a member of the Tea Party.
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Although I devoured a lot of books in my younger days, "Atlas Shrugged" wasn't one of them.
FReeper input wanted!!
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posted on
04/08/2011 5:28:06 PM PDT
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
And to warm up, go out and rent "The Fountainhead" with Gary Cooper. (I'm not a Gary Cooper fan but he is in many of my favorite movies.)
Anyway, Ayn Rand agreed to do the screen play of her first novel, ONLY if the studio agreed to not change a word. The only time in the history of Hollywood...
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posted on
04/08/2011 5:34:01 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: PROCON
I read alot. “Atlas Shrugged” is the only book I have read multiple times (5, soon to be 6). I envy people who haven’t read it...they still get to experience it for the first time.
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posted on
04/08/2011 5:36:48 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: PROCON
I was planning to see it the day it opened, April 15th, but it is a limited release and my state is not included.
I'd drive a couple hours to see it, but doesn't matter
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posted on
04/08/2011 5:42:29 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("...crush the bourgeoisie... between the millstones of taxation and inflation." --Vladimir Lenin)
To: PROCON; Mrs. B.S. Roberts
In plain English, read the book! Be prepared, Ms Rand never uses three words where seven will do. Despite that, be prepared to be sickened when a critical even in the book causes you to think, “Lord, that happened two years ago.” Then, “Hey, this is going on right now.” Soon, “Good heavens, this is from seven years ago.”
You will be reading a book written decades ago, that accurately predicted events occuring NOW. Today..this night.
Be nervous....be VERY nervous. I’m scared S———S’
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posted on
04/08/2011 5:57:09 PM PDT
by
CaptainAmiigaf
(NY TIMES: "We print the news as it fits our views")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
04/08/2011 5:57:55 PM PDT
by
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
To: gorush
I hear it's 1300 pages long, still captivated you front to back?
Dumb question...a definate conservative book?
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posted on
04/08/2011 5:58:23 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
To: PROCON
The most shocking thing about this story is that there are 9 million active Tea Party members.
If that number is true, that is a huge social movement, especially created in a couple years.
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posted on
04/08/2011 5:58:25 PM PDT
by
radpolis
(Liberals: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy)
To: saganite
Thanks! There’s one two hours away. The only one in the state showing it.
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posted on
04/08/2011 6:07:27 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("...crush the bourgeoisie... between the millstones of taxation and inflation." --Vladimir Lenin)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
04/08/2011 6:12:29 PM PDT
by
BreitbartSentMe
(ATLAS SHRUGGED was supposed to be a warning, NOT a newspaper.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
If they get enough previews on TV people will demand to see it. We should all write our local theaters and ask for it.
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posted on
04/08/2011 6:14:11 PM PDT
by
kitkat
( I sure HOPE that it's time for a CHANGE from Obama.)
To: PROCON
FReeper Book Club: Introduction to Atlas ShruggedPart I, Chapter I: The ThemePart I, Chapter II: The ChainPart I, Chapter III: The Top and the BottomPart I, Chapter IV: The Immovable MoversPart I, Chapter V: The Climax of the d’AnconiasPart I, Chapter VI: The Non-CommercialPart I, Chapter VII: The Exploiters and the ExploitedPart I, Chapter VIII: The John Galt LinePart I, Chapter IX: The Sacred and the ProfanePart I, Chapter X: Wyatt’s TorchPart II, Chapter I: The Man Who Belonged on EarthPart II, Chapter II: The Aristocracy of PullPart II, Chapter III: White BlackmailPart II, Chapter IV: The Sanction of the VictimPart II, Chapter V: Account OverdrawnPart II, Chapter VI: Miracle MetalPart II, Chapter VII: The Moratorium on BrainsPart II, Chapter VIII: By Our LovePart II, Chapter IX: The Face Without Pain or Fear or GuiltPart II, Chapter X: The Sign of the DollarPart III, Chapter I: AtlantisPart III, Chapter II: The Utopia of GreedPart III, Chapter III: Anti-GreedPart III, Chapter IV: Anti-LifePart III, Chapter V: Their Brothers’ KeepersPart III, Chapter VI: The Concerto of DeliverancePart III, Chapter VII: “This is John Galt Speaking”Part III, Chapter VIII: The EgoistPart III, Chapter IX: The GeneratorPart III, Chapter X: In the Name of the Best Within UsCoda: Ten Years AfterAfterword and Suggested Reading
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posted on
04/08/2011 6:14:50 PM PDT
by
Publius
To: PROCON
OK, I'll try.
Very simply.
Understand that much of the book is dated in that America's economy is still dependent on heavy industry.
A mind set has taken hold of government, the private sector, business in general, that unemployment must be kept down. Therefore if one business is run well, successfully uses innovation, thinks outside the box, it is immediately beset by the Feds (directly and through the press), to surrender that which gives that company it's edge to it's competitors so that those competitors will not go out of business and therefore lay people off. The original "too big to fail".
After many examples of this political policy at work, it becomes apparent that a movement has formed among the successful businessmen and innovators, to drop out and play by the politically correct rules no more.
Some of those who have dropped out go to a remote location and live by the rules that make sense to them. Others stay in the world but they work simple jobs for an hourly rate. They do not share their ability with the society that has painted a target on their backs.
Very basic here. Maybe others will help.
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posted on
04/08/2011 6:17:55 PM PDT
by
M.K. Borders
(All I require of my government is the liberty my Grandfathers were born to.)
To: M.K. Borders; gorush; CaptainAmiigaf
See Post #12.
Where were you guys when we had our FReeper Book Club on Atlas Shrugged? We could have used you.
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posted on
04/08/2011 6:21:26 PM PDT
by
Publius
To: Publius
Thanks Publius, looks like I have a lot of reading to do!!
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posted on
04/08/2011 6:26:48 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
To: All
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posted on
04/08/2011 6:27:48 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: PROCON
Then hop to it. Time’s a wastin’.
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posted on
04/08/2011 6:28:36 PM PDT
by
Publius
To: PROCON
"I hear it's 1300 pages long, still captivated you front to back?"More so every time.
"a definate conservative book?"
Among the most! Hyak and Von Mises aside.
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posted on
04/08/2011 6:29:57 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: Publius
I was most likely reading the book for the sixth or seventh time. I’ve worn out two copies already. Contributed to the murder of a lot of trees in the process.
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posted on
04/08/2011 6:33:25 PM PDT
by
CaptainAmiigaf
(NY TIMES: "We print the news as it fits our views")
To: gorush
Whatever you do, do NOT rent The Fountainhead movie!!!!
It is the worst adaptation of a book to film ever!!!
READ The Fountainhead first then Read Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, see the film. Both are powerful books but AS belabors the point a bit by reiterating the concept of individualism as the driving force well beyond what the story needed.
I hated The Fountainhead movie but, I will see AS in the hope it will get enough buzz for folks to read the book.
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posted on
04/08/2011 6:47:00 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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